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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 10-K
        
ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended January 1, 2022
Commission File number 1-7283
Regal Rexnord Corporation
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)
Wisconsin39-0875718
(State of Incorporation)(IRS Employer Identification No.)
200 State Street, Beloit, Wisconsin 53511
(Address of principal executive offices)
(608) 364-8800
(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Name of Each Exchange on
Title of Each ClassWhich Registered
Common Stock ($0.01 Par Value)New York Stock Exchange
Securities registered pursuant to
Section 12 (g) of the Act
None
(Title of Class)
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act. Yes No  

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act. Yes   No
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes No  
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files). Yes No  
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and "emerging growth company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act:
Large Accelerated FilerAccelerated Filer
Non-accelerated filerSmaller Reporting Company
Emerging growth company
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has filed a report on and attestation to its management's assessment of the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting under Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (15 U.S.C. 7262(b)) by the registered public accounting firm that prepared or issued its audit report. Yes No

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act). Yes No
The aggregate market value of the voting stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant as of July 3, 2021 was approximately $5.4 billion.
On February 25, 2022, the registrant had outstanding 67,542,208 shares of common stock, $0.01 par value, which is registrant's only class of common stock.
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DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE
Certain information contained in the Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held on April 26, 2022 (the “2022 Proxy Statement”) is incorporated by reference into Part III hereof.
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REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION
ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K
FOR YEAR ENDED JANUARY 1, 2022
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
PART I
Item 1
Item 1A
Item 1B
Item 2
Item 3
Item 4
PART II
Item 5
Item 6
Item 7
Item 7A
Item 8
Item 9
Item 9A
Item 9B
PART III
Item 10
Item 11
Item 12
Item 13
Item 14
PART IV
Item 15
Item 16


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CAUTIONARY STATEMENT
This report contains forward-looking statements, within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which reflect the Company’s current estimates, expectations and projections about the Company’s future results, performance, prospects and opportunities. Such forward-looking statements may include, among other things, statements relating to the merger with the Rexnord Process & Motion Control business (the "Rexnord PMC business") (the "Rexnord Transaction") or the acquisition of Arrowhead Systems, LLC, which the Company now refers to as its Automation Solutions business (the "Automation Solutions Transaction") (the "Automation Solutions Transaction" and, together with the Rexnord Transaction, the "Transactions"), and the benefits and synergies of the Transactions, future opportunities for the Company, and any other statements regarding the Company’s future operations, anticipated business levels, future earnings, planned activities, anticipated growth, market opportunities, strategies, competition and other expectations and estimates for future period. Forward-looking statements include statements that are not historical facts and can be identified by forward-looking words such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “confident,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “plan,” “may,” “will,” “would,” “project,” “forecast,” "would," "could," "should," and similar expressions. These forward-looking statements are based upon information currently available to the Company and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties, and other factors that could cause the performance, prospects, or opportunities to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results referred to in the forward-looking statements the Company makes in this report include:

dependence on key suppliers and the potential effects of supply disruptions;
fluctuations in commodity prices and raw material costs;
any unforeseen changes to or the effects on liabilities, future capital expenditures, revenue, expenses, synergies, indebtedness, financial condition, losses and future prospects;
the possibility that the Company may be unable to achieve expected synergies and operating efficiencies in connection with the Transactions within the expected time-frames or at all and to successfully integrate the Rexnord PMC and Automation Solutions businesses;
expected or targeted future financial and operating performance and results;
operating costs, customer loss and business disruption (including, without limitation, difficulties in maintaining relationships with employees, customers, clients or suppliers) being greater than expected following the Transactions;
the Company's ability to retain key executives and employees;
the continued financial and operational impacts of and uncertainties relating to the COVID-19 pandemic on customers and suppliers and the geographies in which they operate;
uncertainties regarding the ability to execute restructuring plans within expected costs and timing;
challenges to the tax treatment that was elected with respect to the Rexnord Transaction and related transactions;
requirements to abide by potentially significant restrictions with respect to the tax treatment of the Rexnord Transaction which could limit the Company’s ability to undertake certain corporate actions that otherwise could be advantageous;
actions taken by competitors and their ability to effectively compete in the increasingly competitive global electric motor, drives and controls, power generation and power transmission industries;
the ability to develop new products based on technological innovation, such as the Internet of Things, and marketplace acceptance of new and existing products, including products related to technology not yet adopted or utilized in geographic locations in which the Company does business;
dependence on significant customers;
seasonal impact on sales of products into HVAC systems and other residential applications;
risks associated with global manufacturing, including risks associated with public health crises;
issues and costs arising from the integration of acquired companies and businesses and the timing and impact of purchase accounting adjustments;
the Company's overall debt levels and its ability to repay principal and interest on its outstanding debt, and the impact of changes in the method of determining the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”), or the replacement of LIBOR with an alternative reference rate;
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prolonged declines in one or more markets, such as heating, ventilation, air conditioning, refrigeration, power generation, oil and gas, unit material handling, water heating and aerospace;
economic changes in global markets, such as reduced demand for products, currency exchange rates, inflation rates, interest rates, recession, government policies, including policy changes affecting taxation, trade, tariffs, immigration, customs, border actions and the like, and other external factors that the Company cannot control;
product liability, asbestos and other litigation, or claims by end users, government agencies or others that products or customers' applications failed to perform as anticipated, particularly in high volume applications or where such failures are alleged to be the cause of property or casualty claims;
unanticipated liabilities of acquired businesses;
unanticipated adverse effects or liabilities from business exits or divestitures;
unanticipated costs or expenses that may be incurred related to product warranty issues;
infringement of intellectual property by third parties, challenges to intellectual property and claims of infringement on third party technologies;
effects on earnings of any significant impairment of goodwill;
losses from failures, breaches, attacks or disclosures involving information technology infrastructure and data;
cyclical downturns affecting the global market for capital goods;
and other risks and uncertainties including, but not limited, to those described in this Annual Report on Form 10-K and from time to time in other filed reports including the Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. For a more detailed description of the risk factors associated with the Company, please refer to Part I - Item 1A - Risk Factors in this Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent SEC filings. Shareholders, potential investors, and other readers are urged to consider these factors in evaluating the forward-looking statements and are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements included in this report are made only as of the date of this report, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking information contained in this report or with respect to the announcements described herein to reflect subsequent events or circumstances.

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PART I
Unless the context requires otherwise, references in this Annual Report on Form 10-K to “we,” “us,” “our” or the “Company” refer collectively to Regal Rexnord Corporation and its subsidiaries.
References in an Item of this Annual Report on Form 10-K to information contained in the 2022 Proxy Statement, or to information contained in specific sections of the 2022 Proxy Statement, incorporate the information into that Item by reference.
We operate on a 52/53 week fiscal year ending on the Saturday closest to December 31. We refer to the fiscal year ended January 1, 2022 as “fiscal 2021", the fiscal year ended January 2, 2021 as “fiscal 2020" and the fiscal year ended December 28, 2019 as “fiscal 2019".
ITEM 1 - BUSINESS
Our Company

Regal Rexnord Corporation (NYSE: RRX) is a global leader in the engineering and manufacturing of industrial powertrain solutions, power transmission components, electric motors and electronic controls, air moving products and specialty electrical components and systems, serving customers around the world. Through longstanding technology leadership and an intentional focus on producing more energy-efficient products and systems, we help create a better tomorrow – for our customers and for the planet. We are headquartered in Beloit, Wisconsin and have manufacturing, sales and service facilities worldwide.

Our four operating segments are: Commercial Systems, Industrial Systems, Climate Solutions and Motion Control Solutions. Our new Motion Control Solutions operating segment consists of our legacy Power Transmission Solutions operating segment, the Rexnord Process & Motion Control business (the “Rexnord PMC business”), which we acquired on October 4, 2021, and the Automation Solutions business, which we acquired on November 23, 2021.

Rexnord and Automation Solutions Transactions

Rexnord Transaction

On October 4, 2021, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of February 15, 2021 (the “Merger Agreement”), we completed our combination with the Rexnord PMC business of Zurn Water Solutions Corporation (formerly known as Rexnord Corporation) ("Zurn") in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction (the “Rexnord Transaction”). Pursuant to the Rexnord Transaction, (i) Zurn transferred to its then-subsidiary Land Newco, Inc. (“Land”) substantially all of the assets, and Land assumed substantially all of the liabilities, of the Rexnord PMC business (the “Reorganization”), (ii) after which all of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock, $0.01 par value per share, of Land (“Land common stock”) held by a subsidiary of Zurn were distributed in a series of distributions to Zurn’s stockholders (the “Distributions”, and the final distribution of Land common stock from Zurn to Zurn’s stockholders, which was made pro rata for no consideration, the “Spin-Off”) and (iii) immediately after the Spin-Off, one of our subsidiaries (“Merger Sub”) merged with and into Land (the “Merger”) and all shares of Land common stock (other than those held by Zurn, Land, the Company, Merger Sub or their respective subsidiaries) were converted as of the effective time of the Merger (the “Effective Time”) into the right to receive 0.22296103 shares of our common stock, $0.01 par value per share (“Company common stock”), as calculated in the Merger Agreement. When the Merger was completed, Land, which held the Rexnord PMC business, became our wholly owned subsidiary.

Pursuant to the Merger, we issued approximately 27,055,945 shares of Company common stock to holders of Land common stock, which represents approximately 39.9% of the approximately 67,756,732 outstanding shares of Company common stock immediately following the Effective Time. In addition, holders of record of Company common stock as of October 1, 2021 received $6.99 per share of Company common stock pursuant to a previously announced special dividend in connection with the Rexnord Transaction (the “Special Dividend”).

The total consideration transferred for the acquisition of Land was approximately $4.0 billion subject to finalization of purchase accounting and working capital adjustments. The total assets and liabilities assumed will be adjusted, based on the final balances per the terms included within the Separation and Distribution Agreement.

The Rexnord Transaction is described more fully below under “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Overview” and our Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on October 7, 2021 (the "Rexnord 8-K"). This description is qualified in its entirety by the description set forth in the Rexnord 8-K.

Automation Solutions Transaction
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On November 23, 2021, we acquired Arrowhead Systems, LLC, which we now refer to as our Automation Solutions business, for $315.6 million in cash, net of $1.1 million of cash acquired (the “Automation Solutions Transaction”). Our Automation Solutions business is a is a global leader in providing industrial process automation solutions, including conveyors and (de)palletizers to the food & beverage, aluminum can, and consumer staples end markets, among others. Our Automation Conrol business is a division of our Motion Controls Solutions segment, and its financials have been included in results for that segment from the date of acquisition.

General

Commercial Systems Segment

Our Commercial Systems segment designs and produces primarily:

AC and DC motors from fractional to approximately 5 horsepower, electronic variable speed controls, fans and blowers for commercial applications. These products are sold directly to original equipment manufacturers ("OEMs") and end-user customers through our distribution network and our network of direct and independent sales representatives. Typical applications include commercial building ventilation and HVAC, fan, blower and compressor motors, fans, blowers, water pumps for pools, spas, irrigation, and dewatering, and general commercial equipment. Our customers tend to be large and small OEMs and distributors, and their desire for high-quality services and, in many cases, more efficient motor-based solutions is providing us an increasing opportunity to add more value to their applications with energy efficient motor and integrated electronic control solutions.

Precision stator and rotor kits from 5 to 2,900 horsepower for air conditioning, heat pump and refrigeration compressor applications, which are sold directly to OEM customers.

Industrial Systems Segment

Our Industrial Systems segment designs and produces primarily:

Integral and large AC motors from approximately 1 to 12,000 horsepower (up to 10,000 volts) for industrial applications, along with aftermarket parts and kits to support such products. These products are sold directly to OEMs and end-user customers through our distribution network and our network of direct and independent sales representatives. Our manufacturing and selling capabilities extend across the globe, serving four strategic verticals: distribution, pump and compressors, HVAC and air moving, and general industries and large motors. Within these verticals are several end-market applications, including agriculture, marine, mining, oil and gas, petrochemical, pulp and paper, and food and beverage, as well as other process applications.

Electric alternators for prime and standby power applications from 5 kilowatts through 4 megawatts (in 50 and 60Hz) sold directly to OEMs or through our network of sales representatives. These products can be standard, custom, or engineered solutions that are used in a variety of markets, including data centers, distributed energy, microgrid, rental, marine, agriculture, healthcare, mobile, and defense.

Low and medium voltage paralleling switchgear, switchboards and control systems for power generation systems. These products are primarily custom engineered designs developed in close collaboration with the customer to develop critical solutions for data centers, healthcare, government and waste water applications.

A complete lineup of transfer switches, with standard designs in stock for quick shipment and customized engineered options for specialized requirements. We offer these transfer switch power solutions for residential, commercial, industrial and critical applications from 100 amperes to 4,000 amperes. Aftermarket services are provided for preventative system maintenance and upgrades.

Climate Solutions Segment

Our Climate Solutions segment designs and produces primarily:

Fractional horsepower motors, electronic variable speed controls and blowers used in a variety of residential and light commercial air moving applications including HVAC systems and commercial refrigeration. These motors and blowers are vital components of an HVAC system and are used to move air into and away from furnaces, heat pumps,
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air conditioners, ventilators, fan filter boxes and water heaters. A majority of our HVAC motors and blowers, are installed as part of a new HVAC system that replaces an existing HVAC system, or are used in an HVAC system for new home construction. The business enjoys a large installed base of equipment and long-term relationships with its major customers. We also manufacture and supply replacement motors and blowers for these systems once installed. Customers include major HVAC distributors.

Fractional horsepower motors and blowers are also used across a wide range of other applications including white goods, water heating equipment, small pumps, compressors, and fans, and other small appliances. Demand for these products is driven primarily by consumer and light commercial market segments.

Motion Control Solutions Segment

Our Motion Control Solutions segment designs, produces and services primarily:
 
Mounted and unmounted industrial bearings into diverse end markets globally. Our unmounted bearings are offered in a variety of types and styles. These include cam followers, radial bearings, and thrust bearings. Mounted bearings include industry specific designs in a variety of specialized housings that aim to meet unique customer needs. They are all available in a variety of options and sizes and include specialty bearings, mounted bearings, unmounted bearings, and corrosion resistant bearings.

High-quality conveyor products including engineered steel chains, table top conveying chains, belts, sprockets, components, guide rails and wear strips. Conveying components can enhance system efficiency, reduce noise, support wash-down maintenance, and help lubricate conveying systems. Our products are highly engineered and can meet exact customer specifications. Our conveying equipment product group provides design, assembly, installation and after sales services. Its products included engineered elevators, conveyors and components for medium to heavy duty material handling applications.

Conveying automation solutions, which serve a variety of material handling and palletization applications. Principal end markets included food and beverage, e-commerce, distribution and parcel. Our products include conveying solutions and components, right-angle transfer modules and customized sub-systems. Along with our product solutions offering, we provide a full suite of service and support solutions that span the equipment lifecycle.

High-performance disc, gear, grid, elastomeric and torsionally soft couplings for applications that include turbines, pumps, compressors, generators, off-highway equipment and propulsion systems and which are used in many industries including petrochemical, refinery, power generation, marine, wind power construction, agriculture and steel. We also produce transmission elements that include torque limiters, clutches, locking devices and gear spindles.
 
Mechanical power transmission drives and components including: belt drives, bushings, industrial chain and sprockets, drive tighteners and idlers, mechanical clutches, torque overload devices and engineered woven metals. Our products serve a wide range of industries and applications, including aggregates, forestry and wood products, grain and biofuels, power generation, food and beverage, consumer products, warehousing and distribution, automotive, commercial HVAC, and refrigeration.

Gearboxes and gear motors that support motion control within complex equipment and systems that are used in a variety of applications. We provide a wide array of gear types, shaft configurations, ratios, housing materials and mounting methods for heavy, medium and light duty applications. Right angle worm gear can be specified for less than 100 inch-lbs. of torque to over 132,000 inch-lbs. of torque. Helical and bevel gear units are offered from 100 inch-lbs. to over 7 million inch-lbs. of torque and are available in right angle, inline or parallel shaft configurations. Our products include worm gearing, helical, bevel, helical bevel, worm, hypoid and spur gearing. Our gearing products generally are used to reduce the speed and increase the torque generated by an electric motor or other prime mover in order to meet the operating requirements of a particular piece of equipment.

Aerospace components are supplied primarily to the commercial and military aircraft end markets for use in door systems, engine accessories, engine controls, engine mounts, flight control systems, gearboxes, landing gear and rotor pitch controls. The majority of our sales are to engine and airframe OEMs that specify our aerospace bearing and mechanical seal products for their aircraft and turbine engine platforms, often based on proprietary designs, capabilities and solutions. We also supply highly specialized gears and related products through our aerospace-focused build-to-print manufacturing operations.

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Our special components products are comprised of electric motor brakes, miniature motion control components and security devices for utility companies. These products are used in a diverse range of applications including steel mills, oil field equipment, large textile machines, rubber mills and dock and pier handling equipment.

Many of our products are originally sold and installed into OEM equipment within various industries. Our reputation and long history of providing highly reliable products creates an end user specification for replacement through the distribution channel. We also provide application and design assistance based on our deep knowledge of our products and their applications.
OEMs and end users of a variety of motion control and other industrial applications typically combine the types of motors, controls and power transmission products we offer across the industrial powertrain. We seek to take advantage of this practice and to enhance our product penetration by leveraging cross-marketing and product line combination opportunities between our Commercial Systems, Industrial Systems, Climate Solutions and Motion Control Solutions products. As a product of our merger with the Rexnord PMC business, we are now able to offer customers a complete industrial powertrain solution. The complete powertrain offering comprises our electric motor and all the critical power transmission components that connect it to the powered equipment, such as a fan in an HVAC system or a conveyor belt in a warehouse. Our industrial powertrain offering is an important part of our growth strategy.

Our growth strategy also includes (i) driving organic sales growth through the introduction of innovative new products, with a particular focus on improving energy efficiency, (ii) establishing and maintaining new customers, as well as developing new opportunities with existing customers, (iii) participating in higher growth end markets and geographies, and (iv) identifying and consummating strategic, value creating acquisitions.

Acquisitions

In fiscal 2021, we completed the Rexnord Transaction and the Automation Solutions Transaction in the Motion Control Solutions segment.

Divestitures

In fiscal 2019, we completed two divestitures in the Commercial Systems segment.

On January 7, 2019, we sold our drive technologies business and received proceeds of $119.9 million. We recognized a gain on sale of $41.0 million in the Consolidated Statements of Income.
On July 1, 2019, we sold our vapor recovery business and received proceeds of $19.2 million. We recognized a loss on sale of $1.9 million in the Consolidated Statements of Income.
In fiscal 2019, we completed one divestiture in the Climate Solutions segment.

On April 1, 2019, we sold our capacitor business and received proceeds of $9.9 million. We recognized a gain on sale of $6.0 million in the Consolidated Statements of Income.

In fiscal 2019, we completed one divestiture in the Motion Control Solutions segment.

On April 1, 2019, we sold our marine transmission business and received proceeds of $8.9 million. We recognized a loss on sale of $0.5 million in the Consolidated Statements of Income.

Sales, Marketing and Distribution

We sell our products directly to OEMs, distributors and end-users. We have multiple divisions that promote our brands across their respective sales organizations. These sales organizations consist of varying combinations of our own internal direct sales people as well as exclusive and non-exclusive manufacturers' representative organizations.

We operate large distribution facilities in Plainfield, Indiana; El Paso and McAllen, Texas; LaVergne, Tennessee; Florence, Kentucky; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Monterrey, Mexico which serve as hubs for our North American distribution and logistics operations. Products are shipped from these facilities to our customers utilizing common carriers. We also operate or partner with numerous warehouse and distribution facilities in our global markets to service the needs of our customers. In addition, we have select manufacturer representatives' warehouses located in specific geographic areas to serve local customers.

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We derive a significant portion of revenue from our OEM customers. In our HVAC business, a large portion of our sales are to key OEM customers which makes our relationship with each of these customers important to our business. We have long standing relationships with these customers and we expect these customer relationships will continue for the foreseeable future. Despite this relative concentration, we had no customer that accounted for more than 10% of our consolidated net sales in fiscal 2021, fiscal 2020 or fiscal 2019.

Many of our motors are incorporated into residential applications that OEMs sell to end users. The number of installations of new and replacement HVAC systems, pool pumps and related components is higher during the spring and summer seasons due to the increased use of air conditioning and swimming pools during warmer months. As a result, our revenues tend to be higher in the second and third quarters.

Competition

Commercial Systems Segment

Electric motor manufacturing is a highly competitive global industry in which there is emphasis on quality, reliability, and technological capabilities such as energy efficiency, delivery performance, price and service. We compete with a large number of domestic and international competitors due in part to the nature of the products we manufacture and the wide variety of applications and customers we serve. Many manufacturers of electric motors operate production facilities in many different countries, producing products for both the domestic and export markets. Global electric motor manufacturers, particularly those located in Europe, Brazil, China, India and elsewhere in Asia, compete with us as they attempt to expand their market penetration around the world, especially in North America.

Our major competitors in the Commercial Systems segment include Broad-Ocean Motor Co., Lafert, ABB Ltd., Siemens AG, Nidec Corporation, Ziehl-Abegg, Weg S.A., and ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co.KG.

Industrial Systems Segment

Our major competitors in the Industrial Systems segment include Wolong Electric Group Ltd., Kirloskar Brothers Limited, Crompton Greaves Limited, Lafert, ABB Ltd., Siemens AG, Toshiba Corporation, Cummins, Inc., Nidec Corporation, TECHTOP Electric Motors, Weg S.A., Hyundai, and Teco-Westinghouse Motor Company.

Climate Solutions Segment

Our major competitors in the Climate Solutions segment include Nidec Corporation, Broad-Ocean Motor Co., ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co.KG, Welling Holding Ltd., McMillan Motors, and Panasonic Corporation.

Motion Control Solutions Segment

The motion control products market is fragmented. Many competitors in the market offer limited product lines or serve specific applications, industries or geographic markets. Other larger competitors offer broader product lines that serve multiple end uses in multiple geographies. Competition in the Motion Control Solutions segment is based on several factors including quality, lead times, custom engineering capability, pricing, reliability, and customer and engineering support.

Our major competitors in the Motion Control Solutions segment include Altra Industrial Motion, Inc., RBC Bearings Inc., SKF Group, NSK Ltd., KTR Corporation and Timken Company.

Engineering, Research and Development

We believe that innovation is critical to our future growth and success and are committed to investing in new products, technologies and processes that deliver real value to our customers. Our research and development expenses consist primarily of costs for (i) salaries and related personnel expenses; (ii) the design and development of new energy efficiency products and enhancements; (iii) quality assurance and testing; and (iv) other related overhead. Our research and development efforts tend to be targeted toward developing new products that would allow us to gain additional market share, whether in new or existing segments.

We believe the key driver of our innovation strategy is the development of products that include energy efficiency, embedded intelligence and variable speed technology solutions. With our emphasis on product development and innovation, our
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businesses filed 23 Non-Provisional United States ("US") patents, 8 Provisional US patents and an additional 23 Non-Provisional foreign patents in fiscal 2021.

Each of our business units has its own, as well as shared, product development and design teams that continuously work to enhance our existing products and develop new products for our growing base of customers that require custom and standard solutions. We believe we have state-of-the-art product development and testing laboratories. We believe these capabilities provide a significant competitive advantage in the development of high quality motors, electric generators, and mechanical products incorporating leading design characteristics such as low vibration, low noise, improved safety, reliability, sustainability and enhanced energy efficiency. Increasingly, our research and development and other engineering efforts have focused on smart products that communicate and allow for monitoring, diagnostics and predictive maintenance.

Manufacturing and Operations

We have developed and acquired global operations in locations such as Mexico, China, India, Europe, Thailand and Brazil so that we can sell our products in these markets, follow our multinational customers, take advantage of global talent and complement our flexible, rapid response operations in the U.S., Canada and Europe. Our vertically integrated manufacturing operations, including our own aluminum die casting and steel stamping operations, are an important element of our rapid response capabilities. In addition, we have an extensive internal logistics operation and a network of distribution facilities with the capability to modify stock products to quickly meet specific customer requirements. This gives us the ability to efficiently and promptly deliver a customer's unique product to the desired location.

We manufacture a majority of the products that we sell, but also strategically source components and finished goods from an established global network of suppliers. We strategically leverage a global supply chain to reduce our overall costs and lead-time. We generally maintain a dual sourcing capability to ensure a reliable supply source for our customers, although we do depend on a limited number of single source suppliers for certain materials and components. We regularly invest in machinery and equipment to improve and maintain our facilities. Base materials for our products consist primarily of steel, copper and aluminum. Additionally, significant components of our product costs consist of bearings, electronic assemblies, permanent magnets and ferrous and non-ferrous castings.

The Regal Rexnord Business System is our enterprise-wide framework for continuous improvement. With our corporate values as its foundation, the Regal Rexnord Business System enables effective goal alignment, collaborative problem solving and sharing of best practices, tools, skills and expertise to achieve our objectives. Through relentless commitment to continuous improvement, we strive to elevate safety, quality, delivery, cost and growth performance of the business with the goal of exceeding the expectations of our customers, our associates and our shareholders.

Facilities

We have manufacturing, sales and service facilities in the U.S., Mexico, China, Europe, India, Thailand, and Australia, as well as a number of other locations throughout the world. Our Commercial Systems segment currently includes 44 manufacturing, service, office and distribution facilities of which 13 are principal manufacturing facilities and 3 are principal warehouse facilities. The Commercial Systems segment's present operating facilities contain a total of approximately 3.7 million square feet of space, of which approximately 33% are leased. Our Industrial Systems segment currently includes 25 manufacturing, service, office and distribution facilities of which 11 are principal manufacturing facilities and 1 is a principal warehouse facility. The Industrial Systems segment's present operating facilities contain a total of approximately 2.8 million square feet of space, of which approximately 26% are leased. Our Climate Solutions segment includes 28 manufacturing, service, office and distribution facilities, of which 9 are principal manufacturing facilities and 3 are principal warehouse facilities. The Climate Solutions segment's present operating facilities contain a total of approximately 2.4 million square feet of space, of which approximately 55% are leased. Our Motion Control Solutions segment currently includes 72 manufacturing, service, office and distribution facilities of which 51 are principal manufacturing facilities and 10 are principal warehouse facilities. The Motion Control Solutions segment's present operating facilities contain a total of approximately 7.4 million square feet of space, of which approximately 33% are leased. Our corporate offices are located in Beloit, Wisconsin in an approximately 50,000 square foot owned office building, in Rosemont, Illinois in an approximately 12,100 square foot rented office building and in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in an approximately 142,000 square foot rented office building. We believe our equipment and facilities are well maintained and adequate for our present needs.

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Backlog

Our business units have historically shipped the majority of their products within a month from when the order was received. As of January 1, 2022, our backlog was $1,214.5 million, as compared to $444.8 million on January 2, 2021. We believe that virtually all of our backlog will be shipped in fiscal 2022.

Patents, Trademarks and Licenses

We own a number of US patents and foreign patents relating to our businesses. While we believe that our patents provide certain competitive advantages, we do not consider any one patent or group of patents essential to our business as a whole. We also use various registered and unregistered trademarks, and we believe these trademarks are significant in the marketing of most of our products. However, we believe the successful manufacture and sale of our products generally depends more upon our technological, manufacturing and marketing skills.

Human Capital Management

At the end of fiscal 2021, we employed approximately 30,000 full-time associates worldwide. Of those associates, approximately 13,000 were located in Mexico; approximately 6,000 in the US; approximately 3,000 in China; approximately 3,000 in India; and approximately 5,000 in the rest of the world.

We feel that our associates are our most valuable assets and consider our associate relations to be very good. Our objective is to create a high-performing organization by attracting and retaining high-quality, diverse talent and creating an environment in which all associates have the opportunity to reach their full potential.

The core goal of our performance management process is to develop and maintain a high-performing organization that is positioned to meet our business objectives. Creating a high-performing organization requires associates and managers to exhibit transparency in their day-to-day interactions, and use data to drive decision-making and accountability. Our performance management process focuses on enabling associates and managers to gain alignment through:

a structured annual goal-setting process where managers and associates work collaboratively to develop specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time bound (SMART) goals that align with our overarching business objectives and our company values;
clear, organization-wide expectations that managers and associates monitor progress toward completion of their SMART goals with regular coaching sessions and periodic evaluations; and
an annual performance assessment that provides a direct link between the associate’s pay and performance.
In addition to our focus on performance, we also have a strong commitment to our company values of integrity, responsibility, diversity and inclusion, customer success, innovation with purpose, continuous improvement, performance, and a passion to win, all with a sense of urgency. We regularly promote these values from the top down. In addition to instilling our corporate values as a key part of associate life, we promote a commitment to ethics and compliance among our workforce through our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics (our "Code"). In 2021, 94.5% of our global workforce (including employees, temporary employees and contractors), completed training on our Code during our annual training period. Our annual training period for 2021 occurred before the Rexnord and Automation Solutions transactions closed during the fourth quarter, so the new associates who joined the Company as part of those transactions are not included in our data.

As mentioned above, diversity and inclusion are rooted in our company values. We believe that we are at our best when we bring to bear the unique perspectives, experiences, backgrounds and ideas of our associates. We seek a workforce that reflects the communities in which we operate, and strive to create diverse, equal and inclusive workplaces where all of our associates have the opportunity to achieve their full potential. In 2021, as a sign of our commitment to this goal, we joined the CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion, which is the largest CEO-driven organization committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace, and also signed the National Association of Manufacturers Pledge for Action to cement our commitment to advancing justice, equality and opportunity for all people of color.

We are also committed to improving the health and well-being of our associates. Our US wellness program was established in 2008 and is continuously evolving to better educate, motivate and reward our associates for maintaining and achieving healthy measures. During our wellness plan year running from October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021, 52% of our US associates
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participated in on-site biometric screening that provides them with key metrics such as BMI, blood pressure, and triglyceride, cholesterol and blood glucose levels. This represents an increase of 17% compared with our prior wellness plan year.

As a company, we believe that our value of responsibility requires community engagement, and we encourage our associates to share in our commitment to the communities where we operate. We have an established charitable foundation, which is governed by an advisory board comprised of our associates. In 2021, the Company and the Company's Charitable Foundation contributed $1,083,100 to charitable organizations, up from $570,481 in 2020. In 2021, the Charitable Foundation realigned its giving philosophy to support charitable organizations in more of the communities where our associates live and work globally. Whereas the Charitable Foundation previously focused primarily on supporting charitable organizations in the US, the amount we contributed internationally in 2021 (predominately in Mexico given the high concentration of our associates there) represented approximately 40% of our overall contributions.

Information About Our Executive Officers

The names, ages, and positions of our executive officers as of March 2, 2022 are listed below along with their business experience during the past five years. Officers are elected annually by the Board of Directors. There are no family relationships among these officers, nor any arrangements or understanding between any officer and any other persons pursuant to which the officer was elected.

Executive OfficerAgePosition Business Experience and Principal Occupation
Louis V. Pinkham50Chief Executive OfficerJoined the Company in April 2019, as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Pinkham was Senior Vice President of Crane Co. from 2016-2019; prior thereto he served in other leadership roles at Crane Co. from 2012-2016. Prior to joining Crane Co., Mr. Pinkham was Senior Vice President at Eaton Corporation. From 2000-2012, he held successive and increasing roles of global responsibility at Eaton. Prior to joining Eaton, Mr. Pinkham held an Engineering and Quality Manager position at ITT Sherotec and a Process Design Engineer position with Molecular Biosystems, Inc. Mr. Pinkham serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for the University of Chicago Medical Center, the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation (MAPI), and the National Electrical Manufactures Association.

Robert J. Rehard53Vice President, Chief Financial OfficerJoined the Company in January 2015, as Vice President, Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer and became Vice President, Chief Financial Officer in April 2018. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Rehard was a Division Controller for Eaton Corporation and held several other financial leadership positions throughout his career with Baxter, Emerson, Masco and Cooper. Mr. Rehard started his career with Deloitte & Touche in Costa Mesa, California.

Thomas E. Valentyn62Vice President, General Counsel and SecretaryJoined the Company in December 2013, as Associate General Counsel and became Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary in May 2016. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Valentyn was General Counsel with Twin Disc, Inc. from 2007-2013. From 2000-2007, he served as Vice President and General Counsel with Norlight Telecommunications; prior thereto he served as in-house counsel with Johnson Controls, Inc. from 1991-2000. He began his legal career with Borgelt, Powell, Peterson and Frauen in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

John M. Avampato61Vice President, Chief Information OfficerJoined the Company in April 2006 and became Vice President, Chief Information Officer in April 2010. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Avampato was Vice President, Chief Information Officer for Newell Rubbermaid from 1999-2006. Mr. Avampato served in several positions for Newell Rubbermaid from 1984-1999.
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Cheryl A. Lewis53Vice President, Chief Human Resources OfficerJoined the Company in March 2020, as Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer. Prior to joining the Company, Ms. Lewis served as Segment Director, Human Resources for Illinois Tool Works Inc. from 2010-2020. Prior to joining Illinois Tool Works Inc., Ms. Lewis was Vice President, Human Resources with Alcan Packaging from 2008-2010. From 1991-2008 she held successive and increasing roles of responsibility, including Vice President, Human Resources at Panduit Corporation.
Scott D. Brown
62President, Commercial Systems SegmentJoined the Company in August 2005 and became President, Commercial Systems Segment in June 2019. Prior to being promoted to his current position, Mr. Brown, in successive roles, served as Vice President, Business Leader of Commercial Motors, Vice President, Business Leader of Control Solutions, and Vice President, Manufacturing. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Brown spent 17 years with General Electric in operations and various business leadership roles.
John C. Kunze59President, Climate Solutions SegmentJoined the Company in September 2007 and became President, Climate Solutions Segment in June 2019. Prior to being promoted to his current position, Mr. Kunze served as Vice President, Business Leader of Climate Solutions, and, before that, Vice President, Business Leader of Air Moving. From 2000-2007, Mr. Kunze served as Chief Operating Officer of Jakel, Inc. He began his career with Invensys and Emerson.

Jerrald R. Morton60President, Motion Control Solutions IntegrationJoined the Company in February 2015 and became President, Motion Control Solutions Integration in October 2021. Prior to his current position, Mr. Morton, in successive roles, served as President of our former Power Transmission Solutions Segment from 2019-2021, as Vice President, Business Leader of Power Transmission Solutions from 2017-2019, and led the global operations for our power transmission business from 2015-2017. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Morton spent 28 years with Emerson in a variety of roles in Quality, Technology, and Operations and was Vice President, Global Operations of Emerson’s power transmission business at the time the Company acquired that business.
Kevin J. Zaba54President, Motion Control Solutions SegmentJoined the Company in October 2021 as President, Motion Control Systems Segment after the Company's merger with the PMC Business, where Mr. Zaba held the title of Group Executive and President from 2014-2021. Prior to this, he held a number of leadership roles with increasing responsibility during his 24 year tenure at Rockwell Automation, Inc., including Vice President of Solutions, Services & Sales and Vice President and General Manager of the Control & Visualization products business. Mr. Zaba's experience as a global business leader includes assignments across a variety of commercial, innovation and operational roles, including a multiyear assignment leading an Asia-Pacific ETO solutions business while residing in Shanghai, China.











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Website Disclosure

Our Internet address is www.regalrexnord.com. We make available free of charge (other than an investor's own Internet access charges) through our Internet website our Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to those reports, as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish such material to, the Securities and Exchange Commission. In addition, we have adopted a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics that applies to our officers, directors and associates which satisfies the requirements of the New York Stock Exchange regarding a “code of business conduct.” We have also adopted Corporate Governance Guidelines addressing the subjects required by the New York Stock Exchange. In September 2021, we produced our updated Sustainability Report. We make copies of the foregoing, as well as the charters of our Board committees, available free of charge on our website. We intend to satisfy the disclosure requirements under Item 5.05 of Form 8-K regarding amendments to, or waivers from, our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics by posting such information on our web site at the address stated above. We are not including the information contained on or available through our website as a part of, or incorporating such information by reference into, this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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ITEM 1A - RISK FACTORS
You should carefully consider each of the risks described below, together with all of the other information contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, before making an investment decision with respect to our securities. If any of the following risks develop into actual events, our business, financial condition, results of operations, or cash flow could be materially and adversely affected and you may lose all or part of your investment.
Risks Relating to Our Operations and Strategy

We depend on certain key suppliers, and any loss of those suppliers or their failure to meet commitments may adversely affect our business and results of operations.

We are dependent on a single or limited number of suppliers for some materials or components required in the manufacture of our products. If any of those suppliers fail to meet their commitments to us in terms of delivery or quality, including by suffering any disruptions at its facilities or in its supply, we may experience cost increases or supply shortages that could result in our inability to meet our customers' requirements, or could otherwise experience an interruption in our operations that could negatively impact our business and results of operations. If we encounter significant supply interruptions, our competitive position could be adversely affected, which may result in depressed sales and profitability.

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in increased global supply chain constraints and disruption to the operations of certain of our suppliers and we cannot predict the duration or severity of current supply-chain issues, including increased input material costs and component shortages, delivery disruptions and delays, and inflation. Additionally, the effects of climate change, including extreme weather events, long-term changes in temperature levels, water availability, supply costs impacted by increasing energy costs, or energy costs impacted by carbon prices or offsets may exacerbate supply chain constraints and disruption. Resulting supply chain constraints have required, and may continue to require, in certain instances, alternative delivery arrangements and increased costs and could have a material adverse effect on our business and operations.

Our dependence on, and the price of, raw materials may adversely affect our gross margins.

Many of the products we produce contain key materials such as steel, copper, aluminum and electronics. Market prices for those materials can be volatile due to changes in supply and demand, manufacturing and other costs, regulations and tariffs, economic conditions and other circumstances. We may not be able to offset any increase in commodity costs through pricing actions, productivity enhancements or other means, and increasing commodity costs may have an adverse impact on our gross margins, which could adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition. Even if we are able to successfully respond to increased commodity costs through pricing actions, our competitive position could be adversely affected, which may result in depressed sales and profitability.

The COVID-19 pandemic has adversely impacted our business and could continue to have a material adverse impact on our business, results of operation, financial condition, liquidity, customers, suppliers, and the geographies in which we operate.

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly increased economic, demand and operational uncertainty. We have global operations, customers and suppliers, including in countries most impacted by COVID-19. Authorities around the world have taken a variety of measures to slow the spread of COVID-19, including travel bans or restrictions, increased border controls or closures, quarantines, shelter-in-place orders and business shutdowns and such authorities may impose additional restrictions. We have also taken actions to protect our employees and to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, including embracing guidelines set by the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on social distancing, good hygiene, restrictions on employee travel and in-person meetings, and changes to employee work arrangements including remote work arrangements where feasible. The actions taken around the world to slow the spread of COVID-19 have also impacted our customers and suppliers, and future developments could cause further disruptions to us due to the interconnected nature of our business relationships.

The impact of COVID-19 on the global economy and our customers, as well as recent volatility in commodity markets, has negatively impacted demand for our products and could continue to do so in the future. Its effects could also result in further disruptions to our manufacturing operations, including higher rates of employee absenteeism, and to our supply chain, which could continue to negatively impact our ability to meet customer demand. Additionally, the potential deterioration and volatility of credit and financial markets could limit our ability to obtain external financing. The extent to which COVID-19 will impact our business, results of operations, financial condition or liquidity is highly uncertain and will depend on future developments, including the spread and duration of the virus, potential actions taken by governmental authorities, and how quickly economic conditions stabilize and recover.

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We may incur costs and charges as a result of restructuring activities such as facilities and operations consolidations and workforce reductions that we expect will reduce on-going costs, and those restructuring activities also may be disruptive to our business and may not result in anticipated cost savings.

We expect to review our overall manufacturing footprint, including potentially consolidating facilities and operations, in an effort to make our business more efficient. We expect to incur additional costs and restructuring charges in connection with such consolidations, divestitures, workforce reductions and other cost reduction measures that could adversely affect our future earnings and cash flows. Furthermore, such actions may be disruptive to our business. This may result in production inefficiencies, product quality issues, late product deliveries or lost orders as we begin production at consolidated facilities, which would adversely impact our sales levels, operating results and operating margins. In addition, we may not realize the cost savings that we expect to realize as a result of such actions.

These activities require substantial management time and attention and may divert management from other important work or result in a failure to meet operational targets. Divestitures may also give rise to obligations to buyers or other parties that could have a financial effect after the transaction is completed. Moreover, we could encounter changes to, or delays in executing, any restructuring or divestiture plans, any of which could cause disruption and additional unanticipated expense.

Our ability to establish, grow and maintain customer relationships depends in part on our ability to develop new products and product enhancements based on technological innovation, such as IoT, and marketplace acceptance of new and existing products, including products related to technology not yet adopted or utilized in certain geographic locations in which we do business.

The electric motor and power transmission industries in recent years have seen significant evolution and innovation, particularly with respect to increasing energy efficiency and control enhancements. Our ability to effectively compete in these industries depends in part on our ability to continue to develop new technologies and innovative products and product enhancements, including enhancements based on technological innovation such as IoT. Further, many large customers in these industries generally desire to purchase from companies that can offer a broad product range, which means we must continue to develop our expertise in order to design, manufacture and sell these products successfully. This requires that we make significant investments in engineering, manufacturing, customer service and support, research and development and intellectual property protection, and there can be no assurance that in the future we will have sufficient resources to continue to make such investments. If we are unable to meet the needs of our customers for innovative products or product variety, or if our products become technologically obsolete over time due to the development by our competitors of technological breakthroughs or otherwise, our revenues and results of operations may be adversely affected. In addition, we may incur significant costs and devote significant resources to the development of products that ultimately are not accepted in the marketplace, do not provide anticipated enhancements, or do not lead to significant revenue, which may adversely impact our results of operations.

Further, such new products and technologies may create additional exposure or risk. We cannot assure that we can adequately protect any of our own technological developments to produce a sustainable competitive advantage. Furthermore, we could be subject to business continuity risk in the event of an unexpected loss of a material facility or operation. We cannot ensure that we can adequately protect against such a loss.

In each of our Climate Solutions and Commercial Systems segments, we depend on revenues from several significant customers, and any loss, cancellation or reduction of, or delay in, purchases by these customers may have a material adverse effect on our business.

In each of our Climate Solutions and Commercial Systems segments, we depend on, and expect to continue to depend on, revenues from several significant customers, and any loss, cancellation or reduction of, or delay in, purchases by these customers may have a material adverse effect on our business.

We derive a significant portion of the revenues of our motor businesses from several key OEM customers. Our success depends on our continued ability to develop and manage relationships with these customers. We have long standing relationships with these customers and we expect these customer relationships will continue for the foreseeable future. Our reliance on sales from customers makes our relationship with each of these customers important to our business. We cannot assure you that we will be able to retain these key customers. Some of our customers may in the future shift some or all of their purchases of products from us to our competitors or to other sources. The loss of one or more of our large customers, any reduction or delay in sales to these customers, our inability to develop relationships successfully with additional customers, or future price concessions that we may make could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.

Goodwill comprises a significant portion of our total assets, and if we determine that goodwill has become impaired in
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the future, our results of operations and financial condition in such years may be materially and adversely affected.

As of January 1, 2022, we had goodwill of $4,039.2 million. Goodwill represents the excess of cost over the fair market value of net assets acquired in business combinations. We review goodwill at least annually for impairment and any excess in carrying value over the estimated fair value is charged to the results of operations. Our estimates of fair value are based on assumptions about the future operating cash flows, growth rates, discount rates applied to these cash flows and current market estimates of value. A reduction in net income resulting from the write down or impairment of goodwill would affect financial results. If we are required to record a significant charge to earnings in our consolidated financial statements because an impairment of goodwill is determined, our results of operations and financial condition could be materially and adversely affected.

Portions of our total sales come directly from customers in key markets and industries. A significant or prolonged decline or disruption in one of those markets or industries could result in lower capital expenditures by such customers, which could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.

Portions of our total sales are dependent directly upon the level of capital expenditures by customers in key markets and industries, such as HVAC, refrigeration, power generation, oil and gas, unit material handling, water heating and aerospace. A significant or prolonged decline or disruption in one of those markets or industries may result in some of such customers delaying, canceling or modifying projects, or may result in nonpayment of amounts that are owed to us. These effects could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.

We sell certain products for high volume applications, and any failure of those products to perform as anticipated could result in significant liability and expenses that may adversely affect our business and results of operations.

We manufacture and sell a number of products for high volume applications, including electric motors used in pools and spas, residential and commercial heating, ventilation and air conditioning and refrigeration equipment. Any failure of those products to perform as anticipated could result in significant product liability, product recall or rework, or other costs. The costs of product recalls and reworks are not generally covered by insurance.

If we were to experience a product recall or rework in connection with products of high volume applications, our financial condition or results of operations could be materially adversely affected.
One of our subsidiaries that we acquired in 2007 is subject to numerous claims filed in various jurisdictions relating to certain sub-fractional motors that were primarily manufactured through 2004 and that were included as components of residential and commercial ventilation units manufactured and sold in high volumes by a third party. These ventilation units are subject to regulation by government agencies such as the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (“CPSC”). The claims generally allege that the ventilation units were the cause of fires. Based on the current facts, we cannot assure you that these claims, individually or in the aggregate, will not have a material adverse effect on our subsidiary's results of operations, financial condition or cash flows. We cannot reasonably predict the outcome of these claims, the nature or extent of any CPSC or other remedial actions, if any, that our subsidiary or we on their behalf may need to undertake with respect to motors that remain in the field, or the costs that may be incurred, some of which could be significant.

Our business may not generate cash flow from operations in an amount sufficient to enable us to service our indebtedness or to fund our other liquidity needs, we could become increasingly vulnerable to general adverse economic and industry conditions and interest rate trends, and our ability to obtain future financing may be limited.

As of January 1, 2022, we had approximately $1.9 billion in aggregate debt outstanding under our various financing arrangements, approximately $672.8 million in cash and cash equivalents and approximately $263.2 million in available borrowings under our current revolving credit facility. Our ability to make required payments of principal and interest on our debt levels will depend on our future performance, which, to a certain extent, is subject to general economic, financial, competitive and other factors that are beyond our control. We cannot assure you that our business will generate cash flow from operations or that future borrowings will be available under our current credit facilities in an amount sufficient to enable us to service our indebtedness or to fund our other liquidity needs. In addition, our credit facilities contain financial and restrictive covenants that could limit our ability to, among other things, borrow additional funds or take advantage of business opportunities. Our failure to comply with such covenants could result in an event of default that, if not cured or waived, could result in the acceleration of all our indebtedness or otherwise have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and debt service capability. See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations - Liquidity and Capital Resources.” Our indebtedness may have important consequences. For example, it could:
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make it more challenging for us to obtain additional financing to fund our business strategy and acquisitions, debt service requirements, capital expenditures and working capital;
increase our vulnerability to interest rate changes and general adverse economic and industry conditions;
require us to dedicate a substantial portion of our cash flow from operations to service our indebtedness, thereby reducing the availability of our cash flow to finance acquisitions and to fund working capital, capital expenditures, manufacturing capacity expansion, business integration, research and development efforts and other general corporate activities;
limit our flexibility in planning for, or reacting to, changes in our business and our markets; and/or
place us at a competitive disadvantage relative to our competitors that have less debt.
 
Our credit facilities require us to maintain specified financial ratios and satisfy certain financial condition tests, which may require that we take action to reduce our debt or to act in a manner contrary to our business strategies. If an event of default under our credit facility or senior notes were to occur, the lenders could elect to declare all amounts outstanding under the applicable agreement, together with accrued interest, to be immediately due and payable.

In addition, the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), the interest rate benchmark used as a reference rate for certain borrowings under the Company’s revolving credit facility, is expected to be phased out by the end of calendar year 2023. Any disruption in the financial markets, interest rate increases, changes that may result from the implementation of new benchmark rates that replace LIBOR, or increases to our indebtedness levels could negatively impact our ability to access financial markets or increase our borrowing costs.

Sales of products incorporated into HVAC systems and other residential applications are seasonal and affected by the weather; mild or cooler weather could have an adverse effect on our operating performance.

Many of our motors are incorporated into HVAC systems and other residential applications that OEMs sell to end users. The number of installations of new and replacement HVAC systems or components and other residential applications is higher during the spring and summer seasons due to the increased use of air conditioning during warmer months. Mild or cooler weather conditions during the spring and summer season often result in end users deferring the purchase of new or replacement HVAC systems or components. As a result, prolonged periods of mild or cooler weather conditions in the spring or summer season in broad geographical areas could have a negative impact on the demand for our HVAC motors and, therefore, could have an adverse effect on our operating performance. In addition, due to variations in weather conditions from year to year, our operating performance in any single year may not be indicative of our performance in any future year.

Our success is highly dependent on qualified and sufficient staffing. Our failure to attract or retain qualified personnel, including our senior management team, could lead to a loss of revenue or profitability.

Our success depends, in part, on the efforts and abilities of our senior management team and key associates and the contributions of talented associates in various operations and functions, such as engineering, finance, sales, marketing, manufacturing, etc. The skills, experience and industry contacts of our senior management team significantly benefit our operations and administration. The failure to attract or retain members of our senior management team and key talent could have a negative effect on our operating results.

Moreover, on September 9, 2021, President Biden issued an executive order requiring certain employers with U.S. government contracts to ensure that their U.S.-based employees, contractors and subcontractors that work on or in support of the U.S. government contracts are fully vaccinated. Shortly before the executive order was to take effect, an injunction precluding enforcement was entered on a nationwide basis. The executive order is currently tied up in litigation. It is currently not possible to predict with certainty the impact of the executive order given that it is not currently being enforced. If we are required to implement the requirements under the executive order, then it may result in attrition, including attrition of critically skilled labor, and difficulty securing future labor needs, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

Risks Related to Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures

Our failure to successfully integrate the Rexnord PMC business and Automation Solutions businesses and realize forecasted synergies from the Transactions and any future acquisitions into our business within our expected timetable could adversely affect our future results and the market price of our common stock following the completion of the Transactions or any future acquisitions.

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The success of the Rexnord Transaction and the Automation Solutions Transaction will depend, in large part, our ability following the completion of the Transactions to realize the anticipated benefits of the Transactions and on our sales and profitability. To realize these anticipated benefits, we must successfully integrate the Rexnord PMC and Automation Solutions businesses. These integrations will be complex and time-consuming. The failure to successfully integrate and manage the challenges presented by the integration process may result in our failure to achieve some or all of the anticipated benefits of the Transactions.

Potential difficulties that may be encountered in the integration process include, among others:

• the failure to implement our business plan and for us to recognize synergies between our business and the Rexnord PMC and Automation Solutions businesses;

• lost sales and customers as a result of our customers or customers of the Rexnord PMC and Automation Solutions businesses deciding not to do business with us;

• risks associated with managing the larger and more complex Company after the Transactions;

• integrating our personnel and the personnel of the Rexnord PMC and Automation Solutions businesses while maintaining focus on providing consistent, high-quality products and service to customers;

• the loss of key employees;

• unanticipated issues in integrating manufacturing, logistics, information, communications and other systems;

• unexpected liabilities of the Rexnord PMC and Automation Solutions businesses;

• possible inconsistencies in standards, controls, procedures, policies and compensation structures;

• the impact on our internal controls and compliance with the regulatory requirements under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002; and

• potential unknown liabilities and unforeseen expenses or delays associated with the Transactions.

If any of these events were to occur, our ability to maintain relationships with customers, suppliers and employees or our ability to achieve the anticipated benefits of the Transactions could be adversely affected, or could reduce our sales or earnings or otherwise adversely affect our business and financial results after the Transactions and, as a result, adversely affect the market price of our common stock.

Apart from the Transactions, as part of our growth strategy, we have made and expect to continue to make, acquisitions. Our continued growth may depend on our ability to identify and acquire companies that complement or enhance our business on acceptable terms, but we may not be able to identify or complete future acquisitions. We may not be able to integrate successfully our recent acquisitions, or any future acquisitions, operate these acquired companies profitably, or realize the potential benefits from these acquisitions, including the expected restructuring of certain aspects of the Rexnord PMC and Automation Solutions businesses.

We will continue to incur additional one-time costs related to the Transactions, which may be greater than anticipated and which could have an adverse effect on our liquidity, cash flows and operating results.

We will continue to incur additional one-time costs in connection with the Transactions, including transaction costs, integration costs, and other costs that our management believes are necessary to realize the anticipated synergies from the Transactions. Although we believe our projections of these costs are based on reasonable assumptions, if such costs are greater than anticipated, the realization of these costs may have a material adverse effect on our liquidity, cash flows and operating results in the periods in which they are incurred.

Businesses that we have acquired or that we may acquire in the future, including the Rexnord PMC and Automation Solutions businesses, may have liabilities which are not known to us.

We have assumed liabilities of acquired businesses, including the Rexnord PMC and Automation Solutions businesses, and may assume liabilities of businesses that we acquire in the future. There may be liabilities or risks that we fail, or are unable, to
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discover, or that we underestimate, in the course of performing our due diligence investigations of acquired businesses. Additionally, businesses that we have acquired or may acquire in the future may have made previous acquisitions, and we will be subject to certain liabilities and risks relating to these prior acquisitions as well. We cannot assure you that our rights to indemnification contained in definitive acquisition agreements that we have entered or may enter into will be sufficient in amount, scope or duration to fully offset the possible liabilities associated with the business or property acquired. Any such liabilities, individually or in the aggregate, could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations. As we begin to operate acquired businesses, we may learn additional information about them that adversely affects us, such as unknown or contingent liabilities, issues relating to compliance with applicable laws or issues related to ongoing customer relationships or order demand.

The Reorganization and the Distributions could result in significant tax liability, including as a result of an error in the determination of Overlap Shareholders or subsequent acquisitions of stock of Zurn or us. Under certain circumstances, Land (our wholly owned subsidiary) may be obligated to indemnify Zurn for such taxes imposed on Zurn.

In connection with the Rexnord Transaction, Zurn received a tax opinion from its tax counsel (the “Rexnord Tax Opinion”) that includes an opinion to the effect that the Reorganization, together with the distributions of Land common stock from Zurn to Zurn’s stockholders (the “Distributions”), will qualify as tax-free to Zurn, Land and the Zurn stockholders, as applicable, for U.S. federal income tax purposes except, in the case of Zurn, to the extent Land’s payment to a subsidiary of Zurn under the terms of the Separation Agreement (the “Land Cash Payment”) exceeds RBS Global Inc.’s adjusted tax basis in Land common stock. The Rexnord Tax Opinion is based on, among other things, certain representations and assumptions as to factual matters and certain covenants made by us, Land and Zurn. Although we believe the representations, assumptions and covenants in the Rexnord Tax Opinion to be true, the failure of any such factual representation, assumption or covenant to be true, correct and complete in all material respects could adversely affect the validity of the opinion. The Rexnord Tax Opinion is not binding on the IRS or the courts, and it is possible that the IRS or the courts may not agree with the opinion. In addition, the Rexnord Tax Opinion is based on current law, and the conclusions in the opinion cannot be relied upon if current law changes with retroactive effect.

The Spin-Off will be taxable to Zurn pursuant to Section 355(e) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended if there is a 50% or greater change in ownership of either Zurn or Land, directly or indirectly, as part of a plan or series of related transactions that include the Spin-Off. For this purpose, any acquisitions of Land or Zurn stock or our stock within the period beginning two years before the Spin-Off and ending two years after the Spin-Off are presumed to be a part of such plan, although we and Zurn may be able to rebut that presumption. Zurn received a private letter ruling from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) (the “IRS Ruling”) with respect to certain tax aspects of the Rexnord Transaction, including matters relating to the nature and extent of shareholders who may be counted for tax purposes as “Overlap Shareholders” (as such term is defined in the Merger Agreement) for purposes of determining the exchange ratio for the transaction in the Merger Agreement and the overall percentage change in the ownership of Land resulting from the Merger. The continuing validity of the IRS Ruling is subject to the accuracy of factual representations and assumptions made in the ruling request. Moreover, the IRS Ruling only describes the time, manner and methodology for measuring Overlap Shareholders and may be subject to varying interpretations.

The actual determination and calculation of Overlap Shareholders was made by us, Zurn and our respective advisors based on the IRS Ruling, but no assurance can be given that the IRS will agree with these determinations or calculations. If the IRS were to determine that the Merger, as a result of an error in the determination of Overlap Shareholders, or other acquisitions of Land, Zurn or our stock, either before or after the Spin-Off, resulted in a 50% or greater change in ownership and were part of a plan or series of related transactions that included the Spin-Off, such determination could result in significant tax liability to Zurn. In certain circumstances and subject to certain limitations, under the Tax Matters Agreement, Land is required to indemnify Zurn for 100% of the taxes that result if the Distributions become taxable as a result of certain actions by us or Land and for 90% of the taxes that result as a result of a miscalculation of the Overlap Shareholders. If this occurs and Land is required to indemnify Zurn, this indemnification obligation could be substantial and could have a material adverse effect on us and Land, including with respect to our financial condition and results of operations given that we have guaranteed the indemnification obligations of Land.

Following consummation of the Rexnord Transaction, we and Land are each required to abide by potentially significant restrictions which could limit our ability to undertake certain corporate actions (such as the issuance of common stock or the undertaking of certain business combinations) that otherwise could be advantageous.

The Tax Matters Agreement we entered into in connection with the Rexnord Transaction imposes certain restrictions on us, Land and Zurn during the two-year period following the Spin-Off, subject to certain exceptions, with respect to actions that could cause the Reorganization and the Distributions to fail to qualify for their intended tax treatment. As a result of these
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restrictions, our and Land’s ability to engage in certain transactions, such as the issuance or purchase of stock or certain business combinations, may be limited.

If we, Land or Zurn take any enumerated actions or omissions, or if certain events relating to us, Land or Zurn occur that would cause the Reorganization or the Distributions to become taxable, the party whose actions or omissions (or who the event relates to) generally will be required to bear the cost of any resulting tax liability of Zurn (but not its stockholders). If the Reorganization or the Distributions became taxable, Zurn would be expected to recognize a substantial amount of gain, which would result in a material amount of taxes. Any such taxes would be expected to be material to us and could cause our business, financial condition and operating results to suffer. These restrictions may reduce our ability to engage in certain business transactions that otherwise might be advantageous, which could adversely affect our business, results of operations, or financial condition.

Zurn may not be able to perform the services it is required to perform under the Transition Services Agreement.

Prior to the Rexnord Transaction, Zurn performed certain corporate and other functions for the Rexnord PMC business. Following the Merger, Zurn is obligated to perform some of these services to the Rexnord PMC business pursuant to a transition services agreement (the “Transition Services Agreement”) between us, Zurn and Land for a transitional period. In the event that Zurn does not or is unable to perform its obligations with respect to the Rexnord PMC business under the Transition Services Agreement, or if there are disputes in connection with the Transition Services Agreement, we may be required to incur significant costs in order to provide such services or resolve such disputes, which could adversely affect our business, results of operations or financial condition.

Risks Relating to Our Global Footprint

We operate in the highly competitive global electric motors and controls, power generation and power transmission industries.

The global electric motors and controls, power generation and power transmission industries are highly competitive. We encounter a wide variety of domestic and international competitors due in part to the nature of the products we manufacture and the wide variety of applications and customers we serve. In order to compete effectively, we must retain relationships with major customers and establish relationships with new customers, including those in developing countries. Moreover, in certain applications, customers exercise significant power over business terms. It may be difficult in the short-term for us to obtain new sales to replace any decline in the sale of existing products that may be lost to competitors. Our failure to compete effectively may reduce our revenues, profitability and cash flow, and pricing pressures resulting from competition may adversely impact our profitability.

We have continued to see a trend with certain customers who are attempting to reduce the number of vendors from which they purchase product in order to reduce their costs and diversify their risk. As a result, we may lose market share to our competitors in some of the markets in which we compete.

In addition, some of our competitors are larger and have greater financial and other resources than we do. There can be no assurance that our products will be able to compete successfully with the products of these other companies.

We may also choose to exit certain businesses, markets, or channels based on a variety of factors including our 80/20 initiatives.

We manufacture a significant portion of our products outside the US, and political, societal or economic instability or public health crises may present additional risks to our business.
Approximately 24,000 of our approximate 30,000 total associates and 61 of our principal manufacturing and warehouse facilities are located outside the U.S. International operations generally are subject to various risks, including political, societal and economic instability, local labor market conditions, public health crises, breakdowns in trade relations, the imposition of tariffs and other trade restrictions, lack of reliable legal systems, ownership restrictions, the impact of government regulations, the effects of income and withholding taxes, governmental expropriation or nationalization, and differences in business practices. We may incur increased costs and experience delays or disruptions in product deliveries and payments in connection with international manufacturing and sales that could cause loss of revenue.

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Unfavorable changes in the political, regulatory and business climates in countries where we have operations could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows, including, for example, the uncertainty surrounding the effect of the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union, commonly referred to as “Brexit,” and trade relations between the U.S. and China.

In addition, as described in more detail above, the continued global spread of COVID-19 could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

Disruptions caused by labor disputes or organized labor activities could adversely affect our business or financial results.

We have a significant number of employees in Europe and other jurisdictions where trade union membership is common. Although we believe that our relations with our employees are strong, if our unionized workers were to engage in a strike, work stoppage or other slowdown in the future, we could experience a significant disruption of our operations, which could interfere with our ability to deliver products on a timely basis and could have other negative effects, such as decreased productivity and increased labor costs. In addition, if a greater percentage of our workforce becomes unionized as a result of legal or regulatory changes which may make union organizing easier, or otherwise, our costs could increase and our efficiency be affected in a material adverse manner, negatively impacting our business and financial results. Further, many of our direct and indirect customers and their suppliers, and organizations responsible for shipping our products, have unionized workforces and their businesses may be impacted by strikes, work stoppages or slowdowns, any of which, in turn, could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.

Economic and Financial Risks

Commodity, currency and interest rate hedging activities may adversely impact our financial performance as a result of changes in global commodity prices, interest rates and currency rates.

We use derivative financial instruments in order to reduce the substantial effects of currency and commodity fluctuations and interest rate exposure on our cash flow and financial condition. These instruments may include foreign currency and commodity forward contracts, currency swap agreements and currency option contracts, as well as interest rate swap agreements. We have entered into, and may continue to enter into, such hedging arrangements. By utilizing hedging instruments, we may forgo benefits that might result from fluctuations in currency exchange, commodity and interest rates. We are also exposed to the risk that counterparties to hedging contracts will default on their obligations. Any default by such counterparties might have an adverse effect on us.

We may suffer losses as a result of foreign currency fluctuations.

The net assets, net earnings and cash flows from our foreign subsidiaries based on the U.S. dollar equivalent of such amounts measured in the applicable functional currency.

These foreign operations have the potential to impact our financial position due to fluctuations in the local currency arising from the process of re-measuring the local functional currency in the U.S. dollar. Any increase in the value of the U.S. dollar in relation to the value of the local currency, whether by means of market conditions or governmental actions such as currency devaluations, will adversely affect our revenues from our foreign operations when translated into U.S. dollars. Similarly, any decrease in the value of the U.S. dollar in relation to the value of the local currency will increase our operating costs in foreign operations, to the extent such costs are payable in foreign currency, when translated into U.S. dollars.

Worldwide economic conditions may adversely affect our industry, business and results of operations.

General economic conditions and conditions in the global financial markets can affect our results of operations. Deterioration in the global economy could lead to higher unemployment, lower consumer spending and reduced investment by businesses, and could lead our customers to slow spending on our products or make it difficult for our customers, our vendors and us to accurately forecast and plan future business activities. Worsening economic conditions could also affect the financial viability of our suppliers, some of which could be considered key suppliers. If the commercial, industrial, residential HVAC, power generation and power transmission markets significantly deteriorate, our business, financial condition and results of operations will likely be materially and adversely affected. Some of the industries that we serve are highly cyclical, such as the aerospace, energy and industrial equipment industries. Additionally, our stock price could decrease if investors have concerns that our business, financial condition and results of operations will be negatively impacted by a worldwide economic downturn.

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We are subject to tax laws and regulations in many jurisdictions and the inability to successfully defend claims from taxing authorities related to our current and/or acquired businesses could adversely affect our operating results and financial position.

A significant amount of our revenue is generated from customers located outside of the U.S., and a substantial portion of our assets and associates are located outside of the U.S. which requires us to interpret the income tax laws and rulings in each of those taxing jurisdictions. Due to the subjectivity of tax laws between those jurisdictions as well as the subjectivity of factual interpretations, our estimates of income tax liabilities may differ from actual payments or assessments. Claims from taxing authorities related to these differences could have an adverse impact on our operating results and financial position.

Our required cash contributions to our pension plans may increase further and we could experience a change in the funded status of our pension plans and the amount recorded in our consolidated balance sheets related to such plans. Additionally, our pension costs could increase in future years.

The funded status of our defined benefit pension plans depends on such factors as asset returns, market interest rates, legislative changes and funding regulations. If the returns on the assets of any of our plans were to decline in future periods, if market interest rates were to decline, if the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation were to require additional contributions to any such plans as a result of acquisitions or if other actuarial assumptions were to be modified, our future required cash contributions and pension costs to such plans could increase. Any such increases could impact our business, financial condition, results of operations or cash flows. The need to make contributions to such plans may reduce the cash available to meet our other obligations, including our obligations under our borrowing arrangements or to meet the needs of our business.

Risks Relating to the Legal and Regulatory Environment

We are subject to changes in legislative, regulatory and legal developments involving income and other taxes.

We are subject to U.S. federal, state, and international income, payroll, property, sales and use, fuel, and other types of taxes. Changes in tax rates, enactment of new tax laws, revisions of tax regulations, and claims or litigation with taxing authorities, including claims or litigation related to our interpretation and application of tax laws and regulations, could result in substantially higher taxes, could have a negative impact on our ability to compete in the global marketplace, and could have a significant adverse effect on our results or operations, financial conditions and liquidity.

It is difficult to predict the timing and effect that future tax law changes could have on our earnings both in the U.S. and in foreign jurisdictions. The Biden administration has provided informal guidance on certain tax law changes that it would support, which includes, among other things, raising tax rates on both domestic and foreign income and imposing a new alternative minimum tax on book income. Such changes could cause us to experience an effective tax rate significantly different from previous periods or our current estimates. If our effective tax rate were to increase, our financial condition and results of operations could be adversely affected.

We are subject to litigation, including product liability, asbestos and warranty claims that may adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.

We are, from time to time, a party to litigation that arises in the normal course of our business operations, including product warranty and liability claims, contract disputes and environmental, asbestos, employment and other litigation matters. We face an inherent business risk of exposure to product liability, asbestos and warranty claims in the event that the use of our products is alleged to have resulted in injury or other damage. As described above, one of our subsidiaries that we acquired in 2007 is subject to numerous claims filed in various jurisdictions relating to certain sub-fractional motors that were primarily manufactured through 2004 and that were included as components of residential and commercial ventilation units manufactured and sold in high volumes by a third party. In addition, certain subsidiaries of ours are co-defendants in various lawsuits in a number of U.S. jurisdictions alleging personal injury as a result of exposure to asbestos that was used in certain components of legacy Rexnord PMC business products. The uncertainties of litigation and the uncertainties related to insurance and indemnification coverage make it difficult to accurately predict the ultimate financial effect of these claims. If our insurance or indemnification coverage is not adequate to cover our potential financial exposure, our insurers or indemnitors dispute their obligations to provide coverage, or the actual number or value of claims differs materially from our existing estimates, we could incur material costs that could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.

While we maintain general liability and product liability insurance coverage in amounts that we believe are reasonable, we cannot assure you that we will be able to maintain this insurance on acceptable terms or that this insurance will provide sufficient coverage against potential liabilities that may arise. Any product liability claim may also include the imposition of
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punitive damages, the award of which, pursuant to certain state laws, may not be covered by insurance. Any claims brought against us, with or without merit, may have an adverse effect on our business and results of operations as a result of potential adverse outcomes, the expenses associated with defending such claims, the diversion of our management’s resources and time and the potential adverse effect to our business reputation.

Infringement of our intellectual property by third parties may harm our competitive position, and we may incur significant costs associated with the protection and preservation of our intellectual property.

We own or otherwise have rights in a number of patents and trademarks relating to the products we manufacture, which have been obtained over a period of years, and we expect to actively pursue patents in connection with new product development and to acquire additional patents and trademarks through the acquisitions of other businesses. These patents and trademarks have been of value in the growth of our business and may continue to be of value in the future. Our inability to protect this intellectual property generally, or the illegal breach of some or a large group of our intellectual property rights, would have an adverse effect on our business. In addition, there can be no assurance that our intellectual property will not be challenged, invalidated, circumvented or designed-around, particularly in countries where intellectual property rights are not highly developed or protected. We have incurred in the past, and expect to incur in the future, significant costs associated with defending challenges to our intellectual property or enforcing our intellectual property rights, which could adversely impact our cash flow and results of operations.

Third parties may claim that we are infringing their intellectual property rights and we could incur significant costs and expenses or be prevented from selling certain products.

We may be subject to claims from third parties that our products or technologies infringe on their intellectual property rights or that we have misappropriated intellectual property rights. If we are involved in a dispute or litigation relating to infringement of third party intellectual property rights, we could incur significant costs in defending against those claims. Our intellectual property portfolio may not be useful in asserting a counterclaim, or negotiating a license, in response to a claim of infringement or misappropriation. In addition, as a result of such claims of infringement or misappropriation, we could lose our rights to technology that are important to our business, or be required to pay damages or license fees with respect to the infringed rights or be required to redesign our products at substantial cost, any of which could adversely impact our cash flows and results of operations.

We may incur costs or suffer reputational damage due to improper conduct of our associates, agents or business partners.

We are subject to a variety of domestic and foreign laws, rules and regulations relating to improper payments to government officials, bribery, anti-kickback and false claims rules, competition, export and import compliance, money laundering and data privacy. If our associates, agents or business partners engage in activities in violation of these laws, rules or regulations, we may be subject to civil or criminal fines or penalties or other sanctions, may incur costs associated with government investigations, or may suffer damage to our reputation.

Our operations are highly dependent on information technology infrastructure, and failures, attacks or breaches could significantly affect our business.

We depend heavily on our information technology infrastructure in order to achieve our business objectives. If we experience a problem that impairs this infrastructure, such as a computer virus, a problem with the functioning of an important IT application, or an intentional disruption of our IT systems by a third party, the resulting disruptions could impede our ability to record or process orders, manufacture and ship in a timely manner, or otherwise carry on our business in the ordinary course. Any such events could cause us to lose customers or revenue and could require us to incur significant expense to eliminate these problems and address related security concerns, including costs relating to investigation and remediation actions.

IT security threats via computer malware and other “cyber-attacks,” which are increasing in both frequency and sophistication, could also result in unauthorized disclosures of information, such as customer data, personally identifiable information or other confidential or proprietary material, and create financial liability, subject us to legal or regulatory sanctions, or damage our reputation. Moreover, because the techniques used to gain access to or sabotage systems often are not recognized until launched against a target, we may be unable to anticipate the methods necessary to defend against these types of attacks, and we cannot predict the extent, frequency or impact these attacks may have. While we maintain robust information security mechanisms and controls, the impact of a material IT event could have a material adverse effect on our competitive position, results of operations, financial condition and cash flow.

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We have substantially completed the implementation of two Enterprise Resource Planning (“ERP”) systems that each redesigned and deployed common information systems. We will continue to implement the ERP systems throughout the business. The process of implementation can be costly and can divert the attention of management from the day-to-day operations of the business. As we implement the ERP systems, some elements may not perform as expected. This could have an adverse effect on our business.

We may be adversely affected by environmental, health and safety laws and regulations.

We are subject to various laws and regulations relating to the protection of the environment and human health and safety and expect incur capital and other expenditures to comply with these regulations. Failure to comply with any environmental regulations, including more stringent environmental laws that may be imposed in the future, could subject us to future liabilities, fines or penalties or the suspension of production. In addition, if environmental and human health and safety laws and regulations are repealed, made less burdensome or implemented at a later date, demand for our products designed to comply with such regulations may be unfavorably impacted.

General Risks

Our operations can be negatively impacted by natural disasters, terrorism, acts of war, international conflict, political and governmental actions which could harm our business.

Natural disasters, acts or threats of war or terrorism, international conflicts, and the actions taken by the US and other governments in response to such events could cause damage or disrupt our business operations, our suppliers, or our customers, and could create political or economic instability, any of which could have an adverse effect on our business. Although it is not possible to predict such events or their consequences, these events could decrease demand for our products, could make it difficult or impossible for us to deliver products, or could disrupt our supply chain. We may also be negatively impacted by actions by the U.S. or foreign governments which could disrupt manufacturing and commercial operations, including policy changes affecting taxation, trade, immigration, currency devaluation, tariffs, customs, border actions and the like, including, for example, the effect of the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union, commonly referred to as “Brexit,” and trade relations between the U.S. and China.

Our stock may be subject to significant fluctuations and volatility.

The market price of shares of our common stock may be volatile. Among the factors that could affect our common stock price are those discussed above under “Risk Factors” as well as:
domestic and international economic and political factors unrelated to our performance;
quarterly fluctuation in our operating income and earnings per share results;
decline in demand for our products;
significant strategic actions by our competitors, including new product introductions or technological advances;
fluctuations in interest rates;
cost increases in energy, raw materials, intermediate components or materials, or labor; and
changes in revenue or earnings estimates or publication of research reports by analysts.

In addition, stock markets may experience extreme volatility that may be unrelated to the operating performance of particular companies. These broad market fluctuations may adversely affect the trading price of our common stock.

ITEM 1B - UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
None.


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ITEM 2 - PROPERTIES
Our corporate offices are located in Beloit, Wisconsin in an approximately 50,000 square foot owned office building, in Rosemont, Illinois in an approximately 12,100 square foot rented office building and in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in an approximately 142,000 square foot rented office building. We have manufacturing, sales and service facilities throughout the US and in Mexico, China, Europe and India as well as a number of other locations throughout the world.
Our Commercial Systems segment currently includes 44 facilities, of which 13 are principal manufacturing facilities and 3 are principal warehouse facilities. The Commercial Systems segment's present operating facilities contain a total of approximately 3.7 million square feet of space, of which approximately 33% are leased.
The following represents our principal manufacturing and warehouse facilities in the Commercial Systems segment (square footage in millions):
Square Footage
LocationFacilitiesTotalOwnedLeased
US51.10.60.5
Mexico40.80.60.2
China40.90.80.1
Europe10.10.1
Other30.40.20.2
Total173.32.31.0

Our Industrial Systems segment currently includes 25 facilities, of which 11 are principal manufacturing facilities and 1 is a principal warehouse facility. The Industrial Systems segment's present operating facilities contain a total of approximately 2.8 million square feet of space, of which approximately 26% are leased.
The following represents our principal manufacturing and warehouse facilities in the Industrial Systems segment (square footage in millions):
Square Footage
LocationFacilitiesTotalOwnedLeased
US20.70.7
Mexico20.30.3
China20.60.6
India20.30.20.1
Europe10.20.2
Other30.30.10.2
Total122.41.80.6

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Our Climate Solutions segment currently includes 28 facilities, of which 9 are principal manufacturing facilities and 3 are principal warehouse facilities. The Climate Solutions segment's present operating facilities contain a total of approximately 2.4 million square feet of space, of which approximately 55% are leased.
The following represents our principal manufacturing and warehouse facilities in the Climate Solutions segment (square footage in millions):
Square Footage
LocationFacilitiesTotalOwnedLeased
US40.80.40.4
Mexico40.70.30.4
China20.30.3
India10.40.4
Other10.10.1
Total122.31.11.2

Our Motion Control Solutions segment currently includes 72 facilities, of which 51 are principal manufacturing facilities and 10 are principal warehouse facilities. The Motion Control Solutions segment's present operating facilities contain a total of approximately 7.4 million square feet of space, of which approximately 33% are leased.
The following represents our principal manufacturing and warehouse facilities in the Motion Control Solutions segment (square footage in millions):
Square Footage
LocationFacilitiesTotalOwnedLeased
US303.82.61.2
Mexico61.00.50.5
China40.60.20.4
India30.10.1
Europe121.21.00.2
Other60.20.10.1
Total616.94.52.4

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ITEM 3 - LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
A subsidiary that we acquired in 2007 is subject to numerous claims filed in various jurisdictions relating to certain sub-fractional motors that were primarily manufactured through 2004 and that were included as components of residential and commercial ventilation units manufactured and sold in high volumes by a third party. These ventilation units are subject to product safety requirements and other potential regulation of their performance by government agencies such as the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (“CPSC”). The claims generally allege that the ventilation units were the cause of fires. We have recorded an estimated liability for incurred claims. Based on the current facts, we cannot assure that these claims, individually or in the aggregate, will not have a material adverse effect on our subsidiary's financial condition. Our subsidiary cannot reasonably predict the outcome of these claims, the nature or extent of any CPSC or other remedial actions, if any, that our subsidiary may need to undertake with respect to motors that remain in the field, or the costs that may be incurred, some of which could be significant.
As a result of our acquisition of the Rexnord PMC business, we are entitled to indemnification from third parties who are parties to agreements with the Rexnord PMC business against certain contingent liabilities of the Rexnord PMC business, including certain pre-closing environmental liabilities.

We believe that, pursuant to the transaction documents related to the Rexnord PMC business’ acquisition of the Stearns business from Invensys plc (“Invensys”), Invensys (now known as Schneider Electric) is obligated to defend and indemnify us with respect to the matters described below relating to the Ellsworth Industrial Park Site and to various asbestos claims. The indemnity obligations relating to the matters described below are subject, together with indemnity obligations relating to other matters, to an overall dollar cap equal to the purchase price, which is an amount in excess of $900 million. In the event that we are unable to recover from Invensys with respect to the matters below, we may be entitled to indemnification from Zurn, subject to certain limitations. The following paragraphs summarize the most significant actions and proceedings:

In 2002, our subsidiary, Rexnord Industries, LLC (“Rexnord Industries”), was named as a potentially responsible party (“PRP”), together with at least ten other companies, at the Ellsworth Industrial Park Site, Downers Grove, DuPage County, Illinois (the “Site”), by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“USEPA”), and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (“IEPA”). Rexnord Industries’ Downers Grove property is situated within the Ellsworth Industrial Complex. The USEPA and IEPA allege there have been one or more releases or threatened releases of chlorinated solvents and other hazardous substances, pollutants or contaminants at the Site, allegedly including but not limited to a release or threatened release on or from Rexnord Industries’ property. The relief sought by the USEPA and IEPA includes further investigation and potential remediation of the Site and reimbursement of USEPA’s past costs. In early 2020, Rexnord Industries entered into an administrative order with the USEPA to do remediation work on its Downers Grove property. Rexnord Industries’ allocated share of past and future costs related to the Site, including for investigation and/or remediation, could be significant. All previously pending property damage and personal injury lawsuits against Rexnord Industries related to the Site have been settled or dismissed. Pursuant to its indemnity obligation, Invensys continues to defend Rexnord Industries in known matters related to the Site, including the costs of the remediation work pursuant to the 2020 administrative order, and has paid 100% of the costs to date. This indemnification right would not protect Rexnord Industries against liabilities related to environmental conditions that were unknown to Invensys at the time of the acquisition of the Stearns business from Invensys.

Multiple lawsuits (with approximately 300 claimants) are pending in state or federal court in numerous jurisdictions relating to alleged personal injuries due to the alleged presence of asbestos in certain brakes and clutches previously manufactured by the Rexnord PMC business’ Stearns brand of brakes and clutches and/or its predecessor owners. Invensys and FMC, prior owners of the Stearns business, have paid 100% of the costs to date related to the Stearns lawsuits. Similarly, the Rexnord PMC business’ Prager subsidiary is the subject of claims by multiple claimants alleging personal injuries due to the alleged presence of asbestos in a product allegedly manufactured by Prager. However, all these claims are currently on the Texas Multi-district Litigation inactive docket, and we do not believe that they will become active in the future. To date, the Rexnord PMC business’ insurance providers have paid 100% of the costs related to the Prager asbestos matters. We believe that the combination of our insurance coverage and the Invensys indemnity obligations will cover any future costs of these matters.

In connection with our acquisition of the Rexnord PMC business, transaction documents related to the Rexnord PMC business’ acquisition of The Falk Corporation from Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation were assigned to Rexnord Industries, and provide Rexnord Industries with indemnification against certain products-related asbestos exposure liabilities. We believe that, pursuant to such indemnity obligations, Hamilton Sundstrand is obligated to defend and indemnify Rexnord Industries with respect to asbestos claims that may be significant, and that, with respect to these claims, such indemnity obligations are not subject to any
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time or dollar limitations. The following paragraph summarizes the most significant actions and proceedings for which Hamilton Sundstrand has accepted responsibility:

Rexnord Industries is a defendant in multiple lawsuits pending in state or federal court in numerous jurisdictions relating to alleged personal injuries due to the alleged presence of asbestos in certain clutches and drives previously manufactured by The Falk Corporation. The ultimate outcome of these lawsuits cannot presently be determined. Hamilton Sundstrand is defending Rexnord Industries in these lawsuits pursuant to its indemnity obligations and has paid 100% of the costs to date.

In addition to the matters described above, we are from time to time, party to litigation and other legal or regulatory proceedings that arise in the normal course of our business operations and the outcomes of which are subject to significant uncertainty, including product warranty and liability claims, contract disputes and environmental, asbestos, intellectual property, employment and other litigation matters. Our products are used in a variety of industrial, commercial and residential applications that subject us to claims that the use of our products is alleged to have resulted in injury or other damage. Many of these matters will only be resolved when one or more future events occur or fail to occur. Our management conducts regular reviews, including updates from legal counsel, to assess the need for accounting recognition or disclosure of these contingencies, and such assessment inherently involves an exercise in judgment. We accrue for exposures in amounts that we believe are adequate, and we do not believe that the outcome of any such lawsuit individually or collectively will have a material effect on our financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

ITEM 4 - MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES
Not applicable.

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PART II
ITEM 5 - MARKET FOR THE REGISTRANT'S COMMON EQUITY, RELATED SHAREHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES
General
Our common stock, $0.01 par value per share, is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “RRX.” The number of registered holders of common stock as of February 25, 2022 was 294.

The following table contains detail related to the repurchase of our common stock based on the date of trade during the quarter ended January 1, 2022.

2021 Fiscal MonthTotal Number of Shares PurchasedAverage Price Paid per ShareTotal Value of Shares Purchased as a Part of Publicly Announced Plans or ProgramsMaximum Value of Shares that May be Purchased Under the Plans or Programs
Oct 3 to Oct 30— $— $— $460,000,000 
Oct 31 to Nov 2790,273 166.87 15,063,808 444,936,192 
Nov 28 to Jan 165,911 162.55 10,713,821 434,222,371 
156,184 $25,777,629 

Under our equity incentive plans, participants may pay the exercise price or satisfy all or a portion of the federal, state and local withholding tax obligations arising in connection with plan awards by electing to (a) have the Company withhold shares of common stock otherwise issuable under the award, (b) tender back shares received in connection with such award or (c) deliver other previously owned shares of common stock, in each case having a value equal to the exercise price or the amount to be withheld. During the quarter ended January 1, 2022, we did not acquire any shares in connection with transactions pursuant to equity incentive plans.

At a meeting of the Board of Directors on July 24, 2018, the Company's Board of Directors approved the extinguishment of the existing $3.0 million share repurchase program that was approved in November 2013 and replaced it with an authorization to repurchase up to $250.0 million of shares. At a meeting of the Board of Directors on October 25, 2019, the July 2018 repurchase authorization was extinguished and replaced with an authorization to purchase up to $250.0 million of shares. At a meeting of the Board of Directors on October 26, 2021, the Company's Board of Directors approved the authorization to purchase up to $500.0 million of shares under the Company's share repurchase program. The new authorization has no expiration date. Management is authorized to effect purchases from time to time in the open market or through privately negotiated transactions. From time to time, we enter into a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan for the purpose of repurchasing shares. For fiscal 2021, we purchased 156,184 shares or $25.8 million in shares pursuant to the October 26, 2021 repurchase authorization. For fiscal 2020, we purchased 315,072 shares or $25.0 million in shares pursuant to the October 25, 2019 repurchase authorization. For fiscal 2019, we purchased 180,763 shares or $15.0 million in shares pursuant to the October 25, 2019 repurchase authorization and 2,013,782 shares or $150.1 million in shares pursuant to the July 2018 repurchase authorization. The maximum value of shares of our common stock available to be purchased as of January 1, 2022 is $434.2 million.
Item 12 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K contains certain information relating to our equity compensation plans.
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Stock Performance
The following information in this Item 5 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K is not deemed to be “soliciting material” or to be “filed” with the SEC or subject to Regulation 14A or 14C under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”) or to the liabilities of Section 18 of the Exchange Act, and will not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Exchange Act.
The following graph compares the hypothetical total shareholder return (including reinvestment of dividends) on an investment in (1) our common stock, (2) the Standard & Poor's Mid Cap 400 Index, and (3) the Standard & Poor's 400 Electrical Components and Equipment Index, for the period December 31, 2016 through January 1, 2022. In each case, the graph assumes the investment of $100.00 on December 31, 2016.
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INDEXED RETURNS
Years Ended
Company / Index20172018201920202021
Regal Rexnord Corporation$112.08 $103.99 $128.71 $187.73 $275.13 
S&P MidCap 400 Index116.24 102.31 130.36 148.26 184.97 
S&P 400 Electrical Components & Equipment109.56 95.67 121.67 160.52 196.66 

ITEM 6 - [RESERVED]
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ITEM 7 - MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
We operate on a 52/53 week fiscal year ending on the Saturday closest to December 31. We refer to the fiscal year ended January 1, 2022 as “fiscal 2021", the fiscal year ended January 2, 2021 as “fiscal 2020" and the fiscal year ended December 28, 2019 as “fiscal 2019".

Overview

General

Regal Rexnord Corporation (NYSE: RRX) (“we,” “us,” “our” or the “Company”) is a global leader in the engineering and manufacturing of industrial powertrain solutions, power transmission components, electrical motors and electronic controls, air moving products and specialty electrical components and systems, serving customers around the world. Through longstanding technology leadership and an intentional focus on producing more energy-efficient products and systems, we help create a better tomorrow – for our customers and for the planet.

We are headquartered in Beloit, Wisconsin and have manufacturing, sales and service facilities worldwide. As of the end of fiscal 2021, the Company, including its subsidiaries, employed approximately 30,000 people in its global manufacturing, sales, and service facilities and corporate offices. In fiscal 2021, we reported annual net sales of $3.8 billion compared to $2.9 billion in fiscal 2020.

Our company is comprised of four operating segments: Commercial Systems, Industrial Systems, Climate Solutions and Motion Control Solutions. Our new Motion Control Solutions operating segment consists of our legacy Power Transmission Solutions operating segment, the Rexnord Process & Motion Control business (the “Rexnord PMC business”), which we acquired on October 4, 2021, and Arrowhead Systems, which we acquired on November 23, 2021. We now refer to Arrowhead Systems as our Automation Solutions business.

A description of our four operating segments is as follows:

Commercial Systems segment designs and produces fractional to approximately 5 horsepower AC and DC motors, electronic variable speed controls, fans, and blowers for commercial applications. These products serve markets including commercial building ventilation and HVAC, pool and spa, irrigation, dewatering, agriculture, and general commercial equipment.
Industrial Systems segment designs and produces integral motors, automatic transfer switches, alternators and switchgear for industrial applications, along with aftermarket parts and kits to support such products. These products serve markets including agriculture, marine, mining, oil and gas, food and beverage, data centers, healthcare, prime and standby power, and general industrial equipment.
Climate Solutions segment designs and produces small motors, electronic variable speed controls and air moving solutions serving markets including residential and light commercial HVAC, water heaters and commercial refrigeration.
Motion Control Solutions segment designs, produces and services mounted and unmounted bearings, conveyor products, conveying automation solutions, couplings, mechanical power transmission drives and components, gearboxes and gear motors, aerospace components, special components products and industrial powertrain components and solutions serving a broad range of markets including food and beverage, bulk handling, eCommerce/warehouse distribution, energy, aerospace and general industrial.

Components of Profit and Loss

Net Sales. We sell our products to a variety of manufacturers, distributors and end users. Our customers consist of a large cross-section of businesses, ranging from Fortune 100 companies to small businesses. A number of our products are sold to OEMs, who incorporate our products, such as electric motors, into products they manufacture, and many of our products are built to the requirements of our customers. The majority of our sales are derived from direct sales to customers by sales personnel employed by the Company, however, a significant portion of our sales are derived from sales made by manufacturer’s representatives, who are paid exclusively on commission. Our product sales are made via purchase order, long-term contract, and, in some instances, one-time purchases. Many of our products have broad customer bases, with the levels of concentration of revenues varying from business unit to business unit.
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Our level of net sales for any given period is dependent upon a number of factors, including (i) the demand for our products; (ii) the strength of the economy generally and the end markets in which we compete; (iii) our customers’ perceptions of our product quality at any given time; (iv) our ability to timely meet customer demands; (v) the selling price of our products; and (vi) the weather. As a result, our total revenue has tended to experience quarterly variations and our total revenue for any particular quarter may not be indicative of future results.

We use the term “organic sales" to refer to sales from existing operations excluding (i) sales from acquired businesses recorded prior to the first anniversary of the acquisition (“Acquisition Sales”), (ii) less the amount of sales attributable to any businesses divested/to be exited ("Business To Be Exited"), and (iii) the impact of foreign currency translation. The impact of foreign currency translation is determined by translating the respective period’s organic sales using the same currency exchange rates that were in effect during the prior year periods. We use the term “organic sales growth” to refer to the increase in our sales between periods that is attributable to organic sales. We use the term “acquisition growth” to refer to the increase in our sales between periods that is attributable to Acquisition Sales.

Gross Profit. Our gross profit is impacted by our levels of net sales and cost of sales. Our cost of sales consists of costs for, among other things (i) raw materials, including copper, steel and aluminum; (ii) components such as castings, bars, tools, bearings and electronics; (iii) wages and related personnel expenses for fabrication, assembly and logistics personnel; (iv) manufacturing facilities, including depreciation on our manufacturing facilities and equipment, insurance and utilities; and (v) shipping. The majority of our cost of sales consists of raw materials and components. The price we pay for commodities and components can be subject to commodity price fluctuations. We attempt to mitigate portions of the commodity price fluctuations through fixed-price agreements with suppliers and our hedging strategies. When we experience commodity price increases, we have tended to announce price increases to our customers who purchase via purchase order, with such increases generally taking effect a period of time after the public announcements. For those sales we make under long-term arrangements, we tend to include material price formulas that specify quarterly or semi-annual price adjustments based on a variety of factors, including commodity prices.

Outside of general economic cyclicality, our business units experience different levels of variation in sales from quarter to quarter based on factors specific to each business. For example, a portion of our Climate Solutions segment manufactures products that are used in air conditioning applications. As a result, our sales for that business tend to be lower in the first and fourth quarters and higher in the second and third quarters. In contrast, our Commercial Systems segment, Industrial Systems segment and Motion Control Solutions segment have a broad customer base and a variety of applications, thereby helping to mitigate large quarter-to-quarter fluctuations outside of general economic conditions.

Operating Expenses. Our operating expenses consist primarily of (i) general and administrative expenses; (ii) sales and marketing expenses; (iii) general engineering and research and development expenses; and (iv) handling costs incurred in conjunction with distribution activities. Personnel related costs are our largest operating expense.

Our general and administrative expenses consist primarily of costs for (i) salaries, benefits and other personnel expenses related to our executive, finance, human resource, information technology, legal and operations functions; (ii) occupancy expenses; (iii) technology related costs; (iv) depreciation and amortization; and (v) corporate-related travel. The majority of our general and administrative costs are for salaries and related personnel expenses. These costs can vary by business given the location of our different manufacturing operations.

Our sales and marketing expenses consist primarily of costs for (i) salaries, benefits and other personnel expenses related to our sales and marketing function; (ii) internal and external sales commissions and bonuses; (iii) travel, lodging and other out-of-pocket expenses associated with our selling efforts; and (iv) other related overhead.

Our general engineering and research and development expenses consist primarily of costs for (i) salaries, benefits and other personnel expenses; (ii) the design and development of new energy efficiency products and enhancements; (iii) quality assurance and testing; and (iv) other related overhead. Our research and development efforts tend to be targeted toward developing new products that would allow us to maintain or gain additional market share, whether in new or existing applications. In particular, a large driver of our research and development efforts is energy efficiency, which generally means using less electrical power to produce more mechanical power.

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Goodwill & Other Asset Impairments. In the fourth quarter of 2021, we recorded goodwill impairment of $33.0 million in our global industrial motors reporting unit. During fiscal 2021, we recognized $5.6 million of asset impairments related to the transfer of assets to held for sale.

During fiscal 2020, we recorded goodwill impairment of $10.5 million in our global industrial motors reporting unit. During fiscal 2020, we recognized $5.3 million of asset impairments related to the transfer of assets to held for sale.

In the first quarter of 2019, we transferred assets to held for sale which resulted in the recognition of $5.1 million of fixed asset impairments and $4.9 million of customer relationships intangible asset impairments.

The following table presents impairments by segment as of January 1, 2022, January 2, 2021 and December 28, 2019 (in millions):
Commercial SystemsIndustrial SystemsClimate SolutionsMotion Control SolutionsTotal
Fiscal 2021
Goodwill Impairments$— $33.0 $— $— $33.0 
Impairment of Other Long-Lived Assets1.8 — 0.5 3.3 5.6 
Total Impairments$1.8 $33.0 $0.5 $3.3 $38.6 
Fiscal 2020
Goodwill Impairments$— $10.5 $— $— $10.5 
Impairment of Other Long-Lived Assets2.8 0.2 1.3 1.0 5.3 
Total Impairments$2.8 $10.7 $1.3 $1.0 $15.8 
Fiscal 2019
Impairment of Intangible Assets$4.9 $— $— $— $4.9 
Impairment of Other Long-Lived Assets1.8 0.9 1.3 1.1 5.1 
Total Impairments$6.7 $0.9 $1.3 $1.1 $10.0 

Operating Profit. Our operating profit consists of the segment gross profit less the segment operating expenses. In addition, there are shared operating costs that cover corporate, engineering and IT expenses that are consistently allocated to the operating segments and are included in the segment operating expenses. Operating profit is a key metric used to measure year over year improvement of the segments.

COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID-19 evolved during 2020 into a global pandemic, resulting in a severe global health crisis that drove a dramatic slowdown in global economic and social activity. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, health risks remain.

In the face of this global crisis, our first priority has been the health and safety of our associates. In response, we implemented a host of measures to help our associates stay safe, measures that have been enhanced and refined as impacts from COVID-19 evolved, and as our knowledge about how to enhance their effectiveness improved.

Factors deriving from the COVID-19 response that have or may negatively impact sales and operating profit in the future include, but are not limited to: limitations on the ability of our suppliers to manufacture, or procure from manufacturers, components and raw materials used in our products, or to meet delivery requirements and commitments; limitations on the ability of our employees to perform their work due to illness caused by the pandemic or local, state, or federal orders requiring employees to remain at home; inconsistent criteria in certain international jurisdictions for establishing the essentiality of our business; limitations on the ability of carriers to deliver our products to customers; limitations on the ability of our customers to conduct their business and purchase our products and services; reductions in demands of our customers; and limitations on the ability of our customers to pay us on a timely basis.

We continue to monitor the pandemic and make adjustments to the business as necessary to address any limitations or negative impacts.

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Rexnord and Automation Solutions Transactions

On October 4, 2021, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated February 15, 2021 (the “Merger Agreement”), the Company completed its combination with the Rexnord PMC business of Zurn Water Solutions Corporation (formerly known as Rexnord Corporation) (“Zurn”) in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction (the “Rexnord Transaction”). Pursuant to the Rexnord Transaction, (1) Zurn transferred to its then-subsidiary Land Newco, Inc. (“Land”) substantially all of the assets, and Land assumed substantially all of the liabilities, of the Rexnord PMC business (the “Reorganization”), (2) after which, all of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock, $0.01 par value per share, of Land (“Land common stock”) held by a subsidiary of Zurn were distributed in a series of distributions to Zurn’s stockholders (the distributions, and the final distribution of Land common stock from Zurn to Zurn’s stockholders, which was made pro rata for no consideration, the “Spin-Off”) and (3) immediately after the Spin-Off, a subsidiary of the Company (“Merger Sub”) merged with and into Land (the “Merger”) and all shares of Land common stock (other than those held by Zurn, Land, the Company, Merger Sub or their respective subsidiaries) were converted into the right to receive 0.22296103 shares of our common stock, $0.01 par value per share (“Company common stock”), as calculated in the Merger Agreement. When the Merger was completed, Land which held the Rexnord PMC business, became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company.

Pursuant to the Merger, we issued 27,055,945 shares of common stock to holders of Land common stock, which represented approximately 39.9% of the 67,756,732 outstanding shares of Company common stock immediately following the completion of the Merger.

In addition, shareholders of record as of October 1, 2021 received a special dividend of $6.99 per share (or approximately $284.4 million in aggregate) pursuant to a special dividend in connection with the Rexnord Transaction.

In connection with the Rexnord Transaction, we have entered into certain financing arrangements, which are described below under “Liquidity and Capital Resources”.

On November 23, 2021, we acquired Arrowhead Systems, LLC, which we now refer to as our Automation Solutions business, for $315.6 million in cash, net of $1.1 million of cash acquired (the "Automation Solutions Transaction"). Our Automation Solutions business is a global leader in providing industrial process automation solutions, including conveyors and (de)palletizers to the food & beverage, aluminum can, and consumer staples end markets, among others. Our Automation Solutions business is a division of our Motion Control Solutions segment, and its financials have been included in results for that segment from the date of acquisition.

Change in Fiscal Year End

At a meeting of the Company's Board of Directors on October 26, 2021, the Board approved a change in the fiscal year end from a 52-53 week year ending on the Saturday closest to December 31 to a calendar year ending on December 31, effective beginning with fiscal year 2022. We expect to make the fiscal year change on a prospective basis and will not adjust operating results for prior periods. The change to our fiscal year will not impact our results for the year ended January 1, 2022. However, the change will impact the prior year comparability of each of the fiscal quarters and the annual period in 2022 and in future filings. We believe this change will provide numerous benefits, including aligning its reporting periods to be more consistent with peer companies.

Outlook. In fiscal 2022, we are forecasting mid-single digit to high-single digit sales growth. We expect to see positive impact from our transactions and new products. In fiscal 2022, we expect diluted earnings per share to be $6.95 to $7.55. Our fiscal 2022 diluted earnings per share guidance is based on an effective tax rate of 23%.

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Results of Operations

The following table sets forth selected information for the years indicated:
202120202019
(Dollars in Millions)
Net Sales:
  Commercial Systems$1,032.1 $820.2 $905.3 
  Industrial Systems576.3 528.8 575.4 
  Climate Solutions1,030.6 846.8 968.5 
  Motion Control Solutions1,171.3 711.2 788.8 
Consolidated$3,810.3 $2,907.0 $3,238.0 
Gross Profit as a Percent of Net Sales:
  Commercial Systems25.4 %25.9 %26.1 %
  Industrial Systems18.5 %18.5 %16.6 %
  Climate Solutions29.6 %29.1 %27.9 %
  Motion Control Solutions35.1 %35.3 %32.8 %
Consolidated28.5 %27.8 %26.6 %
Operating Expenses as a Percent of Net Sales:
  Commercial Systems15.6 %17.7 %17.9 %
  Industrial Systems15.3 %17.3 %18.7 %
  Climate Solutions11.2 %13.6 %11.4 %
  Motion Control Solutions29.9 %22.6 %20.8 %
Consolidated18.8 %17.6 %16.8 %
Income (Loss) from Operations as a Percent of Net Sales:
  Commercial Systems9.6 %7.9 %11.8 %
  Industrial Systems(2.4)%(0.9)%(2.3)%
  Climate Solutions18.3 %15.4 %16.9 %
  Motion Control Solutions4.9 %12.6 %11.8 %
Consolidated8.7 %9.6 %10.8 %
Income from Operations$332.4 $280.1 $351.1 
Other (Income) Expenses, net(5.2)(4.4)(0.1)
Interest Expense60.4 39.8 53.0 
Interest Income7.4 5.9 5.6 
  Income before Taxes284.6 250.6 303.8 
Provision for Income Taxes68.5 56.8 61.2 
  Net Income216.1 193.8 242.6 
Net Income Attributable to Noncontrolling Interests6.2 4.5 3.7 
  Net Income Attributable to Regal Rexnord Corporation$209.9 $189.3 $238.9 

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Fiscal Year 2021 Compared to Fiscal Year 2020

Net sales for fiscal 2021 were $3.8 billion, a 31.1% increase as compared to fiscal 2020 net sales of $2.9 billion. The increase consisted of positive organic sales of 17.4%, positive impact from acquisitions of 12.0% and positive foreign currency translation of 1.7%. The increase was primarily driven by sales increases in North America, China and recovering demand in EMEA and Asia Pacific and the acquisitions of the Rexnord PMC and Automation Solutions businesses. Gross profit increased $277.0 million or 34.3% as compared to the prior year. The increase from the prior year was driven primarily due to increases in volume and the acquisitions of the Rexnord PMC and Automation Solutions businesses, partially offset by increased freight and material costs. Operating expenses were $714.7 million which was a $201.8 million increase from fiscal 2020. The increase was primarily driven by acquisitions of the Rexnord PMC and Automation Solutions businesses transaction costs, higher employee related wage and benefit costs, partially offset by foreign exchange gains. The Company recognized goodwill and other asset impairments of $38.6 million, a $22.8 million increase from the prior year.
 
Net sales for the Commercial Systems segment for fiscal 2021 were $1,032.1 million, a 25.8% increase compared to fiscal 2020 net sales of $820.2 million. The increase consisted of positive organic sales of 23.3% and positive 2.5% foreign currency translation. The increase was primarily driven by strong growth in the Asia Pacific market as well as the general industry and pool pump business. Gross profit increased $49.7 million or 23.4% primarily driven by the increase in volume, partially offset by increased freight and tariff costs. Operating expenses for fiscal 2021 increased $16.2 million as compared to fiscal 2020. The increase was primarily driven by higher employee-related wage and benefit costs, rising logistics costs and increased engineering expenses.

Net sales for the Industrial Systems segment for fiscal 2021 were $576.3 million, a 9.0% increase compared to fiscal 2020 net sales of $528.8 million. The increase consisted of positive organic sales of 5.4% and positive foreign currency translation of 3.6%, strength in the generator business, strong growth in China and in India markets, and improving demand in the North America industrial motors business. Gross profit increased $9.1 million or 9.3% primarily driven by strong volumes, favorable mix and positive price realization, partially offset by material inflation. Operating expenses for fiscal 2021 decreased $3.6 million as compared to fiscal 2020. The decrease was primarily due to general cost savings initiatives and foreign exchange gains partially offset by variable selling costs on higher sales volumes and increased administrative costs.

Net sales for the Climate Solutions segment for fiscal 2021 were $1,030.6 million, a 21.7% increase compared to fiscal 2020 net sales of $846.8 million. The increase consisted of positive organic sales of 21.3% and positive foreign currency translation of 0.4%. The increase was primarily due to continued strong demand in North American residential HVAC market and recovering demand in EMEA and Asia Pacific. Gross profit increased $58.3 million or 23.6% primarily driven by volume, favorable product mix and 80/20 actions, partially offset by material and freight inflation. Operating expenses for fiscal 2021 were flat as compared to the prior year primarily due to 2020 cost savings, non-recurring furloughs and operating expenses, offset by gains in foreign currency.

Net sales for the Motion Control Solutions segment for fiscal 2021 were $1,171.3 million, a 64.7% increase compared to fiscal 2020 net sales of $711.2 million. The increase consisted of positive impact from acquisitions of 49.0%, positive organic sales of 14.6% and positive foreign currency translation of 1.1%. The increase was primarily driven by strength in the North American
general industrial and alternative-energy end markets, prior year project wins in the aerospace end market, strength in the conveying business and the acquisitions of the Rexnord PMC and Automation Solutions businesses. Gross profit for fiscal 2021 increased $159.9 million or 63.6% primarily due to higher sales volume, favorable product mix, lower overhead cost driven by cost reduction initiatives and the acquisitions of the Rexnord PMC and Automation Solutions businesses. Operating expenses for fiscal 2021 increased $189.2 million due to transaction costs related to the Rexnord Transaction, asset write-downs related to a restructuring project, and the normalizing of the business as it recovers from the pandemic.

The effective tax rate for fiscal 2021 was 24.1% compared to 22.7% for fiscal 2020. The increase in the effective rate was primarily due to the impact of nondeductible impairment charges and nondeductible transaction costs related to the Rexnord Transaction.
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Fiscal Year 2020 Compared to Fiscal Year 2019

Net sales for fiscal 2020 were $2.9 billion, a 10.2% decrease as compared to fiscal 2019 net sales of $3.2 billion. The decrease consisted of negative organic sales of 8.4%, negative foreign currency translation of 0.4% and a negative 1.4% impact from the businesses divested/to be exited. Gross profit decreased $52.0 million or 6.0% as compared to the prior year. The decrease from the prior year was driven primarily due to lower sales volumes, partially offset by productivity improvements and simplification programs. Operating expenses were $512.9 million which was a $31.4 million decrease from fiscal 2019. The decrease was primarily driven by lower variable selling costs and lower employee related wage and benefit costs. The Company recognized goodwill and other asset impairments of $15.8 million, a $5.8 million increase from the prior year.
 
Net sales for the Commercial Systems segment for fiscal 2020 were $820.2 million, a 9.4% decrease compared to fiscal 2019 net sales of $905.3 million. The decrease consisted of negative organic sales of 6.9% and a negative 2.6% impact from the businesses divested/to be exited partially offset by a positive 0.1% foreign currency translation. The organic sales decrease was primarily driven by decline in market demand as well as COVID related pressures on production along with ongoing intentional account pruning actions. Gross profit decreased $22.8 million or 9.6% primarily due to lower sales volumes partially offset by simplification programs and selective pricing on lower margin accounts. Operating expenses for fiscal 2020 decreased $17.5 million as compared to fiscal 2019. The decrease was primarily due to lower variable selling costs on lower sales, lower employee related wage and benefit costs and lower facility costs.

Net sales for the Industrial Systems segment for fiscal 2020 were $528.8 million, a 8.1% decrease compared to fiscal 2019 net sales of $575.4 million. The decrease consisted of negative organic sales of 7.1% and negative foreign currency translation of 1.0%. The organic sales decrease was driven by COVID related pressures on production, the oil & gas downturn and the impact of 80/20 account pruning. Gross profit increased $1.1 million or 1.2% primarily due to sales mix with higher sales volumes related to power generation projects, simplification programs and selective pricing on lower margin accounts. Operating expenses for fiscal 2020 decreased $16.0 million as compared to fiscal 2019. The decrease was primarily due to lower employee related wage and benefit costs and lower variable selling costs on lower sales.

Net sales for the Climate Solutions segment for fiscal 2020 were $846.8 million, a 12.6% decrease compared to fiscal 2019 net sales of $968.5 million. The decrease consisted of negative organic sales of 9.9%, negative foreign currency translation of 0.6% and a negative 2.1% impact from the businesses divested/to be exited. The organic sales decrease was driven by COVID related pressure in North America and Europe and 80/20 account pruning efforts. Gross profit decreased $23.0 million or 8.5% primarily due to sales mix and productivity gains. Operating expenses for fiscal 2020 increased $4.9 million as compared to the prior year primarily due to professional fees.

Net sales for the Power Transmission Solutions segment for fiscal 2020 were $711.2 million, a 9.8% decrease compared to fiscal 2019 net sales of $788.8 million. The decrease consisted of negative organic sales of 9.1%, negative foreign currency translation of 0.1% and a negative 0.6% impact from the businesses divested/to be exited. The organic sales decrease was driven by COVID related pressures on general industrial, upstream oil & gas end markets and 80/20 account pruning efforts. Gross profit for fiscal 2020 decreased $7.3 million or 2.8% primarily due to lower sales volumes partially offset by the change in sales mix and productivity gains. Operating expenses for fiscal 2020 decreased $2.8 million due to lower employee related wage and benefit costs and lower variable selling costs on the lower sales.

The effective tax rate for fiscal 2020 was 22.7% compared to 20.1% for fiscal 2019. The increase in the effective rate was due to the mix of earnings during the year.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

General

Our principal source of liquidity is cash flow provided by operating activities. In addition to operating income, other significant factors affecting our cash flows include working capital levels, capital expenditures, dividends, share repurchases, acquisitions, and divestitures, availability of debt financing, and the ability to attract long-term capital at acceptable terms.

Cash flow provided by operating activities was $357.7 million for fiscal 2021, a $77.7 million decrease from fiscal 2020. The decrease was primarily the result of increased working capital.

Cash flow provided by operating activities was $435.4 million for fiscal 2020, a $26.9 million increase from fiscal 2019. The increase was primarily the result of a reduction in working capital.
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Our working capital was $1,627.5 million and $1,029.3 million as of January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021, respectively. As of January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021, our current ratio (which is the ratio of our current assets to current liabilities) was 2.5:1 and 2.3:1, respectively. We intend to use operating cash flow to meet our current debt repayment obligations.

Cash flow used in investing activities was $175.7 million for fiscal 2021, compared to $37.0 million in fiscal 2020. The change was driven primarily by the acquisition of our Automation Solutions business in fiscal 2021 partially offset by lower divestiture proceeds. Capital expenditures were $54.5 million in fiscal 2021, compared to $47.5 million in fiscal 2021.

Cash flow provided by investing activities was $37.0 million for fiscal 2020, compared to $74.3 million used in fiscal 2019. The change was driven primarily by the divestiture proceeds received in fiscal 2019 partially offset by lower capital expenditures. Capital expenditures were $47.5 million in fiscal 2020, compared to $92.4 million in fiscal 2019.

In fiscal 2022, we anticipate capital spending for property, plant and equipment to be approximately $110.0 million. We believe that our present manufacturing facilities will be sufficient to provide adequate capacity for our operations in fiscal 2022. We anticipate funding fiscal 2022 capital spending with operating cash flows.

Cash flow used in financing activities was $117.6 million for fiscal 2021, compared to $147.6 million in fiscal 2020. Net debt repayments totaled $287.1 million in fiscal 2021, compared to net debt repayments of $67.7 million in fiscal 2020. We also repurchased $25.8 million of our common stock during fiscal 2021 compared to $25.0 million in fiscal 2020. We paid $335.6 million in dividends to shareholders in fiscal 2021 compared to $48.7 million in fiscal 2020. The increase was driven by the special dividend that was issued to shareholders in connection with the Rexnord Transaction. In fiscal 2021, we paid distributions of $4.5 million to noncontrolling interests compared to $2.8 million in fiscal 2020. We also paid $32.5 million of early debt extinguishment payments and deferred financing fees during fiscal 2021.

Cash flow used in financing activities was $147.6 million for fiscal 2020, compared to $397.4 million for fiscal 2019. Net debt repayments totaled $67.7 million in fiscal 2020, compared to net debt repayments of $171.0 million in fiscal 2019. We also repurchased $25.0 million of our common stock during fiscal 2020 compared to $165.1 million in fiscal 2019. We paid $48.7 million in dividends to shareholders in fiscal 2020 compared to $48.9 million in fiscal 2019. In fiscal 2020, we paid distributions of $2.8 million to noncontrolling interests compared to $1.8 million in fiscal 2019.

The following table presents selected financial information and statistics as of January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021 (in millions):
January 1, 2022January 2, 2021
Cash and Cash Equivalents$672.8 $611.3 
Trade Receivables, Net785.8 432.0 
Inventories1,106.6 690.3 
Working Capital1,627.5 1,029.3 
Current Ratio 2.5:1 2.3:1

As of January 1, 2022, $671.4 million of our cash was held by foreign subsidiaries and could be used in our domestic operations if necessary. We anticipate being able to support our short-term liquidity and operating needs largely through cash generated from operations. We regularly assess our cash needs and the available sources to fund these needs which includes repatriation of foreign earnings which may be subject to withholding taxes. Under current law, we do not expect restrictions or taxes on repatriation of cash held outside of the United States to have a material effect on our overall liquidity, financial condition or the results of operations for the foreseeable future.

We will, from time to time, maintain excess cash balances which may be used to (i) fund operations, (ii) repay outstanding debt, (iii) fund acquisitions, (iv) pay dividends, (v) make investments in new product development programs, (vi) repurchase our common stock, or (vii) fund other corporate objectives.

Pension Liabilities and Other Post Retirement Benefits

Accrued pension and other post-retirement benefits of $116.7 million and $74.1 million as of January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021, respectively.

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Credit Agreement

On March 17, 2021, we entered into an amendment (the "First Amendment") with our lenders to the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated August 27, 2018 (the “Credit Agreement”) with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent and the lenders named therein. The First Amendment amended the Credit Agreement to, among other things, (i) permit the consummation of the Rexnord Transaction, (ii) permit the incurrence of indebtedness to finance the special dividend that was paid in connection with the Rexnord Transaction (the "Special Dividend"), and, (iii) provide an increase of $250.0 million in the aggregate principal amount of the revolving commitments under the Credit Agreement. The First Amendment is subject to customary and market provisions. In connection with the closing of the Rexnord Transaction, we drew upon the Credit Agreement to finance the $284.4 million payment of the Special Dividend.

Prior to the First Amendment, the Credit Agreement provided for a (i) 5-year unsecured term loan facility in the principal amount of $900.0 million (the “Term Facility”) and (ii) a 5-year unsecured multicurrency revolving facility in an aggregate principal amount of $500.0 million (increased as of the effectiveness of the First Amendment to $750.0 million) (the “Multicurrency Revolving Facility”), including a $50.0 million letter of credit sub facility, available for general corporate purposes. Borrowings under the Credit Agreement bear interest at floating rates based upon indices determined by the currency of the borrowing, plus an applicable margin determined by reference to our consolidated funded debt to consolidated EBITDA ratio or at an alternative base rate. On November 4, 2021, we exercised an option to expand the size of the Multicurrency Revolving Facility commitments under the Credit Agreement by $250.0 million. After the exercise the Multicurrency Revolving Facility commitment totals $1.0 billion.

The Term Facility under the Credit Agreement was drawn in full on August 27, 2018 with the proceeds settling the amounts owed under prior borrowings. The Term Facility requires quarterly amortization at a rate starting at 5.0% per annum, increasing to 7.5% per annum after three years and further increasing to 10.0% per annum for the last year of the Term Facility, unless previously prepaid. Per the terms of the agreement, prepayments can be made without penalty and be applied to the next payment due. After the prepayment is considered, the next payment in the amortization schedule is not due within one year and therefore no current maturities of debt will be recognized for this agreement. The weighted average interest rate on the Term Facility was 1.2% and 2.0% for the fiscal years ended January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021, respectively. The Credit Agreement requires us to prepay the loans under the Term Facility with 100% of the net cash proceeds received from specified asset sales and borrowed money indebtedness, subject to certain exceptions. We repaid $50.0 million and $50.0 million under the Term Facility in fiscal 2021 and 2020, respectively. The amount outstanding for fiscal years ended January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021 was $620.0 million and $670.0 million, respectively.

As of January 1, 2022 we had $736.7 million of borrowings under the Multicurrency Revolving Facility, $0.1 million of standby letters of credit and $263.2 million of available borrowing capacity. The average daily balance in borrowings under the Multicurrency Revolving Facility was $163.6 million and $150.4 million, and the weighted average interest rate on the Multicurrency Revolving Facility was 1.2% and 1.9% for the fiscal years ended January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021, respectively. We pay a non-use fee on the aggregate unused amount of the Multicurrency Revolving Facility at a rate determined by reference to its consolidated funded debt to consolidated EBITDA ratio.

Compliance with Financial Covenants

The Credit Agreement contain covenants under which we agree to maintain specified financial ratios and to satisfy certain financial condition tests. We were in compliance with all financial covenants contained in the Notes and the Credit Agreement as of January 1, 2022.

Senior Notes

In connection with the closing of the Rexnord Transaction, on September 30, 2021, we redeemed in full our senior notes due 2023 under the note purchase agreement, dated July 14, 2011 (as amended), by and between us and the purchasers thereto (the "Note Purchase Agreement"). Inclusive of principal, interest and the applicable make-whole payment, the total amount paid by us to redeem such senior notes was approximately $184.0 million. The make-whole payment of $12.7 million was included in interest expense. We funded this amount with a combination of cash on hand and drawings under the Credit Agreement. We also redeemed in the quarter our senior notes due July 2021 under the Note Purchase Agreement with a combination of cash on hand and drawings under the Multicurrency Revolving Facility.

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Other Notes Payable

As of January 1, 2022, other notes payable of $78.7 million were outstanding with a weighted average interest rate of 5.2%. As of January 2, 2021, other notes payable of $4.6 million were outstanding with a weighted average rate of 4.9%. See Note 9 for more information on the Company's finance leases.

Financing Arrangements Related to Rexnord Transaction

In connection with the Rexnord Transaction, on February 15, 2021, we entered into a debt commitment letter (the “Bridge Commitment Letter”) and related fee letters with Barclays Bank PLC (“Barclays”), pursuant to which, and subject to the terms and conditions set forth therein, Barclays committed to provide approximately $2.1 billion in an aggregate principal amount of senior bridge loans under a 364-day senior bridge loan credit facility (the “Bridge Facility”). As the Rexnord Transaction was consummated and the payments of amounts in connection therewith occurred without the use of the Bridge Facility, the commitments under the Bridge Commitment Letter were terminated in connection with the closing of the Rexnord Transaction.

In connection with the Rexnord Transaction, on May 14, 2021, Land entered into a Credit Agreement with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent and the lenders named therein (the "Land Credit Agreement"), providing for a delayed draw term loan facility with commitments thereunder in an aggregate principal amount of $487.0 million, maturing on August 25, 2023 (the "Land Term Facility"). The proceeds of the Land Term facility were drawn by Land to fund a payment from Land to a subsidiary of Zurn in connection with the Rexnord Transaction. Upon the consummation the Rexnord Transaction, the indebtedness contemplated by the Land Credit Agreement became indebtedness of our wholly-owned subsidiary and, in connection therewith, the Land Credit Agreement was amended and restated (the "A&R Land Credit Agreement") to add us as a party to the A&R Land Credit Agreement and as a guarantor of the obligations of Land thereunder. Our subsidiaries that provided a guaranty of the obligations under the Credit Agreement also entered into a subsidiary guaranty agreement with respect to the obligations under the A&R Land Credit Agreement. Additionally, Land and any subsidiary of Land that provided a guaranty under the Land Term Facility have also entered into the subsidiary guaranty agreement with respect to the Credit Agreement. The loans under the Land Term Facility will bear interest at floating rates based upon a reserve adjusted LIBOR rate or, our election, an alternate base rate plus, in each case an applicable margin determined by reference to our consolidated funded debt (net of certain cash and cash equivalents) to EBITDA ratio. The A&R Land Credit Agreement contains customary events of default and financial and other covenants, including (i) a maximum leverage ratio (defined as, with certain adjustments, the ratio of our consolidated funded debt to EBITDA) as of the last day of any fiscal quarter of 4.00 to 1.00; and (ii) a minimum interest coverage ratio (defined as, with certain adjustments, the ratio of EBITDA to our consolidated cash interest expense) of 3.00 to 1.00 as of the last day of any fiscal quarter.

As of January 1, 2022, we had $486.8 million of borrowings under the Land Term Facility. The weighted average interest rate on the Land Term Facility was 1.3% during the fiscal year ended January 1, 2022.

Other Disclosures

Based on rates for instruments with comparable maturities and credit quality, the approximate fair value of our total debt was $1,918.5 million and $1,085.8 million as of January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021, respectively.

Litigation

See Part 1 - Item 3 - Legal Proceedings for additional details.


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Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements, Contractual Obligations and Commercial Commitments

The following is a summary of our contractual obligations and payments due by period as of January 1, 2022 (in millions):
Payments Due by Period (1)
Debt Including Estimated Interest Payments (2)
Operating LeasesFinance LeasesPension ObligationsPurchase and Other ObligationsTotal Contractual Obligations
Less than one year$24.9 $34.8 $6.8 $7.5 $709.7 $783.7 
1 - 3 years1,858.9 47.4 13.9 8.1 — 1,928.3 
3 - 5 years0.2 29.6 14.0 8.0 — 51.8 
More than 5 years— 36.0 83.0 14.2 — 133.2 
Total$1,884.0 $147.8 $117.7 $37.8 $709.7 $2,897.0 

(1) The timing and future spot prices affect the settlement values of our hedge obligations related to commodities and currency exchange rates. Accordingly, these obligations are not included above in the table of contractual obligations (See also Item 7A and Note 13 of Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements). The timing of settlement of our tax contingent liabilities cannot be reasonably determined and they are not included above in the table of contractual obligations. Future pension obligation payments after fiscal 2021 are subject to revaluation based on changes in the benefit population and/or changes in the value of pension assets based on market conditions that are not determinable as of January 1, 2022.

(2) Variable rate debt based on January 1, 2022 rates. See also Note 7 of Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

We utilize blanket purchase orders (“Blankets”) to communicate expected annual requirements to many of our suppliers. Requirements under Blankets generally do not become “firm” until a varying number of weeks before our scheduled production. The purchase obligations shown in the above table represent the value we consider “firm.”

Critical Accounting Policies

The preparation of our consolidated financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States ("US") requires us to make estimates and assumptions affecting the reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and revenues and expenses during the periods reported. Actual results could differ from those estimates. We believe the following critical accounting policies could have the most significant effect on our reported results.

Purchase Accounting and Business Combinations

Assets acquired and the liabilities assumed as part of a business combination are recognized separately from goodwill at their acquisition date fair values. Goodwill as of the acquisition date is measured as the excess of consideration transferred over the net of the acquisition date fair values of the assets acquired and the liabilities assumed. We, with the assistance of outside specialists as necessary, use estimates and assumptions to value assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the acquisition date as well as contingent consideration, where applicable. We may refine these estimates during the measurement period which may be up to one year from the acquisition date. As a result, during the measurement period, we record adjustments to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed with the corresponding offset to goodwill. Upon the conclusion of the measurement period or final determination of the values of assets acquired or liabilities assumed, whichever comes first, any subsequent adjustments are recorded to our Consolidated Statements of Income.

Goodwill

We evaluate the carrying amount of goodwill annually, or more frequently if events or circumstances indicate that an asset might be impaired. When applying the accounting guidance, we use estimates to determine when it might be necessary to take an impairment charge. Factors that could trigger an impairment review include significant underperformance relative to historical or forecasted operating results, a significant decrease in the market value of an asset or significant negative industry or economic trends. For goodwill, we may perform a qualitative test to determine whether it is more-likely-than-not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount as a basis for determining whether it is necessary to perform the quantitative goodwill impairment test. We perform our required annual goodwill impairment test as of the end of the October fiscal month.
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We use a weighting of the market approach and the income approach (discounted cash flow method) in testing goodwill for impairment. In the market approach, we apply performance multiples from comparable public companies, adjusted for relative risk, profitability, and growth considerations, to the reporting units to estimate fair value. The key assumptions used in the discounted cash flow method used to estimate fair value include discount rates, revenue and EBITDA margin projections and terminal value rates because such assumptions are the most sensitive and susceptible to change as they require significant management judgment. Discount rates are determined by using market and industry data as well as Company-specific risk factors for each reporting unit. The discount rate utilized for each reporting unit is indicative of the return an investor would expect to receive for investing in such a business. Terminal value rate determination follows common methodology of capturing the present value of perpetual cash flow estimates beyond the last projected period assuming a constant discount rate and long-term growth rates.

In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2021, we recorded goodwill impairment of $33.0 million in our global industrial motors reporting unit. The global industrial motors reporting unit had goodwill of $80.1 million as of January 1, 2022 and is included in our Industrial Systems segment. Some of the key considerations used in our impairment testing included (i) market pricing of guideline publicly traded companies (ii) cost of capital, including the risk-free interest rate, and (iii) recent historical and projected operating results of the subject reporting unit. There is inherent uncertainty included in the assumptions used in goodwill impairment testing. A change to any of the assumptions could lead to a future impairment that could be material.

We aggregate our business units by segment for reporting purposes (see also Note 6 of Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements).

Long-Lived Assets

We evaluate the recoverability of the carrying amount of long-lived assets whenever events or changes in circumstance indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be fully recoverable through future cash flows. When applying the accounting guidance, we use estimates to determine when an impairment is necessary. Factors that could trigger an impairment review include a significant decrease in the market value of an asset or significant negative or economic trends (see also Note 5 of Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements). For long-lived assets, the Company uses an estimate of the related undiscounted cash flows over the remaining life of the primary asset to estimate recoverability.

Retirement and Post Retirement Plans

Most of our domestic associates are participants in defined contribution plans and/or defined benefit pension plans. The majority of the defined benefit pension plans covering our domestic associates have been closed to new associates and frozen for existing associates, however, however certain employees represented by collective bargaining continue to earn benefits. Certain associates are covered by a post-retirement health care plan. Most of our foreign associates are covered by government sponsored plans in the countries in which they are employed. Our obligations under our defined benefit pension plans are determined with the assistance of actuarial firms. The actuaries make certain assumptions regarding such factors as withdrawal rates and mortality rates. The actuaries also provide information and recommendations from which management makes further assumptions on such factors as the long-term expected rate of return on plan assets, the discount rate on benefit obligations and where applicable, the rate of annual compensation increases.

Based upon the assumptions made, the investments made by the plans, overall conditions and movement in financial markets, particularly the stock market and how actual withdrawal rates, life-spans of benefit recipients and other factors differ from assumptions, annual expenses and recorded assets or liabilities of these defined benefit pension plans may change significantly from year to year.

ITEM 7A - QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURE ABOUT MARKET RISK

We are exposed to market risk relating to our operations due to changes in interest rates, foreign currency exchange rates and commodity prices of purchased raw materials. We manage the exposure to these risks through a combination of normal operating and financing activities and derivative financial instruments such as interest rate swaps, commodity cash flow hedges and foreign currency forward exchange contracts. All hedging transactions are authorized and executed pursuant to clearly defined policies and procedures, which prohibit the use of financial instruments for speculative purposes.

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All qualified hedges are recorded on the balance sheet at fair value and are accounted for as cash flow hedges, with changes in fair value recorded in Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss (“AOCI”) in each accounting period. An ineffective portion of the hedges' change in fair value, if any, is recorded in earnings in the period of change.

Interest Rate Risk

We are exposed to interest rate risk on certain of our short-term and long-term debt obligations used to finance our operations and acquisitions. As of January 1, 2022, we had $76.7 million of fixed rate debt and $1,845.5 million of variable rate debt. As of January 2, 2021, we had $404.1 million of fixed rate debt and $670.5 million of variable rate debt. We utilize interest rate swaps to manage fluctuations in cash flows resulting from exposure to interest rate risk on forecasted variable rate interest payments.

We have floating rate borrowings, which expose us to variability in interest payments due to changes in interest rates. A hypothetical 10% change in our weighted average borrowing rate on outstanding variable rate debt as of January 1, 2022 would result in a $2.3 million change in after-tax annualized earnings. We entered into two forward starting pay fixed/receive floating non-amortizing interest rate swaps in June 2020, with a total notional amount of $250.0 million to manage fluctuations in cash flows from interest rate risk related to floating rate interest. These swaps became effective July 2021 and will expire in July 2025. Upon inception, the swaps were designated as a cash flow hedges against forecasted interest payments under ASU 2017-12, with gains and losses, net of tax, measured on an ongoing basis, recorded in AOCI.

Details regarding the instruments as of January 1, 2022 are as follows (in millions):
InstrumentNotional AmountMaturityRate PaidRate ReceivedFair Value
Swap$250.0July 20250.6%LIBOR (1 month)$5.3

As of January 1, 2022, a $5.3 million interest rate swap was included in Other Noncurrent Assets. As of January 2, 2021, a $(0.7) million interest rate swap was included in Other Current Liabilities and a $(1.4) million interest rate swap was included in Other Noncurrent Liabilities. There was an unrealized gain of $4.0 million, net of tax, for fiscal 2021 and an unrealized loss of $(1.6) million for 2020 that was recorded in AOCI for the effective portion of the hedge.

In July 2017, the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority (the authority that regulates LIBOR) announced it intends to stop persuading or compelling banks to submit rates for the calculation of LIBOR after 2021. We have material exposure to LIBOR through our revolving credit facility, certain lines of credit and interest rate swaps that are indexed to USD-LIBOR. It is expected that LIBOR will be discontinued and, while we believe an acceptable replacement to LIBOR will be available, if LIBOR is discontinued, we cannot reasonably estimate the impact, if any, on such discontinuation.

Foreign Currency Risk

We are exposed to foreign currency risks that arise from normal business operations. These risks include the translation of local currency balances of foreign subsidiaries, intercompany loans with foreign subsidiaries and transactions denominated in foreign currencies. Our objective is to minimize our exposure to these risks through a combination of normal operating activities and the utilization of foreign currency exchange contracts to manage our exposure on the forecasted transactions denominated in currencies other than the applicable functional currency. Contracts are executed with credit worthy banks and are denominated in currencies of major industrial countries. We do not hedge our exposure to the translation of reported results of foreign subsidiaries from local currency to United States dollars.

As of January 1, 2022, derivative currency assets (liabilities) of $8.6 million, $0.7 million and $(1.7) million, are recorded in Prepaid Expenses and Other Current Assets, Other Noncurrent Assets and Other Accrued Expenses, respectively. As of January 2, 2021, derivative currency assets (liabilities) of $16.6 million, $1.6 million, $(1.0) million and $(0.1) million, are recorded in Prepaid Expenses and Other Current Assets, Other Noncurrent Assets, Other Accrued Expenses and Other Noncurrent Liabilities, respectively. The unrealized gains on the effective portions of the hedges of $5.8 million net of tax and $12.7 million net of tax, as of January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021, respectively, was recorded in AOCI. As of January 1, 2022, we had $1.9 million, net of tax, of currency gains on closed hedge instruments in AOCI that will be realized in earnings when the hedged items impact earnings. As of January 2, 2021, we had $1.1 million, net of tax, of currency gains on closed hedge instruments in AOCI that will be realized in earnings when the hedged items impact earnings.

The following table quantifies the outstanding foreign exchange contracts intended to hedge non-US dollar denominated receivables and payables and the corresponding impact on the value of these instruments assuming a hypothetical 10% appreciation/depreciation of their counter currency on January 1, 2022 (dollars in millions):
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Gain (Loss) From:
NotionalFair10% Appreciation of10% Depreciation of
CurrencyAmountValueCounter CurrencyCounter Currency
Mexican Peso$194.8 $2.2 $19.5 $(19.5)
Chinese Renminbi263.8 4.7 26.4 (26.4)
Indian Rupee64 0.9 6.4 (6.4)
Euro208.4 (0.2)20.8 (20.8)
Canadian Dollar0.3 — — — 
Australian Dollar17.6 0.2 1.8 (1.8)
Thai Baht2.8 (0.2)0.3 (0.3)
British Pound1.3 — 0.1 (0.1)

Gains and losses indicated in the sensitivity analysis would be largely offset by gains and losses on the underlying forecasted non-US dollar denominated cash flows.

Commodity Price Risk

We periodically enter into commodity hedging transactions to reduce the impact of changing prices for certain commodities such as copper and aluminum based upon forecasted purchases of such commodities. Qualified hedge transactions are designated as cash flow hedges and the contract terms of commodity hedge instruments generally mirror those of the hedged item, providing a high degree of risk reduction and correlation.
Derivative commodity assets (liabilities) of $9.3 million, $0.1 million, $(1.2) million and $(0.6) million are recorded in Prepaid Expenses and Other Current Assets, Other Noncurrent Assets, Other Accrued Expenses and Other Noncurrent Liabilities, respectively as of January 1, 2022. Derivative commodity assets of $11.4 million and $0.1 million are recorded in Prepaid Expenses and Other Current Assets and Other Noncurrent Assets, respectively as of January 2, 2021. The unrealized gain on the effective portion of the hedges of $5.6 million net of tax and $8.7 million net of tax, as of January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021, respectively, was recorded in AOCI. As of January 1, 2022, we had an additional $3.7 million, net of tax, of derivative commodity gain on closed hedge instruments in AOCI that will be realized in earnings when the hedged items impact earnings. As of January 2, 2021, we had an additional $2.6 million, net of tax, of derivative commodity gain on closed hedge instruments in AOCI that will be realized in earnings when the hedged items impact earnings.

The following table quantifies the outstanding commodity contracts intended to hedge raw material commodity prices and the corresponding impact on the value of these instruments assuming a hypothetical 10% appreciation/depreciation of their prices on January 1, 2022 (dollars in millions):
Gain (Loss) From:
NotionalFair10% Appreciation of10% Depreciation of
CommodityAmountValueCommodity PricesCommodity Prices
Copper$154.6 $7.0 $15.5 $(15.5)
Aluminum9.5 0.6 1.0 (1.0)

Gains and losses indicated in the sensitivity analysis would be largely offset by the actual prices of the commodities.

The net AOCI balance related to hedging activities of $21.0 million loss as of January 1, 2022 includes $11.3 million of net current deferred gains expected to be realized in the next twelve months.

Counterparty Risk

We are exposed to credit losses in the event of non-performance by the counterparties to various financial agreements, including our interest rate swap agreements, foreign currency exchange contracts and commodity hedging transactions. We manage exposure to counterparty credit risk by limiting our counterparties to major international banks and financial institutions meeting established credit guidelines and continually monitoring their compliance with the credit guidelines. We do not obtain collateral or other security to support financial instruments subject to credit risk. We do not anticipate non-performance by our counterparties, but cannot provide assurances.
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ITEM 8 - FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA

Quarterly Financial Information
(Unaudited)
(Amounts in Millions, Except per Share Data)
1st Quarter2nd Quarter3rd Quarter4th Quarter
20212020202120202021202020212020
Net Sales$814.1 $734.2 $886.9 $634.1 $892.7 $758.2 $1,216.6 $780.5 
Gross Profit245.4 203.3 251.5 170.3 254.6 221.6 334.2 213.5 
Income from Operations97.1 70.0 109.0 45.9 107.4 90.0 18.9 74.2 
Net Income (Loss)67.0 46.7 81.2 29.3 71.1 66.3 (3.2)51.5 
Net Income (Loss) Attributable to Regal Rexnord Corporation65.6 45.8 79.6 28.1 69.5 65.0 (4.8)50.4 
Earnings (Loss) Per Share Attributable to Regal Rexnord Corporation (1)
  Basic1.62 1.13 1.96 0.69 1.71 1.60 (0.07)1.24 
  Assuming Dilution1.60 1.12 1.94 0.69 1.70 1.60 (0.07)1.23 
Weighted Average Number of Shares Outstanding
Basic40.6 40.6 40.7 40.5 40.7 40.6 67.1 40.6 
Assuming Dilution41.0 40.8 41.0 40.7 41.0 40.8 67.7 40.9 
Net Sales
Commercial Systems$237.0 $199.4 $269.3 $175.9 $268.7 $218.5 $257.1 $226.4 
  Industrial Systems136.4 129.6 145.2 120.6 148.0 138.8 146.7 139.8 
  Climate Solutions239.1 210.1 257.3 178.2 268.4 234.0 265.8 224.5 
Motion Control Solutions201.6 195.1 215.1 159.4 207.6 166.9 547.0 189.8 
Income (Loss) from Operations
Commercial Systems (2)
27.5 12.1 25.4 6.2 30.4 24.6 16.2 22.2 
  Industrial Systems (2)
3.7 (0.1)3.1 3.2 6.4 7.3 (27.3)(14.9)
  Climate Solutions43.3 29.5 46.5 20.0 52.1 39.2 47.2 41.3 
Motion Control Solutions22.6 28.5 34.0 16.5 18.5 18.9 (17.2)25.6 
(1) Due to the weighting of both earnings and the weighted average number of shares outstanding, the sum of the quarterly earnings per share may not equal the annual earnings per share.
(2) Retrospectively adjusted due to change in accounting principle related to LIFO inventories as discussed in Note 3.


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Management's Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
The management of Regal Rexnord Corporation (the “Company”) is responsible for the accuracy and internal consistency of the preparation of the consolidated financial statements and footnotes contained in this annual report.
The Company's management is also responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting. The Company operates under a system of internal accounting controls designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of published financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. The internal accounting control system is evaluated for effectiveness by management and is tested, monitored and revised as necessary. All internal control systems, no matter how well designed, have inherent limitations. Therefore, even those systems determined to be effective can provide only reasonable assurance with respect to financial statement preparation and presentation.
The Company's management assessed the effectiveness of the Company's internal control over financial reporting as of January 1, 2022. In making its assessment, the Company's management used the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) in Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013). Based on the results of its evaluation, the Company's management concluded that, as of January 1, 2022, the Company's internal control over financial reporting is effective at the reasonable assurance level based on those criteria.
Management excluded an assessment of the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting related to the Rexnord PMC and Automation Solutions businesses. The Company acquired the Rexnord PMC business on October 4, 2021, and the Automation Solutions business on November 23, 2021. Together, the Rexnord PMC and Automation Solutions businesses represented 11% of the Company’s consolidated total assets (excluding goodwill and intangibles which were included in management's assessment of internal control over financial reporting as of January 1, 2022) and 9% of the consolidated total revenues as of and for the year ended January 1, 2022. Accordingly, the Company’s assessment did not include the internal control over financial reporting for the Rexnord PMC or Automation Solutions businesses.
Our internal control over financial reporting as of January 1, 2022 has been audited by Deloitte & Touche LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their report which is included herein.

March 2, 2022

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the shareholders and the Board of Directors of Regal Rexnord Corporation

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Regal Rexnord Corporation and subsidiaries (the "Company") as of January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021, the related consolidated statements of income, comprehensive income, equity, and cash flows, for each of the three years in the period ended January 1, 2022, and the related notes and the schedule listed in the Index at Item 15 (collectively referred to as the "financial statements"). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended January 1, 2022, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the Company's internal control over financial reporting as of January 1, 2022, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission and our report dated March 2, 2022, expressed an unqualified opinion on the Company's internal control over financial reporting.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company's financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Critical Audit Matters

The critical audit matters communicated below are matters arising from the current-period audit of the financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matters below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matters or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.

Goodwill Valuation – Global Industrial Motors Reporting Unit – Refer to Notes 3 and 5 to the Financial Statements

Critical Audit Matter Description

The Company performed an impairment evaluation of the goodwill for the Global Industrial Motors reporting unit by comparing the estimated fair value of the reporting unit to its carrying value. In order to estimate the fair value of the reporting unit, management is required to make significant estimates and assumptions related to the discount rate and forecasts of future earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (“EBITDA”) margins. Changes in these assumptions could have a significant impact on either the fair value, the amount of any goodwill impairment charge, or both. The consolidated goodwill balance was $4,039 million as of January 1, 2022, of which $80.1 million related to the Global Industrial Motors reporting unit. As of October 30, 2021, the Company’s measurement date, the Company determined that the carrying value for the Global Industrial Motors reporting unit was in excess of fair value and recorded a $33.0 million goodwill impairment charge.

We identified the impairment evaluation of goodwill for the Global Industrial Motors reporting unit as a critical audit matter because of the inherent subjectivity involved in management’s estimates and assumptions related to the discount rate and forecasts of future EBITDA margins. The audit procedures to evaluate the reasonableness of management’s estimates and
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assumptions related to the selection of the discount rate and forecast of future EBITDA margins required a high degree of auditor judgement and an increased extent of effort, including the need to involve our fair value specialists.

How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the Audit

Our audit procedures related to the selection of the discount rate and forecasts of future EBITDA margins for the Global Industrial Motors reporting unit included the following, among others:

We tested the effectiveness of controls over management’s goodwill impairment evaluation, including those over the selection of the discount rate and management’s development of forecasts of future EBITDA margins.

We evaluated the reasonableness of management’s forecasts by comparing the forecasts to (1) historical results, (2) internal communications to management and the Board of Directors, and (3) forecasted information included in analyst and industry reports for the Company and certain of its peer companies.
We evaluated the impact of changes in management’s forecasts from the October 30, 2021, annual measurement date to January 1, 2022.

With the assistance of our fair value specialists, we evaluated the reasonableness of the discount rate by:

Testing the source information underlying management’s determination of the discount rate.

Testing the mathematical accuracy of management’s calculations.

Developing a range of independent estimates and compared those to the discount rate selected by management.

Fair Value of Acquired Customer Relationship, Tradename and Technology Intangible Assets – Refer to Note 3 to the Financial Statements

Critical Audit Matter Description

During 2021, the Company acquired the Rexnord Process & Motion Control business from Rexnord Corporation (now known as Zurn Water Solutions Corporation) for an aggregate purchase price of $3,977 million. The Company accounted for the acquisition under the acquisition method of accounting for business combinations. Accordingly, the purchase price was allocated to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on their respective fair values. Related to the acquisition, the Company recorded intangible assets related to customer relationships, tradenames and technology assets of $1,519 million, $225 million and $87 million, respectively, based on a discounted cash flow model. In order to estimate the acquisition date fair value of the customer relationship, tradenames and technology intangible assets, management made significant estimates and assumptions related to discount rates, royalty rates, and forecasts of future revenues and EBITDA margins.

Given the fair value determination of the acquired customer relationships, tradenames and technology assets required management to make significant estimates and assumptions related to the forecasts of future cash flows and the selection of the discount rates and royalty rates, performing audit procedures to evaluate the reasonableness of these estimates and assumptions required a high degree of auditor judgment and an increased extent of effort, including the need to involve our fair value specialists.

How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the Audit

Our audit procedures related to the selection of discount rates, royalty rates and forecasts of future revenues and EBITDA margins for the intangible assets included the following, among others:
We tested the effectiveness of controls over management’s evaluation of the fair value of acquired intangibles, including those over the selection of the discount rates, royalty rates, and management’s development of forecasts of future revenues and EBITDA margins.

We evaluated the reasonableness of management’s forecasts by comparing the forecasts to (1) historical results, (2) internal communications to management and the Board of Directors, and (3) forecasted information included in analyst and industry reports for the Company and certain of its peer companies.

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With the assistance of our fair value specialists, we evaluated the discount rates and royalty rates, and tested the underlying market-based source information and the mathematical accuracy of the calculations, and developed a range of independent valuation assumptions and compared those to the respective discount rates and royalty rates selected by management.

/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
March 2, 2022
We have served as the Company's auditor since 2002.
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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the shareholders and the Board of Directors of Regal Rexnord Corporation

Opinion on Internal Control over Financial Reporting

We have audited the internal control over financial reporting of Regal Rexnord Corporation and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of January 1, 2022, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). In our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of January 1, 2022, based on criteria established in Internal Control — Integrated Framework (2013) issued by COSO.

We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended January 1, 2022, of the Company and our report dated March 2, 2022, expressed an unqualified opinion on those financial statements.

As described in Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting, management excluded from its assessment the internal control over financial reporting at the Rexnord Process & Motion Control business (“Rexnord PMC business”) and Arrowhead Systems, LLC business (“Automation Solutions business”), which were acquired on October 4, 2021 and November 23, 2021, respectively, and whose financial statements constitute 11% of total assets and 9% of net sales of the total consolidated financial statement amounts as of and for the year ended January 1, 2022. Accordingly, our audit did not include the internal control over financial reporting at the Rexnord PMC business and Automation Solutions businesses.

Basis for Opinion

The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in the accompanying Management's Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk, and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

Definition and Limitations of Internal Control over Financial Reporting

A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP

Milwaukee, Wisconsin
March 2, 2022
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REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME
(Amounts in Millions, Except Per Share Data)
For the Year Ended
January 1, 2022January 2, 2021December 28, 2019
Net Sales$3,810.3 $2,907.0 $3,238.0 
Cost of Sales2,724.6 2,098.3 2,377.3 
  Gross Profit1,085.7 808.7 860.7 
Operating Expenses714.7 512.9 544.3 
Goodwill Impairment33.0 10.5 — 
Asset Impairments 5.6 5.3 10.0 
Gain on Sale of Businesses— (0.1)(44.7)
Total Operating Expenses753.3 528.6 509.6 
  Income from Operations332.4 280.1 351.1 
Other (Income) Expenses, net(5.2)(4.4)(0.1)
Interest Expense60.4 39.8 53.0 
Interest Income7.4 5.9 5.6 
  Income before Taxes284.6 250.6 303.8 
Provision for Income Taxes68.5 56.8 61.2 
  Net Income216.1 193.8 242.6 
Less: Net Income Attributable to Noncontrolling Interests6.2 4.5 3.7 
  Net Income Attributable to Regal Rexnord Corporation$209.9 $189.3 $238.9 
Earnings Per Share Attributable to Regal Rexnord Corporation:
  Basic$4.44 $4.66 $5.69 
  Assuming Dilution$4.40 $4.64 $5.66 
Weighted Average Number of Shares Outstanding:
  Basic47.3 40.6 42.0 
  Assuming Dilution47.7 40.8 42.2 
See accompanying Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

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REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
(Dollars in Millions)
For the Year Ended
January 1, 2022January 2, 2021December 28, 2019
Net Income$216.1 $193.8 $242.6 
Other Comprehensive (Loss) Income Net of Tax:
Translation:
Foreign Currency Translation Adjustments(45.5)60.7 (9.2)
Reclassification of Foreign Currency Translation Adjustments Included in Net Income, Net of $— Million Tax Effects in 2021, 2020 and 2019
— — 1.6 
Hedging Activities:
Increase in Fair Value of Hedging Activities, Net of Tax Effects of $11.6 Million in 2021, $2.8 Million in 2020 and $4.6 Million in 2019
$36.7 $8.6 $14.7 
Reclassification of Losses (Gains) Included in Net Income, Net of Tax Effects of $(12.4) Million in 2021, $2.2 Million in 2020 and $(0.4) Million in 2019
(39.2)(2.5)6.9 15.5 (1.3)13.4 
Pension and Post Retirement Plans:
Decrease (Increase) in Prior Service Cost and Unrecognized Gain (Loss), Net of Tax Effects of $4.9 Million in 2021, $(0.1) Million in 2020 and $1.8 Million in 2019
15.4 (0.6)5.7 
Amortization of Prior Service Cost and Unrecognized Loss Included in Net Periodic Pension Cost, Net of Tax Effects of $0.4 Million in 2021, $0.2 Million in 2020 and $0.5 Million in 2019
1.4 16.8 0.5 (0.1)1.5 7.2 
Other Comprehensive (Loss) Income(31.2)76.1 13.0 
Comprehensive Income 184.9 269.9 255.6 
Less: Comprehensive Income Attributable to Noncontrolling Interest6.8 6.1 3.1 
Comprehensive Income Attributable to Regal Rexnord Corporation$178.1 $263.8 $252.5 
See accompanying Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.
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REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(Dollars in Millions, Except Per Share Data)
January 1, 2022January 2, 2021
ASSETS
Current Assets:
Cash and Cash Equivalents$672.8 $611.3 
Trade Receivables, Less Allowances of $18.7 Million in 2021 and $18.3 Million in 2020
785.8 432.0 
Inventories1,106.6 690.3 
Prepaid Expenses and Other Current Assets145.1 108.6 
Assets Held for Sale12.5 9.1 
Total Current Assets2,722.8 1,851.3 
Net Property, Plant and Equipment908.5 555.5 
Operating Lease Assets112.4 73.4 
Goodwill4,039.2 1,518.2 
Intangible Assets, Net of Amortization2,429.2 530.3 
Deferred Income Tax Benefits35.7 43.9 
Other Noncurrent Assets33.8 16.4 
Total Assets$10,281.6 $4,589.0 
LIABILITIES AND EQUITY
Current Liabilities:
Accounts Payable$643.8 $360.1 
Dividends Payable22.3 12.2 
Accrued Compensation and Benefits143.9 76.6 
Other Accrued Expenses253.2 120.5 
Current Operating Lease Liabilities27.2 21.6 
Current Maturities of Long-Term Debt4.9 231.0 
Total Current Liabilities1,095.3 822.0 
Long-Term Debt1,913.6 840.4 
Deferred Income Taxes652.0 172.0 
Pension and Other Post Retirement Benefits111.7 69.5 
Noncurrent Operating Lease Liabilities89.5 55.1 
Other Noncurrent Liabilities69.4 53.0 
Contingencies (see Note 12)
Equity:
Regal Rexnord Corporation Shareholders' Equity:
Common Stock, $0.01 Par Value, 100.0 Million Shares Authorized, 67.6 Million and 40.6 Million Shares Issued and Outstanding at 2021 and 2020, Respectively
0.7 0.4 
Additional Paid-In Capital4,651.8 696.6 
Retained Earnings1,854.5 2,010.7 
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss(195.1)(163.3)
Total Regal Rexnord Corporation Shareholders' Equity6,311.9 2,544.4 
Noncontrolling Interests38.2 32.6 
Total Equity6,350.1 2,577 
Total Liabilities and Equity$10,281.6 $4,589.0 
See accompanying Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.
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REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF EQUITY
(Dollars in Millions, Except Per Share Data)
 Common Stock $0.01 Par Value Additional Paid-In Capital Retained Earnings Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss Noncontrolling
Interests
 Total
Equity
Balance as of December 29, 2018$0.4 $783.6 $1,777.9 $(251.4)$28.0 $2,338.5 
Net Income— — 238.9 — 3.7 242.6 
Other Comprehensive Loss— — — 13.6 (0.6)13.0 
Dividends Declared ($1.18 Per Share)
— — (49.1)— — (49.1)
Stock Options Exercised, Including
Income Tax Benefit and Share Cancellations
— (10.7)— — — (10.7)
Share-Based Compensation— 13.0 — — — 13.0 
Stock Repurchase— (84.1)(81.0)— — (165.1)
Dividends Declared to Noncontrolling Interests— — — — (1.8)(1.8)
Balance as of December 28, 2019$0.4 $701.8 $1,886.7 $(237.8)$29.3 $2,380.4 
Net Income— — 189.3 — 4.5 193.8 
Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)— — — 74.5 1.6 76.1 
Dividends Declared ($1.20 Per Share)
— — (48.7)— — (48.7)
Stock Options Exercised— (3.3)— — — (3.3)
Share-Based Compensation— 9.2 — — — 9.2 
Stock Repurchase— (11.1)(13.9)— — (25.0)
Adoption of Accounting Pronouncement ASU 2016-3— — (2.7)— — (2.7)
Dividends Declared to Noncontrolling Interests— — — — (2.8)(2.8)
Balance as of January 2, 2021$0.4 $696.6 $2,010.7 $(163.3)$32.6 $2,577.0 
Net Income— — 209.9 — 6.2 216.1 
Other Comprehensive Income— — — (31.8)0.6 (31.2)
Dividends Declared ($8.28 Per Share)
— — (345.8)— — (345.8)
Stock Options Exercised— (7.3)— — — (7.3)
Share-Based Compensation— 24.9 — — — 24.9 
Acquisition of the Rexnord PMC business0.3 3,896.0 — — — 3,896.3 
Replacement Equity-Based Awards Granted Upon Acquisition of the Rexnord PMC business— 47.1 — — — 47.1 
Stock Repurchase— (5.5)(20.3)— — (25.8)
Noncontrolling Interest Acquired— — — — 3.3 3.3 
Dividends Declared to Noncontrolling Interests— — — — (4.5)(4.5)
Balance as of January 1, 2022$0.7 $4,651.8 $1,854.5 $(195.1)$38.2 $6,350.1 
See accompanying Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

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REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(Dollars in Millions)
For the Year Ended
January 1,
2022
January 2,
2021
December 28,
2019
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
Net Income$216.1 $193.8 $242.6 
Adjustments to Reconcile Net Income to Net Cash Provided
   by Operating Activities (Net of Acquisitions and Divestitures):
Depreciation93.2 84.1 84.2 
Amortization77.4 47.3 50.3 
Goodwill Impairment33.0 10.5 — 
Asset Impairments 5.6 5.3 10.0 
Noncash Lease Expense26.1 24.5 30.6 
Share-Based Compensation Expense24.9 9.2 13.0 
Financing Fee Amortization19.2 1.5 1.4 
Early Debt Extinguishment Charge12.7 — — 
(Benefit) Expense from Deferred Income Taxes(14.9)(16.5)22.4 
Loss (Gain) on Disposition of Assets0.2 3.0 (0.7)
Other Non-Cash Changes0.8 5.8 4.0 
Gain on Sale of Businesses— (0.1)(44.7)
Change in Operating Assets and Liabilities, Net of Acquisitions and Divestitures
              Receivables(154.5)29.6 70.3 
              Inventories(148.5)(3.7)68.6 
              Accounts Payable156.6 15.2 (80.3)
              Current Liabilities and Other9.8 25.9 (63.2)
Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities357.7 435.4 408.5 
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
Additions to Property, Plant and Equipment(54.5)(47.5)(92.4)
Business Acquisitions, Net of Cash Acquired(125.5)— — 
Proceeds from Sale of Businesses— 0.3 157.9 
Proceeds from Sale of Assets4.3 10.2 8.8 
Net Cash (Used in) Provided by Investing Activities(175.7)(37.0)74.3 
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
Borrowings Under Revolving Credit Facility1,475.7 1,088.5 1,150.1 
Repayments Under Revolving Credit Facility(739.0)(1,106.2)(1,230.8)
Proceeds from Short-Term Borrowings17.2 2.6 27.5 
Repayments of Short-Term Borrowings(15.7)(2.3)(27.5)
Proceeds from Long-Term Borrowings— 0.1 — 
Repayments of Long-Term Borrowings(451.1)(50.4)(90.3)
Dividends Paid to Shareholders(335.6)(48.7)(48.9)
Proceeds from the Exercise of Stock Options2.6 0.2 0.3 
Shares Surrendered for Taxes(8.9)(3.6)(10.9)
Early Debt Extinguishment Payments(12.7)— — 
Financing Fees Paid(19.8)— — 
Repurchase of Common Stock(25.8)(25.0)(165.1)
Distributions to Noncontrolling Interests(4.5)(2.8)(1.8)
Net Cash Used in Financing Activities(117.6)(147.6)(397.4)
EFFECT OF EXCHANGE RATES ON CASH and CASH EQUIVALENTS(2.9)29.1 (2.6)
Net Increase in Cash and Cash Equivalents61.5 279.9 82.8 
Cash and Cash Equivalents at Beginning of Period611.3 331.4 248.6 
Cash and Cash Equivalents at End of Period$672.8 $611.3 $331.4 
SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURES OF CASH FLOW INFORMATION:
Cash Paid During the Year for:
Interest$35.2 $38.6 $51.7 
Income Taxes103.1 44.3 42.3 
Non-Cash Investing: Issuance of Common Stock and Replacement Equity-Based Awards in Connection with Rexnord Transaction3,943.4 — — 

See accompanying Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements.

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Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements

(1) Nature of Operations
Regal Rexnord Corporation (the “Company”) is a United States-based multi-national corporation. The Company is comprised of four operating segments: the Commercial Systems segment designs and produces fractional to approximately 5 horsepower AC and DC motors, electronic variable speed controls, fans, and blowers for commercial applications; the Industrial Systems segment designs and produces integral motors, automatic transfer switches, alternators and switchgear for industrial applications, along with aftermarket parts and kits to support such products; the Climate Solutions segment designs and produces small motors, electronic variable speed controls and air moving solutions; and the Motion Control Solutions segment designs, produces and services mounted and unmounted bearings, conveyor products, conveying automation solutions, couplings, mechanical power transmission drives and components, gearboxes and gear motors, aerospace components, special components products and industrial powertrain components and solutions.

(2) Basis of Presentation
The Company operates on a 52/53 week fiscal year ending on the Saturday closest to December 31. The fiscal year ended January 1, 2022 was 52 weeks, the fiscal year ended January 2, 2021 was 53 weeks and the fiscal year ended December 28, 2019 was 52 weeks.

Effective for fiscal year 2022, the Company approved a change in the fiscal year end from a 52-53 week year ending on the Saturday closest to December 31 to a calendar year ending on December 31. The Company will make the fiscal year change on a prospective basis and will not adjust operating results for prior periods. The change to the Company’s fiscal year will not impact the Company’s results for the year ended January 1, 2022. While this change will impact the comparability of future results with each of the fiscal quarters and the annual fiscal period in 2022, the impact is not expected to be material to our quarterly or annual results.

(3) Accounting Policies
Principles of Consolidation
The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly owned and majority-owned subsidiaries. In addition, the Company has joint ventures that are consolidated in accordance with consolidation accounting guidance. All intercompany accounts and transactions are eliminated.
Use of Estimates
The consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“US GAAP”), which require the Company to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and revenues and expenses during the periods reported. Actual results could differ from those estimates. The Company uses estimates in accounting for, among other items, allowance for credit losses; excess and obsolete inventory; share-based compensation; acquisitions; product warranty obligations; pension and post-retirement assets and liabilities; derivative fair values; goodwill and other asset impairments; health care reserves; rebates and incentives; litigation claims and contingencies, including environmental matters; and income taxes. The Company accounts for changes to estimates and assumptions when warranted by factually based experience.
Acquisitions
The Company recognizes assets acquired, liabilities assumed, contractual contingencies and contingent consideration at their fair value on the acquisition date. The operating results of the acquired companies are included in the Company’s consolidated financial statements from the date of acquisition.
Acquisition-related costs are expensed as incurred, restructuring costs are recognized as post-acquisition expense and changes in deferred tax asset valuation allowances and income tax uncertainties after the measurement period are recorded in Provision for Income Taxes.
Revenue Recognition
The Company recognizes revenue from the sale of electric motors, electrical motion controls, power generation and power transmission products. The Company recognizes revenue when control of the product passes to the customer or the service is provided and is recognized at an amount that reflects the consideration expected to be received in exchange for such goods or services.
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For a limited number of contracts, the Company recognizes revenue over time in proportion to costs incurred. The pricing of products sold is generally supported by customer purchase orders, and accounts receivable collection is reasonably assured. Estimated discounts and rebates are recorded as a reduction of gross sales in the same period revenue is recognized. Product returns and credits are estimated and recorded at the time of shipment based upon historical experience. Shipping and handling costs are recorded as revenue when billed to the customers. The costs incurred from shipping are recorded in Cost of Sales and handling costs incurred in connection with selling and distribution activities are recorded in Operating Expenses.
The Company derives a significant portion of its revenues from several original equipment manufacturing customers. Despite this relative concentration, there were no customers that accounted for more than 10% of consolidated net sales in fiscal 2021, fiscal 2020 or fiscal 2019.
Nature of Goods and Services
The Company sells products with multiple applications as well as customized products that have a single application such as those manufactured for its OEM customers. The Company reports in four operating segments: Commercial Systems, Industrial Systems, Climate Solutions and Motion Control Solutions. See Note 6 for a description of the different segments.
Nature of Performance Obligations
The Company’s contracts with customers typically consist of purchase orders, invoices and master supply agreements. At contract inception, across all four segments, the Company assesses the goods and services promised in its sales arrangements with customers and identifies a performance obligation for each promise to transfer to the customer a good or service that is distinct. The Company’s primary performance obligations consist of product sales and customized systems/solutions.
Product:
The nature of products varies from segment to segment but across all segments, individual products are generally not integrated and represent separate performance obligations.
Customized systems/solutions:
The Company provides customized systems/solutions which consist of multiple products engineered and designed to specific customer specification, combined or integrated into one combined solution for a specific customer application. The goods are transferred to the customer and revenue is typically recognized over time as the performance obligations are satisfied.
When Performance Obligations are Satisfied
For performance obligations related to substantially all of the Company's product sales, the Company determines that the customer obtains control upon shipment and recognizes revenue accordingly. Once a product has shipped, the customer is able to direct the use of, and obtain substantially all of the remaining benefits from the asset. The Company considers control to have transferred upon shipment because the Company has a present right to payment at that time, the customer has legal title to the asset, the Company has transferred physical possession of the asset, and the customer has significant risks and rewards of ownership of the asset.
For a limited number of contracts, the Company transfers control and recognizes revenue over time. The Company satisfies its performance obligations over time and the Company uses a cost-based input method to measure progress. In applying the cost-based method of revenue recognition, the Company uses actual costs incurred to date relative to the total estimated costs for the contract in conjunction with the customer's commitment to perform in determining the amount of revenue and cost to recognize. The Company has determined that the cost-based input method provides a faithful depiction of the transfer of goods to the customer.
Payment Terms
The arrangement with the customer states the final terms of the sale, including the description, quantity, and price of each product or service purchased. Payment terms vary by customer but typically range from due upon delivery to 120 days after delivery. For contracts recognized at a point in time, revenue and billing typically occur simultaneously. The Company generally has payment terms with its customers of one year or less and has elected the practical expedient applicable to such contracts not to consider the time value of money. For contracts recognized using the cost-based input method, revenue recognized in excess of customer billings and billings in excess of revenue recognized are reviewed to determine the net asset or net liability position and classified as such on the Consolidated Balance Sheet.
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Returns, Refunds and Warranties
The Company’s contracts do not explicitly offer a “general” right of return to its customers (e.g. customers ordered excess products and return unused items). Warranties are classified as either assurance type or service type warranties. A warranty is considered an assurance type warranty if it provides the customer with assurance that the product will function as intended. A warranty that goes above and beyond ensuring basic functionality is considered a service type warranty. The Company generally only offers limited warranties which are considered to be assurance type warranties and are not accounted for as separate performance obligations. Customers generally receive repair or replacement on products that do not function to specification. Estimated product warranties are provided for specific product groups and the Company accrues for estimated future warranty cost in the period in which the sale is recognized. The Company estimates the accrual requirements based on historical warranty loss experience and the cost is included in Cost of Sales.
Volume Rebates
In some cases, the nature of the Company’s contract may give rise to variable consideration including volume based sales incentives. If the customer achieves specific sales targets, it is entitled to rebates. The Company estimates the projected amount of the rebates that will be achieved and recognizes the estimated costs as a reduction to Net Sales as revenue is recognized.
Disaggregation of Revenue
The following table presents the Company’s revenues disaggregated by geographical region for the fiscal years ended January 1, 2022, January 2, 2021 and December 28, 2019, respectively, (in millions):
January 1, 2022Commercial SystemsIndustrial SystemsClimate SolutionsMotion Control SolutionsTotal
North America$696.0 $296.2 $905.9 $877.0 $2,775.1 
Asia182.3 186.7 33.7 60.3 463.0 
Europe102.7 46.4 43.6 168.8 361.5 
Rest-of-World51.1 47.0 47.4 65.2 210.7 
Total$1,032.1 $576.3 $1,030.6 $1,171.3 $3,810.3 
January 2, 2021Commercial SystemsIndustrial SystemsClimate SolutionsMotion Control SolutionsTotal
North America$566.9 $291.4 $752.7 $572.4 $2,183.4 
Asia124.9 150.9 27.7 27.5 331.0 
Europe86.1 44.8 30.3 86.4 247.6 
Rest-of-World42.3 41.7 36.1 24.9 145.0 
Total$820.2 $528.8 $846.8 $711.2 $2,907.0 

December 28, 2019Commercial SystemsIndustrial SystemsClimate SolutionsMotion Control SolutionsTotal
North America$643.0 $313.5 $848.6 $639.9 $2,445.0 
Asia107.2 167.0 37.7 30.4 342.3 
Europe135.5 49.2 40.5 91.5 316.7 
Rest-of-World19.6 45.7 41.7 27.0 134.0 
Total$905.3 $575.4 $968.5 $788.8 $3,238.0 

Practical Expedients and Exemptions

The Company typically expenses incremental direct costs of obtaining a contract, primarily sales commissions, as incurred because the amortization period is expected to be 12 months or less. Contract costs are included in Operating Expenses in the accompanying Consolidated Statements of Income.
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Due to the short nature of the Company’s contracts, the Company has adopted a practical expedient to not disclose revenue allocated to remaining performance obligations as substantially all of its contracts have original terms of 12 months or less.

The Company typically does not include in its transaction price any amounts collected from customers for sales taxes.
The Company has elected to account for shipping and handling costs as fulfillment activities and expense the costs as incurred as part of Cost of Sales.
Research, Development and Engineering
The Company performs research, development and engineering activities relating to new product development and the improvement of current products. The Company's research, development and engineering expenses consist primarily of costs for: (i) salaries and related personnel expenses; (ii) the design and development of new energy efficient products and enhancements; (iii) quality assurance and testing; and (iv) other related overhead. The Company's research, development and engineering efforts tend to be targeted toward developing new products that would allow it to gain additional market share, whether in new or existing segments.
Research, development and engineering costs are expensed as incurred. The costs are recorded in Operating Expenses in the fiscal year as follows as noted in the table below:
January 1, 2022January 2, 2021December 28, 2019
Research, Development and Engineering Costs$74.5 $67.0 $64.6 

Cash and Cash Equivalents
Cash equivalents consist of highly liquid investments which are readily convertible to cash, present insignificant risk of changes in value due to interest rate fluctuations and have original or purchased maturities of three months or less.
Concentration of Credit Risk
Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to significant concentrations of credit risk consist principally of cash equivalents. The Company has material deposits with global financial institutions. The Company performs periodic evaluations of the relative credit standing of its financial institutions and monitors the amount of exposure.
Concentration of credit risk with respect to trade accounts receivable is limited due to the large number of customers and their dispersion across many geographic areas. The Company monitors credit risk associated with its trade receivables.
Trade Receivables
The Company's policy for estimating the allowance for credit losses on trade receivables considers several factors including historical write-off experience, overall customer credit quality in relation to general economic and market conditions, and specific customer account analyses to estimate expected credit losses. The specific customer account analysis considers such items as, credit worthiness, payment history, and historical bad debt experience. Trade receivables are written off after exhaustive collection efforts occur and the receivable is deemed uncollectible. Adjustments to the allowance for credit losses are recorded in Operating Expenses.
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Inventories
The Company changed its method of calculating last-in, first-out ("LIFO") inventories, which represented approximately 48.5% of the Company’s inventory as of January 2, 2021. The Company increased the number of LIFO inventory pools to four to align with the Company’s operating and reporting segments. Previously, the Company had three LIFO inventory pools, which aligned with the Company's operating and reporting segments prior to the fiscal year 2020. The Company believes this change in accounting principle is preferable under the circumstances because it combines inventory items with similarities within a segment and better aligns revenue with expenses based on the four segment structure as well as how management manages and assesses the performance of the businesses. The Company determined that it had the data needed to apply this change in accounting principle as of the beginning of its fiscal year 2019, but it was impracticable to apply the change in periods prior to then. The change in accounting principle has been reflected in fiscal years 2019 and 2020. The change did not have a material impact on the consolidated financial statements for the years ended January 2, 2021 and December 28, 2019. See Note 6 for details.

The major classes of inventory at year end are as follows:
January 1, 2022January 2, 2021
Raw Material and Work in Process43.4%48.7%
Finished Goods and Purchased Parts56.6%51.3%

Inventories are stated at cost, which is not in excess of market. Cost for approximately 48.5% of the Company's inventory as of January 1, 2022 and 50.0% as of January 2, 2021 was determined using the last-in, first-out method. If all inventories were valued on the first-in, first-out method, they would have increased by $85.8 million and $60.0 million as of January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021, respectively. Material, labor and factory overhead costs are included in the inventories.

The Company reviews inventories for excess and obsolete products or components. Based on an analysis of historical usage and management's evaluation of estimated future demand, market conditions and alternative uses for possible excess or obsolete parts, the Company records an excess and obsolete reserve.
Property, Plant and Equipment
Property, Plant and Equipment are stated at cost. Depreciation of plant and equipment is provided principally on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful lives (3 to 50 years) of the depreciable assets. Accelerated methods are used for income tax purposes.

Expenditures for repairs and maintenance are charged to expense when incurred. Expenditures which extend the useful lives of existing equipment are capitalized and depreciated.

Upon retirement or disposition of property and equipment, the cost and related accumulated depreciation are removed from the accounts and any resulting gain or loss is recognized. Leasehold improvements are capitalized and amortized over the lesser of the life of the lease or the estimated useful life of the asset.

Property, plant and equipment by major classification was as follows (in millions):
Useful Life (In Years)January 1, 2022January 2, 2021
Land and Improvements$109.1 $76.1 
Buildings and Improvements
3-50
449.6 290.7 
Machinery and Equipment
3-15
1,164.8 978.2 
  Property, Plant and Equipment1,723.5 1,345.0 
Less: Accumulated Depreciation(815.0)(789.5)
  Net Property, Plant and Equipment$908.5 $555.5 

During fiscal 2021, the Company recognized $5.6 million of asset impairments related to the transfer of assets to held for sale. For fiscal 2020, the Company recognized $5.3 million of asset impairments related to the transfer of assets to held for sale.

Goodwill
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The Company evaluates the carrying amount of goodwill annually or more frequently if events or circumstances indicate that the goodwill might be impaired. Factors that could trigger an impairment review include significant underperformance relative to historical or forecasted operating results, a significant decrease in the market value of an asset or significant negative industry or economic trends. For goodwill, the Company may perform a qualitative test to determine whether it is more-likely-than-not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount as a basis for determining whether it is necessary to perform the quantitative goodwill impairment test. The Company performed quantitative impairment testing for all reporting units in fiscal 2021. The Company performs the required annual goodwill impairment testing as of the end of the October fiscal month.
The Company uses a weighting of the market approach and the income approach (discounted cash flow method) in testing goodwill for impairment. In the market approach, the Company applies performance multiples from comparable public companies, adjusted for relative risk, profitability, and growth considerations, to the reporting units to estimate fair value. The key assumptions used in the discounted cash flow method used to estimate fair value include discount rates, revenue and EBITDA margin projections and terminal value rates because such assumptions are the most sensitive and susceptible to change as they require significant management judgment. Discount rates are determined by using market and industry data as well as Company-specific risk factors for each reporting unit. The discount rate utilized for each reporting unit is indicative of the return an investor would expect to receive for investing in such a business. Terminal value rate determination follows common methodology of capturing the present value of perpetual cash flow estimates beyond the last projected period assuming a constant discount rate and long-term growth rates.
In the fourth quarter of 2021, the Company recorded goodwill impairment of $33.0 million in its global industrial motors reporting unit. The global industrial motors reporting unit had goodwill of $80.1 million as of January 1, 2022 and is included in the Company's Industrial Systems segment. Some of the key considerations used in the Company's impairment testing included (i) market pricing of guideline publicly traded companies (ii) cost of capital, including the risk-free interest rate, and (iii) recent historical and projected operating results of the subject reporting unit. There is inherent uncertainty included in the assumptions used in goodwill impairment testing. A change to any of the assumptions could lead to a future impairment that could be material.
Intangible Assets
Intangible assets with finite lives are amortized over their estimated useful lives using the straight line method. The Company evaluates amortizing intangibles whenever events or circumstances have occurred that indicate carrying values may not be recoverable. If an indicator is present, the Company uses an estimate of the related undiscounted cash flows over the remaining life of the primary asset to estimate recoverability of the asset group. If such estimated future cash flows are less than carrying value, an impairment would be recognized. There was no impairment of intangible assets during fiscal 2021 or 2020.
Indefinite-lived intangible assets are not amortized. The Company evaluates the carrying amount of indefinite-lived intangible assets annually or more frequently if events or circumstances indicate that the assets might be impaired. The Company performs the required annual impairment testing as of the end of the October fiscal month.
The indefinite-lived intangible asset consisted of a trade name associated with the acquisition of the Power Transmission Solutions business from Emerson Electric Co. It was evaluated for impairment in October 2021. The Company determined the fair value of this asset using a royalty relief methodology similar to the methodology used when the associated asset was acquired, but used updated assumptions and estimates of future sales and profitability. For fiscal 2021 and fiscal 2020, the fair value of the indefinite-lived intangible asset exceeded its respective carrying value. Some of the key considerations used in the Company's impairment testing included (i) cost of capital, including the risk-free interest rate, (ii) royalty rate and (iii) recent historical and projected operating performance. There is inherent uncertainty included in the assumptions used in indefinite-lived intangible asset testing.
During the fourth quarter of 2021, following the Rexnord Transaction (as defined in Note 4), which included the acquisition of additional trade names that may have an impact on the Company's long-term branding strategy, the Company determined that the indefinite-lived intangible asset associated with the Power Transmission Solutions trade name had a finite life and began amortizing it over a remaining estimated useful life using the straight line method. Following this change, this asset will be evaluated for impairment under guidance applicable to long-lived assets.
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Long-Lived Assets

The Company evaluates the recoverability of the carrying amount of property, plant and equipment assets (collectively, "long-lived assets") whenever events or changes in circumstance indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be fully recoverable through future cash flows. Factors that could trigger an impairment review include a significant decrease in the market value of an asset or significant negative economic trends. For long-lived assets, the Company uses an estimate of the related undiscounted cash flows over the remaining life of the primary asset to estimate recoverability of the asset group. If the asset is not recoverable, the asset is written down to fair value. In fiscal 2021, the Company concluded it had asset impairments related to the transfer of assets to held for sale of $5.6 million. The Company concluded it had an impairment of $5.3 million in long-lived assets in fiscal 2020 due to the transfer of assets to held for sale.

Earnings Per Share
Diluted earnings per share is computed based upon earnings applicable to common shares divided by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding during the period adjusted for the effect of dilutive securities. Share based compensation awards for common shares where the exercise price was above the market price have been excluded from the calculation of the effect of dilutive securities shown below; the amount of these shares were 0.1 million in fiscal 2021, 0.4 million in fiscal 2020 and 0.4 million in fiscal 2019. The following table reconciles the basic and diluted shares used in earnings per share calculations for the fiscal years ended (in millions):
202120202019
Denominator for Basic Earnings Per Share47.3 40.6 42.0 
Effect of Dilutive Securities0.4 0.2 0.2 
Denominator for Diluted Earnings Per Share47.7 40.8 42.2 

Retirement and Post-Retirement Plans

The Company's domestic associates are covered by defined contribution plans and approximately half of the Company's domestic associates are covered by defined benefit pension plans. The majority of the defined benefit pension plans covering the Company's domestic associates have been closed to new associates and frozen for existing associates. Certain associates are covered by a post-retirement health care plan. Most of the Company's foreign associates are covered by government sponsored plans in the countries in which they are employed. The Company's obligations under its defined benefit pension and other post-retirement plans are determined with the assistance of actuarial firms. The actuaries, under management's direction, make certain assumptions regarding such factors as withdrawal rates and mortality rates. The actuaries also provide information and recommendations from which management makes further assumptions on such factors as the long-term expected rate of return on plan assets, the discount rate on benefit obligations and where applicable, the rate of annual compensation increases and health care cost trend rates.

Based upon the assumptions made, the investments made by the plans, overall conditions and movement in financial markets, life-spans of benefit recipients and other factors, annual expenses and recorded assets or liabilities of these defined benefit plans may change significantly from year to year.
The service cost component of the Company's net periodic benefit cost is included in Cost of Sales and Operating Expenses. All other components of net periodic benefit costs are included in Other (Income) Expenses, net on the Company's Consolidated Statements of Income.
Derivative Financial Instruments
Derivative instruments are recorded on the Consolidated Balance Sheets at fair value. Any fair value changes are recorded in Net Income or Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss ("AOCI") as determined under accounting guidance that establishes criteria for designation and effectiveness of the hedging relationships.
The Company uses derivative instruments to manage its exposure to fluctuations in certain raw material commodity pricing, fluctuations in the cost of forecasted foreign currency transactions, and variability in interest rate exposure on floating rate borrowings. The majority of derivative instruments have been designated as cash flow hedges (see also Note 13).
Income Taxes
The Company accounts for income taxes in accordance with ASC 740, Accounting for Income Taxes (“ASC 740”). Deferred tax assets and liabilities arise from temporary differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases, and consideration of operating loss and tax credit carryforwards. Deferred income
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taxes are measured using enacted tax rates in effect for the year in which the temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The impact on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in the period that includes the enactment date. Valuation allowances are provided to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount that will more likely than not be realized. This requires management to make judgments and estimates regarding the amount and timing of the reversal of taxable temporary differences, expected future taxable income, and the impact of tax planning strategies.
Uncertainty exists regarding tax positions taken in previously filed tax returns which remain subject to examination, along with positions expected to be taken in future returns. The Company provides for unrecognized tax benefits, based on the technical merits, when it is more likely than not that an uncertain tax position will not be sustained upon examination. Adjustments are made to the uncertain tax positions when facts and circumstances change, such as the closing of a tax audit; changes in applicable tax laws, including tax case rulings and legislative guidance; or expiration of the applicable statute of limitations.

Foreign Currency Translation
For those operations using a functional currency other than the US dollar, assets and liabilities are translated into US dollars at year-end exchange rates, and revenues and expenses are translated at weighted-average exchange rates. The resulting translation adjustments are recorded as a separate component of Shareholders' Equity.
Product Warranty Reserves
The Company maintains reserves for product warranty to cover the stated warranty periods for its products. Such reserves are established based on an evaluation of historical warranty experience and specific significant warranty matters when they become known and can reasonably be estimated.
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss
Foreign currency translation adjustments, unrealized gains and losses on derivative instruments designated as hedges and pension and post retirement liability adjustments are included in Shareholders' Equity under AOCI.
The components of the ending balances of AOCI are as follows (in millions):
 20212020
Foreign Currency Translation Adjustments$(201.8)$(155.7)
Hedging Activities, Net of Tax of $6.6 in 2021 and $7.5 in 2020
21.0 23.5 
Pension and Post-Retirement Benefits, Net of Tax of $(4.2) in 2021 and $(9.4) in 2020
(14.3)(31.1)
Total$(195.1)$(163.3)
Legal Claims and Contingent Liabilities
The Company is subject to various legal proceedings, claims and regulatory matters, the outcomes of which are subject to significant uncertainty and will only be resolved when one or more future events occur or fail to occur. Management conducts regular reviews, including updates from legal counsel, to assess the need for accounting recognition or disclosure of these contingencies. The Company records expenses and liabilities when the Company believes that an obligation of the Company or a subsidiary on a specific matter is probable and there is a basis to reasonably estimate the value of the obligation, and such assessment inherently involves an exercise in judgment. This methodology is used for legal claims that are filed against the Company or a subsidiary from time to time. The uncertainty that is associated with such matters frequently requires adjustments to the liabilities previously recorded.
Fair Values of Financial Instruments
The fair values of cash equivalents, term deposits, trade receivables and accounts payable approximate their carrying values due to the short period of time to maturity. The fair value of debt is estimated using discounted cash flows based on rates for instruments with comparable maturities and credit ratings as further described in Note 7. The fair value of pension assets and derivative instruments is determined based on the methods disclosed in Notes 8 and 13.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

Recently Issued Accounting Standards

In October 2021, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued Accounting Standards Update ("ASU") ASU 2021-08, Business Combinations (Topic 805) Accounting for Contract Assets and Contract Liabilities from Contracts with Customers. The ASU improves the accounting for acquired revenue contracts with customers in a business combination. This
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ASU becomes effective for fiscal years beginning after December 31, 2022, with early adoption permitted. The Company is evaluating the effect of adopting this new accounting guidance.

Adopted Accounting Standards

In December 2019, the FASB issued ASU 2019-12, Income Taxes (Topic 740) Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes. The ASU simplifies the accounting for income taxes by removing certain exceptions to the general principles of Topic 740, and clarifies and amends existing guidance to improve consistent application. The Company adopted the standard as of January 3, 2021 the beginning of fiscal 2021, with no material impact on the Company's Consolidated Financial Statements.

In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13, Financial Instruments Credit Losses (Topic 326). The focus of this ASU is to require businesses to adjust their allowance for lifetime expected credit losses rather than incurred losses. It is believed that the change will result in more timely recognition of such losses. This ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, including interim periods therein. The Company adopted the standard as of December 29, 2019, the beginning of fiscal 2020, under the modified retrospective approach. The Company recorded a $3.4 million increase in the allowance for credit losses and a $2.7 million net decrease to retained earnings as of December 29, 2019 for the cumulative effect of adopting ASU 2016-13.
In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842). The core principle of ASU 2016-02 is that an entity should recognize right of use ("ROU") assets and lease liabilities arising from an operating lease on its Balance Sheet. In accordance with that principle, ASU 2016-02 requires that a lessee recognize a liability to make lease payments, the lease liability, and a ROU asset representing its right to use the underlying leased asset for the lease term. The recognition, measurement, and presentation of expenses and cash flows arising from a lease by a lessee will depend on the lease classification as a finance or operating lease. In July 2018, the FASB amended its guidance by issuing ASU 2018-11 to provide an additional transition method, allowing a cumulative effect adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings during the period of adoption. The Company adopted the standard as of December 30, 2018, the beginning of fiscal 2019, under the modified retrospective method. Comparative periods prior to the adoption of the standard have not been adjusted to give the effect to the standard.

The Company elected the package of practical expedients permitted under the relief package within the new standard, which allows the Company to carryforward the historical lease accounting of expired or existing leases with respect to lease identification, lease classification and accounting treatment for initial direct costs as of the adoption date. The Company also elected the practical expedient related to lease versus non-lease components, allowing the Company to recognize lease and nonlease components as a single lease.

Adoption of the new standard resulted in the recording of the right-of-use assets and lease liabilities of $93.0 million as of December 30, 2018. No cumulative effect adjustment to retained earnings was recognized upon adoption of the new standard. The standard did not materially impact the Company's Consolidated Net Income and had no impact on Cash Flows. See Note 9 for additional disclosures.

In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-13, Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820) - Disclosure Framework - Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Fair Value Measurement. The ASU focuses on updates around disclosures of Level 3 fair value measurements and it presents modifications to current disclosure requirements. The additional requirements under this ASU include disclosure for the changes in unrealized gains and losses included in other comprehensive income ("OCI") held at the end of the reporting period and the range and weighted average used to develop significant unobservable inputs. The ASU is also eliminating the disclosure requirement for the amount and reason for transfers between Level 1 and Level 2 fair value measurement, valuation processes for Level 3 measurements, and policy for timing of transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy. In addition, the ASU modifies the disclosure requirements for investments that are valued based on net asset value. The amendments clarify that the measurement uncertainty disclosure is to communicate information about the uncertainty in measurement as of the reporting date. This ASU is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019, including interim periods therein. The ASU requires prospective application for only the most recent interim or annual period presented in the year of adoption for changes in unrealized gains and losses included in OCI, the range and weighted average used to develop significant unobservable inputs for Level 3 fair value measurements, and the narrative description of measurement uncertainty. The Company adopted the standard as of December 29, 2019, the beginning of fiscal 2020, with no material impact on the Company's Consolidated Financial Statements.

In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-14, Compensation - Retirement Benefits - Defined Benefit Plans - General (Subtopic 715-20). The ASU addresses modifications to the disclosure requirements for Defined Benefit Plans. Under ASU 2018-14 the disclosure requirements that can be removed are amounts in accumulated other comprehensive income expected to
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be recognized as components of net periodic benefit cost over the next fiscal year, amount and timing of plan assets expected to be returned to the employer, and the effects of a one-percentage-point change in assumed health care cost trend rates on the aggregate of the service and interest cost components of net periodic benefit costs and benefit obligations for postretirement health care benefits. Additional disclosures are required for the weighted-average interest crediting rates for cash balance plans and other plans with promised interest crediting rates and an explanation for significant gains and losses related to the changes in the benefit obligation for the period. If a defined benefit pension plan has a projected benefit obligation greater than plan assets the projected benefit obligation and fair value of plan assets should be disclosed. The Company adopted the standard in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2020 on a retrospective basis for all years presented with no material impact to the Company's Consolidated Financial Statement.

In March 2020, the FASB issued ASU 2020-04, Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848) Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting. The ASU provides optional transition guidance, for a limited time, to companies that have contracts, hedging relationships or other transactions that reference the London Inter-bank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”) or another reference rate which is expected to be discontinued because of reference rate reform. The amendments provide optional expedients and exceptions for applying GAAP to contracts, hedging relationships, and other transactions if certain criteria are met. The amendments in this update are effective as of March 12, 2020 through December 31, 2022. In the second quarter of fiscal year 2020, the Company adopted this standard prospectively and is applying those expedients that allow the Company to continue to assert that LIBOR-based interest remains probable, despite the sunset of LIBOR at the end of 2021 with no impact on the Company's Consolidated Financial Statements.

(4) Held For Sale, Divestitures and Acquisitions
Assets Held for Sale

As of January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021, the Company presented $12.5 million and $9.1 million, respectively, of certain assets held for sale as the Company had both the intent and ability to sell these assets.

2019 Divestitures
Regal Drive Technologies
On January 7, 2019, the Company sold its drive technologies business and received proceeds of $0.3 million in the first quarter of 2020 and $119.9 million in 2019. The drive technologies business was included in the Company's Commercial Systems segment. The Company recognized a gain on sale of $0.1 million in the first quarter of 2020 and $41.0 million in 2019 in the Consolidated Statements of Income.

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Velvet Drive

On April 1, 2019, the Company sold its marine transmission business and received proceeds of $8.9 million. This business was included in the Company's Motion Control Solutions segment. The Company recognized a loss on sale of $0.5 million in the Consolidated Statements of Income.

CapCom

On April 1, 2019, the Company sold its capacitor business and received proceeds of $9.9 million. This business was included in the Company's Climate Solutions segment. The Company recognized a gain on sale of $6.0 million in the Consolidated Statements of Income.

Vapor Recovery

On July 1, 2019, the Company sold its vapor recovery business and received proceeds of $19.2 million. The business was included in the Company's Commercial Systems segment. The Company recognized a loss on sale of $1.9 million in the Consolidated Statements of Income.

2021 Acquisitions
Rexnord Transaction
On October 4, 2021, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of February 15, 2021 (the “Merger Agreement”), the Company completed its combination with the Rexnord Process & Motion Control business (“Rexnord PMC business”) of Rexnord Corporation (which changed its name on October 4, 2021 to Zurn Water Solutions Corporation) (“Zurn”) in a Reverse Morris Trust transaction (the “Rexnord Transaction”). Pursuant to the Rexnord Transaction, (i) Zurn transferred to its then-subsidiary Land Newco, Inc. (“Land”) substantially all of the assets, and Land assumed substantially all of the liabilities, of the Rexnord PMC business (the “Reorganization”), (ii) after which all of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock, $0.01 par value per share, of Land (“Land common stock”) held by a subsidiary of Zurn were distributed in a series of distributions to Zurn’s stockholders (the “Distributions”, and the final distribution of Land common stock from Zurn to Zurn’s stockholders, which was made pro rata for no consideration, the “Spin-Off”) and (iii) immediately after the Spin-Off, a subsidiary of the Company (“Merger Sub”) merged with and into Land (the “Merger”) and all shares of Land common stock (other than those held by Zurn, Land, the Company, Merger Sub or their respective subsidiaries) were converted as of the effective time of the Merger (the “Effective Time”) into the right to receive 0.22296103 shares of common stock, $0.01 par value per share, of the Company (“Company common stock”), as calculated in the Merger Agreement.

As of the Effective Time, Land, which held the Rexnord PMC business, became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company.

Pursuant to the Merger, the Company issued approximately 27,055,945 shares of Company common stock to holders of Land common stock, which represents approximately 39.9% of the approximately 67,756,732 outstanding shares of Company common stock immediately following the Effective Time. In addition, holders of record of Company common stock as of October 1, 2021 received $6.99 per share of Company common stock pursuant to a previously announced special dividend in connection with the Transactions (the “Special Dividend”).

In connection with the Rexnord Transaction, membership on the Company's Board of Directors was increased to 11 directors, in which two directors designated by Zurn were appointed to the board. The current chief executive officer of the Company continued as the chief executive officer of the combined company after the Rexnord Transaction and a majority of the senior management of the Company immediately prior the consummation of the Rexnord Transaction remained executive officers of the Company immediately after the Rexnord Transaction. The Company's management determined that the Company is the accounting acquirer in the Rexnord Transaction based on the facts and circumstances noted within this section and other relevant factors. As such, the Company applied the acquisition method of accounting to the identifiable assets and liabilities of Rexnord PMC business, which have been measured at estimated fair value as of the date of the business combination.

In connection with the Rexnord Transaction, the Company has entered into certain financing arrangements, which are described in Note 7.

The tax matters agreement the Company entered into in connection with the Rexnord Transaction imposes certain restrictions on the Company, Land and Zurn during the two-year period following the Spin-Off, subject to certain exceptions, with respect
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to actions that could cause the Reorganization and the Distributions to fail to qualify for the intended tax treatment. As a result of these restrictions, the Company's and Land’s ability to engage in certain transactions, such as the issuance or purchase of stock or certain business combinations, may be limited.

The total consideration transferred for the acquisition of Land was approximately $4.0 billion subject to finalization of purchase accounting and working capital adjustments. The total assets and liabilities assumed will be adjusted, based on the final balances per the terms included within the Separation and Distribution Agreement.

The preliminary purchase price of the Rexnord PMC business consisted of the following (in millions):

Fair value of Company common stock issued to Zurn (a)$3,896.3 
Stock based compensation (b)47.1 
Adjustment amount (c)30.9 
Land Financing Fees paid by the Company (d)3.9 
Preexisting Relationships (e)(0.8)
Preliminary purchase price$3,977.4 

(a) Represents approximately 27 million new shares of Company common stock issued to Zurn stockholders in the exchange offer, based on the Company's October 4, 2021, closing share price of $151.00, less the Special Dividend amount of $6.99, which the Zurn stockholders were not entitled to receive.

(b) Represents fair value of replacement equity-based awards and Company common stock issued in settlement of other Zurn share based awards. The portion of the fair value attributable to pre-Merger service was recorded as part of the consideration transferred in the Merger - see Note 10.

(c) Represents estimated working capital adjustment pursuant to the terms of the purchase agreement.

(d) Represents financing fees paid by the Company for the Bridge Facility and Land Term Facility (as defined in Note 7) that were determined to be costs of Zurn.

(e) Represents effective settlement of outstanding payables and receivables between the Company and the Rexnord PMC business. No gain or loss was recognized on this settlement.

Purchase Price Allocation

The Rexnord PMC business’s assets and liabilities were measured at estimated fair values at October 4, 2021, primarily using Level 3 inputs. Estimates of fair value represent management’s best estimate of assumptions about future events and uncertainties, including significant judgments related to future cash flows, discount rates, competitive trends, margin and revenue growth assumptions including royalty rates and customer attrition rates and others. Inputs used were generally obtained from historical data supplemented by current and anticipated market conditions and growth rates expected as of the acquisition date.

Due to the timing of the business combination and the nature of the net assets acquired, at January 1, 2022, the valuation process to determine the fair values is not complete and further adjustments are expected in fiscal year 2022. The Company has estimated the preliminary fair value of net assets acquired based on information currently available and will continue to adjust those estimates as additional information becomes available, including the refinement of market participant assumptions. As the Company finalizes the fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed, additional purchase price allocation adjustments will be recorded during the measurement period, but no later than one year from the date of the acquisition. The Company will reflect measurement period adjustments in the period in which the adjustments are determined.
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The preliminary fair value of the assets acquired and liabilities and noncontrolling interests assumed were as follows (in millions):
as of October 4, 2021
Cash and Cash Equivalents$192.8 
Trade Receivables186.9 
Inventories262.5 
Prepaid Expenses and Other Current Assets21.0 
Assets Held for Sale1.4 
Deferred Income Tax Benefits8.8 
Property, Plant and Equipment412.3 
Operating Lease Assets46.4 
Intangible Assets1,831.0 
Other Noncurrent Assets12.3 
Accounts Payable(121.1)
Accrued Compensation and Benefits(44.0)
Other Accrued Expenses(55.7)
Current Operating Lease Liabilities(8.1)
Current Maturities of Long-Term Debt(2.5)
Long-Term Debt(558.2)
Deferred Income Taxes(508.2)
Pension and Other Post Retirement Benefits(75.1)
Noncurrent Operating Lease Liabilities(38.0)
Other Noncurrent Liabilities(17.0)
Total Identifiable Net Assets1,547.5 
Goodwill2,433.2 
Noncontrolling Interests(3.3)
Preliminary purchase price$3,977.4 

Summary of Significant Fair Value Methods

The methods used to determine the fair value of significant identifiable assets and liabilities included in the allocation of purchase price are discussed below.

Inventories

Acquired inventory was comprised of finished goods, work in process and raw materials. The fair value of finished goods was calculated as the estimated selling price, adjusted for costs of the selling effort and a reasonable profit allowance relating to the selling effort. The fair value of work in process inventory was primarily calculated as the estimated selling price, adjusted for estimated costs to complete the manufacturing, estimated costs of the selling effort, as well as a reasonable profit margin on the remaining manufacturing and selling effort. The fair value of raw materials and supplies was determined based on replacement cost which approximates historical carrying value.

Property, Plant and Equipment

The preliminary fair value of Property, Plant, and Equipment was determined based on assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset.

Identifiable Intangible Assets

The fair value and weighted average useful life of the identifiable intangible assets are as follows (in millions):
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Fair ValueWeighted Average Useful Life (Years)
Trademarks(1)
$225.0 10
Customer Relationships(2)
1,519.0 17
Technology(3)
87.0 12
Total Identifiable Intangible Assets$1,831.0 

The fair value estimates for identifiable intangible assets are preliminary and are based upon assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset.

(1) The Rexnord PMC business Trademarks were valued using the relief from royalty method, which considers both the market approach and the income approach.
(2) The fair value of Customer Relationships was valued using a multi-period excess earnings method, a form of the income approach, which incorporates the estimated future cash flows to be generated from the Rexnord PMC business's existing customer base.
(3) The Rexnord PMC business Technology were valued using the relief from royalty method, which considers both the market approach and the income approach.

The intangible assets related to definite-lived customer relationships, trademarks and technology are amortized over their estimated useful lives, which had estimated weighted-average useful lives of 17 years, 10 years and 12 years, respectively, at acquisition.

The Company believes that the amounts of purchased intangible assets recorded represent the preliminary fair values and approximates the amounts a market participant would pay for these intangible assets as of the acquisition date.

Leases, including right-of-use ("ROU") assets and lease liabilities

Lease liabilities were measured as of the acquisition date at the present value of future minimum lease payments over the remaining lease term and the incremental borrowing rate of the Company as if the acquired leases were new leases as of the acquisition date. ROU assets recorded within “Operating Lease Assets” are equal to the amount of the lease liability at the acquisition date adjusted for any off-market terms of the lease. The remaining lease term was based on the remaining term at the acquisition date plus any renewal or extension options that the Company is reasonably certain will be exercised.

Pension and Other Post Retirement Benefits

The Rexnord PMC business recognized a pretax net liability representing the net funded status of the Rexnord PMC business’s defined-benefit pension and other postretirement benefit (“OPEB”) plans. See Note 8 for further information on the pension and OPEB arrangements.

Long-Term Debt

In connection with the Rexnord Transaction, the Company entered into certain financing arrangements as indicated in Note 7. The proceeds of the Land Term Facility, $487.0 million, were drawn by Land in a single drawing to fund a payment from Land to a subsidiary of Zurn in connection with the Rexnord Transaction.

The fair value for long term debt was determined based on the total indebtedness as the debt consummated at the time of closing of the acquisition.

Deferred Income Tax Assets and Liabilities

The acquisition was structured as a merger and therefore, the Company assumed the historical tax basis of the Rexnord PMC business’s assets and liabilities. The deferred income tax assets and liabilities include the expected future federal, state, and foreign tax consequences associated with temporary differences between the fair values of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed and the respective tax bases. Tax rates utilized in calculating deferred income taxes generally represent the enacted statutory tax rates at the effective date of the acquisition in the jurisdictions in which legal title of the underlying asset or liability resides. See Note 11 for further information related to income taxes.

Noncontrolling Interests
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As of the date of acquisition, the Company assumed the noncontrolling interest in two subsidiaries. The carrying values of the noncontrolling interests approximates the fair value of as of the acquisition date.

Other Assets Acquired and Liabilities Assumed (excluding Goodwill)

The Company utilized the carrying values, net of allowances, to value accounts receivable and accounts payable as well as other current assets and liabilities as it was determined that carrying values represented the fair value of those items at the acquisition date. With the exception of the receivable allowance to align Rexnord PMC business's reserve policy to the Company's policy, to reflect the best estimate at the acquisition date of the contractual cash flows expected to be collected

Goodwill

The excess of the consideration for the acquisition over the fair value of net assets acquired was recorded as goodwill. The goodwill is attributable to expected synergies and expanded market opportunities from combining the Company’s operations with those of the Rexnord PMC business. The goodwill created in the acquisition is not expected to be deductible for tax purposes.

Transaction Costs

The Company incurred transaction-related costs of approximately $64.4 million for the year ended January 1, 2022. These costs were associated with legal and professional services and were recognized as Operating expenses in our Consolidated Statements of Income.

Results of the Rexnord PMC business Subsequent to the Acquisition

The Rexnord PMC business had Net Sales and Net Income of $340.4 million and $2.3 million, respectively, which include the impact of purchase accounting adjustments, are included in the Consolidated Statements of Income for the period from October 4, 2021 through January 1, 2022. The financial results of the Rexnord PMC business have been included in the Company's Motion Control Solutions segment from the date of acquisition.

Unaudited Pro Forma Information

The following unaudited supplemental pro forma financial information presents the financial results for the fiscal years 2021 and 2020 as if the Rexnord Transaction had occurred on December 29, 2019. The pro forma financial information includes, where applicable, adjustments for: (i) additional amortization expense that would have been recognized related to the acquired intangible assets, (ii) additional interest expense on transaction related borrowings, (iii) additional depreciation expense that would have been recognized related to the acquired property, plant, and equipment, (iv) transaction costs and other one-time non-recurring costs which reduced expenses by $64.4 million for the year ended January 1, 2022 and increased expenses by $64.4 million for the year ended January 2, 2021, (v) additional cost of sales related to the inventory valuation adjustment which reduced expenses by $24.1 million for the year ended January 1, 2022 and increased expenses by $26.9 million for the year ended January 2, 2021, and (vi) the estimated income tax effect on the pro forma adjustments. The pro forma financial information excludes adjustments for estimated cost synergies or other effects of the integration of the Rexnord Transaction.

The pro forma financial information is presented for illustrative purposes only and is not necessarily indicative of the operating results that would have been achieved had the Rexnord Transaction been completed as of the date indicated or the results that may be obtained in the future.

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Unaudited Supplemental Pro Forma Financial Information
For the Year Ended January 1, 2022For the Year Ended January 2, 2021
Net Sales$4,780.7 $4,136.8 
Net Income Attributable to Regal Rexnord Corporation$347.3 $84.8 
Earnings Per Share Attributable to Regal Rexnord Corporation:
   Basic$5.13 $1.25 
   Assuming Dilution$5.09 $1.25 

Arrowhead Systems-Automation Solutions

On November 23, 2021, the Company acquired all of the outstanding equity interests of Arrowhead Systems, LLC, which the Company now refers to as its Automation Solutions business, for $315.6 million in cash, net of $1.1 million of cash acquired. Arrowhead is a global leader in providing industrial process automation solutions including conveyors and (de)palletizers to the food & beverage, aluminum can, and consumer staples end markets, among others. The Automation Solutions business is a division of the Company's Motion Control Solutions segment.

The Consolidated Statements of Income include the results of operations of the Automation Solutions business since the date of acquisition, and such results are reflected in the Motion Control Solutions segment. Results of operations since the date of acquisition and supplemental pro forma financial information have not been presented for the acquisition of the Automation Solutions business as such information is not material to the results of operations.
Transaction costs incurred in connection with the Transactions were $6.9 million in fiscal 2021. These costs were primarily comprised of professional fees, recorded in general, administrative and other expenses.
Purchase Price Allocation

Arrowhead Systems’ assets and liabilities were measured at estimated fair values at November 23, 2021. Estimates of fair value represent management’s best estimate of assumptions about future events and uncertainties, including significant judgments related to future cash flows, discount rates, competitive trends, margin and revenue growth assumptions including royalty rates and customer attrition rates and others. Inputs used were generally obtained from historical data supplemented by current and anticipated market conditions and growth rates expected as of the acquisition date.
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The preliminary fair value of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed were as follows (in millions):

as of November 23, 2021
Cash and Cash Equivalents$1.1 
Trade Receivables19.1 
Inventories12.8 
Prepaid Expenses and Other Current Assets7.6 
Property, Plant and Equipment3.7 
Intangible Assets(1)
160.0 
Accounts Payable(4.7)
Accrued Compensation and Benefits(2.6)
Other Accrued Expenses(25.0)
Total Identifiable Net Assets172.0 
Goodwill143.6 
Preliminary purchase price$315.6 
(1) Includes $124.0 million related to Customer Relationships, $18.0 million related to Trademarks and $18.0 million related to Technology.

The allocation of purchase price is subject to finalization during a period not to exceed one year from the acquisition date. Adjustments to the preliminary allocation of purchase price may occur related to finalization of the working capital adjustment, finalization of the valuation of intangibles and other long-lived assets, adjustment to income tax assets and liabilities and other changes related to the valuation of assets acquired and liabilities assumed.
The goodwill is attributable to expected synergies and expanded market opportunities from combining the Company's operations with those of the Automation Solutions business. Goodwill was deductible for tax purposes.
The intangible assets related to definite-lived customer relationships, trademarks and technology and are amortized over their estimated useful lives, which had estimated weighted-average useful lives of 15 years, 10 years and 12 years, respectively, at acquisition.

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(5) Goodwill and Intangible Assets
Goodwill
The excess of purchase price over estimated fair value of net assets acquired is assigned to goodwill.
In the fourth quarter of fiscal 2021, the Company recorded goodwill impairment of $33.0 million in its global industrial motors reporting unit. The global industrial motors reporting unit had goodwill of $80.1 million as of January 1, 2022 and is included in our Industrial Systems segment. Some of the key considerations used in the impairment testing included (i) market pricing of guideline publicly traded companies (ii) cost of capital, including the risk-free interest rate, and (iii) recent historical and projected operating results of the subject reporting unit. There is inherent uncertainty included in the assumptions used in goodwill impairment testing. A change to any of the assumptions could lead to a future impairment that could be material.

The following information presents changes to goodwill during the periods indicated (in millions):
TotalCommercial Systems Industrial Systems Climate SolutionsMotion Control Solutions
Balance as of December 28, 2019$1,501.3 $426.6 $170.8 $331.2 $572.7 
Less: Impairment Charges(10.5)— (10.5)— — 
Translation and Other27.4 6.7 3.4 (0.4)17.7 
Balance as of January 2, 2021$1,518.2 $433.3 $163.7 $330.8 $590.4 
Impairment Charge(33.0)— (33.0)— — 
Acquisitions2,576.8 — — — 2,576.8 
Translation and Other(22.8)(4.4)(1.9)(0.3)(16.2)
Balance as of January 1, 2022$4,039.2 $428.9 $128.8 $330.5 $3,151.0 
Cumulative Goodwill Impairment Charges$328.7 $183.2 $105.1 $17.2 $23.2 

Intangible Assets
Intangible assets consist of the following (in millions):
Weighted Average Amortization Period (Years)January 2, 2021AcquisitionsTranslation AdjustmentsJanuary 1, 2022
Customer Relationships16$708.6 $1,643.0 $(16.2)$2,335.4 
Technology13146.3 105.0 (1.2)250.1 
Trademarks10160.5 243.0 (3.5)400.0 
Patent and Engineering Drawings516.6 — — 16.6 
Total Gross Intangibles$1,032.0 $1,991.0 $(20.9)$3,002.1 
Accumulated amortization of intangible assets consists of the following:
January 2, 2021AmortizationTranslation AdjustmentsJanuary 1, 2022
Customer Relationships$349.4 $60.7 $(5.1)$405.0 
Technology108.0 6.5 (0.4)114.1 
Trademarks27.7 10.2 (0.7)37.2 
Patent and Engineering Drawings16.6 — — 16.6 
Total Accumulated Amortization$501.7 $77.4 $(6.2)$572.9 
Intangible Assets, Net of Amortization$530.3 $2,429.2 

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While the Company believes its customer relationships are long-term in nature, the Company's contractual customer relationships are generally short-term. Useful lives are established at acquisition based on historical attrition rates.
Amortization expense was $77.4 million in fiscal 2021, $47.3 million in fiscal 2020 and $50.3 million in fiscal 2019. Amortization expense does not include any impairment recognized during the respective periods. The Company recognized $4.9 million of customer relationships intangible asset impairment related to the transfer of assets to held for sale during the first quarter of 2019.

The following table presents estimated future amortization expense (in millions):
Estimated Amortization
Year
2022$187.0 
2023187.0 
2024186.3 
2025184.2 
2026180.7 

(6) Segment Information
The Company's four operating segments are: Commercial Systems, Industrial Systems, Climate Solutions and Motion Control Solutions.
Commercial Systems segment designs and produces fractional to approximately 5 horsepower AC and DC motors, electronic variable speed controls, fans, and blowers for commercial applications. These products serve markets including commercial building ventilation and HVAC, pool and spa, irrigation, dewatering, agriculture, and general commercial equipment.
Industrial Systems segment designs and produces integral motors, automatic transfer switches, alternators and switchgear for industrial applications, along with aftermarket parts and kits to support such products. These products serve markets including agriculture, marine, mining, oil and gas, food and beverage, data centers, healthcare, prime and standby power, and general industrial equipment.
Climate Solutions segment designs and produces small motors, electronic variable speed controls and air moving solutions serving markets including residential and light commercial HVAC, water heaters and commercial refrigeration.
Motion Control Solutions segment designs, produces and services mounted and unmounted bearings, conveyor products, conveying automation solutions, couplings, mechanical power transmission drives and components, gearboxes and gear motors, aerospace components, special components products and industrial powertrain components and solutions serving a broad range of markets including food and beverage, bulk handling, eCommerce/warehouse distribution, energy, aerospace and general industrial.
The effect of the change in accounting policy related to LIFO as discussed in Note 3 for fiscal 2020 and 2019 on a per quarter basis is as follows (in millions):

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Commercial Systems
2019 Fiscal Quarter20192020 Fiscal Quarter
1st2nd3rd4thTotal1st2nd3rd
Gross Profit As Reported$65.5 $65.2 $53.6 $48.6 $232.9 $50.7 $42.3 $61.4 
Adjustment for Change in Accounting Principle1.6 (1.2)0.3 3.0 3.7 (0.4)— (0.7)
Gross Profit Adjusted for Change in Accounting Principle$67.1 $64.0 $53.9 $51.6 $236.6 $50.4 $42.3 $60.7 
Income from Operations as Adjusted for Change in Accounting Principle$59.4 $19.6 $16.9 $10.9 $106.8 $12.1 $6.2 $24.6 
Industrial Systems
2019 Fiscal Quarter20192020 Fiscal Quarter
1st2nd3rd4thTotal1st2nd3rd
Gross Profit As Reported$23.9 $27.8 $23.7 $24.0 $99.3 $22.6 $24.9 $31.2 
Adjustment for Change in Accounting Principle(1.6)1.2 (0.3)(3.0)(3.7)0.4 — 0.7 
Gross Profit Adjusted for Change in Accounting Principle$22.3 $29.0 $23.4 $21.0 $95.6 $23.0 $24.8 $31.9 
Income (Loss) from Operations as Adjusted for Change in Accounting Principle$(5.9)$(0.1)$(2.6)$(4.4)$(13.0)$(0.1)$3.2 $7.3 

The Company evaluates performance based on the segment's income from operations. Corporate costs have been allocated to each segment based on the net sales of each segment. The reported external net sales of each segment are from external customers.
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The following sets forth certain financial information attributable to the Company's operating segments for fiscal 2021, fiscal 2020 and fiscal 2019, respectively (in millions):
Commercial SystemsIndustrial SystemsClimate SolutionsMotion Control SolutionsEliminationsTotal
Fiscal 2021
External Sales$1,032.1 $576.3 $1,030.6 $1,171.3 $— $3,810.3 
Intersegment Sales88.7 26.6 19.1 4.1 (138.5)— 
  Total Sales1,120.8 602.9 1,049.7 1,175.4 (138.5)3,810.3 
Gross Profit262.4 106.9 305.1 411.3 — 1,085.7 
Operating Expenses161.1 88.0 115.5 350.1 — 714.7 
Goodwill Impairment— 33.0 — — — 33.0 
Asset Impairments1.8 — 0.5 3.3 — 5.6 
Income (Loss) from Operations99.5 (14.1)189.1 57.9 — 332.4 
Depreciation and Amortization29.9 23.2 16.5 101.0 — 170.6 
Capital Expenditures17.8 9.5 11.7 15.5 — 54.5 
Fiscal 2020
External Sales$820.2 $528.8 $846.8 $711.2 $— $2,907.0 
Intersegment Sales62.5 27.7 18.8 2.5 (111.5)— 
  Total Sales882.7 556.5 865.6 713.7 (111.5)2,907.0 
Gross Profit212.7 97.8 246.8 251.4 — 808.7 
Operating Expenses144.9 91.6 115.5 160.9 — 512.9 
Goodwill Impairment — 10.5 — — — 10.5 
Gain on Sale of Business(0.1)— — — — (0.1)
Asset Impairments2.8 0.2 1.3 1.0 — 5.3 
Income (Loss) from Operations65.1 (4.5)130.0 89.5 — 280.1 
Depreciation and Amortization32.6 23.9 19.6 55.3 — 131.4 
Capital Expenditures15.3 8.1 12.1 12.0 — 47.5 
Fiscal 2019
External Sales$905.3 $575.4 $968.5 $788.8 $— $3,238.0 
Intersegment Sales46.9 35.9 17.4 4.3 (104.5)— 
  Total Sales952.2 611.3 985.9 793.1 (104.5)3,238.0 
Gross Profit236.6 95.6 269.8 258.7 — 860.7 
Operating Expenses162.4 107.6 110.6 163.7 — 544.3 
Asset Impairments 6.7 0.9 1.3 1.1 — 10.0 
(Gain) Loss on Sale of Businesses(39.3)0.1 (6.0)0.5 — (44.7)
Income (Loss) from Operations106.8 (13.0)163.9 93.4 — 351.1 
Depreciation and Amortization34.6 24.4 19.8 55.7 — 134.5 
Capital Expenditures29.9 21.0 23.3 18.2 — 92.4 

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The following table presents identifiable assets information attributable to the Company's operating segments. The table presents identifiable assets information as of January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021 (in millions):
Commercial SystemsIndustrial SystemsClimate SolutionsMotion Control SolutionsTotal
Identifiable Assets as of January 1, 2022$1,229.1 $832.6 $971.6 $7,248.3 $10,281.6 
Identifiable Assets as of January 2, 20211,319.6 837.5 890.4 1,541.5 4,589.0 

The following sets forth net sales by country in which the Company operates for fiscal 2021, fiscal 2020 and fiscal 2019, respectively (in millions):
Net Sales
202120202019
United States$2,364.7 $1,885.1 $2,071.9 
Rest of the World1,445.6 1,021.9 1,166.1 
Total$3,810.3 $2,907.0 $3,238.0 

U.S. net sales for fiscal 2021, fiscal 2020 and fiscal 2019 represented 62.1%, 64.8% and 64.0% of total net sales, respectively. No individual foreign country represented a material portion of total net sales for any of the years presented.

The following sets forth net property, plant and equipment by country in which the Company operates for fiscal 2021 and fiscal 2020, respectively (in millions):
Long-lived Assets
20212020
United States$363.6 $200.5 
Mexico204.6 141.2 
China91.2 85.7 
Rest of the World249.1 128.1 
Total$908.5 $555.5 

No other individual foreign country represented a material portion of net property, plant and equipment for any of the years presented.

(7) Debt and Bank Credit Facilities
The Company's indebtedness as of January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021 was as follows (in millions):
January 1, 2022January 2, 2021
Term Facility$620.0 $670.0 
Senior Notes— 400.0 
Land Term Facility486.8 — 
Multicurrency Revolving Facility736.7 — 
Other78.7 4.6 
Less: Debt Issuance Costs(3.7)(3.2)
Total1,918.5 1,071.4 
Less: Current Maturities4.9 231.0 
Non-Current Portion$1,913.6 $840.4 

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Credit Agreement

On March 17, 2021, the Company entered into an amendment (the "First Amendment") with the Company's lenders to the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated August 27, 2018 (the “Credit Agreement”) with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent and the lenders named therein. The First Amendment amended the Credit Agreement to, among other things, (i) permit the consummation of the Rexnord Transaction, (ii) permit the incurrence of indebtedness to finance the special dividend that was paid in connection with the Rexnord Transaction (the "Special Dividend"), and (iii) provide an increase of $250.0 million in the aggregate principal amount of the revolving commitments under the Credit Agreement. The amendment is subject to customary and market provisions.

Prior to the First Amendment, the Credit Agreement provided for a (i) 5-year unsecured term loan facility in the principal amount of $900.0 million (the “Term Facility”) and (ii) a 5-year unsecured multicurrency revolving facility in the principal amount of $500.0 million (increased as of the effectiveness of the First Amendment to $750.0 million) (the “Multicurrency Revolving Facility”), including a $50.0 million letter of credit sub facility, available for general corporate purposes. On November 4, 2021, the Company exercised an option to expand the size of the Multicurrency Revolving Facility commitments under the Credit Agreement by $250.0 million. After the exercise, the Multicurrency Revolving Facility commitment totaled $1.0 billion. Borrowings under the Credit Agreement bear interest at floating rates based upon indices determined by the currency of the borrowing, plus an applicable margin determined by reference to the Company's consolidated funded debt to consolidated EBITDA ratio or at an alternative base rate.

The Term Facility was drawn in full on August 27, 2018 with the proceeds settling the amounts owed under the Prior Term Facility and Prior Multicurrency Revolving Facility. The Term Facility requires quarterly amortization at a rate starting at 5.0% per annum, increasing to 7.5% per annum after three years and further increasing to 10.0% per annum for the last years of the Term Facility, unless previously prepaid. The weighted average interest rate on the Term Facility was 1.2% and 2.0% for the fiscal years ended January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021, respectively. The Credit Agreement requires the Company to prepay the loans under the Term Facility with 100% of the net cash proceeds received from specified asset sales and borrowed money indebtedness, subject to certain exceptions. The Company repaid $50.0 million under the Term Facility in fiscal 2021 and 2020, respectively.

As of January 1, 2022 the Company had $736.7 million of borrowings under the Multicurrency Revolving Facility, $0.1 million of standby letters of credit and $263.2 million of available borrowing capacity. The average daily balance in borrowings under the Multicurrency Revolving Facility was $163.6 million and $150.4 million, and the weighted average interest rate on the Multicurrency Revolving Facility was 1.2% and 1.9% for the fiscal years ended January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021, respectively. The Company pays a non-use fee on the aggregate unused amount of the Multicurrency Revolving Facility at a rate determined by reference to its consolidated funded debt to consolidated EBITDA ratio.

Senior Notes
In anticipation of the closing of the Rexnord Transaction, on September 30, 2021, the Company redeemed in full its senior notes due 2023 under the note purchase agreement, dated July 14, 2011 (as amended), by and between the Company and the purchasers thereto (the "Note Purchase Agreement"). Inclusive of principal, interest and the applicable make-whole payment, the total amount paid by the Company to redeem such senior notes was approximately $184.0 million. The make-whole payment of $12.7 million was included in interest expense. The Company funded this amount with a combination of cash on hand and drawings under the Credit Agreement. The Company also redeemed its senior notes due July 2021 under the Note Purchase Agreement with a combination cash on hand and drawings under the Multicurrency Revolving Facility.


Compliance with Financial Covenants

The Credit Agreement requires the Company to meet specified financial ratios and to satisfy certain financial condition tests. The Company was in compliance with all financial covenants contained in the Credit Agreement as of January 1, 2022.

Other Notes Payable

As of January 1, 2022, other notes payable of $78.7 million were outstanding with a weighted average interest rate of 5.2%. As of January 2, 2021, other notes payable of $4.6 million were outstanding with a weighted average interest rate of 4.9%. See Note 9 for more information on the Company's finance leases.

Financing Arrangements Related to Rexnord Transaction

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In connection with the Rexnord Transaction, on February 15, 2021, the Company entered into a debt commitment letter (the “Bridge Commitment Letter”) and related fee letters with Barclays Bank PLC (“Barclays”), pursuant to which, and subject to the terms and conditions set forth therein, Barclays committed to provide approximately $2.1 billion in an aggregate principal amount of senior bridge loans under a 364-day senior bridge loan credit facility (the “Bridge Facility”). As the Rexnord Transaction was consummated and the payments of amounts in connection therewith occurred without the use of the Bridge Facility, the commitments under the Bridge Commitment Letter were terminated in connection with the closing of the Rexnord Transaction.

In connection with the Rexnord Transaction, on May 14, 2021, Land Newco, Inc. ("Land") entered into a Credit Agreement with JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Administrative Agent and the lenders named therein (the "Land Credit Agreement"), providing for a delayed draw term loan facility with commitments thereunder in an aggregate principal amount of $487.0 million, maturing on August 25, 2023 (the "Land Term Facility"). Upon the consummation the Rexnord Transaction, the indebtedness contemplated by the Land Commitment Letter and Land Term Facility became indebtedness of a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company and, in connection therewith, the Land Credit Agreement was amended and restated (the "A&R Land Credit Agreement") to add the Company as a party to the A&R Land Credit Agreement and as a guarantor of the obligations of Land thereunder. The subsidiaries of the Company that provided a guaranty of the obligations under the Credit Agreement also entered into a subsidiary guaranty agreement with respect to the obligations under the A&R Land Credit Agreement. Additionally, Land and any subsidiary of Land that provided a guaranty under the Land Term Facility have also entered into the subsidiary guaranty agreement with respect to the Credit Agreement. The loans under the Land Term Facility will bear interest at floating rates based upon a reserve adjusted LIBOR rate or, at the Company's election, an alternate base rate plus, in each case an applicable margin determined by reference to the Company's consolidated funded debt (net of certain cash and cash equivalents) to EBITDA ratio. Immediately following the completion of the Rexnord Transaction, the Company had approximately $1.5 billion outstanding under the Credit Agreement, comprised of approximately $380.0 million outstanding under the revolving commitments, approximately $620.0 million outstanding under the term loan commitments under the Credit Agreement, and $486.0 million under the A&R Land Credit Agreement. The A&R Land Credit Agreement contains customary events of default and financial and other covenants, including (i) a maximum leverage ratio (defined as, with certain adjustments, the ratio of the Company’s consolidated funded debt to EBITDA) as of the last day of any fiscal quarter of 4.00 to 1.00; and (ii) a minimum interest coverage ratio (defined as, with certain adjustments, the ratio of EBITDA to the Company’s consolidated cash interest expense) of 3.00 to 1.00 as of the last day of any fiscal quarter.

As of January 1, 2022, the Company had $486.8 million of borrowings under the Land Term Facility. The weighted average interest rate on the Land Term Facility was 1.3% during the fiscal year ended January 1, 2022.

Other Disclosures

Based on rates for instruments with comparable maturities and credit quality, which are classified as Level 2 inputs (see also Note 14), the approximate fair value of the Company's total debt was $1,918.5 million and $1,085.8 million as of January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021, respectively.

Maturities of long-term debt, excluding debt issuance costs, are as follows (in millions):
YearAmount of Maturity
2022$4.9 
20231,846.9 
20243.6 
20253.8 
20264.0 
Thereafter59.0 
Total$1,922.2 

(8) Retirement and Post-Retirement Health Care Plans
Retirement Plans
The Company sponsors pension and other post-retirement benefit plans for certain associates. Most of the Company's associates are accumulating retirement income benefits through defined contribution plans. The majority of Company's defined benefit pension plans covering the Company's domestic associates have been closed to new associates and frozen for existing associates, however certain employees represented by collective bargaining continue to earn benefits. Certain foreign associates
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are covered by government sponsored plans in the countries in which they are employed. The defined contribution plans provide for Company contributions based, depending on the plan, upon one or more of participant contributions, service and profits. Company contributions to domestic defined contribution plans totaled $9.8 million, $7.6 million and $8.9 million in fiscal 2021, fiscal 2020 and fiscal 2019, respectively. Company contributions to non-US defined contribution plans were $5.7 million, $5.5 million and $10.6 million in fiscal 2021, fiscal 2020 and fiscal 2019, respectively.
Benefits provided under defined benefit pension plans are based, depending on the plan, on associates' average earnings and years of credited service, or a benefit multiplier times years of service. Funding of these qualified defined benefit pension plans is in accordance with federal laws and regulations. The actuarial valuation measurement date for pension plans is the calendar year end of each year.
The Company's target allocation, target return and actual weighted-average asset allocation by asset category are as follows:

TargetActual Allocation
AllocationReturn20212020
Equity Investments37.7%
6.2 - 7.5%
35.7%72.4%
Fixed Income51.6%
2.5 - 5.8%
55.0%26.8%
Other10.7%
1.5% - 6.2%
9.3%0.8%
Total100.0%4.6%100.0%100.0%

In 2021, the Company's investment strategy shifted from achieving moderately aggressive growth to implementing a dynamic de-risking strategy designed to allow the plans to attain and/or maintain fully funded status levels while reducing volatility. Accordingly, allocation targets have been established to fit this strategy, with fixed income allocations increasing in response to increased funded ratio thresholds along a glidepath. The overall fixed income portfolio shall be invested in such a manner that its interest rate sensitivity correlates highly with that of the liabilities of the plans, and other assets classes are intended to provide additional return with associated higher levels of risk. The long-term rate of return assumptions consider historic returns and volatilities adjusted for changes in overall economic conditions that may affect future returns and a weighting of each investment class. Prior to 2021, the Company's investment strategy for its defined benefit pension plans is to achieve moderately aggressive growth, earning a long-term rate of return sufficient to allow the plans to reach fully funded status. The long-term rate of return assumptions consider historic returns and volatilities adjusted for changes in overall economic conditions that may affect future returns and a weighting of each investment class.

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The following table presents a reconciliation of the funded status of the defined benefit pension plans (in millions):
20212020
Change in Projected Benefit Obligation:
Obligation at Beginning of Period$298.4 $282.8 
Service Cost1.2 2.0 
Interest Cost7.5 8.0 
Actuarial (Gain) Loss(1.2)21.2 
Less: Benefits Paid19.7 15.9 
Settlements(1.9)— 
Foreign Currency Translation(3.0)0.3 
Acquisitions305.9 — 
Obligation at End of Period$587.2 $298.4 
Change in Fair Value of Plan Assets:
Fair Value of Plan Assets at Beginning of Period$230.2 $203.4 
Actual Return on Plan Assets33.7 33.7 
Employer Contributions5.7 8.5 
Less: Benefits Paid19.7 15.9 
Settlements(1.9)— 
Foreign Currency Translation(1.3)0.5 
Acquisitions232.2 — 
Fair Value of Plan Assets at End of Period$478.9 $230.2 
Funded Status$(108.3)$(68.2)
The net actuarial gain for fiscal 2021 is attributable to an increase in discount rates resulting in a gain of $11.4 million offset by $10.2 million of losses from census experience. The net actuarial losses for fiscal 2020 are attributable to a decrease in discount rates and census experience resulting in a loss of $24.1 million offset by $2.9 million of gains to the mortality assumption update.
In connection with the Rexnord Transaction, $305.9 million of plan benefit obligations and $232.2 million of plan assets included in the Rexnord PMC business were transferred to the Company on October 4, 2021. One of the international plans that transferred in connection with the Rexnord Transaction was in the process of winding down at the time of the merger. The plan was fully settled as expected and carried no additional income statement impact.

The funded status as of January 1, 2022 included domestic plans of $(61.6) million and international plans of $(46.7) million. The funded status as of January 2, 2021 included domestic plans of $(62.6) million and international plans of $(5.6) million.
Pension Assets
The Company classifies its investments into Level 1, which refers to securities valued using quoted prices from active markets for identical assets, Level 2, which refers to securities not traded on an active market but for which observable market inputs are readily available, and Level 3, which refers to securities valued based on significant unobservable inputs. Mutual funds are valued at the unadjusted quoted market prices for the securities. Real estate interest values are determined using model-based techniques that include relative value analysis and discounted cash flow techniques. Common collective trust funds are valued based on the net asset value (“NAV”) provided by the administrator of the fund as a practical expedient to estimate fair value. The NAV is based on the value of the underlying assets owned by the fund, minus its liabilities, and then divided by the number of shares outstanding. Investments in units of collective trust funds and short-term investment funds, comprised of cash and money market funds, are valued at their respective published market prices as reported by the funds daily. Certain international plans hold insurance contracts. The fair value of these contracts is calculated by projecting expected future cash flows from the contract and discounting them to present value based on current market rates. The contracts are included within Level 3 of the hierarchy as the assumptions used to project expected future cash flows are based on actuarial estimates and are unobservable.

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Pension assets by type and level are as follows (in millions):
January 1, 2022
TotalLevel 1Level 2Level 3
Cash and Cash Equivalents$5.3 $5.3 $— $— 
Mutual Funds:
US Equity Funds1.9 1.9 — — 
International Equity Funds3.9 3.9 — — 
Fixed Income Funds2.9 2.9 — — 
Other2.0 2.0 — — 
Insurance Contracts34.0 — — 34.0 
$50.0 $16.0 $— $34.0 
Investments Measured at Net Asset Value428.9 
Total$478.9 
January 2, 2021
TotalLevel 1Level 2Level 3
Cash and Cash Equivalents$1.3 $1.3 $— $— 
Mutual Funds:
US Equity Funds1.6 1.6 — — 
International Equity Funds3.5 3.5 — — 
Fixed Income Funds3.0 3.0 — — 
 Other1.8 1.8 — — 
Real Estate Fund10.0 — — 10.0 
$21.2 $11.2 $— $10.0 
Investments Measured at Net Asset Value209.0 
Total$230.2 

The following table sets forth additional disclosures for the fair value measurement of the fair value of pension plan assets that calculate fair value based on NAV per share practical expedient as of January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021 (in millions):
20212021
Common Collective Trust Funds$428.9 $209.0 

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The 2021 common collective trust funds are investments in the Mercer US Small/Midcap Equity Portfolio, the Mercer Non-US Core Equity Portfolio, the Mercer Global Low Volatility Equity Portfolio, the Mercer US Large Cap Passive Equity Portfolio, the Mercer Long Duration Passive Fixed Income Portfolio, the Mercer Emerging Markets Equity Portfolio, the Mercer Active Long Corporate Fixed Income Portfolio, the Mercer Opportunistic Fixed Income Portfolio, the Mercer Long Strips Fixed Income Portfolio, the Mercer Active Intermediate Credit Portfolio, and the Mercer Core Real Estate Portfolio. The Mercer US Small/Midcap Equity Portfolio seeks to provide long term total returns comprised primarily of capital appreciation by investing in equity securities issued by small to medium capitalization US companies. The Mercer Non-US Core Equity Portfolio seeks to provide long term total return, which includes capital appreciation and income, by investing in equity securities of non-US companies. The Mercer Global Low Volatility Equity Portfolio seeks to provide long term total return, which includes capital appreciation and income, by investing in equity securities of US and foreign issuers. The Mercer US Large Cap Passive Equity Portfolio seeks to approximate, as closely as possible, the performance of the S&P 500 Index over the long term by investing in the equity securities comprising the index in approximately the same proportions as they are represented in the index. The Mercer Long Duration Passive Fixed Income Portfolio seeks to approximate as closely as practicable, before expenses, the performance of the Bloomberg Barclays Capital US Long Government Bond Index over the long term by investing in securities that comprise the index in the same proportions as they are represented in the index. The Mercer Emerging Markets Equity Portfolio seeks to provide long term total return, which includes capital appreciation and income, by investing equity securities of companies that are located in emerging markets, other investments that are tied economically to emerging markets, as well as in American, European and Global Depository Receipts. The Mercer Active Long Corporate Fixed Income Portfolio seeks to maximize long term total return by investing on high quality US corporate bonds. The Mercer Opportunistic Fixed Income Portfolio seeks to provide long term total return, which includes capital appreciation and income, by investing in high yield bonds and emerging markets debt. The Mercer Long Strips Fixed Income Portfolio seeks to extend the duration of plan assets by investing in US Treasury STRIPS with a maturity of greater than 20 years. The Mercer Active Intermediate Credit Portfolio seeks to maximize long-term total return. The Mercer Core Real Estate Portfolio seeks to earn attractive risk-adjusted returns on a diversified portfolio of private real estate, by systematically favoring the market segments and opportunities believed to offer the most attractive relative value at a given point in time. The 2021 common collective trust funds are available for immediate redemption.
The 2020 common collective trust funds are investments in the Mercer US Small/Midcap Equity Portfolio, the Mercer US Core Fixed Income Portfolio, the Mercer Non-US Core Equity Portfolio, the Mercer Global Low Volatility Equity Portfolio, the Mercer US Large Cap Passive Equity Portfolio, the Mercer Long Duration Passive Fixed Income Portfolio, the Mercer Emerging Markets Equity Portfolio, the Mercer Active Long Corporate Fixed Income Portfolio, and the Mercer Opportunistic Fixed Income Portfolio. The Mercer US Small/Midcap Equity Portfolio seeks to provide long term total returns comprised primarily of capital appreciation by investing in equity securities issued by small to medium capitalization US companies. The Mercer US Core Fixed Income Portfolio seeks to provide total return, consisting of both current income and capital appreciation, by investing in fixed income securities. The Mercer Non-US Core Equity Portfolio seeks to provide long term total return, which includes capital appreciation and income, by investing in equity securities of non-US companies. The Mercer Global Low Volatility Equity Portfolio seeks to provide long term total return, which includes capital appreciation and income, by investing in equity securities of US and foreign issuers. The Mercer US Large Cap Passive Equity Portfolio seeks to approximate, as closely as possible, the performance of the S&P 500 Index over the long term by investing in the equity securities comprising the index in approximately the same proportions as they are represented in the index. The Mercer Long Duration Passive Fixed Income Portfolio seeks to approximate as closely as practicable, before expenses, the performance of the Bloomberg Barclays Capital US Long Government Bond Index over the long term by investing in securities that comprise the index in the same proportions as they are represented in the index. The Mercer Emerging Markets Equity Portfolio seeks to provide long term total return, which includes capital appreciation and income, by investing equity securities of companies that are located in emerging markets, other investments that are tied economically to emerging markets, as well as in American, European and Global Depository Receipts. The Mercer Active Long Corporate Fixed Income Portfolio seeks to maximize long term total return by investing on high quality US corporate bonds. The Mercer Opportunistic Fixed Income Portfolio seeks to provide long term total return, which includes capital appreciation and income, by investing in high yield bonds and emerging markets debt. The 2020 common collective trust funds are available for immediate redemption.

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The table below sets forth a summary of changes in the Company's Level 3 assets in its pension plan investments as of January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021 (in millions):
20212020
Real Estate FundInsurance ContractsTotalReal Estate Fund
Beginning Balance$10.0 $— $10.0 $9.9 
Acquisition— 33.6 33.6 — 
Net Sales(11.6)— (11.6)— 
Net Gains 1.6 1.4 3.0 0.1 
Translation— (1.0)(1.0)— 
Ending Balance$— $34.0 $34.0 $10.0 

Funded Status and Expense

The Company recognized the funded status of its defined benefit pension plans on the Consolidated Balance Sheets as follows (in millions):
20212020
Other Noncurrent Assets$0.8 $— 
Accrued Compensation and Benefits(4.9)(4.1)
Pension and Other Post Retirement Benefits(104.2)(64.1)
Total$(108.3)$(68.2)
Amounts Recognized in Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss
Net Actuarial Gain$20.5 $43.7 
Prior Service Cost0.7 0.9 
Total$21.2 $44.6 

The accumulated benefit obligation for all defined benefit pension plans was $580.9 million and $292.8 million as of January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021, respectively.

The accumulated benefit obligation exceeded plan assets for all pension plans as of January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021.

The following weighted average assumptions were used to determine the projected benefit obligation as of January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021, respectively:
20212020
Discount Rate2.7%2.6%

The objective of the discount rate assumption is to reflect the rate at which the pension benefits could be effectively settled. In making the determination, the Company takes into account the timing and amount of benefits that would be available under the plans. The methodology for selecting the discount rate was to match the plan's cash flows to that of a theoretical bond portfolio yield curve.

Certain of the Company's defined benefit pension plan obligations are based on years of service rather than on projected compensation percentage increases. For those plans that use compensation increases in the calculation of benefit obligations and net periodic pension cost, the Company used an assumed rate of compensation increase of 3.0% for the fiscal years ended January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021.
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Net periodic pension benefit costs and the net actuarial loss and prior service cost recognized in OCI for the defined benefit pension plans were as follows (in millions):
202120202019
Service Cost$1.2 $2.0 $6.2 
Interest Cost7.5 8.0 10.6 
Expected Return on Plan Assets(14.5)(13.3)(12.5)
Amortization of Net Actuarial Loss3.0 1.9 2.2 
Amortization of Prior Service Cost0.2 0.3 0.3 
Net Periodic Benefit Cost$(2.6)$(1.1)$6.8 
Change in Obligations Recognized in OCI, Net of Tax
    Prior Service Cost$0.1 $0.2 $0.2 
    Net Actuarial Loss2.4 1.5 1.7 
Total Recognized in OCI$2.5 $1.7 $1.9 

As permitted under relevant accounting guidance, the amortization of any prior service cost is determined using a straight-line amortization of the cost over the average remaining service period of associates expected to receive benefits under the plans.

The following weighted average assumptions were used to determine net periodic pension cost for fiscal years 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
202120202019
Discount Rate2.6%3.3%4.4%
Expected Long-Term Rate of Return on Assets6.2%7.0%7.0%

The Company made contributions to its defined benefit plan of $5.7 million and $8.5 million for the fiscal years ended January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021, respectively.

The Company estimates that in fiscal 2022 it will make contributions in the amount of $6.7 million to fund its defined benefit pension plans.

The following pension benefit payments, which reflect expected future service, as appropriate, are expected to be paid (in millions):
YearExpected Payments
2022$34.8 
202333.7 
202433.8 
202534.1 
202634.1 
2027-2030163.8 

Post-Retirement Health Care Plan

In connection with the acquisition of the Power Transmission Solutions business from Emerson Electric Co. in 2015, the Company established an unfunded post-retirement health care plan for certain domestic retirees and their dependents.

In connection with the Rexnord Transaction, a post-retirement medical plan liability included in the Rexnord PMC business of $2.7 million was transferred to the Company on October 4, 2021.

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The following table presents a reconciliation of the accumulated benefit obligation of the post-retirement health care plan (in millions):
Change in Accumulated Post Retirement Benefit Obligation20212020
Obligation at Beginning of Period$5.9 $5.9 
Interest Cost0.1 0.2 
Actuarial (Gain) Loss(0.2)0.1 
Curtailment Loss0.2 — 
Participant Contributions0.2 0.2 
Less: Benefits Paid0.5 0.5 
Acquisitions 2.7 — 
Obligation at End of Period$8.4 $5.9 

The Company recognized the funded status of its post-retirement health care plan on the balance sheet as follows (in millions):
20212020
Accrued Compensation and Benefits$0.9 $0.5 
Pension and Other Post Retirement Benefits7.5 5.4 
Total$8.4 $5.9 
Amounts Recognized in Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss
Net Actuarial Gain$(2.7)$(3.2)
Prior Service Cost— (0.9)
Total$(2.7)$(4.1)

The following assumptions were used to determine the accumulated post-retirement benefit obligation as of January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021, respectively.
20212020
Discount Rate2.7%2.5%

Net periodic post-retirement health care benefit costs for the post-retirement health care plan were as follows (in millions):
202120202019
Interest Cost$0.1 $0.2 $0.3 
Amortization of Net Actuarial Gain(0.6)(0.6)(0.4)
Amortization of Prior Service Cost(0.9)(0.9)(0.1)
Curtailment Gain— — (0.5)
Net Periodic Post-Retirement Health Care Benefit Cost$(1.4)$(1.3)$(0.7)
Change in Obligations Recognized in OCI, Net of Tax
    Prior Service Gain$(0.7)$(0.7)$(0.1)
    Net Actuarial Gain(0.4)(0.5)(0.3)
Total Recognized in OCI$(1.1)$(1.2)$(0.4)

The following assumptions were used to determine net periodic post-retirement health care benefit cost for fiscal years 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
202120202019
Discount Rate4.7%3.2%4.2%

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The health care cost trend rate for fiscal 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively, is 5.7%, 5.8% and 6.8% for pre-65 participants and 5.7%, 5.6% and 5.1% for post-65 participants, decreasing to 4.5% for all years in fiscal 2031, the year that the health care cost trend rate reaches the assumed ultimate rate.

The Company contributed $0.3 million and $0.3 million to the post-retirement health care plan in fiscal 2021 and fiscal 2020, respectively. The Company estimates that in fiscal 2022 it will make contributions of $0.9 million to the post-retirement health care plan.

The following post-retirement benefit payments, which reflect expected future service, as appropriate, are expected to be paid (in millions):
YearExpected Payments
2022$0.9 
20230.8 
20240.7 
20250.6 
20260.6 
2027-20302.4 

(9) Leases
The Company leases certain manufacturing facilities, warehouses/distribution centers, office space, machinery, equipment, IT assets, and vehicles. If the contract provides the Company the right to substantially all of the economic benefits from the use of the identified asset and the right to direct the use of the identified asset, it is considered to be or contain a lease. Right-of-use ("ROU") assets and lease liabilities are recognized at lease commencement date based on the present value of the future lease payments over the expected lease term.

As most of the Company's leases do not provide an implicit rate, the Company uses its incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at commencement date in determining the present value of future payments. The incremental borrowing rate is estimated based upon the sovereign treasury rate for the currency in which the lease liability is denominated when the Company takes possession of the leased asset, adjusted for various factors, such as term and internal credit spread. The ROU asset also includes any lease payments made and excludes lease incentive and initial direct costs incurred.

Leases entered into may include one or more options to renew. The renewal terms can extend the lease term from one to twenty-five years. The exercise of lease renewal options is at the Company's sole discretion. Renewal option periods are included in the measurement of the ROU asset and lease liability when the exercise is reasonably certain to occur. Some leases include options to terminate the lease upon breach of contract and are remeasured at that point in time.

The depreciable life of leased assets and leasehold improvements are limited by the expected lease term, unless there is a transfer of title or purchase option reasonably certain of exercise.

Some of the Company's lease agreements include rental payments adjusted periodically for inflation or are based on an index rate. These increases are reflected as variable lease payments and are included in the measurement of the ROU asset and lease liability. The Company's lease agreements do not contain any material residual value guarantees or material restrictive covenants.

Operating leases are included in the following asset and liability accounts on the Company's Consolidated Balance Sheet: Operating Lease Assets, Current Operating Lease Liabilities and Noncurrent Operating Lease Liabilities. ROU assets and liabilities arising from finance leases are included in the following asset and liability accounts on the Company's Consolidated Balance Sheet: Net Property, Plant and Equipment, Current Maturities of Long-Term Debt and Long-Term Debt.

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Short-term and variable lease expense was immaterial. The components of lease expense were as follows (in millions):
202120202019
Operating Lease Cost$33.7 $30.9 $31.1 
Finance Lease Cost:
   Amortization of ROU Assets1.3 0.3 0.3 
   Interest on Lease Liabilities1.1 0.2 0.2 
Total Lease Expense$36.1 $31.4 $31.6 

Maturity of lease liabilities as of January 1, 2022 were as follows (in millions):
Operating LeasesFinance LeasesTotal
2022$34.8 $6.8 $41.6 
202326.7 6.9 33.6 
202420.7 7.0 27.7 
202516.2 7.0 23.2 
202613.4 7.0 20.4 
Thereafter36.0 83.0 119.0 
Total Lease Payments$147.8 $117.7 $265.5 
Less: Interest(31.1)(41.5)(72.6)
Present Value of Lease Liabilities$116.7 $76.2 $192.9 



Other information related to leases was as follows (in millions):
Supplemental Cash Flows Information202120202019
Cash Paid for Amounts Included in the Measurement of Lease Liabilities:
  Operating Cash Flows from Operating Leases$32.6 $29.7 $30.6 
  Operating Cash Flows from Finance Leases1.1 0.3 0.3 
  Financing Cash Flows from Finance Leases1.0 0.2 0.2 
Leased Assets Obtained in Exchange for New Finance Lease Liabilities73.8 — — 
Leased Assets Obtained in Exchange for New Operating Lease Liabilities65.4 24.3 13.6 
Weighted Average Remaining Lease Term
Operating Leases6.0 years5.2 years4.7 years
Finance Leases17.8 years7.3 years8.3 years
Weighted Average Discount Rate
Operating Leases7.9 %8.2 %8.8 %
Finance Leases5.2 %5.9 %5.9 %
The Company had no significant operating or finance leases that had not yet commenced nor entered into as of January 1, 2022.


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(10) Shareholders' Equity
Common Stock

At a meeting of the Board of Directors on July 24, 2018, the Company's Board of Directors approved the extinguishment of the existing $3.0 million share repurchase program that was approved in November 2013 and replaced it with an authorization to repurchase up to $250.0 million of shares. At a meeting of the Board of Directors on October 25, 2019, the July 2018 repurchase authorization was extinguished and replaced with an authorization to purchase up to $250.0 million of shares. At a meeting of the Board of Directors on October 26, 2021, the Company's Board of Directors approved the authorization to purchase up to $500.0 million of shares under the Company's share repurchase program. The new authorization has no expiration date. In fiscal 2021, the Company acquired and retired 156,184 shares of its common stock at an average cost of $165.05 per share for a total cost of $25.8 million under the October 26, 2021 repurchase authorization. In fiscal 2020, the Company acquired and retired 315,072 shares of its common stock at an average cost of $79.38 per share for a total cost of $25.0 million under the October 25, 2019 repurchase authorization. In fiscal 2019, the Company acquired and retired under the July 2018 repurchase authorization 2,013,782 shares of its common stock at an average cost of $74.52 per share for a total cost of $150.1 million. Also in fiscal 2019, the Company acquired and retired 180,763 shares of its common stock at an average cost of $83.01 per share for a total cost of $15.0 million under the October 25, 2019 repurchase authorization.

The existing share repurchase program remains authorized by the Company's Board of Directors. There is approximately $434.2 million in common stock available for repurchase under the October 26, 2021 repurchase authorization as of January 1, 2022.

Share-Based Compensation

The Company recognized approximately $24.9 million, $9.2 million and $13.0 million in share-based compensation expense in fiscal years 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively. The total income tax benefit recognized in the Consolidated Statements of Income for share-based compensation expense was $6.0 million, $2.2 million and $3.1 million in fiscal years 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively. The Company recognizes compensation expense on grants of share-based compensation awards on a straight-line basis over the vesting period of each award. The total fair value of shares and options vested was $26.1 million, $7.7 million and $23.0 million in fiscal years 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively. On October 10, 2018, the Company entered into a retirement agreement with the prior CEO resulting in the modification of the prior CEO's unvested awards. The Company expensed the modified awards over the modified service term. The modification increased the amount of unrecognized compensation cost and reduced the weighted average period in which the Company recognized compensation cost. On December 27, 2019, the Company entered into a retirement agreement with the COO resulting in the modification of certain of the COO's unvested awards. The Company recognized the modified award values over the modified service term. The modification increased the amount of unrecognized compensation cost and reduced the weighted average period in which the Company recognized the unrecognized compensation cost.

Total unrecognized compensation cost related to share-based compensation awards was approximately $30.6 million, net of estimated forfeitures, which the Company expects to recognize over a weighted average period of approximately 1.7 years as of January 1, 2022.

During 2018, the Company's shareholders approved the 2018 Equity Incentive Plan ("2018 Plan"). The 2018 Plan authorizes the issuance of 2.1 million shares of common stock, plus the number of shares reserved under the prior 2013 Equity Incentive Plan that are not the subject of outstanding awards for equity-based awards and terminates any further grants under prior equity plans. Approximately 2.7 million shares were available for future grant or payment under the 2018 Plans as of January 1, 2022.

Options and Stock Appreciation Rights

The Company uses several forms of share-based incentive awards including non-qualified stock options and stock settled stock appreciation rights (“SARs”). SARs are the right to receive stock in an amount equal to the appreciation in value of a share of stock over the base price per share. Shares granted prior to fiscal 2020 generally vest over five years on the anniversary date while shares granted in fiscal 2020 and after generally vest over three years on the anniversary date of the grant date. Generally all grants expire 10 years from the grant date. All grants are made at prices equal to the fair market value of the stock on the grant date. For fiscal years ended January 1, 2022, January 2, 2021 and December 28, 2019, expired and canceled shares were immaterial.

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The table below presents share-based compensation activity for the fiscal years ended 2021, 2020 and 2019 (in millions):
202120202019
Total Intrinsic Value of Share-Based Incentive Awards Exercised$11.3$6.7$11.7
Cash Received from Stock Option Exercises2.60.20.1
Income Tax Benefit from the Exercise of Stock Options2.7
Total Fair Value of Share-Based Incentive Awards Vested4.52.15.4

The weighted average assumptions used in the Company's Black-Scholes valuation related to grants for options and SARs were as follows:
202120202019
Per Share Weighted Average Fair Value of Grants$25.97$21.23$20.84
Risk-Free Interest Rate0.7%1.5%2.4%
Expected Life (Years)4.27.07.0
Expected Volatility34.1%25.2%25.0%
Expected Dividend Yield0.9%1.4%1.5%

The average risk-free interest rate is based on US Treasury security rates in effect as of the grant date. The expected dividend yield is based on the projected annual dividend as a percentage of the estimated market value of the Company's common stock as of the grant date. The Company estimated the expected volatility using a weighted average of daily historical volatility of the Company's stock price over the expected term of the award. The Company estimated the expected term using historical data.

Following is a summary of share-based incentive plan activity (options and SARs) for fiscal 2021:
Number of Shares Under Options and SARsSharesWeighted Average Exercise PriceWeighted Average Remaining Contractual Term (years)Aggregate Intrinsic Value (in millions)
Outstanding as of January 2, 2021577,509$79.35 
Granted(1)
438,68286.52 
Exercised(149,055)73.48 
Forfeited(51,180)92.07 
Expired(4,050)72.29 
Outstanding as of January 1, 2022811,906$81.50 6.9$72.0 
Exercisable as of January 1, 2022402,807$64.90 5.4$42.4 
(1) Includes 298,640 options previously granted to employees of the Rexnord PMC business.

Compensation expense recognized related to options and SARs was $5.6 million, $2.8 million and $2.7 million for fiscal years 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively.

As of January 1, 2022, there was $10.1 million of unrecognized compensation cost related to non-vested options and SARs that is expected to be recognized as a charge to earnings over a weighted average period of 1.9 years.

The amount of options and SARs expected to vest is materially consistent with those outstanding and not yet exercisable.

Restricted Stock Awards and Restricted Stock Units

Restricted stock awards ("RSAs") and restricted stock units ("RSUs") consist of shares or the rights to shares of the Company's stock. The awards are restricted such that they are subject to substantial risk of forfeiture and to restrictions on their sale or other transfer. As defined in the individual grant agreements, acceleration of vesting may occur under a change in control, or death, disability or normal retirement of the grantee.

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Following is the summary of RSAs activity for fiscal 2021:
SharesWeighted Average Fair Value at Grant DateWeighted Average Remaining Contractual Term (years)
Unvested RSAs as of January 2, 202116,280$70.05 0.3
Granted9,018144.73 
Vested(16,280)70.05 
Unvested RSAs as of January 1, 20229,018$144.73 0.5

The weighted average grant date fair value of awards granted was $144.73, $70.05 and $80.41 in fiscal years 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively.

RSAs vest on the one year anniversary of the grant date, provided the holder of the shares is continuously employed by or in the service of the Company until the vesting date. Compensation expense recognized related to the RSAs was $1.2 million for fiscal 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively.

As of January 1, 2022, there was $0.5 million of unrecognized compensation cost related to non-vested RSAs that is expected to be recognized as a charge to earnings over a weighted average period of 0.5 years.

Following is the summary of RSUs activity for fiscal 2021:
SharesWeighted Average Fair Value at Grant DateWeighted Average Remaining Contractual Term (years)
Unvested RSUs as of January 2, 2021164,398$81.16 1.7
Granted (2)
186,522143.44 
Vested(104,817)101.68 
Forfeited(25,205)119.87 
Unvested RSUs as of January 1, 2022220,898$119.59 1.8
(2) Includes 126,461 RSUs previously granted to employees of the Rexnord PMC business.

The weighted average grant date fair value of awards granted was $143.44, $86.70 and $78.98 in fiscal years 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively.

RSUs granted prior to fiscal 2020 vest on the third anniversary of the grant date while RSUs granted in fiscal 2020 vest one third each year on the anniversary of the grant date, provided the holder of the shares is continuously employed by the Company until the vesting date. Compensation expense recognized related to the RSUs was $9.7 million, $3.8 million and $6.2 million for fiscal 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively.

As of January 1, 2022, there was $15.7 million of unrecognized compensation cost related to non-vested RSUs that is expected to be recognized as a charge to earnings over a weighted average period of 1.8 years.

Performance Share Units

Performance share unit awards ("PSUs") consist of shares or the rights to shares of the Company's stock which are awarded to associates of the Company. These shares are payable upon the determination that the Company achieved certain established performance targets and can range from 0% to 200% of the targeted payout based on the actual results. PSUs have a performance period of 3 years, vest three years from the grant date and are issued at a performance target of 100%. The PSUs have performance criteria based on a return on invested capital metric or they have performance criteria using returns relative to the Company's peer group. As set forth in the individual grant agreements, acceleration of vesting may occur under a change in control, death or disability. There are no voting rights with these instruments until vesting occurs and a share of stock is issued. Some of the PSU awards are valued using a Monte Carlo simulation method as of the grant date while others are valued using the closing market price less net present value of dividends as of the grant date depending on the performance criteria for the award.
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The assumptions used in the Company's Monte Carlo simulation related to grants for performance share units were as follows:
January 1, 2022January 2, 2021December 28, 2019
Risk-free interest rate0.2%1.4%2.3%
Expected life (years)3.03.03.0
Expected volatility37.0%24.0%25.0%
Expected dividend yield0.9%1.4%1.5%

Following is the summary of PSUs activity for fiscal 2021:
SharesWeighted Average Fair Value at Grant DateWeighted Average Remaining Contractual Term (years)
Unvested PSUs as of January 2, 202187,522$97.59 1.8
Granted37,715120.19 
Vested(10,891)91.65 
Forfeited(14,479)87.15 
Unvested PSUs as of January 1, 202299,867$108.28 1.6

The weighted average grant date fair value of awards granted was $120.19, $117.63 and $85.54 in fiscal years 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively.

Compensation expense for awards granted are recognized based on the Monte Carlo simulation value or the expected payout ratio depending upon the performance criterion for the award, net of estimated forfeitures. Compensation expense recognized related to PSUs was $8.4 million, $1.4 million and $2.9 million for fiscal 2021, 2020 and 2019, respectively. Total unrecognized compensation expense for all PSUs granted as of January 1, 2022 was $4.3 million and it is expected to be recognized as a charge to earnings over a weighted average period of 1.6 years. $4.3 million of compensation expense recognized in fiscal 2021 related to PSUs vesting upon consummation of the Rexnord Transaction as discussed below.

Rexnord Transaction
Certain outstanding equity-based awards held by employees of the Rexnord PMC business that related to shares of Zurn common stock were replaced by equity-based awards of the Company relating to shares of Company common stock with substantially similar terms and conditions, except that Zurn accelerated the vesting and settlement of most of the PSUs held by Rexnord PMC business employees prior to the consummation of the Rexnord Transaction. The remaining PSUs relating to shares of Zurn common stock were replaced by RSUs relating to shares of Company common stock subject to substantially the same terms and conditions as the PSUs other than performance goals, which were deemed satisfied in connection with the Transaction. A portion of the fair value of the Rexnord PMC business’s equity-based awards issued represents consideration transferred, while a portion represents future compensation expense based on the vesting terms of the equity-based awards. The amount attributable to consideration transferred for pre-combination services was calculated based on the ratio of the pre-combination service period (grant date until closing date) to the longer of the original total service period or the modified service period, if any. The aggregate fair value of outstanding awards was reduced to reflect an estimate of future forfeitures. As the Special Dividend was paid pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement; holders of Company equity-based awards outstanding after the Merger (including those granted in connection with the Merger to former holders of Rexnord PMC business equity-based awards) were kept whole pursuant to the existing anti-dilution provisions in the applicable plan documents. In connection with the Special Dividend, outstanding equity-based awards relating to Company common stock were adjusted in accordance with the adjustment provisions of the applicable Company equity incentive plan documents to increase the number of shares subject to such awards and, in the case of SARs, to adjust the strike price per share, in each case to preserve the intrinsic value of such awards.

(11) Income Taxes
Income before taxes consisted of the following (in millions):
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202120202019
United States$35.8 $80.2 $126.7 
Foreign248.8 170.4 177.1 
Total$284.6 $250.6 $303.8 
The provision for income taxes is summarized as follows (in millions):
202120202019
Current
 Federal $18.2 $7.1 $1.8 
 State10.6 2.7 1.1 
 Foreign54.6 63.5 35.9 
$83.4 $73.3 $38.8 
Deferred
 Federal $1.2 $(2.0)$20.4 
 State(2.7)(0.3)2.6 
 Foreign(13.4)(14.2)(0.6)
(14.9)(16.5)22.4 
Total$68.5 $56.8 $61.2 

A reconciliation of the statutory federal income tax rate and the effective tax rate reflected in the consolidated statements of income follows:
202120202019
Federal Statutory Rate21.0%21.0%21.0%
State Income Taxes, Net of Federal Benefit0.5%0.8%1.3%
Effect of Impairment Charges3.0%0.9%—%
Foreign Rate Differential0.1%0.8%(1.8)%
Research and Development Credit(2.9)%(3.0)%(2.5)%
Valuation Allowance(0.5)%(0.1)%0.8%
Tax on Repatriation0.3%1.2%3.4%
Transaction Costs2.3%—%—%
Tax Impact of Divestitures—%—%(1.7)%
Deferred Tax Remeasurement0.2%(0.4)%0.1%
Other0.1%1.5%(0.5)%
Effective Tax Rate24.1%22.7%20.1%

Deferred taxes arise primarily from differences in amounts reported for tax and financial statement purposes. The Company's net deferred tax liability was $(616.3) million as of January 1, 2022, classified on the consolidated Balance Sheet as a net non-current deferred tax asset of $162.9 million and a net non-current deferred income tax liability of $(779.2) million. As of January 2, 2021, the Company's net deferred tax liability was $(128.1) million classified on the consolidated Balance Sheet as a net non-current deferred income tax asset of $110.7 million and a net non-current deferred income tax liability of $(238.8) million.
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The components of this net deferred tax liability are as follows (in millions):
January 1, 2022January 2, 2021
Accrued Benefits$55.7 $36.8 
Bad Debt Allowances6.9 4.9 
Warranty Accruals4.6 3.4 
Inventory(2.0)10.4 
Tax Loss Carryforward8.8 9.2 
Operating Lease Liability49.8 18.8 
Other44.4 34.6 
    Deferred Tax Assets before Valuation Allowance168.2 118.1 
Valuation Allowance(5.3)(7.4)
    Total Deferred Tax Assets162.9 110.7 
Property Related(77.0)(33.7)
Intangible Items(636.2)(170.9)
Accrued Liabilities(15.8)(8.8)
Derivative Instruments(7.4)(7.5)
Operating Lease Asset(42.8)(17.9)
    Deferred Tax Liabilities(779.2)(238.8)
Net Deferred Tax Liability$(616.3)$(128.1)

Following is a reconciliation of the beginning and ending amount of unrecognized tax benefits (in millions):
Unrecognized Tax Benefits, December 29, 2018$6.5 
Gross Increases from Prior Period Tax Positions— 
Gross Increases from Current Period Tax Positions0.7 
Settlements with Taxing Authorities— 
Lapse of Statute of Limitations(0.3)
Unrecognized Tax Benefits, December 28, 2019$6.9 
Gross Increases from Prior Period Tax Positions— 
Gross Increases from Current Period Tax Positions0.2 
Settlements with Taxing Authorities— 
Lapse of Statute of Limitations(0.3)
Unrecognized Tax Benefits, January 2, 2021$6.8 
Gross Increases from Prior Period Tax Positions0.1 
Gross Increases from Current Period Tax Positions0.6 
Gross Increases from Acquisitions5.3 
Settlements with Taxing Authorities— 
Lapse of Statute of Limitations(4.0)
Unrecognized Tax Benefits, January 1, 2022$8.8 

Unrecognized tax benefits as of January 1, 2022 amount to $8.8 million, all of which would impact the effective income tax rate if recognized.

Potential interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits are recorded in income tax expense. During fiscal years 2021, 2020 and 2019, the Company recognized approximately $(1.4) million, $0.4 million and $0.5 million in net interest (income) expense, respectively. The Company had approximately $1.3 million, $2.7 million and $2.3 million of accrued interest as of January 1, 2022, January 2, 2021 and December 28, 2019, respectively.
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Due to statute expirations, approximately $2.2 million of the unrecognized tax benefits, including accrued interest, could reasonably change in the coming year.

With few exceptions, the Company is no longer subject to US federal and state/local income tax examinations by tax authorities for years prior to 2018, and the Company is no longer subject to non-US income tax examinations by tax authorities for years prior to 2015. The Company is under audit in Italy and Germany for tax periods between 2015 – 2018 related to Rexnord PMC business entities arising before the Rexnord Transaction. The Company has been indemnified by Zurn for any future liability arising from these audits. Any other liabilities arising from tax years before the Rexnord Transaction relating to the Rexnord PMC business entities would be similarly indemnified.

As of January 1, 2022, the Company had approximately $8.8 million of tax effected net operating losses in various jurisdictions with a portion expiring over a period of up to 15 years and the remaining without expiration. As of January 2, 2021, the Company had approximately $9.2 million of tax effected net operating losses in various jurisdictions with a portion expiring over a period up to 15 years and the remaining without expiration.

Valuation allowances totaling $5.3 million and $7.4 million as of January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021, respectively, have been established for deferred income tax assets primarily related to certain subsidiary loss carryforwards that may not be realized. Realization of the net deferred income tax assets is dependent on generating sufficient taxable income prior to their expiration. Although realization is not assured, management believes it is more-likely-than-not that the net deferred income tax assets will be realized. The amount of the net deferred income tax assets considered realizable, however, could change in the near term if future taxable income during the carryforward period fluctuates. The Company revalued its valuation allowance calculations and policies in relation to the Rexnord Transaction and released a net valuation allowance of $3.1 million.

The Company has been granted tax holidays for some of its Chinese subsidiaries. The majority of these tax holidays will expire at the end of 2022. All tax holidays will be renewed subject to certain conditions with which the Company expects to comply. In 2021, these holidays decreased the Provision for Income Taxes by $4.2 million.

The Company continues to treat approximately $169.9 million of earnings from certain foreign entities as permanently reinvested and has not recorded a deferred tax liability for the local withholding taxes of approximately $17.0 million on those earnings. The Company evaluated the permanent reinvestment assertion related to the Rexnord PMC business and is not making an assertion for the taxes associated with the repatriation of any Rexnord PMC business non-U.S. earnings. A $5.9 million deferred tax liability with no effective rate related to these earnings was included in the net identifiable assets acquired from the Rexnord Transaction.
(12) Contingencies
One of the Company's subsidiaries that it acquired in 2007 is subject to numerous claims filed in various jurisdictions relating to certain sub-fractional motors that were primarily manufactured through 2004 and that were included as components of residential and commercial ventilation units manufactured and sold in high volumes by a third party. These ventilation units are subject to product safety requirements and other potential regulation of their performance by government agencies such as the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (“CPSC”). The claims generally allege that the ventilation units were the cause of fires. The Company has recorded an estimated liability for incurred claims. Based on the current facts, the Company cannot assure that these claims, individually or in the aggregate, will not have a material adverse effect on its subsidiary's financial condition. The Company's subsidiary cannot reasonably predict the outcome of these claims, the nature or extent of any CPSC or other remedial actions, if any, that the Company's subsidiary may need to undertake with respect to motors that remain in the field, or the costs that may be incurred, some of which could be significant.

As a result of the Company's acquisition of the Rexnord PMC business, it is entitled to indemnification from third parties to agreements with the Rexnord PMC business against certain contingent liabilities of the Rexnord PMC business, including certain pre-closing environmental liabilities.

The Company believes that, pursuant to the transaction documents related to the Rexnord PMC business' acquisition of the Stearns business from Invensys plc ("Invensys"), Invensys (now known as Schneider Electric) is obligated to defend and indemnify us with respect to the matters described below relating to the Ellsworth Industrial Park Site and to various asbestos claims. The indemnity obligations relating to the matters described below are subject, together with indemnity obligations relating to other matters, to an overall dollar cap equal to the purchase price, which is an amount in excess of $900 million. In the event that the Company is unable to recover from Invensys with respect to the matters below, it may be entitled to
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indemnification from Zurn, subject to certain limitations. The following paragraphs summarize the most significant actions and proceedings:

In 2002, the Company's subsidiary, Rexnord Industries, LLC ("Rexnord Industries") was named as a potentially responsible party ("PRP"), together with at least ten other companies, at the Ellsworth Industrial Park Site, Downers Grove, DuPage County, Illinois (the "Site"), by the United States Environmental Protection Agency ("USEPA"), and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency ("IEPA"). Rexnord Industries' Downers Grove property is situated within the Ellsworth Industrial Complex. The USEPA and IEPA allege there have been one or more releases or threatened releases of chlorinated solvents and other hazardous substances, pollutants or contaminants at the Site, allegedly including but not limited to a release or threatened release on or from Rexnord Industries' property. The relief sought by the USEPA and IEPA includes further investigation and potential remediation of the Site and reimbursement of USEPA's past costs. In early 2020, Rexnord Industries entered into an administrative order with the USEPA to do remediation work on its Downers Grove property. Rexnord Industries' allocated share of past and future costs related to the Site, including for investigation and/or remediation, could be significant. All previously pending property damage and personal injury lawsuits against Rexnord Industries related to the Site have been settled or dismissed. Pursuant to its indemnity obligation, Invensys continues to defend Rexnord Industries in known matters related to the Site, including the costs of the remediation work pursuant to the 2020 administrative order, and has paid 100% of the costs to date. This indemnification right would not protect Rexnord Industries against liabilities related to environmental conditions that were unknown to Invensys at the time of the acquisition of the Stearns business from Invensys.

Multiple lawsuits (with approximately 300 claimants) are pending in state or federal court in numerous jurisdictions relating to alleged personal injuries due to the alleged presence of asbestos in certain brakes and clutches previously manufactured by the Rexnord PMC business' Stearns brand of brakes and clutches and/or its predecessor owners. Invensys and FMC, prior owners of the Stearns business, have paid 100% of the costs to date related to the Stearns lawsuits. Similarly, the Rexnord PMC business' Prager subsidiary is the subject of claims by multiple claimants alleging personal injuries due to the alleged presence of asbestos in a product allegedly manufactured by Prager. However, all these claims are currently on the Texas Multi-district Litigation inactive docket, and the Company does not believe that they will become active in the future. To date, the Rexnord PMC business' insurance providers have paid 100% of the costs related to the Prager asbestos matters. We believe that the combination of the Company's insurance coverage and the Invensys indemnity obligations will cover any future costs of these matters.
In connection with the Company's acquisition the of Rexnord PMC business, transaction documents related to the Rexnord PMC business’ acquisition of The Falk Corporation from Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation were assigned to Rexnord Industries, and provide Rexnord Industries with indemnification against certain products related asbestos exposure liabilities. The Company believes that, pursuant to such indemnity obligations, Hamilton Sundstrand is obligated to defend and indemnify Rexnord Industries with respect to asbestos claims described below, and that, with respect to these claims, such indemnity obligations are not subject to any time or dollar limitations.

The following paragraph summarizes the most significant actions and proceedings for which Hamilton Sundstrand has accepted responsibility:

Rexnord Industries is a defendant in multiple lawsuits pending in state or federal court in numerous jurisdictions relating to alleged personal injuries due to the alleged presence of asbestos in certain clutches and drives previously manufactured by The Falk Corporation. The ultimate outcome of these lawsuits cannot presently be determined. Hamilton Sundstrand is defending Rexnord Industries in these lawsuits pursuant to its indemnity obligations and has paid 100% of the costs to date.

The Company is, from time to time, party to litigation and other legal or regulatory proceedings that arise in the normal course of its business operations and the outcomes of which are subject to significant uncertainty, including product warranty and liability claims, contract disputes and environmental, asbestos, intellectual property, employment and other litigation matters. The Company's products are used in a variety of industrial, commercial and residential applications that subject the Company to claims that the use of its products is alleged to have resulted in injury or other damage. Many of these matters will only be resolved when one or more future events occur or fail to occur. Management conducts regular reviews, including updates from legal counsel, to assess the need for accounting recognition or disclosure of these contingencies, and such assessment inherently involves an exercise in judgment. The Company accrues for exposures in amounts that it believes are adequate, and the Company does not believe that the outcome of any such lawsuit individually or collectively will have a material effect on the Company's financial position, results of operations or cash flows.
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The Company recognizes the cost associated with its standard warranty on its products at the time of sale. The amount recognized is based on historical experience. The following is a reconciliation of the changes in accrued warranty costs for fiscal 2021 and fiscal 2020 (in millions):
January 1, 2022January 2, 2021
Beginning Balance$15.5 $15.1 
    Less: Payments19.2 16.7 
    Provisions20.5 16.9 
    Acquisitions6.3 — 
    Translation Adjustments(0.1)0.2 
Ending Balance$23.0 $15.5 

These liabilities are included in Other Accrued Expenses and Other Noncurrent Liabilities on the Consolidated Balance Sheets.

(13) Derivative Financial Instruments

The Company is exposed to certain risks relating to its ongoing business operations. The primary risks managed using derivative instruments are commodity price risk, currency exchange risk, and interest rate risk. Forward contracts on certain commodities are entered into to manage the price risk associated with forecasted purchases of materials used in the Company's manufacturing process. Forward contracts on certain currencies are entered into to manage forecasted cash flows in certain foreign currencies. Interest rate swaps are utilized to manage interest rate risk associated with the Company's floating rate borrowings.

The Company is exposed to credit losses in the event of non-performance by the counterparties to various financial agreements, including its commodity hedging transactions, foreign currency exchange contracts and interest rate swap agreements. Exposure to counterparty credit risk is managed by limiting counterparties to major international banks and financial institutions meeting established credit guidelines and continually monitoring their compliance with the credit guidelines. The Company does not obtain collateral or other security to support financial instruments subject to credit risk. The Company does not anticipate non-performance by its counterparties, but cannot provide assurances.
The Company recognizes all derivative instruments as either assets or liabilities at fair value in the Consolidated Balance Sheets. The Company designates commodity forward contracts as cash flow hedges of forecasted purchases of commodities, currency forward contracts as cash flow hedges of forecasted foreign currency cash flows and interest rate swaps as cash flow hedges of forecasted LIBOR-based interest payments. There were no significant collateral deposits on derivative financial instruments as of January 1, 2022 or January 2, 2021.

Cash flow hedges

The effective portion of the gain or loss on the derivative is reported as a component of AOCI and reclassified into earnings in the same period or periods during which the hedged transaction affects earnings. Gains and losses on the derivative representing either hedge ineffectiveness or changes in market value of derivatives not designated as hedges are recognized in current earnings.

As of January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021, the Company had $5.6 million and $3.7 million, net of tax, of derivative gains on closed hedge instruments in AOCI that will be realized in earnings when the hedged items impact earnings.
The Company had the following commodity forward contracts outstanding (with maturities extending through June 2023) to hedge forecasted purchases of commodities (notional amounts expressed in terms of the dollar value of the hedged item (in millions):
January 1, 2022January 2, 2021
Copper$154.6 $47.0 
Aluminum9.5 3.6 

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The Company had the following currency forward contracts outstanding (with maturities extending through June 2023) to hedge forecasted foreign currency cash flows (in millions):
January 1, 2022January 2, 2021
Mexican Peso$194.8 $174.6 
Chinese Renminbi263.8 188.5 
Indian Rupee64.0 37.8 
Euro208.4 231.7 
Canadian Dollar0.3 2.0 
Australian Dollar17.6 21.2 
Thai Baht2.8 15.3 
British Pound1.3 11.7 

The Company entered into two receive variable/pay-fixed forward starting non-amortizing interest rate swaps in June 2020, with a total notional amount of $250.0 million. These swaps became effective July 2021 and will expire in July 2025.

Fair values of derivative instruments as of January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021 were (in millions):
January 1, 2022
Prepaid Expenses and Other Current AssetsOther Noncurrent AssetsOther Accrued ExpensesOther Noncurrent Liabilities
Designated as Hedging Instruments:
   Interest Rate Swap Contracts$— $5.3 $— $— 
   Currency Contracts8.3 0.7 1.3 — 
   Commodity Contracts8.9 0.1 1.2 0.5 
Not Designated as Hedging Instruments:
   Currency Contracts0.3 — 0.4 — 
   Commodity Contracts0.4 — — 0.1 
Total Derivatives$17.9 $6.1 $2.9 $0.6 
January 2, 2021
Prepaid Expenses and Other Current AssetsOther Noncurrent AssetsOther Accrued ExpensesOther Noncurrent Liabilities
Designated as Hedging Instruments:
   Interest Rate Swap Contracts$— $— $0.7 $1.4 
   Currency Contracts16.4 1.6 1.0 0.1 
   Commodity Contracts11.3 0.1 — — 
Not Designated as Hedging Instruments:
   Currency Contracts0.2 — — — 
   Commodity Contracts0.1 — — — 
Total Derivatives$28.0 $1.7 $1.7 $1.5 

Derivatives Designated as Cash Flow Hedging Instruments
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The effect of derivative instruments designated as cash flow hedges on the Consolidated Statements of Income and Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income for fiscal years 2021, 2020 and 2019 were (in millions):
Fiscal 2021
Interest
CommodityCurrencyRate
ForwardsForwardsSwapsTotal
Gain Recognized in Other Comprehensive Income $29.9 $11.4 $7.0 $48.3 
Amounts Reclassified from Other Comprehensive Income (Loss):
Gain Recognized in Net Sales— 0.3 — 0.3 
Gain Recognized in Cost of Sales32.6 16.9 — 49.5 
Gain Recognized in Operating Expense— 2.2 — 2.2 
Loss Recognized in Interest Expense— — (0.4)(0.4)
Fiscal 2020
Interest
CommodityCurrencyRate
ForwardsForwardsSwapsTotal
Gain (Loss) Recognized in Other Comprehensive Loss$14.8 $(3.2)$(0.2)$11.4 
Amounts Reclassified from Other Comprehensive Income (Loss):
Gain (Loss) Recognized in Cost of Sales1.2 (2.9)— (1.7)
Loss Recognized in Operating Expense— (8.3)— (8.3)
Gain Recognized in Interest Expense— — 0.9 0.9 
Fiscal 2019
Interest
CommodityCurrencyRate
ForwardsForwardsSwapsTotal
Gain Recognized in Other Comprehensive Loss$1.5 $16.5 $1.3 $19.3 
Amounts Reclassified from Other Comprehensive Income (Loss):
Gain Recognized in Net Sales— 0.3 — 0.3 
Gain (Loss) Recognized in Cost of Sales(7.7)4.2 — (3.5)
Gain Recognized in Operating Expense— 2.5 — 2.5 
Gain Recognized in Interest Expense— — 2.4 2.4 

The ineffective portion of hedging instruments recognized was immaterial for all periods presented.

Derivatives Not Designated as Cash Flow Hedging Instruments

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The effect of derivative instruments not designated as cash flow hedges on the Consolidated Statements of Income for fiscal years 2021, 2020 and 2019 were (in millions):
Fiscal 2021
Commodity ForwardsCurrency ForwardsTotal
Gain Recognized in Cost of Sales$0.2 $— $0.2 
Gain Recognized in Operating Expenses— 7.2 7.2 
Fiscal 2020
Commodity ForwardsCurrency ForwardsTotal
Gain Recognized in Cost of Sales$0.2 $— $0.2 
Loss Recognized in Operating Expenses— (8.6)(8.6)

Fiscal 2019
Commodity ForwardsCurrency ForwardsTotal
Gain Recognized in Cost of Sales$0.2 $— $0.2 
Loss Recognized in Operating Expenses— (1.1)(1.1)

The net AOCI balance related to hedging activities of a $21.0 million gain as of January 1, 2022 includes $11.3 million of net deferred gains expected to be reclassified to the Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income in the next twelve months. There were no gains or losses reclassified from AOCI to earnings based on the probability that the forecasted transaction would not occur.

The Company's commodity and currency derivative contracts are subject to master netting agreements with the respective counterparties which allow the Company to net settle transactions with a single net amount payable by one party to another party. The Company has elected to present the derivative assets and derivative liabilities on the Consolidated Balance Sheets on a gross basis for the periods ended January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021.

The following table presents the derivative assets and derivative liabilities presented on a net basis under enforceable master netting agreements (in millions):
January 1, 2022
Gross Amounts as Presented in the Consolidated Balance SheetDerivative Contract Amounts Subject to Right of OffsetDerivative Contracts as Presented on a Net Basis
Prepaid Expenses and Other Current Assets:
Derivative Currency Contracts$8.6 $(1.7)$6.9 
Derivative Commodity Contracts9.3 (1.2)8.1 
Other Noncurrent Assets:
Derivative Currency Contracts0.7 — 0.7 
Derivative Commodity Contracts0.1 (0.1)— 
Other Accrued Expenses:
Derivative Currency Contracts1.7 (1.7)— 
Derivative Commodity Contracts1.2 (1.2)— 
Other Noncurrent Liabilities:
Derivative Commodity Contracts0.6 (0.1)0.5 
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January 2, 2021
Gross Amounts as Presented in the Consolidated Balance SheetDerivative Contract Amounts Subject to Right of OffsetDerivative Contracts as Presented on a Net Basis
Prepaid Expenses and Other Current Assets:
Derivative Currency Contracts$16.6 $(1.0)$15.6 
Derivative Commodity Contracts11.4 — 11.4 
Other Noncurrent Assets:
Derivative Currency Contracts1.6 — 1.6 
Derivative Commodity Contracts0.1 — 0.1 
Other Accrued Expenses:
Derivative Currency Contracts1.0 (1.0)— 
Other Noncurrent Liabilities:
  Derivative Currency Contracts0.1 — 0.1 

(14) Fair Value
Fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date (exit price). The inputs used to measure fair value are classified into the following hierarchy:
Level 1Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities
Level 2Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for similar assets or liabilities, or
Unadjusted quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active, or
Inputs other than quoted prices that are observable for the asset or liability
Level 3Unobservable inputs for the asset or liability
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The Company uses the best available information in measuring fair value. Financial assets and liabilities are classified in their entirety based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. The following table sets forth the Company's financial assets and liabilities that were accounted for at fair value on a recurring basis as of January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021, respectively (in millions):
January 1, 2022January 2, 2021
Classification
Assets:
  Prepaid Expenses and Other Current Assets:
     Derivative Currency Contracts$8.6 $16.6 Level 2
     Derivative Commodity Contracts9.3 11.4 Level 2
  Other Noncurrent Assets:
     Interest Rate Swap5.3 — Level 2
Assets Held in Rabbi Trust6.8 6.5 Level 1
     Derivative Currency Contracts0.7 1.6 Level 2
     Derivative Commodity Contracts0.1 0.1 Level 2
Liabilities:
  Other Accrued Expenses:
     Interest Rate Swap— 0.7 Level 2
     Derivative Currency Contracts1.7 1.0 Level 2
     Derivative Commodity Contracts1.2 — Level 2
  Other Noncurrent Liabilities:
     Interest Rate Swap— 1.4 Level 2
     Derivative Currency Contracts— 0.1 Level 2
     Derivative Commodity Contracts0.6 — Level 2

Level 1 fair value measurements for assets held in a Rabbi Trust are unadjusted quoted prices.
Level 2 fair value measurements for derivative assets and liabilities are measured using quoted prices in active markets for similar assets and liabilities. Interest rate swaps are valued based on the discounted cash flows using the LIBOR forward yield curve for an instrument with similar contractual terms. Foreign currency forwards are valued based on exchange rates quoted by domestic and foreign banks for similar instruments. Commodity forwards are valued based on observable market transactions of forward commodity prices.
The Company did not change its valuation techniques during fiscal 2021.

(15) Restructuring Activities
The Company incurred restructuring and restructuring-related costs on projects during fiscal 2021, 2020 and 2019. Restructuring costs include associate termination and plant relocation costs. Restructuring-related costs include costs directly associated with actions resulting from the Company's simplification initiatives, such as asset write-downs or accelerated depreciation due to shortened useful lives in connection with site closures, discretionary employment benefit costs and other facility rationalization costs. Restructuring costs for associate termination expenses are generally required to be accrued over the associate's remaining service period while restructuring costs for plant relocation costs and restructuring-related costs are generally required to be expensed as incurred.

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The following is a reconciliation of provisions and payments for the restructuring projects for fiscal 2021 and fiscal 2020 (in millions):
January 1, 2022January 2, 2021
Beginning Balance$2.0 $0.9 
Acquisition2.2 — 
Provision14.0 26.6 
Less: Payments13.2 25.5 
Ending Balance$5.0 $2.0 

The following is a reconciliation of expenses by type for the restructuring projects in fiscal years 2021, 2020 and 2019 (in millions):
202120202019
Restructuring Costs:Cost of SalesOperating ExpensesTotalCost of SalesOperating ExpensesTotalCost of SalesOperating ExpensesTotal
Associate Termination Expenses$6.4 $1.2 $7.6 $6.2 $5.6 $11.8 $5.7 $6.5 $12.2 
Facility Related Costs4.2 0.3 4.5 11.7 3.1 14.8 5.0 4.4 9.4 
Other Expenses1.6 0.3 1.9 0.3 (0.3)— — — — 
Total Restructuring and Restructuring-Related Costs$12.2 $1.8 $14.0 $18.2 $8.4 $26.6 $10.7 $10.9 $21.6 

The following table shows the allocation of Restructuring Expenses by segment for fiscal years 2021, 2020 and 2019 (in millions):
TotalCommercial SystemsIndustrial SystemsClimate SolutionsMotion Control Solutions
Restructuring Expenses - 2021$14.0 $1.9 $1.9 $0.8 $9.4 
Restructuring Expenses - 2020$26.6 $6.3 $8.7 $3.7 $7.9 
Restructuring Expenses - 2019$21.6 $9.5 $7.2 $2.2 $2.7 

The Company's current restructuring activities are expected to continue into fiscal 2022. The Company's restructuring plans are preliminary and the full extent of related expenses are not yet estimable.

(16) Subsequent Events

The Company has evaluated subsequent events since January 1, 2022, the date of these financial statements. There were no material events or transactions discovered during this evaluation that requires recognition or disclosure in the financial statements.

ITEM 9 - CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE

None.

ITEM 9A - CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

In accordance with Rule 13a-15(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”), our management evaluated, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(d) and 15(e) under the Exchange Act) as of the end of the year ended January 1, 2022. Consistent with guidance issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission that an assessment of a recently acquired business may be omitted from management’s report on internal control over financial
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reporting in the year of acquisition, management excluded an assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting related to the Rexnord PMC and Automation Solutions businesses. We acquired the Rexnord PMC business on October 4, 2021, and the Automation Solutions business on November 23, 2021. Together, the Rexnord PMC and Automation Solutions businesses represented 11% of our consolidated total assets (excluding goodwill and intangibles which were included in management's assessment of internal control over financial reporting as of January 1, 2022) and 9% of the consolidated total revenues as of and for the year ended January 1, 2022. Based upon their evaluation of these disclosure controls and procedures, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that the disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of January 1, 2022 to ensure that (a) information required to be disclosed in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and (b) information required to be disclosed by us in the reports we file or submit under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.

Management's Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting.

The report of management required under this Item 9A is contained in Item 8 of Part II of this Annual Report on Form 10-K under the heading “Management's Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting.”

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
The attestation report required under this Item 9A is contained in Item 8 of Part II of this Annual Report on Form 10-K under the heading “Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.”
Changes in Internal Controls.
There were no changes in the Company's internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the quarter ended January 1, 2022 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company's internal control over financial reporting.

As mentioned above, on October 4, 2021, we completed the acquisition of the Rexnord PMC business, and on November 23, 2021, we completed the acquisition of the Automation Solutions business. As part of our ongoing integration of the Rexnord PMC and Automation Solutions businesses, we continue to incorporate our controls and procedures into the subsidiaries of both businesses and to expand our company-wide controls to reflect the risks inherent in an acquisition of this size and complexity.
ITEM 9B - OTHER INFORMATION
None.

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PART III
ITEM 10 - DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
The information in the sections titled “Proposal 1: Election of Directors,” “Board of Directors,” "Other Matters-Delinquent Section 16(a) Reports" and “Stock Ownership” in the 2022 Proxy Statement is incorporated by reference herein. Information with respect to our executive officers appears in Part I of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
We have adopted a Code of Business Conduct and Ethics (our “Code”) that applies to all our directors, officers and associates. Our Code is available on our website, along with our current Corporate Governance Guidelines, at www.regalrexnord.com. Our Code and our Corporate Governance Guidelines are also available in print to any shareholder who requests a copy in writing from the Secretary of Regal Rexnord Corporation. We intend to disclose through our website any amendments to, or waivers from, the provisions of these codes.

ITEM 11 - EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
The information in the sections titled “Compensation Discussion and Analysis,” “Executive Compensation,” “Report of the Compensation and Human Resources Committee,” “Director Compensation,” and "Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation" in the 2022 Proxy Statement is incorporated by reference herein.

ITEM 12 - SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT
The information in the sections titled “Stock Ownership” in the 2022 Proxy Statement is incorporated by reference herein.
Equity Compensation Plan Information
The following table provides information about our equity compensation plans as of January 1, 2022.
Number of Securities to be Issued upon the Exercise of Outstanding Options, Warrants and Rights (1)Weighted-average Exercise Price of Outstanding Options, Warrants and RightsNumber of Securities Remaining Available for Future Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans (excluding securities reflected in the column 1)
Equity Compensation Plans Approved by Security Holders811,906 $81.50 2,687,281 
Equity Compensation Plans Not Approved by Security Holders— — — 
Total811,906 2,687,281 
(1) Represents options to purchase our Common Stock and stock-settled appreciation rights granted under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan and 2018 Equity Incentive Plan.

ITEM 13 - CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE
The information in the section titled “Board of Directors” in the 2022 Proxy Statement is incorporated by reference herein.

ITEM 14 - PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES
The information in the section titled “Proposal 3: Ratification of Deloitte & Touche LLP as our Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for 2022” in the 2022 Proxy Statement is incorporated by reference herein.
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PART IV
ITEM 15 - EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULE
(a)    1. Financial statements - The financial statements listed in the accompanying index to financial statements and financial statement schedule are filed as part of this Annual Report on Form 10‑K.
    2. Financial statement schedule - The financial statement schedule listed in the accompanying index to financial statements and financial statement schedule are filed as part of this Annual Report on Form 10‑K.
    3. Exhibits required by Item 601 of Regulation S-K:

Exhibit Index
Exhibit NumberExhibit Description
2.1
2.2
2.3
3.1
3.2
4.1Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation and Amended and Restated Bylaws of Regal Rexnord Corporation [Incorporated by reference to Exhibits 3.1 and 3.2 hereto]
4.2


4.3
4.4
4.5
10.2*
10.3*
10.4*


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10.5*
10.6*


10.7*
10.8*


10.9*
10.10*
10.11*
10.12*
10.13*
10.14*
10.15*
10.16*


10.17*


10.18*
10.19*


10.20*
10.21*
10.22*
10.23*
10.24*
10.25*
10.26*
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10.27*
10.28*
10.29*
10.30*
10.31*
10.32*
10.33*


10.34


10.35
10.36
10.37


10.38
21.1
23.1
31.1
31.2
32.1
101.INSXBRL Instance Document
101.SCHXBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema
101.CALXBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase
101.DEFXBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase
101.LABXBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase
101.PREXBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase
104Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as iXBRL and contained in Exhibit 101).
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* A management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.
** Furnished herewith.
+ Schedules (or similar attachments) to this Exhibit have been omitted in accordance with Items 601(a)(5) and/or 601(b)(2) of Regulation S-K. The Registrant agrees to furnish supplementally a copy of all omitted schedules to the Securities Exchange
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Commission on a confidential basis upon request.

(b)    Exhibits- see (a)3., above.
(c) See (a)2., above.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, on this 2nd day of March 2022.
REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION
By:/s/ ROBERT J. REHARD
Robert J. Rehard
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated:
/s/ LOUIS V. PINKHAMDirector and Chief Executive OfficerMarch 2, 2022
Louis V. Pinkham(Principal Executive Officer)
/s/ JAN A. BERTSCHDirectorMarch 2, 2022
Jan A. Bertsch
/s/ STEPHEN M. BURTDirectorMarch 2, 2022
Stephen M. Burt
/s/ ANESA T. CHAIBIDirectorMarch 2, 2022
Anesa T. Chaibi
/s/ THEODORE D. CRANDALLDirectorMarch 2, 2022
Theodore D. Crandall
/s/ CHRISTOPHER L. DOERRDirectorMarch 2, 2022
Christopher L. Doerr
/s/ DEAN A. FOATEDirectorMarch 2, 2022
Dean A. Foate
/s/ MICHAEL F. HILTONDirectorMarch 2, 2022
Michael F. Hilton
/s/ RAKESH SACHDEVDirector, ChairmanMarch 2, 2022
Rakesh Sachdev
/s/ CURTIS W. STOELTINGDirectorMarch 2, 2022
Curtis W. Stoelting
/s/ ROBIN A. WALKER-LEEDirectorMarch 2, 2022
Robin A. Walker-Lee
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REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION
Index to Financial Statements
And Financial Statement Schedule
Page(s) In
Form 10-K
(1)Financial Statements:
Report of Deloitte & Touche LLP Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID: 34)
Consolidated Statements of Income for the fiscal years ended
January 1, 2022, January 2, 2021 and December 28, 2019
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income for the fiscal years ended January 1, 2022, January 2, 2021 and December 28, 2019
Consolidated Balance Sheets as of January 1, 2022 and January 2, 2021
Consolidated Statements of Equity for the fiscal years ended January 1, 2022, January 2, 2021 and December 28, 2019
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the fiscal years ended January 1, 2022, January 2, 2021 and December 28, 2019
 Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
(2)Financial Statement Schedule:
For the fiscal years ended January 1, 2022, January 2, 2021 and December 28, 2019
Schedule II -Valuation and Qualifying Accounts

All other schedules are omitted because they are not applicable or the required information is shown in the financial statements or notes thereto.
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SCHEDULE II
REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION
VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS
Balance Beginning of YearCharged to ExpensesDeductions (a)Adjustments (b)Balance End of Year
(Dollars in Millions)
Allowance for Receivables:
Fiscal 2021$18.3 $0.8 $(0.4)$— $18.7 
Fiscal 20209.7 5.8 (2.0)4.8 18.3 
Fiscal 201913.3 4.0 (7.5)(0.1)9.7 

(a) Deductions consist of write offs charged against the allowance for doubtful accounts.
(b) Adjustments consist of balances moved to held for sale, translation and adoption of ASC 2016-13 Financial Instruments for Credit Losses.
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DESCRIPTION OF THE REGISTRANT’S SECURITIES REGISTERED PURSUANT TO SECTION 12 OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Regal Rexnord Corporation (the “Company,” “we,” “us” or “our”) has one class of securities registered pursuant to Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended: our common stock, $0.01 par value per share (our “Common Stock”). The following is a description of the material provisions of our Common Stock. This summary does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to, the applicable provisions of Wisconsin law, our Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation (our “Articles of Incorporation”) and our Amended and Restated Bylaws (our “Bylaws”). Our Articles of Incorporation and our Bylaws have been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission as exhibits to the Annual Report on Form 10-K. We encourage you to read our Articles of Incorporation, our Bylaws and the applicable provisions of Wisconsin law for additional information.
Common Stock
We are authorized to issue 150,000,000 shares of our Common Stock. Our Common Stock is entitled to such dividends as may be declared from time to time by our board of directors in accordance with applicable law. Our ability to pay dividends is dependent upon a number of factors, including our future earnings, capital requirements, general financial condition, general business conditions and other factors.
Only the holders of our Common Stock are entitled to vote for the election of members to our board of directors and on all other matters. Holders of our Common Stock are entitled to one vote per share of Common Stock held by them on all matters properly submitted to a vote of shareholders, subject to Section 180.1150 of the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law. See “— Statutory Provisions.” Shareholders have no cumulative voting rights, which means that the holders of shares entitled to exercise more than 50% of the voting power are able to elect all of the directors to be elected. The affirmative vote of the majority of the shares of our Common Stock represented and voted is required for the election of directors.
All shares of our Common Stock are entitled to participate equally in distributions in liquidation. Holders of our Common Stock have no preemptive rights to subscribe for or purchase our shares. There are no conversion rights, sinking fund or redemption provisions applicable to our Common Stock. We do not have the authority to issue any shares of preferred stock.
The shares of our Common Stock are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “RRX.”
Statutory Provisions
Section 180.1150 of the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law provides that the voting power of shares of public Wisconsin corporations such as us held by any person or persons acting as a group in excess of 20% of our voting power is limited to 10% of the full voting power of those shares, unless full voting power of those shares has been restored pursuant to a vote of shareholders. Sections 180.1140 to 180.1144 of the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law contain some limitations and special voting provisions applicable to specified business combinations involving Wisconsin corporations such as us and a significant shareholder, unless the board of directors of the corporation approves the business combination or the shareholder’s acquisition of shares before these shares are acquired. Similarly,



Sections 180.1130 to 180.1133 of the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law contain special voting provisions applicable to some business combinations involving public Wisconsin corporations, unless specified minimum price and procedural requirements are met. Following commencement of a takeover offer, Section 180.1134 of the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law imposes special voting requirements on share repurchases effected at a premium to the market and on asset sales by the corporation, unless, as it relates to the potential sale of assets, the corporation has at least three independent directors and a majority of the independent directors vote not to have the provision apply to the corporation.
Certain Anti-Takeover Provisions
Our Articles of Incorporation provide that:
• directors may be removed from office only for cause and only with the affirmative vote of a majority of the votes entitled to be cast at an election of directors;
• any vacancy on the board of directors or any newly created directorship may be filled by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors then in office, even if such majority is less than a quorum; and
• our shareholders have no cumulative voting rights, which means that the holders of shares of our common stock entitled to exercise more than 50% of the voting power are able to elect all of the directors to be elected.
Limitations of Directors’ and Officers’ Liability and Indemnification     
Article IX of our Bylaws requires that we shall, to the fullest extent permitted or required by Sections 180.0850 to 180.0859, inclusive, of the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law, including any amendments thereto (but in the case of any such amendment, only to the extent such amendment permits or requires the corporation to provide broader indemnification rights than prior to such amendment), indemnify our directors and officers against any and all liabilities, and pay or reimburse any and all properly documented reasonable expenses, incurred thereby in any proceedings to which any such director or officer is a party because he or she is or was a director or officer of the Company. We shall also indemnify an employee who is not a director or officer, to the extent that the employee has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of a proceeding, for all expenses incurred in the proceeding if the employee was a party because he or she is or was an employee of the Company. The rights to indemnification granted under our Bylaws shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to indemnification against liabilities or the allowance of expenses which a director, officer or employee (or such other person) may be entitled under any written agreement, board resolution, vote of our shareholders, the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law or otherwise. We may, but shall not be required to, supplement the foregoing rights to indemnification against liabilities and allowance of expenses under this paragraph by the purchase of insurance on behalf of any one or more of such directors, officers or employees, whether or not we would be required or permitted to indemnify or allow expenses to such director, officer or employee. All capitalized terms used in this paragraph and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning set forth in Section 180.0850 of the Wisconsin Business Corporation Law.

4841-1404-2944.2 REGAL BELOIT AMERICA, INC. PENSION PLAN As Amended and Restated Effective January 1, 2017


 
i 4841-1404-2944.2 REGAL BELOIT AMERICA, INC. PENSION PLAN Page REGAL BELOIT AMERICA, INC. PENSION PLAN ................................................................. 1 ARTICLE I. DEFINED TERMS .................................................................................................... 3 Section 1.01. Defined Terms .............................................................................................3 Section 1.02. Construction .................................................................................................5 ARTICLE II. PARTICIPATION AND CALCULATION OF BENEFITS ................................... 6 Section 2.01. In General.....................................................................................................6 Section 2.02. Leased Employees .......................................................................................6 Section 2.03. Benefits Payable from Another Plan or Multiple Parts of this Plan ............6 Section 2.04. USERRA Leaves of Absence ......................................................................7 ARTICLE III. PAYMENT OF BENEFITS.................................................................................... 8 Section 3.01. Normal Payment Forms ...............................................................................8 Section 3.02. Optional Payment Forms .............................................................................8 Section 3.03. Commencement and Termination of Benefits ...........................................10 Section 3.04. Retroactive Annuity Starting Dates ...........................................................12 Section 3.05. Death Benefits ............................................................................................13 Section 3.06. Payment of Small Amounts and Service Cancellation Rules ....................13 Section 3.07. Reemployment After Retirement ...............................................................14 Section 3.08. Continued Employment or Re-Employment after Normal Retirement Date .........................................................................................14 Section 3.09. Direct Rollovers .........................................................................................15 Section 3.10. Required Minimum Distributions ..............................................................16 Section 3.11. 2014 Lump Sum Window Program ...........................................................20 Section 3.12. 2016 Lump Sum Window Program ...........................................................23 ARTICLE IV. ADMINISTRATION ............................................................................................ 28 Section 4.01. Administrator .............................................................................................28 Section 4.02. Responsibility and Authority of the Administrator ...................................28 Section 4.03. Procedure ...................................................................................................28 Section 4.04. Delegation of Duties and Responsibilities .................................................28 Section 4.05. Use of Professional Services ......................................................................29 Section 4.06. Fees and Expenses .....................................................................................29 Section 4.07. Claims Procedure .......................................................................................29 Section 4.08. Communications ........................................................................................31 Section 4.09. Agent for Service of Process......................................................................31 ARTICLE V. CONTRIBUTIONS AND FUNDING POLICY ................................................... 32 Section 5.01. Company Contribution...............................................................................32 Section 5.02. Funding Policy ...........................................................................................32 Section 5.03. Exclusive Benefit .......................................................................................32


 
ii 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE VI. AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION .............................................................. 33 Section 6.01. Amendment ................................................................................................33 Section 6.02. Termination ................................................................................................33 Section 6.03. Priorities Upon Termination ......................................................................33 Section 6.04. Non-Reversion of Assets ...........................................................................33 ARTICLE VII. GENERAL PROVISIONS .................................................................................. 34 Section 7.01. Participants to Furnish Information ...........................................................34 Section 7.02. Non-Guarantee of Employment or Other Benefits ....................................34 Section 7.03. Responsibility for Co-Fiduciaries ..............................................................34 Section 7.04. Mergers, Consolidations and Transfers of Plan Assets .............................34 Section 7.05. Spendthrift Clause ......................................................................................35 Section 7.06. Restriction on Highly Compensated Participants’ and Former Participants’ Benefits .................................................................................35 Section 7.07. Maximum Benefit ......................................................................................36 Section 7.08. Successors and Assigns..............................................................................37 Section 7.09. Wisconsin Law Applies .............................................................................37 Section 7.10. Top-Heavy Restrictions .............................................................................37 Section 7.11. Restrictions Related to Plan Funding .........................................................39 Section 7.12. Military Leave Provisions ..........................................................................47 APPENDIX 1 ................................................................................................................................ 49 PART A: SALARIED EMPLOYEES’ PENSION PLAN ........................................................ A-1 ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND FORMAT OF TERMS ....................................................... A-2 Section 1.01. Format ..................................................................................................... A-2 Section 1.02. Definitions............................................................................................... A-2 ARTICLE II. PARTICIPATION AND SERVICE .................................................................... A-6 Section 2.01. Participation ............................................................................................ A-6 Section 2.02. Vesting Service ....................................................................................... A-6 Section 2.03. Benefit Service ........................................................................................ A-6 Section 2.04. Period of Severance ................................................................................ A-7 Section 2.05. Special Service Rule ............................................................................... A-7 Section 2.06. Transfer Out of Employee Status ............................................................ A-7 Section 2.07. Transfer to Employee Status ................................................................... A-8 Section 2.08. Transfer to Employment with an Affiliate .............................................. A-8 Section 2.09. Termination ............................................................................................. A-8 ARTICLE III. BENEFITS .......................................................................................................... A-9 Section 3.01. Accrued Benefit Formula ........................................................................ A-9 Section 3.02. Normal Retirement Benefit ..................................................................... A-9 Section 3.03. Disability Retirement ............................................................................ A-10 Section 3.04. Early Retirement or Deferred Vested Benefit ....................................... A-10 Section 3.05. Death Benefits ....................................................................................... A-10 Section 3.06. 1981 Retirees ........................................................................................ A-12


 
iii 4841-1404-2944.2 Section 3.07. Applicable Benefits ............................................................................... A-12 ARTICLE IV. PAYMENT OF BENEFITS ............................................................................. A-13 Section 4.01. Normal Form of Payment ..................................................................... A-13 Section 4.02. Optional Forms of Payment .................................................................. A-13 SCHEDULE A-1 ...................................................................................................................... A-15 SCHEDULE A-2 ...................................................................................................................... A-16 PART B: LEBANON AND WEST PLAINS HOURLY PENSION PLAN ............................. B-1 ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND FORMAT OF TERMS ....................................................... B-2 Section 1.01. Format ......................................................................................................B-2 Section 1.02. Defined Terms .........................................................................................B-2 ARTICLE II. PARTICIPATION AND SERVICE .................................................................... B-4 Section 2.01. Participation .............................................................................................B-4 Section 2.02. Vesting Service ........................................................................................B-4 Section 2.03. Benefit Service .........................................................................................B-4 Section 2.04. Break in Service .......................................................................................B-5 ARTICLE III. BENEFITS .......................................................................................................... B-6 Section 3.01. Normal Retirement Benefit ......................................................................B-6 Section 3.02. Early Retirement Benefit .........................................................................B-7 Section 3.03. Deferred Vested Benefit ..........................................................................B-7 Section 3.04. Spouse’s Death Benefit ............................................................................B-7 Section 3.05. Applicable Benefit Rate ...........................................................................B-8 PART C: RBC MANUFACTURING CORPORATION WAUSAU HOURLY PENSION PLAN ............................................................................................................ C-1 ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND FORMAT OF TERMS ....................................................... C-2 Section 1.01. Format ......................................................................................................C-2 Section 1.02. Defined Terms .........................................................................................C-2 ARTICLE II. PARTICIPATION AND SERVICE .................................................................... C-4 Section 2.01. Participation .............................................................................................C-4 Section 2.02. Vesting Service ........................................................................................C-4 Section 2.03. Benefit Service .........................................................................................C-4 Section 2.04. Break in Service .......................................................................................C-6 ARTICLE III. BENEFITS .......................................................................................................... C-7 Section 3.01. Normal Retirement Benefit ......................................................................C-7 Section 3.02. Early Retirement or Deferred Vested Benefit ..........................................C-8 Section 3.03. Spouse’s Death Benefit ............................................................................C-8 Section 3.04. Applicable Benefit Rate ...........................................................................C-9 Section 3.05. Disability Retirement ...............................................................................C-9


 
iv 4841-1404-2944.2 PART D: RBC MANUFACTURING MARATHON SPECIAL PRODUCTS HOURLY PENSION PLAN ............................................................................................................ D-1 ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND FORMAT OF TERMS ....................................................... D-2 Section 1.01. Format ..................................................................................................... D-2 Section 1.02. Defined Terms ........................................................................................ D-2 ARTICLE II. PARTICIPATION AND SERVICE .................................................................... D-4 Section 2.01. Participation ............................................................................................ D-4 Section 2.02. Vesting Service ....................................................................................... D-4 Section 2.03. Benefit Service ........................................................................................ D-4 Section 2.04. Break in Service ...................................................................................... D-5 ARTICLE III. BENEFITS .......................................................................................................... D-6 Section 3.01. Normal Retirement Benefit ..................................................................... D-6 Section 3.02. Early Retirement or Deferred Vested Benefit ......................................... D-7 Section 3.03. Spouse’s Death Benefit ........................................................................... D-7 Section 3.04. Applicable Benefit Rate .......................................................................... D-8 PART E: UNICO, INC. EMPLOYEES’ PENSION PLAN ....................................................... E-1 ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND FORMAT OF TERMS ........................................................ E-2 Section 1.01. Format ...................................................................................................... E-2 Section 1.02. Defined Terms ......................................................................................... E-2 ARTICLE II. ELIGIBILITY AND PARTICIPATION ............................................................... E-7 Section 2.01. Eligible Class of Employees .................................................................... E-7 Section 2.02. Commencement of Participation.............................................................. E-7 Section 2.03. Reemployment ......................................................................................... E-7 ARTICLE III. BENEFITS ........................................................................................................... E-9 Section 3.01. Normal Retirement Benefit ...................................................................... E-9 Section 3.02. Early Retirement or Deferred Vested Retirement Benefit ..................... E-10 ARTICLE IV. PRERETIREMENT DEATH BENEFITS FOR MARRIED PARTICIPANTS ........................................................................................................... E-11 Section 4.01. Death Benefits for Married Participants ................................................ E-11 Section 4.02. Amount of Surviving Spouse Death Benefit ......................................... E-11 PART F: TIPP CITY PLANT INDUSTRIAL PENSION PLAN .............................................. F-1 ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND FORMAT OF TERMS ........................................................ F-2 Section 1.01. Format ...................................................................................................... F-2 Section 1.02. Definitions................................................................................................ F-2 ARTICLE II. ELIGIBILITY ....................................................................................................... F-7 Section 2.01. Participation ............................................................................................. F-7 Section 2.02. Normal Retirement Eligibility ................................................................. F-7


 
v 4841-1404-2944.2 Section 2.03. Special Early Retirement Eligibility ........................................................ F-7 Section 2.04. 30 and Out Eligibility............................................................................... F-7 Section 2.05. Early Retirement Eligibility ..................................................................... F-7 Section 2.06. Disability Retirement Eligibility .............................................................. F-7 Section 2.07. Deferred Vested Eligibility ...................................................................... F-7 ARTICLE III. RETIREMENT BENEFITS ................................................................................. F-8 Section 3.01. Normal and Early Retirement Benefits .................................................... F-8 Section 3.02. Disability Retirement Benefits ................................................................. F-8 Section 3.03. Deferred Vested Benefits ......................................................................... F-9 Section 3.04. Automatic Pre-Retirement Survivor Protection ....................................... F-9 Section 3.05. Supplemental Allowance ....................................................................... F-10 Section 3.06. Additional Benefits ................................................................................ F-10 ARTICLE IV. PAYMENT OF BENEFITS .............................................................................. F-11 Section 4.01. Transfers and Reemployment ................................................................ F-11 PART G: MT. STERLING PLANT INDUSTRIAL PENSION PLAN .................................... G-1 ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND FORMAT OF TERMS ....................................................... G-2 Section 1.01. Format ..................................................................................................... G-2 Section 1.02. Definitions............................................................................................... G-2 ARTICLE II. ELIGIBILITY ...................................................................................................... G-7 Section 2.01. Participation ............................................................................................ G-7 Section 2.02. Normal Retirement Eligibility ................................................................ G-7 Section 2.03. Special Early Retirement Eligibility ....................................................... G-7 Section 2.04. Early Retirement Eligibility .................................................................... G-7 Section 2.05. Disability Retirement Eligibility ............................................................. G-7 Section 2.06. Deferred Vested Eligibility ..................................................................... G-7 ARTICLE III. RETIREMENT BENEFITS ................................................................................ G-8 Section 3.01. Normal and Early Retirement Benefits ................................................... G-8 Section 3.02. Disability Retirement Benefits ................................................................ G-8 Section 3.03. Deferred Vested Benefits ........................................................................ G-9 Section 3.04. Automatic Pre-Retirement Survivor Protection ...................................... G-9 ARTICLE IV. PAYMENT OF BENEFITS ............................................................................. G-11 Section 4.01. Transfers and Reemployment ............................................................... G-11 PART H: RETIREMENT PLAN NUMBER ONE FOR HOURLY EMPLOYEES OF MCGILL MANUFACTURING CO., INC. .................................................................... H-1 ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND FORMAT OF TERMS ....................................................... H-2 Section 1.01. Format ..................................................................................................... H-2 Section 1.02. Definitions............................................................................................... H-2


 
vi 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE II. ELIGIBILITY ...................................................................................................... H-4 Section 2.01. Participants .............................................................................................. H-4 Section 2.02. Cessation Of Participation ...................................................................... H-4 ARTICLE III. RETIREMENT DATES ..................................................................................... H-5 Section 3.01. Normal Retirement Date ......................................................................... H-5 Section 3.02. Early Retirement Date............................................................................. H-5 Section 3.03. Postponed Retirement Date..................................................................... H-5 ARTICLE IV. SERVICE ............................................................................................................ H-6 Section 4.01. Credited Service ...................................................................................... H-6 Section 4.02. Vesting Service ....................................................................................... H-6 Section 4.03. Leave of Absence .................................................................................... H-7 Section 4.04. Credited Service and Vesting Service Prior to Break in Service ............ H-7 Section 4.05. Maternity or Paternity Absence .............................................................. H-7 Section 4.06. Family and Medical Leave Act ............................................................... H-8 ARTICLE V. PENSION BENEFITS ......................................................................................... H-9 Section 5.01. Normal Retirement Benefit ..................................................................... H-9 Section 5.02. Early Retirement Benefit ...................................................................... H-10 Section 5.03. Postponed Retirement Benefit .............................................................. H-10 Section 5.04. In-Service Benefit ................................................................................. H-11 Section 5.05. Actuarial Increase ................................................................................. H-12 Section 5.06. Limitation Of Benefit ............................................................................ H-12 ARTICLE VI. DISABILITY BENEFIT................................................................................... H-13 Section 6.01. Disability Payments .............................................................................. H-13 Section 6.02. Determination Of Disability ................................................................. H-13 ARTICLE VII. PRE-RETIREMENT DEATH BENEFIT ....................................................... H-14 Section 7.01. Pre-Retirement Death Benefit ............................................................... H-14 ARTICLE VIII. VESTING ....................................................................................................... H-15 Section 8.01. Benefits On Termination of Employment............................................. H-15 Section 8.02. Duplicating Payments ........................................................................... H-15 Section 8.03. Timing And Manner Of Payments ........................................................ H-15 Section 8.04. Termination Prior To Vesting ............................................................... H-15 Section 8.05. Vesting Upon Attainment Of Normal Retirement Date ....................... H-15 Section 8.06. Accelerated Vesting .............................................................................. H-15 ARTICLE IX. TIMING AND OPTIONAL FORMS OF BENEFITS ..................................... H-16 Section 9.01. Suspension of Benefits Upon Reemployment ...................................... H-16 Section 9.02. Timing Of Distributions ........................................................................ H-16 Section 9.03. Payment Forms ..................................................................................... H-17 ARTICLE X. TRANSFERS ..................................................................................................... H-18 Section 10.01. Termination Of Employment ................................................................ H-18 Section 10.02. Vesting Service ..................................................................................... H-18


 
vii 4841-1404-2944.2 Section 10.03. Acquisition Of Assets ........................................................................... H-18 EXHIBIT H-1 ........................................................................................................................... H-19 ACTUARIAL ASSUMPTIONS ............................................................................................... H-19 PART I: REGAL POWER TRANSMISSIONS SOLUTIONS PENSION PLAN – APPENDIX A – KOP-FLEX MEMORIAL LODGE 1784 & DISTRICT LODGE 12 UNION EMPLOYEES ................................................................................................ I-1 ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND FORMAT OF TERMS ......................................................... I-2 Section 1.01. Format ....................................................................................................... I-2 Section 1.02. Definitions................................................................................................. I-2 ARTICLE II. PARTICIPATION AND SERVICE ...................................................................... I-7 Section 2.01. Participation .............................................................................................. I-7 Section 2.02. Cessation of Participation ......................................................................... I-7 Section 2.03. Calculation of Pension Credited Service - Special Rules ......................... I-7 ARTICLE III. RETIREMENT BENEFITS .................................................................................. I-9 Section 3.01. Retirement Benefits .................................................................................. I-9 Section 3.02. Disregard of Accrued Benefit ................................................................. I-11 ARTICLE IV. OTHER BENEFITS ........................................................................................... I-13 Section 4.01. Death Benefits ......................................................................................... I-13 Section 4.02. Disability Benefits .................................................................................. I-13 Section 4.03. Vested Benefits. ...................................................................................... I-14 ARTICLE V. WHEN BENEFITS START AND DISTRIBUTION OF BENEFITS ................ I-16 Section 5.01. When Benefits Start ................................................................................ I-16 Section 5.02. Automatic Forms of Distribution ............................................................ I-16 Section 5.03. Optional Forms Of Retirement Benefits ................................................. I-16 PART J: REGAL POWER TRANSMISSIONS SOLUTIONS PENSION PLAN – APPENDIX 8 – BROWNING MANUFACTURING DIVISION EMPLOYEES ......... J-1 ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND FORMAT OF TERMS ........................................................ J-2 Section 1.01. Format ....................................................................................................... J-2 Section 1.02. Definitions................................................................................................. J-2 ARTICLE II. PARTICIPATION AND SERVICE ..................................................................... J-7 Section 2.01. Eligibility .................................................................................................. J-7 Section 2.02. inactive Participant.................................................................................... J-7 Section 2.03. Cessation of Participation ......................................................................... J-7 Section 2.04. Calculation of Pension Credited Service - Special Rules ......................... J-7 ARTICLE III. RETIREMENT BENEFITS ................................................................................. J-9 Section 3.01. Normal Retirement Benefit ....................................................................... J-9


 
viii 4841-1404-2944.2 Section 3.02. Early Retirement ....................................................................................... J-9 Section 3.03. Postponed Retirement Benefit .................................................................. J-9 Section 3.04. Benefits Upon Employment After Annuity Starting Date ........................ J-9 Section 3.05. Disregard of Accrued Benefit ................................................................... J-9 ARTICLE IV. OTHER BENEFITS .......................................................................................... J-11 Section 4.01. Death Benefits ......................................................................................... J-11 Section 4.02. Disability Benefits .................................................................................. J-12 Section 4.03. Vested Benefits ....................................................................................... J-12 ARTICLE V. WHEN BENEFITS START AND DISTRIBUTION OF BENEFITS ............... J-15 Section 5.01. When Benefits Start ................................................................................ J-15 Section 5.02. Mandatory Participant Contributions ...................................................... J-15 Section 5.03. Automatic Forms of Distribution ............................................................ J-15 Section 5.04. Optional Forms Of Retirement Benefits ................................................. J-15 PART K: REGAL POWER TRANSMISSIONS SOLUTIONS PENSION PLAN – APPENDIX 40 – MORSE/BEARINGS DIVISION (MOREHEAD, KY)/SOLUS INDUSTRIAL/KOP-FLEX SALARIED EMPLOYEES ............................................... K-1 ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND FORMAT OF TERMS ....................................................... K-2 Section 1.01. Format ..................................................................................................... K-2 Section 1.02. Definitions............................................................................................... K-2 ARTICLE II. PARTICIPATION AND SERVICE .................................................................... K-7 Section 2.01. Eligibility ................................................................................................ K-7 Section 2.02. Inactive Participant ................................................................................. K-7 Section 2.03. Cessation of Participation ....................................................................... K-7 Section 2.04. Calculation of Pension Credited Service - Special Rules ....................... K-8 ARTICLE III. RETIREMENT BENEFITS ................................................................................ K-9 Section 3.01. Retirement Benefits ................................................................................ K-9 Section 3.02. Disregard of Accrued Benefit ............................................................... K-11 ARTICLE IV. OTHER BENEFITS ......................................................................................... K-12 Section 4.01. Death Benefits ....................................................................................... K-12 Section 4.02. Disability Benefits ................................................................................ K-12 Section 4.03. Vested Benefits ..................................................................................... K-13 . K-13 ARTICLE V. WHEN BENEFITS START AND DISTRIBUTION OF BENEFITS .............. K-16 Section 5.01. When Benefits Start .............................................................................. K-16 Section 5.02. Mandatory Participant Contributions .................................................... K-16 Section 5.03. Automatic Forms of Distribution .......................................................... K-16


 
ix 4841-1404-2944.2 PART L: REGAL POWER TRANSMISSIONS SOLUTIONS PENSION PLAN – APPENDIX 78 – BEARINGS DIVISION EMPLOYEES ............................................. L-1 ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND FORMAT OF TERMS ........................................................ L-2 Section 1.01. Format ...................................................................................................... L-2 Section 1.02. Definitions................................................................................................ L-2 ARTICLE II. PARTICIPATION AND SERVICE ..................................................................... L-8 Section 2.01. Eligibility ................................................................................................. L-8 Section 2.02. Inactive Participant .................................................................................. L-8 Section 2.03. Cessation of Participation ........................................................................ L-8 Section 2.04. Calculation of Pension Credited Service ................................................. L-8 ARTICLE III. RETIREMENT BENEFITS ............................................................................... L-10 Section 3.01. Retirement Benefits ............................................................................... L-10 Section 3.02. Disregard of Accrued Benefit ................................................................ L-11 ARTICLE IV. OTHER BENEFITS .......................................................................................... L-12 Section 4.01. Death Benefits ........................................................................................ L-12 Section 4.02. Vested Benefits ...................................................................................... L-13 ARTICLE V. WHEN BENEFITS START AND DISTRIBUTION OF BENEFITS ............... L-15 Section 5.01. When Benefits Start ............................................................................... L-15 Section 5.02. Mandatory Participant Contributions ..................................................... L-15 Section 5.03. Automatic Forms of Distribution ........................................................... L-15 Section 5.04. Suspension of Benefits Upon Reemployment. ...................................... L-15 EXHIBIT L-1: ACTUARIAL ASSUMPTIONS ...................................................................... L-17 PART M: REGAL POWER TRANSMISSIONS SOLUTIONS PENSION PLAN – APPENDIX 79 – MCGILL MANUFACTURING NON-UNION HOURLY EMPLOYEES (MONTICELLO, IN) ............................................................................ M-1 ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND FORMAT OF TERMS ...................................................... M-2 Section 1.01. Format ..................................................................................................... M-2 Section 1.02. Definitions............................................................................................... M-2 ARTICLE II. PARTICIPATION AND SERVICE ................................................................... M-6 Section 2.01. Eligibility ................................................................................................ M-6 Section 2.02. Inactive Participant ................................................................................. M-6 Section 2.03. Cessation of Participation ....................................................................... M-6 Section 2.04. Calculation of Pension Credited Service ................................................ M-6 ARTICLE III. RETIREMENT BENEFITS ............................................................................... M-8 Section 3.01. Retirement Benefits ................................................................................ M-8 Section 3.02. Disregard of Accrued Benefit ................................................................. M-9


 
x 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE IV. OTHER BENEFITS ........................................................................................ M-10 Section 4.01. Death Benefits ....................................................................................... M-10 Section 4.02. Disability Benefits ................................................................................ M-10 Section 4.03. Vested Benefits ..................................................................................... M-11 ARTICLE V. WHEN BENEFITS START AND DISTRIBUTION OF BENEFITS ............. M-13 Section 5.01. When Benefits Start .............................................................................. M-13 Section 5.02. Mandatory Participant Contributions .................................................... M-13 Section 5.03. Automatic Forms of Distribution .......................................................... M-13 Section 5.04. Suspension of Benefits Upon Reemployment ...................................... M-13 EXHIBIT M-1: ACTUARIAL ASSUMPTIONS ................................................................... M-15 Actuarial Assumptions .................................................................................................. M-15


 
1 4841-1404-2944.2 REGAL BELOIT AMERICA, INC. PENSION PLAN The Regal Beloit America, Inc. Pension Plan (formerly known as the RBC Manufacturing Corporation Salaried Employees’ Pension Plan) is intended to provide benefits to eligible employees of participating employers upon their retirement or earlier termination of employment and to their spouses or other beneficiaries upon death. The Plan was last amended and restated effective January 1, 2013, as a continuation of the RBC Manufacturing Corporation Salaried Employees’ Pension Plan and reflected the merger of the following plans (collectively referred to as the “Predecessor Plans”) with and into such plan, effective midnight on December 31, 2012: (1) the RBC Manufacturing Corporation Lebanon & West Plains Hourly Pension Plan, (2) the RBC Manufacturing Corporation Wausau Hourly Pension Plan, (3) the RBC Manufacturing Corporation Marathon Special Products Hourly Pension Plan, (4) the Unico, Inc. Employees’ Pension Plan, (5) the Regal Beloit EPC, Inc. Tipp City Plant Industrial Pension Plan, and (6) the Regal Beloit EPC, Inc. Mt. Sterling Industrial Pension Plan. The Plan is now amended and restated effective January 1, 2017 to reflect the merger of the following plans with and into this Plan, effective midnight, on December 31, 2016: (1) the Regal Power Transmissions Solutions Pension Plan, and (2) Retirement Plan Number One for Hourly Employees of McGill Manufacturing Co., Inc. Except as otherwise specifically provided herein or as required in order to comply with applicable law, any amendment to the Plan shall apply only to periods on and after, and to employees whose employment is terminated on and after, the effective dates of the amendment. Rights with respect to periods before an amendment is effective shall be determined under the terms of the Plan (or any predecessor thereof) as in effect from time to time prior to the effective date of the amendment. The Plan consists of this Master Plan Document, which is applicable to all Participants in the Plan, as supplemented by thirteen Parts that define certain terms and conditions of the Plan as applied to specific groups of employees. The Parts are: • Part A: RBC Manufacturing Corporation Salaried Employees’ Pension Plan • Part B: RBC Manufacturing Corporation Lebanon & West Plains Hourly Pension Plan • Part C: RBC Manufacturing Corporation Wausau Hourly Pension Plan • Part D: RBC Manufacturing Corporation Marathon Special Products Hourly Pension Plan • Part E: Unico, Inc. Employees’ Pension Plan • Part F: Regal Beloit EPC, Inc. Tipp City Plant Industrial Pension Plan • Part G: Regal Beloit EPC, Inc. Mt. Sterling Industrial Pension Plan


 
2 4841-1404-2944.2 • Part H: Retirement Plan Number One for Hourly Employees of McGill Manufacturing Co., Inc. • Part I: Regal Power Transmissions Solutions Pension Plan – Appendix A – Kop-Flex Memorial Lodge 1784 & District Lodge 12 Union Employees • Part J: Regal Power Transmissions Solutions Pension Plan – Appendix 8 – Browning Manufacturing Division Employees • Part K: Regal Power Transmissions Solutions Pension Plan – Appendix 40 – Morse/Bearings Division (Morehead, KY)/Solus Industrial/Kop-Flex Salaried Employees • Part L: Regal Power Transmissions Solutions Pension Plan – Appendix 78 – Bearings Division Employees • Part M: Regal Power Transmissions Solutions Pension Plan – Appendix 79 – McGill Manufacturing Non-Union Hourly Employees (Monticello, IN)


 
3 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE I. DEFINED TERMS Section 1.01. Defined Terms. The following words and phrases, when used in the Plan, shall have the following respective meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Additional capitalized terms used herein are defined in each Part. (a) “Accrued Benefit” means a Participant’s benefit (determined pursuant to the applicable Part) expressed in terms of a single life annuity beginning at or after the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date, unless otherwise specified in the applicable Part (or if applicable in the Normal Form). (b) “Actuarial Equivalent” means the dollar value of any Accrued Benefit on a specified date, computed in accordance with the interest rate and actuarial assumptions specified in the applicable Part. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Actuarial Equivalent of any lump sum benefit (or other form of payment which Code Section 417(e)(3) applies) payable under the Plan shall be determined using the Applicable Mortality Table and the Applicable Interest Rate. (c) “Administrator” means the Retirement Plan Committee appointed pursuant to Section 4.01, which will have primary responsibility for administration of the Plan. In the absence of a Retirement Plan Committee, the Company shall be the Administrator. (d) “Affiliate” means each entity that is part of a controlled group of corporations, group of businesses under common control, or affiliated service group that includes the Company (or, if the context so requires, another Employer or Participating Employer), as determined pursuant to Code Sections 414(b), (c) and (m). (e) “Annuity Starting Date” means the first day of the first period for which an amount is payable as an annuity or any other form of benefit payment. The Annuity Starting Date is required to be the first day of a calendar month. (f) “Applicable Interest Rate” means the interest rate or rates pursuant to Code Section 417(e)(3) for the month of November immediately preceding the beginning of the Plan Year in which the Annuity Starting Date occurs. (g) “Applicable Mortality Table” means the applicable mortality table pursuant to Code Section 417(e)(3). In the event that a new or updated mortality table is prescribed for purposes of Code Section 417(e)(3), the new or updated mortality table shall automatically become the Applicable Mortality Table without the necessity of a Plan amendment to adopt such table. (h) “Beneficiary” means any person entitled to receive any payments due under the Plan as a result of the death of a Participant. (i) “Board” means the Board of Directors of the Company. (j) “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the rules and regulations issued thereunder, all as amended and in effect from time to time.


 
4 4841-1404-2944.2 (k) “Company” means Regal Beloit America, Inc., a Wisconsin corporation, or any successor thereto. (l) “Employee” means, with respect to any Part of the Plan, a person who is classified by an Employer as a common law employee and who is employed in an eligible job classification with respect to that Part of the Plan. Specific rules regarding the definition of Employee as applied to each Part of the Plan are set forth in the applicable Part. An individual shall be considered an Employee on any day only if that individual is currently classified by an Employer as a common law employee on that day, regardless of whether that individual (i) was so classified on any other day, or (ii) in the future is retroactively reclassified as a common law employee effective on the applicable day. This result is not affected by whether that individual was classified as an employee on any other day, or in the future is retroactively reclassified as an employee as of the applicable day. The Administrator shall, in its sole discretion, determine whether any person is an Employee under the Plan. (m) “Employer” means the Company and those of its subsidiaries or Affiliates, divisions or units which shall have been designated as an Employer on Appendix 1. (n) “ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the rules and regulations issued thereunder, all as amended and in effect from time to time. (o) “Hours of Service” means each hour for which an Employee is entitled to payment for the performance of duties for the Company or an Affiliate, regardless of when payment is made or due. Hours of Service shall be credited for employment with an Affiliate for purposes of eligibility and vesting. Hours of Service shall also be credited for any individual who is considered an employee for purposes of this Plan pursuant to Code Section 414(n) or (o) and the regulations thereunder. Calculation and credit of Hours of Employment shall be made pursuant to Department of Labor regulations Section 2530.200b-2. See such Parts for additional rules. (p) “Leased Employee” means any person who (i) is not an employee of an Employer or an Affiliate (the “service recipient”), (ii) who provides services to the service recipient pursuant to an agreement between the service recipient and any other person, (iii) has performed such services for the service recipient on a substantially full-time basis for a period of at least one (1) year; and (iv) performs such services under the primary direction or control of the service recipient, all as determined pursuant to the provisions of Code Sections 414(n) and (o). (q) “Master Plan Document” means this document, which contains provisions of the Plan that are applicable to all of the Parts of the Plan. (r) “Normal Form” means a single life annuity, unless used in a Part where it is given a different meaning when used in such Part. (s) “Normal Retirement Date” has the meaning ascribed in the relevant Part. (t) “Part(s)” or “Part(s) of the Plan” means Parts A through M of the Plan and such additional Parts as may from time to time be added by amendment to the Plan. When used


 
5 4841-1404-2944.2 herein, a reference to a particular Part of the Plan, e.g., “Part A of the Plan” or “Part A”, refers only to the portion of the Plan applicable to Employees covered under such Part of the Plan. (u) “Participant” means any individual who is an Employee and who has satisfied the requirements for eligibility to participate in the Plan. (v) “Plan” means this Regal Beloit America, Inc. Pension Plan, the terms and provisions of which are herein set forth, as the same may be amended from time to time. (w) “Plan Year” means the calendar year. (x) “Required Beginning Date” means (i) in the case of a 5% owner (as defined in Code Section 416), the April 1 following the year in which the Participant attains age 70½, even if still employed, and (ii) in any other case, the April 1 of the calendar year following the year in which the Participant attains age 70½ or terminates employment from the Employer and its Affiliates, whichever is later. (y) “Spouse” has the meaning ascribed in the relevant Part. Section 1.02. Construction. Where appearing in the Plan, the masculine shall include the feminine, and the singular shall include the plural, and vice versa unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. The words “hereof”, “herein”, “hereunder” and other similar compounds of the word “here” shall mean and refer to the entire Plan and not to any particular section or subsection.


 
6 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE II. PARTICIPATION AND CALCULATION OF BENEFITS Section 2.01. In General. The determination of the Employees who are eligible to participate in the Plan, the benefit formula or formulae that are used (and other components that are necessary) to calculate benefits, the rules for computing service for eligibility, vesting and benefit accrual and special forms of distribution that are available, are set forth in the applicable Part. Except as required under applicable law or as specifically provided in the applicable Part of the Plan, a Participant’s service for purposes of determining eligibility, vesting and benefit accrual will not include periods of employment (or Hours of Service) (a) with an entity prior to the date on which the entity becomes an Affiliate or after the date on which the entity ceases to be an Affiliate, or (b) with a predecessor entity some or all of the assets of which are acquired by the Company or an Affiliate. Section 2.02. Leased Employees. A Leased Employee shall not be eligible to participate in the Plan, but in the event such a person was participating or subsequently becomes eligible to participate herein, credit shall be given for the person’s service as a Leased Employee toward completion of the Plan’s eligibility and vesting requirements, including any service for an Affiliate, if applicable. Section 2.03. Benefits Payable from Another Plan or Multiple Parts of this Plan. Periods of employment for which the Participant received benefit accrual service (such as Benefit Service or Credited Service) in one Part of this Plan are not recognized as benefit accrual service, as applicable, in any other Part of this Plan, unless specifically set forth in an applicable Part. Periods of employment for which the Participant receives benefit accrual service hereunder are not recognized as benefit accrual service under any other defined benefit plan of the Company or any Affiliate, unless specifically provided under such other defined benefit plan. Periods of employment for which the Participant received benefit accrual service under any other defined benefit plan of the Company or any Affiliate is not counted as benefit accrual service hereunder. A Participant’s retirement benefit under the Plan shall be offset and reduced by any benefit previously paid under the Plan or payable (or paid) under any defined benefit predecessor plan. Periods of employment for which the Participant receives Benefit Service or Credited Service, as applicable, in one Part of this Plan are not recognized as Credited Service or Benefit Service, as applicable, in any other Part of this Plan, unless specifically set forth in an applicable Part. Periods of employment for which the Participant Benefit Service or Credited Service, as applicable, hereunder are not recognized as credited service or benefit service under any other defined benefit plan of the Company or any Affiliate, unless specifically provided under such other defined benefit plan. Periods of employment for which the Participant receives credited service or benefit service under any other defined benefit plan of the Company or any Affiliate is not counted as Benefit Service or Credited Service hereunder. A Participant’s retirement benefit under the Plan shall be offset and reduced by any benefit previously paid under the Plan or payable (or paid) under any defined benefit predecessor plan.


 
7 4841-1404-2944.2 Section 2.04. USERRA Leaves of Absence. Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the contrary, contributions, benefits and service credit with respect to qualified military service will be provided in accordance with Code Section 414(u). For any period of absence for such military service, Service and Hours of Service shall in all instances be credited consistent with the requirements of that provision.


 
8 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE III. PAYMENT OF BENEFITS Section 3.01. Normal Payment Forms. (a) The Normal Form of payment of retirement benefits for a Participant who does not have a Spouse (as defined in the applicable Part) shall be a life only annuity for the life of the Participant. The normal form of payment of retirement benefits for a Participant who does have a Spouse (as defined in the applicable Part) shall be a qualified joint and fifty percent (50%) survivor annuity pursuant to which the Participant will be paid reduced amounts which are the Actuarial Equivalent of the Accrued Benefit, and in the event the Participant predeceases his or her Spouse (to which he was married on the Annuity Starting Date), monthly payments equal to fifty percent (50%) of such reduced amounts shall be continued to such Spouse for his or her life. (b) Any Participant who becomes eligible to receive benefits under the Plan may select an optional form of benefit as provided in Section 3.02 hereof in lieu of the normal form. Section 3.02. Optional Payment Forms. (a) In lieu of the normal form of payment provided in Section 3.01 hereof, a Participant may elect to receive his or her retirement benefits in one of the following optional forms of payment as hereinafter described, or, if applicable, any other optional forms described in the applicable Part, each of which is the Actuarial Equivalent of the Participant’s Accrued Benefit: (i) Life Only Option. A monthly benefit in the amount determined under the applicable Part shall be payable to the Participant for life, with the final payment being paid for the month in which the Participant dies. (ii) 10-Year Period Certain Option. An actuarially reduced benefit shall be payable to the Participant through the month in which the Participant dies, and in the event the Participant dies prior to receiving 120 monthly payments, monthly payments in the same amount shall be continued payable to the Participant’s Beneficiary until an aggregate of 120 monthly payments have been made. (iii) Joint and 50% Survivor Option. An actuarially reduced benefit shall be payable to the Participant through the month in which the Participant dies and, in the event that the Participant dies before his or her Beneficiary, monthly payments equal to fifty percent (50%) of such reduced amount shall be continued to the Beneficiary for his or her life. If the Beneficiary is a person other than the Participant’s Spouse, then the present value of the benefits payable to the Participant shall not be less than fifty percent (50%) of the present value of the benefits which would


 
9 4841-1404-2944.2 have been payable to the Participant in the form of a Life Only Option. (iv) Joint and 75% Survivor Option. An actuarially reduced benefit shall be payable to the Participant through the month in which the Participant dies and, in the event that the Participant dies before his or her Beneficiary, monthly payments equal to seventy-five percent (75%) of such reduced amount shall be continued to the Beneficiary for his or her life. If the Beneficiary is a person other than the Participant’s Spouse, then the present value of the benefits payable to the Participant shall not be less than fifty percent (50%) of the present value of the benefits which would have been payable to the Participant in the form of a Life Only Option. (v) Joint and 100% Survivor Option. An actuarially reduced benefit shall be payable to the Participant through the month in which the Participant dies and, in the event that the Participant dies before his or her Beneficiary, monthly payments equal to one hundred percent (100%) of such reduced amount shall be continued to the Beneficiary for his or her life. If the Beneficiary is a person other than the Participant’s Spouse, then the present value of the benefits payable to the Participant shall not be less than fifty percent (50%) of the present value of the benefits which would have been payable to the Participant in the form of a Life Only Option. (vi) Lump Sum Option. If the Actuarial Equivalent lump sum value of the Participant’s vested Accrued Benefit does not exceed $10,000, then the Participant may elect a distribution in the form of a lump sum, or in any other form described in this Section 3.02, at any time after termination of employment. (b) In the event a Participant elects a form of payment that would pay benefits to a Beneficiary following the Participant’s death, then the Participant must designate a Beneficiary for purposes of this Section on a form prescribed by and submitted to the Administrator. Such designation may be changed or revoked at any time prior to the Annuity Starting Date or, in the case of the 10-Year Period Certain, at any time prior to the death of the Participant. If the Participant elects the 10-Year Period Certain Option and both the Participant and his or her Beneficiary die prior to receipt of 120 monthly payments in the aggregate, then the remainder of such 120 monthly payments shall be paid to the estate of the last to die of the Participant or his or her Beneficiary. (c) Any election pursuant to this Article III shall be made pursuant and subject to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Administrator. Any election of an optional form by a Participant with a Spouse (as defined in the applicable Part) shall be invalid unless either (i) the Participant’s Spouse as of the Annuity Starting Date has executed the


 
10 4841-1404-2944.2 election form and acknowledged its effect, with such consent being witnessed by a notary public or a Plan representative appointed by the Administrator, or (ii) the Participant has demonstrated to the satisfaction of the Administrator that he or she has no Spouse of whom consent is required, his or her Spouse cannot be located or he or she is excused from obtaining spousal consent because of other circumstances recognized under the Code. Any such election may be made or revoked at any time prior to the Participant’s Annuity Starting Date. Effective as of the Annuity Starting Date, the form of payment selected shall be irrevocable. The Administrator shall notify the Participant and the Spouse of their rights under this Article as required by ERISA. (d) If a Participant has an Accrued Benefit under more than one Part of this Plan, the Participant may make separate distribution elections for each Part’s benefits. Section 3.03. Commencement and Termination of Benefits. (a) Unless otherwise provided under this Article III, a Participant’s retirement benefits shall become payable as of the first day of the month in which occurs the Participant’s effective date of commencement, as described below. In no event shall benefits commence hereunder until after a Participant has terminated employment from the Employer and its Affiliates, unless expressly otherwise provided herein, and in no event shall benefits commence hereunder unless and until the Participant has made proper application therefor. (i) A Participant’s effective date of commencement of normal retirement benefits is the later of the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date or the first day of the month after his or her termination of employment from the Employer and all of its Affiliates. (ii) A Participant’s effective date of commencement of early or deferred retirement benefits is the date requested by the Participant after his or her termination from employment from the Employer and all of its Affiliates, which date shall be no earlier than his or her Early Retirement Date (as applicable) or the date otherwise permitted by the applicable Part. (iii) A Participant’s effective date of commencement of disability retirement benefits, if applicable, is the later to occur of the first day of the month following the date the Participant makes proper application for such benefits or the date that is six months after the Participant’s Total and Permanent Disability commences. Except as set forth in an applicable Part of the Plan, disability benefits shall cease if it is determined that the Participant’s Total and Permanent Disability has ceased or upon the Participant’s death prior to age sixty-five (65). At age sixty-five (65), the disability benefits shall stop and the Participant shall be entitled to a normal retirement benefit, including the right to elect optional methods of payment.


 
11 4841-1404-2944.2 (b) If a Participant’s benefits are being paid in a form of payment that provides for continued payments after the Participant’s death, then the death benefits shall become payable as of the first day of the month which is next following the death of the Participant. (c) Subject to applicable spousal consent rules, a Participant may elect to receive a lump sum payment of his or her Profit Sharing Benefit under Part A of the Plan at any time after his or her termination of employment but in all events no later than his or her Annuity Starting Date, whether or not he or she qualifies for a benefit pursuant to Article III of Part A. (d) Any application for benefits hereunder shall be in writing on a form provided by the Administrator and shall be made to the Administrator or to such representative as may be designated by the Administrator for that purpose. The Administrator may require any applicant for a pension to furnish to it any such information as may reasonably be required. (e) The Administrator will notify a Participant when a benefit under the Plan is requested. Within ninety (90) days but not less than thirty (30) days prior to a Participant’s anticipated Annuity Starting Date, the Administrator shall provide to the Participant a written explanation of: (i) the terms and conditions of the normal form of benefit payable to the Participant and the relative value of the optional forms of payment; (ii) a general description of the eligibility conditions under the Plan; (iii) the Participant’s right to waive the normal form of benefit and the effect of such a waiver; (iv) the rights of a Participant’s Spouse; (v) the Participant’s right to revoke a previous waiver and the effect of revoking such a waiver; and (vi) in the case of any distribution (other than an automatic cash-out of $5,000 or less) which is to commence prior to the Participant’s attainment of Normal Retirement Date, the Participant’s right to defer the commencement of the distribution until the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date and the consequences of failing to defer. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Participant’s Annuity Starting Date may be less than thirty (30) days after the written explanation is provided if (i) the written explanation clearly indicates that the Participant has the right to at least thirty (30) days to consider whether to waive the normal form of distribution and election an optional form, (ii) the Participant makes an affirmative election as to the form and time of distribution, (iii) the Participant is permitted to revoke his or her affirmative election at least until the Annuity Starting Date, or if later, at any time prior to the expiration of the 7-day period that begins the day after the written explanation is provided to the Participant, and (iv) distribution in accordance with the affirmative election is made after the expiration of such 7-day period. (f) If the Participant dies prior to the Annuity Starting Date, any election under this Article shall be considered revoked and void. In any such case, benefits shall only be payable pursuant to the death benefit rules set forth in the applicable Part. (g) Benefit payments under this Article other than the guaranteed amounts under the 10-Year Period Certain Option shall end with the payment made for the first day of the month in which occurs the death of the Participant, Spouse, or Beneficiary, as applicable. (h) Notwithstanding any other Section of the Plan, the payment of benefits under the Plan to the Participant will begin no later than the 60th day after the close of the Plan Year in which the last of the following occurs:


 
12 4841-1404-2944.2 (i) the date on which the Participant attains age 65; or (ii) the tenth anniversary of the date on which the Participant commenced participation in the Plan; or (iii) the Participant’s termination of employment with the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the failure of a Participant and/or Spouse to make proper application for a benefit as of the date specified above shall be deemed to be an election to defer the start of benefits. Section 3.04. Retroactive Annuity Starting Dates. (a) Limited Application of Retroactive Annuity Starting Dates. Except in the limited circumstances described in this Section, the Plan does not provide for a retroactive Annuity Starting Date (i.e., an Annuity Starting Date that occurs on or prior to the date the notice described in Section 3.03(e) is provided to the Participant). However, the Plan will permit a Participant to elect a retroactive Annuity Starting Date in the following circumstances: (i) the Participant files an application for benefits after the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date; or (ii) due to an administrative error or delay, the Administrator provides to the Participant the notice described in Section 3.03 more than ninety (90) days after the Participant has made application for benefits. (b) If eligible, a Participant may elect a retroactive Annuity Starting Date subject to the following rules: (i) Either (A) in the case of a Participant who makes an application for benefits after his or her Normal Retirement Date, the retroactive Annuity Starting Date may not be before the later of the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date or the first day of the month following the date on which the Participant terminates employment with the Employer and its Affiliates, or (B) in the case of any other eligible Participant, the retroactive Annuity Starting Date cannot be a date that precedes the first day of the month following the date on which the Participant terminates employment with the Employer and its Affiliates or, if later, the first day of the month following the date on which the Participant could have otherwise started to receive benefits under the Plan. (ii) If the Participant is married, the Participant’s Spouse as of the date the first benefit payment will be distributed will be treated as a Spouse and must consent to the retroactive Annuity Starting Date if either: (A) the amount of the survivor’s benefit payable to such Spouse under the joint and fifty percent (50%) survivor


 
13 4841-1404-2944.2 annuity with a retroactive Annuity Starting Date is less than the amount of the survivor’s benefit that would be payable to such Spouse under the same form of benefit that commences immediately after the notice is provided, or (B) the Participant selects an optional form of distribution (other than an optional joint and survivor benefit with respect to which such Spouse is the designated contingent annuitant). The consent of the Participant’s Spouse as of the retroactive Annuity Starting Date (if different than the Spouse as of the date benefits commence) is not required, unless otherwise required by a qualified domestic relations order. (iii) The notice described in Section 3.03(e) is timely provided to the Participant. (iv) A Participant’s benefit shall be distributed pursuant to a retroactive Annuity Starting Date only if the Participant is eligible for and elects such a distribution (with consent of the Participant’s Spouse as of the date benefits commence, where required). (v) The lump sum form of payment is not available to a Participant for any benefits distributed pursuant to a retroactive Annuity Starting Date. (c) If payment is made pursuant to a retroactive Annuity Starting Date, then the Participant shall receive, in addition to future monthly payments, a make-up payment to reflect any missed payment or payments for the period from the retroactive Annuity Starting Date to the date of the actual make-up payment, with interest, compounded annually, at a rate determined by the Administrator. Under current administrative practice, the interest rate is seven percent (7%) per annum. The retroactive payment or payments must not exceed the limits of Code Section 415 as in effect on the dates the missed payment or payments would have been made and, if the date that benefits commence is more than twelve (12) months after the Annuity Starting Date, the retroactive payment or payments must also not exceed the limits of Code Section 415 as in effect as of the date the payment or payments are actually made. Section 3.05. Death Benefits. If a vested Participant dies before his or her Annuity Starting Date, the only death benefits payable shall be those set forth in the applicable Part. If a vested Participant dies on or after his or her Annuity Starting Date, the only death benefits payable shall be those provided under the form of distribution in effect. Section 3.06. Payment of Small Amounts and Service Cancellation Rules. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the contrary, in the event the Actuarial Equivalent lump sum value of a Participant’s Accrued Benefit or the death benefits payable to a Beneficiary or surviving Spouse) is less than $5,000, then the Administrator shall pay such Actuarial Equivalent value in a lump sum to the Participant, Beneficiary or surviving


 
14 4841-1404-2944.2 Spouse as soon as administratively feasible following the Participant’s separation from service or death, as applicable. The Actuarial Equivalent lump sum value shall be determined as soon as administratively practicable after the Participant’s termination of employment or the date the Administrator is provided notice of the Participant’s death, as applicable. (b) In the event of a mandatory distribution greater than $1,000 that is made in accordance with subsection (a) to a Participant without the Participant’s consent, if the Participant does not elect to have such distribution paid directly to an “eligible retirement plan” specified by the Participant in a direct rollover or to receive the distribution directly, then the Administrator shall pay the distribution in a direct rollover to an individual retirement plan designated by the Administrator. (c) If a Participant’s entire vested benefit has been distributed or he or she has no vested interest at the time of his or her termination of employment from the Employer and its Affiliates, he or she shall be deemed cashed out from the Plan. (d) If an employee is reemployed in a position covered by this Plan after receiving a lump-sum benefit regardless of amount (including a deemed lump sum cashout), the prior Vesting Service and Credited Service shall be retained and used in the calculation of the subsequent benefits, if any, subject to an offset for the value of the monthly benefit paid by the lump-sum distribution. Section 3.07. Reemployment After Retirement. In the event a Participant is reemployed by the Employer or an Affiliate after commencing benefits under Article III hereof, such benefit payments shall not be suspended during the period of reemployment, except as provided in Section 3.08 or in a Part. Section 3.08. Continued Employment or Re-Employment after Normal Retirement Date. (a) A Participant who has attained age sixty-five (65) but has not retired, or who previously retired and was subsequently reemployed by the Employer or an Affiliate after attaining age sixty-five (65), shall be deemed to have terminated employment for purposes of this Plan if he or she completes fewer than forty (40) Hours of Service per calendar month. Any Participant who fails to receive benefit payments due to such employment shall be notified pursuant to the requirements of DOL Reg. § 2530.203-3. (b) For a Participant who receives an in-service distribution pursuant to the application of subsection (a), upon such Participant’s termination of employment, he or she shall be entitled to a pension hereunder based upon the Benefit Service or Credited Service, as applicable, accrued prior to his or her attainment of age sixty-five (65) and the Benefit Service or Credited Service, if any, accrued after his or her attainment of age sixty-five (65), but reduced by the Actuarial Equivalent of the total amount of benefit payments received prior to the termination of employment, but in no event shall Benefit Service or Credited Service, as applicable, be credited after the date that such Benefit Service or Credited Service has been frozen under the applicable Part of this Plan.


 
15 4841-1404-2944.2 (c) If a Participant receives an in-service distribution during any calendar month in which he or she completes forty (40) or more Hours of Service, such Participant’s future benefit payments shall be offset by the amount of such in-service distribution, provided that such offset does not exceed in any one month twenty-five (25%) percent of that month’s total benefit payment which would have been due but for the offset. Section 3.09. Direct Rollovers. This Section deals with Participants’ and Beneficiaries’ rights to distribution in the form of a direct rollover. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the contrary that would otherwise limit a distributee’s election under this Plan, a distributee may elect, at the time and in the manner prescribed by the Administrator, to have any portion of an eligible rollover distribution paid directly to an eligible retirement plan specified by the distributee in a direct rollover. (b) For purposes of this Section, the following definitions apply: (i) Eligible rollover distribution: An eligible rollover distribution is any distribution of all or any portion of the balance to the credit of the distributee, except that an eligible rollover distribution does not include: (i) any distribution that is one of a series of substantially equal periodic payments (not less frequently than annually) made for the life (or life expectancy) of the distributee or the joint lives (or joint life expectancies) of the distributee and the distributee’s designated beneficiary, or for a specified period of ten years or more; (ii) any distribution to the extent such distribution is required under Code Section 401(a)(9); or (iii) the portion of any distribution that is not includible in gross income (determined without regard to the exclusion for net unrealized appreciation with respect to employer securities). Notwithstanding the foregoing, a portion of a distribution shall not fail to be an eligible rollover distribution merely because the portion consists of after-tax employee contributions which are not includible in gross income; however, such portion may be transferred only as a direct rollover to an individual retirement account or annuity described in Code Section 408(a) or (b), a qualified plan described in Code Section 401(a) or 403(a), or a tax-deferred annuity plan described in Code Section 403(b) that agrees to separately account for amounts so transferred, including separately accounting for the portion of such distribution which is includible in gross income and the portion of such distribution which is not so includible. (ii) Eligible retirement plan: An eligible retirement plan is an individual retirement account described in Code Section 408(a), an individual retirement annuity described in Code Section 408(b), a Roth IRA described in Code Section 408A, an annuity


 
16 4841-1404-2944.2 plan described in Code Section 403(a), an annuity contract described in Code Section 403(b), a qualified trust described in Code Section 401(a), or an eligible plan described in Code Section 457 which is maintained by a state, political subdivision of a state, or an agency or instrumentality of a state or political subdivision of a state and which agrees to separately account for amounts transferred into such plan from this Plan, and that accepts the distributee’s eligible rollover distribution. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a non-spouse beneficiary may roll over his or her interest only to an IRA. (iii) Distributee: A distributee includes an Employee or former Employee. In addition, the Employee’s or former Employee’s spouse, surviving spouse or former spouse who is the alternate payee under a qualified domestic relations order, as defined in Code Section 414(p), or non-spouse beneficiary qualify as distributees with regard to the interest of the spouse or former spouse. (iv) Direct rollover: A direct rollover is a payment by the Plan to the eligible retirement plan specified by the distributee. Section 3.10. Required Minimum Distributions. (a) General. The provisions of this Section 3.10 will apply for purposes of determining required minimum distributions for calendar years beginning with 2003 and will take precedence over any inconsistent provisions of the Plan. This Section 3.10 shall not be interpreted to provide any additional options to the recipient with respect to the form or timing of payment beyond the other provisions of the Plan, except as necessary to comply with the minimum requirements. All Plan distributions will be determined and made in accordance with the Treasury regulations under Code Section 401(a)(9). Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section, distributions may be made under a designation made before January 1, 1984, in accordance with Section 242(b)(2) of the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA) and the Plan provisions that relate to Section 242(b)(2) of TEFRA. (b) Definitions. (i) Designated Beneficiary. The designated beneficiary for purposes of this Section is the individual who is the beneficiary designated under the Plan and is the designated beneficiary under Code Section 401(a)(9) and Section 1.401(a)(9)-1, Q&A-4, of the Treasury regulations. (ii) Distribution Calendar Year. A distribution calendar year is a calendar year for which a minimum distribution is required. For distributions beginning before the Participant’s death, the first distribution calendar year is the calendar year immediately


 
17 4841-1404-2944.2 preceding the calendar year which contains the Participant’s required beginning date. For distributions beginning after the Participant’s death, the first distribution calendar year is the calendar year in which distributions are required to begin under Article III and/or the applicable Part of the Plan. (iii) Life Expectancy. Life expectancy means the value computed by use of the Single Life Table in Section 1.401(a)(9)-9 of the Treasury regulations. (iv) Required Beginning Date. The date described in Section 1.01(x). (c) Time and Manner of Distribution. The Participant’s entire interest will be distributed, or begin to be distributed, to the Participant no later than the Participant’s Required Beginning Date. If the Participant dies before distributions begin, the Participant’s entire interest will be distributed, or begin to be distributed, no later than as follows: (i) If the Participant’s surviving spouse is the Participant’s sole designated beneficiary, then distributions to the surviving spouse will begin by December 31 of the calendar year immediately following the calendar year in which the Participant died, or by December 31 of the calendar year in which the Participant would have attained age 70½, if later. (ii) If the Participant’s surviving spouse is not the Participant’s sole designated beneficiary, then distributions to each designated beneficiary will begin by December 31 of the calendar year immediately following the calendar year in which the Participant died. (iii) If there is no designated beneficiary as of September 30 of the year following the year of the Participant’s death, the Participant’s entire interest will be distributed by December 31 of the calendar year containing the fifth anniversary of the Participant’s death. (iv) If the Participant’s surviving spouse is the Participant’s sole designated beneficiary and the surviving spouse dies after the Participant but before distributions to the surviving spouse begin, subparagraphs (ii) and (iii) will apply as if the surviving spouse were the Participant. Unless subsection (c)(iv) applies, distributions are considered to begin on the Participant’s Required Beginning Date. If subsection (c)(iv) applies, distributions are considered to begin on the date distributions are required to begin to the surviving spouse under subsection (c)(i). If distributions irrevocably commence to the Participant before the Participant’s Required Beginning Date (or to the Participant’s surviving spouse before the date distributions are


 
18 4841-1404-2944.2 required to begin to the surviving spouse under subsection (c)(i)), the date distributions are considered to begin is the date distributions actually commence. (d) Forms of Distribution. Unless the Participant’s interest is distributed in the form of an annuity purchased from an insurance company or in a single sum on or before the Required Beginning Date, as of the first distribution calendar year distributions will be made in accordance with the rules regarding required minimum distributions during the Participant’s lifetime and after the Participant’s death, as applicable. If the Participant’s interest is distributed in the form of an annuity purchased from an insurance company, distributions thereunder will be made in accordance with the requirements of Code Section 401(a)(9) and the Treasury regulations. Any part of the Participant’s interest which is in the form of an individual account described in Code Section 414(k) will be distributed in a manner satisfying the requirements of Code Section 401(a)(9) and Treasury regulations that apply to individual accounts. (e) Determination of Amount to be Distributed Each Year. If the Participant’s interest is paid in the form of annuity distributions under the Plan, payments under the annuity will satisfy the following requirements: (i) the annuity distributions will be paid in periodic payments made at intervals not longer than one (1) year; (ii) the distribution period will be over a life (or lives) or over a period certain not longer than the period described in subsection (f) or (g); (iii) once payments have begun over a period, the period certain will not be changed even if the period certain is shorter than the maximum permitted; (iv) payments will either be nonincreasing or increase only (A) by an annual percentage increase that does not exceed the annual percentage increase in a cost-of-living index that is based on prices of all items and issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics; (B) to the extent of the reduction in the amount of the Participant’s payments to provide for a surviving benefit upon death, but only if the beneficiary whose life was being used to determine the distribution period described in subsection (i) dies or is no longer the Participant’s beneficiary pursuant to a qualified domestic relations order within the meaning of Code Section 414(p); (C) to provide cash refunds of employee contributions upon the Participant’s death; or (D) to pay increased benefits that result from a plan amendment. The amount that must be distributed on or before the Participant’s Required Beginning Date (or, if the Participant dies before distributions begin, the date distributions are required to begin under subsection (c)(i) or (ii)) is the payment that is required for one (1) payment interval. The second payment need not be made until the end of the next payment


 
19 4841-1404-2944.2 interval even if that payment interval ends in the next calendar year. Payment intervals are the periods for which payments are received, e.g., bi-monthly, monthly, semi-annually, or annually. All of the Participant’s benefit accruals as of the last day of the first distribution calendar year will be included in the calculation of the amount of the annuity payments for payment intervals ending on or after the Participant’s required beginning date. Any additional benefits accruing to the Participant in a calendar year after the first distribution calendar year will be distributed beginning with the first payment interval ending in the calendar year immediately following the calendar year in which such amount accrues. (f) Requirements For Annuity Distributions That Commence During Participant’s Lifetime. If the Participant’s interest is being distributed in the form of a joint and survivor annuity for the joint lives of the Participant and a non-spouse beneficiary, annuity payments to be made on or after the Participant’s Required Beginning Date to the designated beneficiary after the Participant’s death must not at any time exceed the applicable percentage of the annuity payment for such period that would have been payable to the Participant using the table set forth in Q&A-2 of Section 1.401(a)(9)-6 of the Treasury regulations. If the form of distribution combines a joint and survivor annuity for the joint lives of the Participant and a non- spouse beneficiary and period certain annuity, the requirement in the preceding sentence will apply to annuity payments to be made to the designated beneficiary after the expiration of the period certain. Unless the Participant’s spouse is the sole designated beneficiary and the form of distribution is a period certain and no life annuity, the period certain for an annuity distribution commencing during the Participant’s lifetime may not exceed the applicable distribution period for the Participant under the Uniform Lifetime Table set forth in Section 1.401(a)(9)-9 of the Treasury regulations for the calendar year that contains the annuity starting date. If the annuity starting date precedes the year in which the Participant reaches age 70, the applicable distribution period for the Participant is the distribution period for age 70 under the Uniform Lifetime Table set forth in Section 1.401(a)(9)-9 of the Treasury regulations plus the excess of 70 over the age of the Participant as of the Participant’s birthday in the year that contains the annuity starting date. If the Participant’s spouse is the Participant’s sole designated beneficiary and the form of distribution is a period certain and no life annuity, the period certain may not exceed the longer of the Participant’s applicable distribution period, as determined under this subsection, or the joint life and last survivor expectancy of the Participant and the Participant’s spouse as determined under the Joint and Last Survivor Table set forth in Section 1.401(a)(9)-9 of the Treasury regulations, using the Participant’s and spouse’s attained ages as of the Participant’s and spouse’s birthdays in the calendar year that contains the annuity starting date. (g) Requirements For Minimum Distributions Where Participant Dies Before Date Distributions Begin. If the Participant dies before the date distribution of the Participant’s interest begins and there is a designated beneficiary, the Participant’s entire interest will be distributed, beginning no later than the time described in subsection (c)(i) or (ii), over the life of the designated beneficiary or over a period certain not exceeding: (i) unless the annuity starting date is before the first distribution calendar year, the life expectancy of the designated beneficiary determined using the beneficiary’s age as of the beneficiary’s birthday in the calendar year immediately following the calendar year of the Participant’s death; or


 
20 4841-1404-2944.2 (ii) if the annuity starting date is before the first distribution calendar year, the life expectancy of the designated beneficiary determined using the beneficiary’s age as of the beneficiary’s birthday in the calendar year that contains the annuity starting date. If the Participant dies before the date distributions begin and there is no designated beneficiary as of September 30 of the year following the year of the Participant’s death, distribution of the Participant’s entire interest will be completed by December 31 of the calendar year containing the fifth anniversary of the Participant’s death. If the Participant dies before the date distribution of the Participant’s interest begins, the Participant’s surviving spouse is the Participant’s sole designated beneficiary, and the surviving spouse dies before distributions to the surviving spouse begin, this subsection will apply as if the surviving spouse were the Participant, except that the time by which distributions must begin will be determined without regard to subsection (f)(i). Section 3.11. 2014 Lump Sum Window Program. (a) Definitions. Solely for purposes of this Section, the following terms, when capitalized in this Section, will have the following meanings: (i) “Distributable Benefit Amount” means (A) with respect to a retirement benefit that is not otherwise distributable on the Program Annuity Starting Date, the benefit that would be payable if such benefit commenced on the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date and (B) with respect to a retirement benefit that is otherwise distributable on the Program Annuity Starting Date pursuant to the normal provisions of the Plan (e.g., a Participant entitled to elect early retirement), the greater of: (i) the benefit that would be payable if such benefit commenced on the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date or (ii) the benefit that would be payable on the Program Annuity Starting Date, calculated pursuant to the normal provisions of this Plan (including any actuarial adjustments required under the terms of the Plan with respect to the benefit of any Eligible Participant whose Normal Retirement Date precedes the Program Annuity Starting Date). (ii) “Election Window” means the period commencing September 15, 2014 and ending October 31, 2014. (iii) “Eligible Participant” means a Participant whose benefit is not subject to a qualified domestic relations order and (A) who separated from employment with the Company and all Affiliates prior to January 1, 2014 and remains separated through the Program Annuity Starting Date, (B) who is entitled to receive a deferred vested benefit, (C) whose Lump Sum Amount is less


 
21 4841-1404-2944.2 than $30,001 as of the Program Annuity Starting Date, (D) who has not yet commenced receiving, nor would otherwise be required under the Plan’s required minimum distribution rules to commence receiving, his or her benefit payments as of the Program Annuity Starting Date, and (E) who is living on the Program Annuity Starting Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Participant whose election package is returned as undeliverable mail will not be considered an Eligible Participant under this Section. (iv) “Lump Sum Actuarial Equivalent” means the actuarial equivalent benefit calculated using the applicable mortality table under Code Section 417(e)(3)(B) for 2014 and the applicable interest rate under Code Section 417(e)(3)(C) for the month of November, 2013 (the November preceding the first day of the Plan Year in which occurs the Program Annuity Starting Date). (v) “Lump Sum Amount” means the Lump Sum Actuarial Equivalent value of the Distributable Benefit Amount. If an Eligible Participant had previously received any benefit payments under the Plan (e.g., payment of the Eligible Participant’s Profit Sharing Benefit under Part A of the Plan), then the Lump Sum Amount will be reduced by the amount of any payments previously made to or on behalf of the Participant. (vi) “Program” means the 2014 Lump Sum Window Program described in this Section. (vii) “Program Annuity Starting Date” means December 1, 2014. (b) Eligibility. Except as otherwise provided in this Section, an Eligible Participant shall be eligible to participate in the Program. Participation is limited to Eligible Participants and, except as otherwise provided in subsection (g) below, is voluntary. Surviving spouses or beneficiaries of deceased Participants, and alternate payees under a qualified domestic relations order, are not eligible. If an Eligible Participant’s Lump Sum Amount is $5,000 or more, then the Eligible Participant’s participation in the Program is governed by subsections (c) – (f) below. If an Eligible Participant’s Lump Sum Amount is less than $5,000, then the Eligible Participant’s participation in the Program is governed by subsection (g) below. (c) Distribution Timing and Form. An Eligible Participant whose Lump Sum Amount is $5,000 or more may, but need not, elect to participate in the Program and receive his or her benefits as follows: (i) If the Eligible Participant, as of the Program Annuity Starting Date, is eligible to commence his or her monthly retirement benefits under the Plan as in effect immediately prior to the


 
22 4841-1404-2944.2 adoption of the Program, then such Eligible Participant may elect to receive his or her benefits as: (1) A single payment equal to the Lump Sum Amount payable on the Program Annuity Starting Date (or as soon as administratively feasible thereafter); or (2) An annuity, commencing on the Program Annuity Starting Date, in any annuity form otherwise available under the Plan; provided that if the Program Annuity Starting date is after the Eligible Participant’s Normal Retirement Date, then the Participant may elect to receive his or her benefits as an annuity with a retroactive Annuity Starting Date in accordance with the otherwise applicable terms of the Plan. (ii) If the Eligible Participant, as of the Program Annuity Starting Date, is not eligible to commence his or her monthly retirement benefits under the Plan as in effect immediately prior to the adoption of the Program, then such Eligible Participant may elect to receive his or her benefits as: (A) A single payment equal to the Lump Sum Amount payable on the Program Annuity Starting Date (or as soon as administratively feasible thereafter); or (B) An annuity, commencing on the Program Annuity Starting Date, in any annuity form otherwise available under the master Plan document (i.e., without regard to any optional forms available solely under Parts A through G). If an Eligible Participant elects an annuity form of payment, but does not designate the annuity form, then such Eligible Participant’s benefits will be paid as a life only annuity (for a Participant who does not have a Spouse on the Program Annuity Starting Date) or as a joint and 50% survivor annuity (for a Participant who has a Spouse on the Program Annuity Starting Date) with the Spouse as the contingent annuitant. (d) Election Period and Procedures. An Eligible Participant whose Lump Sum Amount is $5,000 or more and who wishes to participate in the Program must make the election referred to in subsection (c) above during the Election Window. Elections by Eligible Participants are irrevocable as of the Program Annuity Starting Date. An Eligible Participant’s election shall be made in such form and in such manner as the Administrator shall prescribe, consistent, other than with regard to the election period provided under this Section, with the spousal consent, notice, and election requirements otherwise provided in the Plan and in accordance with Code Sections 401(a)(11) and 417 with respect to benefit commencement and the selection of the applicable form of payment. An Eligible Participant is not required to elect to commence benefits under the Program. If an Eligible Participant does not make a benefit payment election under the Program during the Election Window or does not survive to the


 
23 4841-1404-2944.2 Program Annuity Starting Date, then the special payment options available under the Program will no longer be available, and the Participant’s vested Plan benefit will continue to be distributable in accordance with the otherwise applicable terms of the Plan. (e) Calculation of Immediate Annuity Benefit. If an Eligible Participant elects to receive payment of his or her vested benefit in the form of an immediate monthly annuity, then the annuity shall be the actuarial equivalent of the Distributable Benefit Amount, calculated using the normal Actuarial Equivalent factors otherwise specified under the Plan for converting one form of periodic payment to another. (f) Death Before Payment. If an Eligible Participant who has elected a distribution under subsection (c) dies before the Program Annuity Starting Date, then the election shall be null and void and the only benefits payable will be in accordance with the otherwise applicable terms of the Plan. If an Eligible Participant has elected to receive a distribution under subsection (c) in the form of an annuity and the contingent annuitant dies before the Program Annuity Starting Date, then the Eligible Participant’s election to participate in the Program shall be null and void and the Eligible Participant will only be eligible to receive his or her benefit in accordance with the otherwise applicable terms of the Plan. An Eligible Participant whose contingent annuitant dies before the end of the Election Window shall be permitted to re-submit a new election before the end of the Election Window. (g) Lump Sum Amount of Less than $5,000. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if an Eligible Participant’s Lump Sum Amount is less than $5,000, then the Administrator will distribute such amount in a lump sum to the Eligible Participant on the Program Annuity Starting Date (or as soon as administratively feasible thereafter). If the Lump Sum Amount of a mandatory distribution under this subsection (g) is greater than $1,000, and the Eligible Participant does not elect to have such distribution paid directly to an “eligible retirement plan” specified by the Eligible Participant in a direct rollover or to receive the distribution directly, then the Administrator will make the distribution in a direct rollover to an individual retirement account designated by the Administrator. No immediate annuity option is available to an Eligible Participant whose Lump Sum Amount is less than $5,000. Section 3.12. 2016 Lump Sum Window Program. (a) Definitions. Solely for the purposes of this Section 3.12, the following terms, when capitalized in this Section, will have the following meanings. (i) “Distributable Benefit Amount” means (A) with respect to a retirement benefit that is not otherwise distributable on the Program Annuity Starting Date, the benefit that would be payable if such benefit commenced on the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date and (B) with respect to a retirement benefit that is otherwise distributable on the Program Annuity Starting Date pursuant to the normal provisions of the Plan (e.g., a Participant entitled to elect early retirement), the greater of: (i) the benefit that would be payable if such benefit commenced on the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date or (ii) the benefit that


 
24 4841-1404-2944.2 would be payable on the Program Annuity Starting Date, calculated pursuant to the normal provisions of this Plan (including any actuarial adjustments required under the terms of the Plan with respect to the benefit of any Eligible Participant whose Normal Retirement Date precedes the Program Annuity Starting Date). (ii) “Election Window” means the period commencing September 19, 2016 and ending October 31, 2016, with exceptions that may be allowed by the Company, in its sole discretion, in reasonable circumstances resulting in an untimely election. (iii) “Eligible Participant” means a Participant (A) who, as of December 31, 2015, is terminated from employment with the Company and all of its Affiliates and remains terminated through the Program Annuity Starting Date, (B) who is entitled to receive a deferred vested benefit under the Plan, (C) who has not yet commenced receiving, nor would otherwise be required under the Plan’s required minimum distribution rules to commence receiving, his or her benefit payments as of the Program Annuity Starting Date, (D) who is living on the Program Annuity Starting Date, and (E) whose Lump Sum Amount is $60,000 or less as of the Program Annuity Starting Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the following are not considered Eligible Participants: (1) Participants whose accrued benefits under the Plan were the subject of a pending domestic relations order, (2) Participants and alternate payees who are subject to a qualified domestic relations order that does not create a separate interest for the alternate payee, and (3) Participants who are considered employed by the Company or an Affiliate but are in inactive status, such as on a leave of absence. Similarly, a Participant whose election package is returned as undeliverable mail will not be considered an Eligible Participant under this section. (iv) “Lump Sum Actuarial Equivalent” means the actuarial equivalent benefit calculated using the applicable mortality table under Code Section 417(e)(3)(B) for 2016 and the applicable interest rate under Code Section 417(e)(3)(C) for the month of November 2015 (the November preceding the first day of the Plan Year in which the Program Annuity Starting Date occurs). (v) “Lump Sum Amount” means the Lump Sum Actuarial Equivalent value of the Distributable Benefit Amount. If an Eligible Participant had previously received any benefit payments under the Plan (e.g. payment of the Eligible


 
25 4841-1404-2944.2 Participant’s Profit Sharing Benefit under Part A of the Plan), then the Lump Sum Amount will be reduced by the amount of any payments previously made to or on behalf of the Participant. (vi) “Program” means the 2016 Lump Sum Window Program described in this Section. (vii) “Program Annuity Starting Date” means December 1, 2016. (b) Eligibility. Except as otherwise provided in this Section, an Eligible Participant shall be eligible to participate in the Program. Participation is limited to Eligible Participants and, except as otherwise provided in subsection (g) below, is voluntary. Surviving spouses and beneficiaries of deceased Participants are not eligible to participate in the Program. If an Eligible Participant’s Lump Sum Amount is $5,000 or more, then the Eligible Participant’s participation in the Program is governed by subsections (c) – (f) below. If an Eligible Participant’s Lump Sum Amount is less than $5,000, then the Eligible Participant’s participation in the Program is governed by subsection (g) below. (c) Distribution Timing and Form. An Eligible Participant whose Lump Sum Amount is $5,000 or more may, but need not, elect to participate in the Program and receive his or her benefits as follows: (i) If the Eligible Participant, as of the Program Annuity Starting Date, is eligible to commence his or her monthly retirement benefits under the Plan as in effect immediately prior to the adoption of the Program, then such Eligible Participant may elect to receive his or her benefits as: (A) A single payment equal to the Lump Sum Amount payable on the Program Annuity Starting Date (or as soon as administratively feasible thereafter); or (B) An annuity, commencing on the Program Annuity Starting Date, in any annuity form otherwise available under the Plan; provided that if the Program Annuity Starting date is after the Eligible Participant’s Normal Retirement Date, then the Participant may elect to receive his or her benefits as an annuity with a retroactive annuity starting date in accordance with the otherwise applicable terms of the Plan. In no event will a lump sum be available as of a retroactive annuity starting date. (ii) If the Eligible Participant, as of the Program Annuity Starting Date, is not eligible to commence his or her monthly retirement benefits under the Plan as in effect immediately prior to the adoption of the Program, then such Eligible Participant may elect to receive his or her benefits as:


 
26 4841-1404-2944.2 (A) A single payment equal to the Lump Sum Amount payable on the Program Annuity Starting Date (or as soon as administratively feasible thereafter); or (B) An annuity that is the Actuarial Equivalent of the Distributable Benefit Amount, commencing on the Program Annuity Starting Date in any annuity form otherwise available to the Participant under the Master Plan Document (i.e., without regard to any optional forms available solely under Parts A through G); provided that the joint and 50% and joint and 75% survivor annuity options will only be available if the Eligible Participant’s spouse is the contingent annuitant. If an Eligible Participant elects an annuity form of payment, but does not designate the annuity form, then such Eligible Participant’s benefits will be paid as a life only annuity (for a Participant who does not have a Spouse on the Program Annuity Starting Date) or as a joint and 50% survivor annuity (for a Participant who has a Spouse on the Program Annuity Starting Date) with the Spouse as the contingent annuitant. (d) Election Period and Procedures. An Eligible Participant whose Lump Sum Amount is $5,000 or more and who wishes to participate in the Program must make the election referred to in subsection (c) above during the Election Window. Elections by Eligible Participants are irrevocable as of the Program Annuity Starting Date. An Eligible Participant’s election shall be made in such form and in such manner as the Administrator shall prescribe, consistent, other than with regard to the election period provided under this Section, with the spousal consent, notice, and election requirements otherwise provided in the Plan and in accordance with Code Sections 401(a)(11) and 417 with respect to benefit commencement and the selection of the applicable form of payment. An Eligible Participant is not required to elect to commence benefits under the Program. If an Eligible Participant does not make a benefit payment election under the Program during the Election Window or does not survive to the Program Annuity Starting Date, then the special payment options available under the Program will no longer be available, and the Participant’s vested Plan benefit will continue to be distributable in accordance with the otherwise applicable terms of the Plan. (e) Calculation of Immediate Annuity Benefit. If an Eligible Participant elects to receive payment of his or her vested benefit in the form of an immediate monthly annuity, then the annuity shall be the actuarial equivalent of the Distributable Benefit Amount, calculated using the normal Actuarial Equivalent factors otherwise specified under the Plan for converting one form of periodic payment to another. (f) Death Before Payment. If an Eligible Participant who has elected a distribution under subsection (c) dies before the Program Annuity Starting Date, then the election shall be null and void and the only benefits payable will be in accordance with


 
27 4841-1404-2944.2 the otherwise applicable terms of the Plan. If an Eligible Participant has elected to receive a distribution under subsection (c) in the form of an annuity and the contingent annuitant dies before the Program Annuity Starting Date, then the Eligible Participant’s election to participate in the Program shall be null and void and the Eligible Participant will only be eligible to receive his or her benefit in accordance with the otherwise applicable terms of the Plan. An Eligible Participant whose contingent annuitant dies before the end of the Election Window shall be permitted to re-submit a new election before the end of the Election Window. (g) Lump Sum Amount of Less than $5,000. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if an Eligible Participant’s Lump Sum Amount is less than $5,000, then the Administrator will distribute such amount in a lump sum to the Eligible Participant on the Program Annuity Starting Date (or as soon as administratively feasible thereafter). If the Lump Sum Amount of a mandatory distribution under this subsection (g) is greater than $1,000, and the Eligible Participant does not elect to have such distribution paid directly to an “eligible retirement plan” specified by the Eligible Participant in a direct rollover or to receive the distribution directly, then the Administrator will make the distribution in a direct rollover to an individual retirement account designated by the Administrator. No immediate annuity option is available to an Eligible Participant whose Lump Sum Amount is less than $5,000.


 
28 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE IV. ADMINISTRATION Section 4.01. Administrator. The Plan shall be administered by the Retirement Plan Committee whose members are appointed by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company and serving at its pleasure. Members of the Retirement Plan Committee may, but need not, be an officer, director or employee of the Company or an Affiliate. If a member of the Retirement Plan Committee is an employee of the Company or any Affiliate, upon such termination of employment the individual shall be deemed to have resigned from the committee. Any vacancy in the Retirement Plan Committee, whether caused by death, resignation, removal or other cause, shall be filled by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Section 4.02. Responsibility and Authority of the Administrator. The Administrator shall be the administrator of the Plan for all purposes of ERISA and, subject to the provisions of the Plan, shall have all discretionary authority that is necessary and appropriate to carry out its duties as such. The duties and authority of the Administrator shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following, and shall be exercised by the Administrator in its discretion: (a) Interpret and apply all provisions of the Plan, including without limitation, the power to determine who is a Participant in the Plan, and the amount of Benefit Service and Vesting Service for each such Participant; (b) Formulate, issue and apply rules and regulations which are consistent with the terms and provisions of the Plan and the requirements of applicable law; (c) Make appropriate determinations and calculations and direct payment of benefits accordingly; (d) Prescribe and require the use of appropriate forms; (e) Prepare all reports which may be required by law; and (f) Inform any qualified funding agent of anticipated contributions and benefit payments in order to aid in the establishment of an investment policy with respect to the assets of the Plan. The Administrator shall exercise such authority in a manner consistent with the provisions of the Plan and so that employees in like circumstances are treated similarly. All determinations made by the Administrator pursuant to its discretionary authority shall be final and binding on all parties unless arbitrary and capricious. Section 4.03. Procedure. The Administrator may adopt in writing such bylaws, procedures and operating rules as the Administrator may deem appropriate. Section 4.04. Delegation of Duties and Responsibilities. The Administrator may delegate to such other person(s) as the Administrator deems appropriate any duties or responsibilities, subject to the Administrator’s direction and supervision and with the express


 
29 4841-1404-2944.2 condition that the Administrator retains full and exclusive authority over and responsibility for any activities of such other person. Section 4.05. Use of Professional Services. The Administrator may obtain the services of such attorneys, actuaries, accountants or other persons the Administrator may deem appropriate, any of whom may be the same persons who are providing services to the Company. In any case in which the Administrator utilizes such services, the Administrator shall retain exclusive discretion, authority and control respecting the administration and operation of the Plan. Section 4.06. Fees and Expenses. An Administrator who is an employee of the Company shall serve without compensation but shall be reimbursed for all reasonable expenses incurred in his or her capacity as Administrator. Compensation for services and expenses may be paid in whole or in part by the Company, but to the extent that they are not paid by the Company, such compensation shall be paid out of the Plan assets. Section 4.07. Claims Procedure. (a) Claims. The Administrator shall make all determinations as to the right of any person to a benefit under the Plan. Any Participant, Spouse or other Beneficiary under this Plan who believes that a benefit has been denied him or her hereunder (including, but not limited to, the belief that the amount or form of payment is incorrect or that payment was made to the incorrect beneficiary), who desires to determine or clarify his or her rights to future benefits hereunder (including, but not limited to, any questions relating to the vesting schedules, break in service rules, or a Participant’s beneficiary designation), or who believes an operational error has occurred affecting his or her benefit hereunder (a “claimant”) must file, or have his or her duly authorized representative file, a claim with the Administrator under this Section. Any such claim must be filed in writing stating the nature of the claim, the facts supporting the claim, the amount claimed, and the name and address of the claimant. The claim must be filed within one hundred eighty (180) days of the date the claimant knew (or should have known with reasonable diligence) of the existence of the facts giving rise to the claim. Any claim filed after such date shall be considered untimely. The Administrator or its designee shall consider the claim and answer it in writing stating whether the claim is granted or denied. A determination of the claim shall be made within ninety (90) days of receipt, provided that if, due to circumstances beyond the control of the claim reviewer, an extension of time is needed to consider the claim, the claim reviewer shall have up to one hundred eighty (180) days to consider the claim if the claim reviewer provides written notice of the extension, the reasons therefor and the expected date of determination to the claimant prior to the end of the original 90-day period. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for disability benefit claims, the determination shall be made within forty-five (45) days after the Administrator’s receipt of the claim; provided that if, due to circumstances beyond the control of the claim reviewer, an extension of time is necessary to consider the claim, the claim reviewer shall have an additional thirty (30) days to consider the claim if the claim reviewer provides written notice of the extension to the claimant before the end of the initial 45-day period; and further provided that if, due to circumstances beyond the control of the claim reviewer, a further extension of time is necessary to consider the claim, the claim reviewer shall have a second thirty


 
30 4841-1404-2944.2 (30) day extension if the claim reviewer provides written notice to the claimant before the end of the first 30-day extension. In the case of any extension outlined in the preceding sentence, the notice of extension shall include (i) an explanation for the circumstances requiring the extension, (ii) the date by which the reviewer expects to render a decision, (iii) an explanation of the standards upon which the entitlement to benefits is based, (iv) the unresolved issues preventing a decision on the claim, and (v) the additional information needed to resolve those issues (the claimant shall be afforded at least forty-five (45) days within which to provide the specified information, during which time, the period for making the benefit determination will be tolled). If the claim is denied in whole or in part, the claimant shall be furnished with a written notice of such denial containing (i) the specific reason(s) for the denial, (ii) a specific reference to the Plan provisions on which the denial is based, (iii) a description of any additional material or information which it is necessary for the claimant to submit and an explanation of why such material or information is necessary, and (iv) an explanation of the Plan’s appeal procedure, including the claimant’s right to bring a suit under ERISA Section 502(a) following an adverse decision on appeal. (b) Appeals. If a claimant wishes to appeal the denial of his or her claim, he or she must mail a written notice of appeal to the Administrator certified, return receipt requested within sixty (60) days (180 days for disability benefit claims) of his or her receipt of the written denial. In order that the Administrator may expeditiously decide such appeal, the written notice of appeal should contain (i) a statement of the ground(s) for the appeal, (ii) a specific reference to the Plan provisions on which the appeal is based, (iii) a statement of the argument(s) and authority, (if any), supporting each ground for the appeal, and (iv) any other pertinent documents or comments which the appellant desires to submit in support of his or her appeal. The Administrator shall decide the claimant’s appeal within sixty (60) days of receipt of the appeal; provided that, if due to circumstances beyond the Administrator’s control, an extension of time is necessary in order to review the appeal, the Administrator shall have up to one-hundred twenty (120) days to consider the appeal of the Administrator provides written notice of the extension, the reason therefore and the expected date of determination to the claimant prior to end of the original 60-day period. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for disability benefit claims the appellant’s appeal shall be decided within forty-five (45) days of the receipt of the appeal; provided that, if due to circumstances beyond the Administrator’s control, an extension of time is necessary in order to review the appeal, the Administrator shall have an additional forty-five (45) days to consider the appeal if the Administrator provides, prior to the termination of the initial forty-five (45) days, written notice to the claimant of such extension, the reason therefor, and the expected date of determination. Furthermore, the Administrator shall adhere to the following guidelines when deciding appeals of disability benefit claims: (i) the Administrator shall not afford deference to the initial adverse benefit determination, (ii) if the initial adverse benefit determination was based in whole or in part on a medical judgment, the Administrator shall consult with a health care professional who has appropriate training and experience in the field of medicine involved in the medical judgment, (iii) the Administrator shall provide for the identification of the medical or vocational experts whose advice was obtained in connection with the adverse benefit determination, regardless of whether such advice was relied upon, and (iv) any health care professional consulted for the appeal shall not be the same health care professional consulted in the initial determination nor the subordinate of such


 
31 4841-1404-2944.2 individual. If the appeal is denied in whole or in part, the Administrator shall provide the claimant with written notice of the denial which shall contain: (i) the reasons for the decision and reference to the Plan provisions on which the decision is based; (ii) a statement that the claimant is entitled to receive, upon request and free of charge, reasonable access to and copies of all documents, records and other information relevant to the claimant’s claim; and (iii) a statement of the claimant’s right to bring a civil action under ERISA Section 502(a). If the claimant fails to receive a written notice before the end of the applicable period, the claim shall be deemed denied upon review. (c) Limitations on Actions. No claimant may commence a legal action or proceeding for benefits until after the claims and appeals procedures of this section have been exhausted and in no event after the earlier of (i) one hundred eighty (180) days after the claimant receives, or is deemed to receive, notice of a denial of his or her claim upon review under subsection (b), or (ii) the expiration of the applicable statute of limitations under applicable federal law. Section 4.08. Communications. All requests, claims, appeals, elections and other communications to the Administrator shall be in writing and shall be made by transmitting the same via the U.S. Mail, certified, return receipt requested, addressed as follows: Regal Beloit America, Inc. 200 State Street Beloit, Wisconsin 53511 Attention: Retirement Plan Committee Section 4.09. Agent for Service of Process. The Administrator is an agent for service of legal process with respect to matters pertaining to the Plan.


 
32 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE V. CONTRIBUTIONS AND FUNDING POLICY Section 5.01. Company Contribution. The Company shall make annual contributions which are at least equal to the minimum funding requirements prescribed by ERISA and the Code, unless a funding waiver is approved. The Company may make annual contributions at a rate greater than that required by ERISA and the Code, but nothing herein shall be interpreted to require the Company to contribute to the Plan at a rate greater than the minimum prescribed by ERISA and the Code or to make any contributions following the termination of the Plan, except and then only to the extent that ERISA or the Code may specifically provide otherwise. All contributions made to the Plan and all assets held for investment under the Plan (and earnings thereon) shall be held in trust with a trustee appointed by the Administrator. Section 5.02. Funding Policy. The funding policy of the Plan shall be as follows: (a) Benefits under the Plan shall be funded under a funding method recommended by the actuary and shall be provided solely by means of Company contributions plus the earnings from the investment of Plan assets. The Administrator may authorize the trustee to commingle and invest the assets accumulated under this Plan with the assets of any other plan qualified under Code Section 401(a). (b) Company contributions allocated to the Plan shall be invested in a manner consistent with the investment objectives determined by the Administrator. In establishing and implementing the investment objectives of the Plan, the Administrator shall consider the actuarial assumptions established by the actuary. The Administrator shall communicate its investment objectives and funding policy to any investment managers it selects. Section 5.03. Exclusive Benefit. All contributions made under the Plan shall be paid to the trust and all property and funds of the trust allocable to the Plan, including income from investments and from all other sources, shall be managed solely in the interest of Participants, Spouses and Beneficiaries and for the exclusive purpose of: (a) providing benefits to Participants, Spouses and Beneficiaries; and (b) defraying reasonable expenses of administering the Plan.


 
33 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE VI. AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION Section 6.01. Amendment. Subject to the terms of any applicable bargaining agreement, the Company shall have the right, by action of its officers, to modify, alter or amend the Plan at any time and in any manner which does not cause any part of the assets of the Plan to be used for, or diverted to, any purpose other than the exclusive benefit of the Participants, Spouses or Beneficiaries. Such amendment may be retroactively effective to the extent determined by the Company to correct an operational error, to correct a drafting error, to supply an omission or clarify an ambiguity, or to implement a change that is permitted by law to be retroactively adopted, even if such amendment adversely affects the rights of a Participant or other individual with an interest under the Plan. Section 6.02. Termination. Subject to the terms of any applicable bargaining agreement, (a) the Company shall have the right to terminate the Plan, in whole or in part, by action of the Board and (b) an Employer may terminate its participation in the Plan by action of its board of directors. Section 6.03. Priorities Upon Termination. Upon complete termination of the Plan or upon partial termination of the Plan, the accrued benefit of each Participant affected by such termination or partial termination shall become fully vested to the extent then funded. In the event of a complete termination, the assets allocable to the Plan or to the portion of the Plan terminated, shall be liquidated (after provision is made for the expenses of liquidation) by the payment or provision for the payment of benefits in the manner determined by the Administrator pursuant to ERISA and the Code. Notwithstanding any other provision herein to the contrary, a Participant shall have no recourse toward satisfaction of any benefit from other than the Plan assets allocable to the termination or from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Section 6.04. Non-Reversion of Assets. In no event shall the Employers receive any amount from the Plan, except that, (a) upon termination of the Plan, and notwithstanding any other provision therein or herein, the Employers shall receive such amounts, if any, as may remain after the satisfaction of all liabilities of the Plan and arising out of any variations between actual requirements and expected actuarial requirements, (b) to the extent that any contributions hereunder are made by a mistake of fact, such amount may, at the request of the Administrator, be returned within one (1) year after it is made, and (c) all contributions hereto being hereby expressly conditioned on the deductibility of the contribution under Code Section 404, to the extent such deduction is disallowed it may, at the request of the Administrator, be returned within one (1) year after the disallowance of such deduction.


 
34 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE VII. GENERAL PROVISIONS Section 7.01. Participants to Furnish Information. Each Participant or other person entitled to benefits under the Plan shall furnish to the Administrator such evidence, data or information as the Administrator considers necessary or desirable in order to properly administer the Plan. Section 7.02. Non-Guarantee of Employment or Other Benefits. Neither the establishment of the Plan, nor any modification or amendment hereof, nor the payment of benefits hereunder shall be construed as giving any Participant or other person whomsoever any legal or equitable right against the Employers, the Board, the Administrator, or the trustee, or the right to payment of any benefits hereunder (unless the same shall be specifically provided herein) or as giving any Employee the right to be retained in the service of the Employers or the Affiliates. Section 7.03. Responsibility for Co-Fiduciaries. Neither the Company, the Board, the Administrator nor any other person or corporation guarantees the Plan in any manner against loss or depreciation of assets, and they shall not be liable for any act or failure to act unless such is a breach of fiduciary duty under ERISA. The Company, the members of the Board, and the trustee shall not be responsible for any act or failure to act of the Administrator except as may be otherwise specifically provided under ERISA. The Administrator and the trustee shall not be responsible for any act or failure to act of the Company, or the Board, except as may be otherwise specifically provided under ERISA. The Company, the Board, and the Administrator shall not be responsible for any act or failure to act of the trustee, except as may be otherwise specifically provided under ERISA. Section 7.04. Mergers, Consolidations and Transfers of Plan Assets. In the case of any merger, consolidation with, or transfer of assets or liabilities to any other plan, each Participant must be entitled (if the Plan then terminated) to receive a benefit immediately after the merger, consolidation, or transfer which is equal to or greater than the benefit he or she would have been entitled to receive immediately before the merger, consolidation, or transfer (if the Plan then terminated) pursuant to the requirements of ERISA and the Code. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event the Plan terminates or there is a spinoff of part of the Plan (in excess of the 3 percent of the plan assets permitted under Treasury Regulation Section 1.414(1) 1(n)(2)) within five years following the date of any merger of another plan into this Plan, and if the sum of the assets of this Plan after any such merger was less than the sum of the present values of the accrued benefits (whether or not vested) of both plans on a termination basis on the merger date, then a special schedule of benefits shall be created from the necessary (as identified by an enrolled actuary) data maintained by the Administrator and shall be inserted in and modify the allocation priorities set forth above in this Section at the time of such termination or spinoff in accordance with Treasury Regulation Sections 1.414(1) 1(e-j) and any applicable regulations of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Further, following the merger of the Predecessor Plans with and into this Plan effective December 31, 2012, there shall be established a schedule showing, with respect to the


 
35 4841-1404-2944.2 Participants in each of the Predecessor Plans as of the date immediately preceding the merger, the accrued benefit of each Participant as of such date, the amount of assets in each of the Predecessor Plans which would have been allocated in satisfaction of such benefits if all such plans had terminated on such date, and such other information as may be necessary to comply with applicable regulations under Code Section 414(l). In lieu of actually establishing such a schedule, the Company may maintain records sufficient to enable such a schedule to be established in the event of the termination, partial termination, or spin-off of assets of the Plan within the five-year period following the applicable merger. In the event the Plan is terminated or assets are spun-off, in whole or in part, within the five year period following any such merger, then to the extent required under Code Section 414(l), the assets of the Plan shall be allocated among Participants in accordance with the priorities established under Section 4044 of ERISA, as modified in accordance with Section 1.414(l)-1 of the Income Tax Regulations. Section 7.05. Spendthrift Clause. No Participant, former Participant, Spouse, or Beneficiary entitled to benefits hereunder shall have the right to transfer, assign, alienate, anticipate, pledge or encumber any part of such benefits, nor shall such benefits, or any part of the Plan assets or any contract from which such benefits are payable, be subject to seizure by legal process by any creditor of such Participant, former Participant, Spouse, or Beneficiary. In the event that such Participant or other person entitled to such benefits, or such creditor thereof, requests a division as hereinabove described, of any such benefit, the Administrator may, in its discretion, direct the trustee to pay over to or apply on the behalf of such Participant, former Participant, Spouse, or Beneficiary, all or any part of such benefits to which such person would otherwise have been entitled hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Administrator shall recognize a qualified domestic relations order with respect to child support, alimony payments, or marital property rights if such order contains sufficient information for the Administrator to determine that it meets the applicable requirements of Code Section 414(p). The Administrator shall establish written procedures concerning the notification of interested parties and the determination of the validity of such orders, which procedures may include, on a uniform and nondiscriminatory basis, rules providing for the distribution of nonforfeitable benefits to the alternate payee at an earlier time than benefits might otherwise be available to the Participant. However, such procedures may not permit distribution be made to the alternate payee in a payment form otherwise not available under the Plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Participant’s benefit hereunder may be fully offset by the amount awarded the Plan in accordance with ERISA Section 206(d)(4). Section 7.06. Restriction on Highly Compensated Participants’ and Former Participants’ Benefits. (a) Restriction of Benefits. Notwithstanding any provision in the Plan to the contrary, in the event the Plan is terminated, to the extent required by law the benefit of any Participant or former Participant who is a highly compensated employee or highly compensated former employee within the meaning of Code Section 414(4) shall be limited to a benefit that is nondiscriminatory under Code Section 401(a)(4).


 
36 4841-1404-2944.2 (b) Restriction on Distributions. Notwithstanding any provision in the Plan to the contrary, the annual payments from the Plan to a Participant or former Participant described in subsection (c) below shall not exceed an amount equal to the payments which would have been made on behalf of such Participant or former Participant under a single life annuity which is the actuarial equivalent of the sum of his or her Accrued Benefit and other benefits under the Plan. (c) Participants and Former Participants Subject to Restriction. The Participants or former Participants who are affected by the restriction in subsection (b) above in any one (1) year are limited to the twenty-five (25) highly compensated employees or highly compensated former employees of the Company as defined in Code Section 414(q) with the greatest compensation. The Company reserves the right to amend this subsection (c) at any time. (d) Restrictions Not Applicable. The restrictions of subsection (b) shall not apply if: (i) After payment to a Participant or former Participant described in subsection (c) above of all benefits, the value of Plan assets equals or exceeds one hundred ten percent (110%) of the value of the Plan’s current liabilities, as defined in Code Section 412(1)(7); or (ii) The value of the benefits for a Participant or former Participant described in subsection (c) above is less than one percent (1%) of the value of the Plan’s current liabilities, as defined in Code Section 412(1)(7). For purposes of this subsection (d), the term “benefits” shall include any periodic income, any withdrawal values payable to a living Participant or former Participant, and any death benefits not provided for by insurance on the Participant’s or former Participant’s life. Section 7.07. Maximum Benefit. (a) The Plan is subject to the limitations on benefits and contributions imposed by Code Section 415 which are incorporated herein by this reference, including the definition of “compensation” in Code Section 415(c)(3). Specifically, no annual benefit (as defined in Code Section 415) or distribution under this Plan shall accrue or be made that would exceed the limitations of Code Section 415, as such limits are adjusted from time to time. The limitation year shall be the Plan Year. (b) For purposes of this Section 7.07 and the application of the Code Section 415 limitations, “compensation” for a terminated Participant shall include all of the following if such payments are made by the later of 2½ months after severance from employment or the end of the limitation year that includes the date of severance from employment: (i) regular compensation for services during the employee’s regular working hours, or compensation for services outside the employee’s regular working hours (such as overtime or shift


 
37 4841-1404-2944.2 differential), commissions, bonuses, or other similar payments if any of such payments would have been paid to the employee prior to severance from employment if the employee had continued in employment with the Company or an Affiliate; (ii) payment for unused accrued bona fide sick, vacation or other leave, but only if the employee would have been able to use the leave if employment had continued; and (iii) payments received from a nonqualified unfunded deferred compensation plan, but only if the payment would have been paid to the employee at the same time if the employee had continued in employment with the Company or an Affiliate and only to the extent the payment is includible in the employee’s gross income. No other post-severance compensation shall be included. In addition, compensation in excess of the limit in effect under Code Section 401(a)(17) for the limitation year shall not be considered. (c) In the event that there are multiple defined benefit pension plans in which a Participant participates, the following order shall determine the manner in which benefits are restricted in order to satisfy these requirements: benefits shall first be reduced under the defined benefit pension plan in which the Participant’s accrued benefit is smaller to the extent necessary, and then shall be reduced under the other defined benefit pension plan, to the extent necessary. Section 7.08. Successors and Assigns. The Plan shall be binding upon the successors and assigns of the Company. Section 7.09. Wisconsin Law Applies. The Plan shall be construed and its validity determined according to the laws of the state of Wisconsin to the extent not preempted or superseded by ERISA or applicable federal law. In case any provision of the Plan shall be held illegal or invalid for any reason, said illegality or invalidity shall not affect the remaining parts of the Plan, but the Plan shall be construed and enforced as if said illegal and invalid provisions had never been inserted herein. Section 7.10. Top-Heavy Restrictions. (a) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary herein, in accordance with Code Section 416, if the Plan is a top-heavy plan for any Plan Year, then the provisions of this Section shall be applicable. The Plan is “top-heavy” for a Plan Year if as of the last day of the preceding Plan Year (the Plan’s “determination date”), the total present value of the accrued benefits of key employees (as defined in Code Section 416(i)(1) and applicable regulations) exceeds sixty percent (60%) of the total present value of the accrued benefits of all employees under the Plan (excluding those of former key employees) (as such amounts are computed pursuant to Section 416(g) and applicable regulations using the interest and actuarial assumptions used for the actuarial funding report for the valuation date or, if none, the immediately preceding report) unless the Plan can be aggregated with other plans maintained by the applicable controlled group in either a permissive or required aggregation group and such


 
38 4841-1404-2944.2 group as a whole is not top-heavy. In addition, the Plan is top-heavy if it is part of a required aggregation group which is top-heavy. Any plan of a controlled group may be included in a permissive aggregation group as long as together they satisfy the Code Sections 401(a)(4) or 410 discrimination requirements. The present values of aggregated plans are determined separately as of each plan’s determination date and the results aggregated for the determination dates which fall in the same calendar year. A “controlled group” for purposes of this Section includes any group of employers aggregated pursuant to Code Sections 414(b), (c) or (m). The calculation of the present value shall be done as of a valuation date which for a defined contribution plan is the determination date and for a defined benefit plan is the date as of which funding calculations are generally made within the twelve (12) month period ending on the determination date. In addition, the present values of accrued benefits and the amounts of account balances of an employee as of the determination date shall be increased by the distributions made with respect to the employee under the Plan and any plan aggregated with the Plan under Code Section 416(g)(2) during the 1-year period ending on the determination date. The preceding sentence shall also apply to distributions under a terminated plan which, had it not been terminated, would have been aggregated with the Plan under Code Section 416(g)(2)(A)(i). In the case of a distribution made for a reason other than severance from employment, death, or disability, this provision shall be applied by substituting “5-year period” for “1-year period.” Finally, for purposes of this Section 7.10(a), the accrued benefits and accounts of any individual who has not performed services for the employer during the 1-year period ending on the determination date shall not be taken into account. (b) If the Plan is top-heavy in a Plan Year, the maximum annual compensation utilized herein for any employee for such year shall be two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) (or such higher amount permitted pursuant to applicable regulations due to cost of living increases), provided that no benefit accrued as of the determination date shall be diminished on account of this provision. (c) If the Plan is top-heavy in a Plan Year, the vesting schedule shall automatically be amended for any employee employed on the first day of such year or thereafter so that the vested percentage for employer-derived benefits is equal to the greater of the vesting provided under other provisions of the Plan or the following schedule: Years of Service Nonforfeitable Percentage 1 0% 2 20% 3 40% 4 60% 5 80% 6 or more 100% where “years of service” means the years credited for vesting purposes under the Plan or, if greater, the years required to be counted under Code Section 411 and applicable regulations thereto. If the Plan thereafter ceases to be top-heavy for a Plan Year, the vesting schedule above shall be disregarded and the original schedule applied, except with respect to any Participant with five (5) or more years of service and except that no Participant’s vested percentage as of the


 
39 4841-1404-2944.2 end of the prior year shall be decreased. Any non-vested Participant who acquires a vested interest in the employer-derived benefit by operation of the amended vesting schedule shall not be subject thereafter to a cancellation of service. Notwithstanding anything in this Section to the contrary, the amendment of the vesting schedule pursuant to this subsection shall not affect the calculation of benefit amounts or the determination of benefit commencement dates hereunder. (d) If a defined benefit plan is top-heavy in a Plan Year and no defined contribution plan is maintained, the employer-derived accrued benefit on a life only basis commencing at the normal retirement age of each non-key employee shall be at least equal to a percentage of the highest average compensation for five (5) consecutive years, excluding any years after such Plan permanently ceases to be top-heavy, such percentage being the lesser of (i) twenty percent (20%) or (ii) two percent (2%) times the years of service after December 31, 1983, in which a Plan Year ends in which a Plan is top-heavy. For purposes of this Section 7.10(d), in determining years of service, any service with the Employer shall be disregarded to the extent such service occurs during a Plan Year when the Plan benefits (within the meaning of Code Section 410(b)) no key employees or former key employees. If the controlled group maintains both a defined contribution plan and a defined benefit plan which cover the same non- key employee, such employee will only be entitled to the defined benefit plan minimum. Section 7.11. Restrictions Related to Plan Funding. (a) Limitations Applicable If the Plan’s AFTAP Is Less Than 80 Percent, But Not Less Than 60 Percent. Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Plan, if the Plan’s adjusted funding target attainment percentage for a Plan Year is less than 80 percent (or would be less than 80 percent to the extent described in subsection (a)(ii) below) but is not less than 60 percent, then the limitations set forth in this subsection (a) apply. (i) 50 Percent Limitation on Single Sum Payments, Other Accelerated Forms of Distribution, and Other Prohibited Payments. A Participant or beneficiary is not permitted to elect, and the Plan shall not pay, a single sum payment or other optional form of benefit that includes a prohibited payment with an annuity starting date (as defined in subsection (h) hereof) on or after the applicable section 436 measurement date, and the Plan shall not make any payment for the purchase of an irrevocable commitment from an insurer to pay benefits or any other payment or transfer that is a prohibited payment, unless the present value of the portion of the benefit that is being paid in a prohibited payment does not exceed the lesser of: (A) 50 percent of the present value of the benefit payable in the optional form of benefit that includes the prohibited payment; or (B) 100 percent of the PBGC maximum benefit guarantee amount (as defined in Section 1.436-1(d)(3)(iii)(C) of the Treasury Regulations).


 
40 4841-1404-2944.2 The limitation set forth in this subsection (a)(i) does not apply to any payment of a benefit which under Code Section 411(a)(11) may be immediately distributed without the consent of the Participant. If an optional form of benefit that is otherwise available under the terms of the Plan is not available to a Participant or beneficiary as of the annuity starting date because of the application of the requirements of this subsection (a)(i), the Participant or beneficiary is permitted to elect to bifurcate the benefit into unrestricted and restricted portions (as described in Section 1.436-1(d)(3)(iii)(D) of the Treasury Regulations). The Participant or beneficiary may also elect any other optional form of benefit otherwise available under the Plan at that annuity starting date that would satisfy the 50 percent/PBGC maximum benefit guarantee amount limitation described in this subsection (a)(i), or may elect to defer the benefit in accordance with any general right to defer commencement of benefits under the Plan. (ii) Plan Amendments Increasing Liability for Benefits. No amendment to the Plan that has the effect of increasing liabilities of the Plan by reason of increases in benefits, establishment of new benefits, changing the rate of benefit accrual, or changing the rate at which benefits become nonforfeitable shall take effect in a Plan Year if the adjusted funding target attainment percentage for the Plan Year is: (A) Less than 80 percent; or (B) 80 percent or more, but would be less than 80 percent if the benefits attributable to the amendment were taken into account in determining the adjusted funding target attainment percentage. The limitation set forth in this subsection (a)(ii) does not apply to any amendment to the Plan that provides a benefit increase under a Plan formula that is not based on compensation, provided that the rate of such increase does not exceed the contemporaneous rate of increase in the average wages of Participants covered by the amendment. (b) Limitations Applicable If the Plan’s AFTAP Is Less Than 60 Percent. Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Plan, if the Plan’s adjusted funding target attainment percentage for a Plan Year is less than 60 percent (or would be less than 60 percent to the extent described in subsection (b)(ii) below), then the limitations in this subsection (b) apply. (i) Single Sums, Other Accelerated Forms of Distribution, and Other Prohibited Payments Not Permitted. A Participant or beneficiary is not permitted to elect, and the Plan shall not pay, a single sum


 
41 4841-1404-2944.2 payment or other optional form of benefit that includes a prohibited payment with an annuity starting date on or after the applicable section 436 measurement date, and the Plan shall not make any payment for the purchase of an irrevocable commitment from an insurer to pay benefits or any other payment or transfer that is a prohibited payment. The limitation set forth in this subsection (b)(i) does not apply to any payment of a benefit which under Code Section 411(a)(11) may be immediately distributed without the consent of the Participant. (ii) Shutdown Benefits and Other Unpredictable Contingent Event Benefits Not Permitted to Be Paid. An unpredictable contingent event benefit with respect to an unpredictable contingent event occurring during a Plan Year shall not be paid if the adjusted funding target attainment percentage for the Plan Year is: (A) Less than 60 percent; or (B) 60 percent or more, but would be less than 60 percent if the adjusted funding target attainment percentage were redetermined applying an actuarial assumption that the likelihood of occurrence of the unpredictable contingent event during the Plan Year is 100 percent. (iii) Benefit Accruals Frozen. Benefit accruals under the Plan shall cease as of the applicable section 436 measurement date. In addition, if the Plan is required to cease benefit accruals under this subsection (b)(iii), then the Plan is not permitted to be amended in a manner that would increase the liabilities of the Plan by reason of an increase in benefits or establishment of new benefits. (c) Limitations Applicable If the Plan Sponsor Is In Bankruptcy. Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Plan, a Participant or beneficiary is not permitted to elect, and the Plan shall not pay, a single sum payment or other optional form of benefit that includes a prohibited payment with an annuity starting date that occurs during any period in which the Plan sponsor is a debtor in a case under title 11, United States Code, or similar Federal or State law, except for payments made within a Plan Year with an annuity starting date that occurs on or after the date on which the Plan’s enrolled actuary certifies that the Plan’s adjusted funding target attainment percentage for that Plan Year is not less than 100 percent. In addition, during such period in which the Plan sponsor is a debtor, the Plan shall not make any payment for the purchase of an irrevocable commitment from an insurer to pay benefits or any other payment or transfer that is a prohibited payment, except for payments that occur on a date within a Plan Year that is on or after the date on which the Plan’s enrolled actuary certifies that the Plan’s adjusted funding target attainment percentage for that Plan Year is not less than 100 percent. The limitation set forth in this subsection (c) does not apply to any payment of a benefit which under Code Section 411(a)(11) may be immediately distributed without the consent of the Participant.


 
42 4841-1404-2944.2 (d) Provisions Applicable After Limitations Cease to Apply. (i) Resumption of Prohibited Payments. If a limitation on prohibited payments under subsection (a)(i), subsection (b)(i), or subsection (c) above applied to the Plan as of a section 436 measurement date, but that limit no longer applies to the Plan as of a later section 436 measurement date, then that limitation does not apply to benefits with annuity starting dates that are on or after that later section 436 measurement date. (ii) Resumption of Benefit Accruals. If a limitation on benefit accruals under subsection (b)(iii) above applied to the Plan as of a section 436 measurement date, but that limitation no longer applies to the Plan as of a later section 436 measurement date, then benefit accruals shall resume prospectively and that limitation does not apply to benefit accruals that are based on service on or after that later section 436 measurement date, except as otherwise provided under the Plan. The Plan shall comply with the rules relating to partial years of participation and the prohibition on double proration under Department of Labor regulation 29 CFR § 2530.204-2(c) and (d). (iii) Shutdown and Other Unpredictable Contingent Event Benefits. If an unpredictable contingent event benefit with respect to an unpredictable contingent event that occurs during the Plan Year is not permitted to be paid after the occurrence of the event because of the limitation of subsection (b)(ii) above, but is permitted to be paid later in the same Plan Year (as a result of additional contributions or pursuant to the enrolled actuary’s certification of the adjusted funding target attainment percentage for the Plan Year that meets the requirements of Section 1.436- 1(g)(5)(ii)(B) of the Treasury Regulations), then that unpredictable contingent event benefit shall be paid, retroactive to the period that benefit would have been payable under the terms of the Plan (determined without regard to subsection (b)(ii)). If the unpredictable contingent event benefit does not become payable during the Plan Year in accordance with the preceding sentence, then the Plan is treated as if it does not provide for that benefit. (iv) Treatment of Plan Amendments That Do Not Take Effect. If a Plan amendment does not take effect as of the effective date of the amendment because of the limitation of subsection (a)(ii) or subsection (b)(iii), but is permitted to take effect later in the same Plan Year (as a result of additional contributions or pursuant to the enrolled actuary’s certification of the adjusted funding target attainment percentage for the Plan Year that meets the


 
43 4841-1404-2944.2 requirements of Section 1.436-1(g)(5)(ii)(C) of the Treasury Regulations), then the Plan amendment must automatically take effect as of the first day of the Plan Year (or, if later, the original effective date of the amendment). If the Plan amendment cannot take effect during the same Plan Year, then it shall be treated as if it were never adopted, unless the Plan amendment provides otherwise. (e) Notice Requirement. See Section 101(j) of ERISA for rules requiring the Plan administrator of a single employer defined benefit pension plan to provide a written notice to Participants and beneficiaries within 30 days after certain specified dates if the Plan has become subject to a limitation described in subsection (a)(i), subsection (b), or subsection (c) above. (f) Methods to Avoid or Terminate Benefit Limitations. See Code Section 436(b)(2), (c)(2), (e)(2), and (f) and Section 1.436-1(f) of the Treasury Regulations for rules relating to employer contributions and other methods to avoid or terminate the application of the limitations set forth in subsections (a) through (c) for a Plan Year. In general, the methods a Plan sponsor may use to avoid or terminate one or more of the benefit limitations under subsections (a) through (c) for a Plan Year include employer contributions and elections to increase the amount of Plan assets which are taken into account in determining the adjusted funding target attainment percentage, making an employer contribution that is specifically designated as a current year contribution that is made to avoid or terminate application of certain of the benefit limitations, or providing security to the Plan. (g) Special Rules. (i) Rules of Operation for Periods Prior to and After Certification of Plan’s Adjusted Funding Target Attainment Percentage. (A) In General. Code Section 436(h) and Section 1.436-1(h) of the Treasury Regulations set forth a series of presumptions that apply (1) before the Plan’s enrolled actuary issues a certification of the Plan’s adjusted funding target attainment percentage for the Plan Year and (2) if the Plan’s enrolled actuary does not issue a certification of the Plan’s adjusted funding target attainment percentage for the Plan Year before the first day of the 10th month of the Plan Year (or if the Plan’s enrolled actuary issues a range certification for the Plan Year pursuant to Section 1.436- 1(h)(4)(ii) of the Treasury Regulations but does not issue a certification of the specific adjusted funding target attainment percentage for the Plan by the last day of the Plan Year). For any period during which a presumption under Code Section 436(h) and Section 1.436-1(h) of the Treasury Regulations applies to the Plan, the limitations under subsections (a) through (c) are applied to the Plan as


 
44 4841-1404-2944.2 if the adjusted funding target attainment percentage for the Plan Year were the presumed adjusted funding target attainment percentage determined under the rules of Code Section 436(h) and Section 1.436-1(h)(1), (2), or (3) of the Treasury Regulations. These presumptions are set forth in subsection (g)(i)(B) though (D). (B) Presumption of Continued Underfunding Beginning First Day of Plan Year. If a limitation under subsection (a), (b), or (c) applied to the Plan on the last day of the preceding Plan Year, then, commencing on the first day of the current Plan Year and continuing until the Plan’s enrolled actuary issues a certification of the adjusted funding target attainment percentage for the Plan for the current Plan Year, or, if earlier, the date subsection (g)(i)(C) or subsection (g)(i)(D) applies to the Plan: (1) The adjusted funding target attainment percentage of the Plan for the current Plan Year is presumed to be the adjusted funding target attainment percentage in effect on the last day of the preceding Plan Year; and (2) The first day of the current Plan Year is a section 436 measurement date. (C) Presumption of Underfunding Beginning First Day of 4th Month. If the Plan’s enrolled actuary has not issued a certification of the adjusted funding target attainment percentage for the Plan Year before the first day of the 4th month of the Plan Year and the Plan’s adjusted funding target attainment percentage for the preceding Plan Year was either at least 60 percent but less than 70 percent or at least 80 percent but less than 90 percent, or is described in Section 1.436-1(h)(2)(ii) of the Treasury Regulations, then, commencing on the first day of the 4th month of the current Plan Year and continuing until the Plan’s enrolled actuary issues a certification of the adjusted funding target attainment percentage for the Plan for the current Plan Year, or, if earlier, the date Section 7.11(g)(i)(D) applies to the Plan: (1) The adjusted funding target attainment percentage of the Plan for the current Plan Year is presumed to be the Plan’s adjusted funding target attainment percentage for the preceding Plan Year reduced by 10 percentage points; and


 
45 4841-1404-2944.2 (2) The first day of the 4th month of the current Plan Year is a section 436 measurement date. (D) Presumption of Underfunding On and After First Day of 10th Month. If the Plan’s enrolled actuary has not issued a certification of the adjusted funding target attainment percentage for the Plan Year before the first day of the 10th month of the Plan Year (or if the Plan’s enrolled actuary has issued a range certification for the Plan Year pursuant to Section 1.436-1(h)(4)(ii) of the Treasury Regulations but has not issued a certification of the specific adjusted funding target attainment percentage for the Plan by the last day of the Plan Year), then, commencing on the first day of the 10th month of the current Plan Year and continuing through the end of the Plan Year: (1) The adjusted funding target attainment percentage of the Plan for the current Plan Year is presumed to be less than 60 percent; and (2) The first day of the 10th month of the current Plan Year is a section 436 measurement date. (ii) New Plans, Plan Termination, Certain Frozen Plans, and Other Special Rules. (A) First 5 Plan Years. The limitations in subsection (a)(ii), subsection (b)(ii), and subsection (b)(iii) do not apply to a new Plan for the first 5 Plan Years of the Plan, determined under the rules of Code Section 436(i) and Section 1.436- 1(a)(3)(i) of the Treasury Regulations. (B) Plan Termination. The limitations on prohibited payments in subsection (a)(i), subsection (b)(i), and subsection (c) do not apply to prohibited payments that are made to carry out the termination of the Plan in accordance with applicable law. Any other limitations under this section of the Plan do not cease to apply as a result of termination of the Plan. (C) Exception to Limitations on Prohibited Payments Under Certain Frozen Plans. The limitations on prohibited payments set forth in subsections (a)(i), (b)(i), and (c) do not apply for a Plan Year if the terms of the Plan, as in effect for the period beginning on September 1, 2005, and continuing through the end of the Plan Year, provide for no benefit accruals with respect to any Participants. This Section (g)(ii)(C) shall cease to apply as of the date any


 
46 4841-1404-2944.2 benefits accrue under the Plan or the date on which a Plan amendment that increases benefits takes effect. (D) Special Rules Relating to Unpredictable Contingent Event Benefits and Plan Amendments Increasing Benefit Liability. During any period in which none of the presumptions under subsection (g)(i) apply to the Plan and the Plan’s enrolled actuary has not yet issued a certification of the Plan’s adjusted funding target attainment percentage for the Plan Year, the limitations under subsection (a)(ii) and subsection (b)(ii) shall be based on the inclusive presumed adjusted funding target attainment percentage for the Plan, calculated in accordance with the rules of Section 1.436-1(g)(2)(iii) of the Treasury Regulations. (iii) Special Rules Under PRA 2010. (A) Payments Under Social Security Leveling Options. For purposes of determining whether the limitations under subsection (a)(i) or (b)(i) apply to payments under a social security leveling option, within the meaning of Code Section 436(j)(3)(C)(i), the adjusted funding target attainment percentage for a Plan Year shall be determined in accordance with the “Special Rule for Certain Years” under Code Section 436(j)(3) and any Treasury Regulations or other published guidance thereunder issued by the Internal Revenue Service. (B) Limitation on Benefit Accruals. For purposes of determining whether the accrual limitation under subsection (b)(iii) applies to the Plan, the adjusted funding target attainment percentage for a Plan Year shall be determined in accordance with the “Special Rule for Certain Years” under Code Section 436(j)(3) (except as provided under section 203(b) of the Preservation of Access to Care for Medicare Beneficiaries and Pension Relief Act of 2010, if applicable). (iv) Interpretation of Provisions. The limitations imposed by this section of the Plan shall be interpreted and administered in accordance with Code Section and Section 1.436-1 of the Treasury Regulations. (h) Definitions. The definitions in the following Treasury Regulations apply for purposes of subsections (a) through (g): Section 1.436-1(j)(1) defining adjusted funding target attainment percentage; Section 1.436-1(j)(2) defining annuity starting date; Section 1.436- 1(j)(6) defining prohibited payment; Section 1.436-1(j)(8) defining section 436 measurement


 
47 4841-1404-2944.2 date; and Section 1.436-1(j)(9) defining an unpredictable contingent event and an unpredictable contingent event benefit. Section 7.12. Military Leave Provisions. (a) Death Benefits. If a Participant dies while performing qualified military service, the beneficiaries of such Participant shall be entitled to the additional death benefits, if any (other than benefit accruals relating to the period of qualified military service) that would have been available had the Participant resumed employment with the Company immediately prior to the date of his or her death and thereafter terminated from employment as a result of death. For purposes of this Section, “qualified military service” is defined as service in the uniformed services of the United States for which an individual has reemployment rights with the Company under chapter 43 of title 38 of the United States Code. (b) Differential Pay. In accordance with the provisions of Code Section 414(u), during the period a Participant on military leave is receiving differential wage payments (as defined in Code Section 3401(h)(2)), to the extent required by the Code, such Participant shall be treated as remaining in the employment of the Company and such differential wage payments shall be considered compensation for purposes of applying the provisions of the Code to the Plan. (c) Period of Absence. Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the contrary, contributions, benefits and service credit with respect to qualified military service will be provided in accordance with Code Section 414(u). For any period of absence for such military service, Credited Service and Vesting Service shall in all instances be credited consistent with the requirements of that provision. In accordance with the provisions of Code Section 414(u), during the period a Participant on military leave is receiving differential wage payments (as defined in Code Section 3401(h)(2)), to the extent required by the Code, such Participant shall be treated as remaining in the employment of the Company and such differential wage payments shall be considered compensation for purposes of applying the provisions of the Code to the Plan.


 


 
49 4841-1404-2944.2 APPENDIX 1 PARTICIPATING EMPLOYERS Regal Beloit America, Inc. • Previously: RBC Manufacturing Corporation, Marathon Special Products Corporation, and Regal Beloit EPC, Inc. • Unico, Inc. • Regal Beloit Logistics LLC


 
A-1 4841-1404-2944.2 PART A: SALARIED EMPLOYEES’ PENSION PLAN Overview: • Participation frozen effective December 31, 2005. • Benefits frozen effective December 31, 2008 for Participants with less than 25 years of Vesting Service on December 31, 2008.


 
A-2 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND FORMAT OF TERMS Section 1.01. Format. Capitalized words and phrases defined in Section 1.02 of this Part shall have that defined meaning when used in this Part, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Additional capitalized terms used herein are defined in Section 1.01 of the Master Plan Document. Similarly, cross references in this Part shall apply to the referenced section in this Part, unless specifically referred to as a section of the Master Plan Document. Section 1.02. Definitions. (a) “Actuarial Equivalent” shall be determined, for all purposes (except as required by Code Section 417(e)), including for purposes of converting from one periodic form of payment to another and different commencement dates for payment, and for determining the value of a Profit Sharing Benefit pursuant to Sections 3.01(c) and 4.02(a) of this Part, using an interest rate of seven percent (7%) per annum compounded annually and the 1971 Group Annuity Table with an eighty percent (80%) male weighting and a twenty percent (20%) female weighting. (b) “Average Monthly Compensation” means a Participant’s total compensation from the Affiliates paid during the sixty (60) consecutive calendar months during which his or her compensation was highest within the one hundred twenty (120) calendar months ending immediately prior to or coincidental with the Participant’s Severance from Service, divided by sixty (60). Months during which the Participant was not employed by an Affiliate shall be disregarded. In the event a Participant has less than sixty (60) applicable calendar months of compensation, the total compensation for such months shall be divided by the number of such months. For purposes of this definition, “compensation” means a Participant’s total base salary or wages from the Affiliates, before deductions and before salary or wage reductions under any plan of an Affiliate intended to qualify under Code Sections 401(k) or 125, together with any commissions, but exclusive of shift differential, bonuses, overtime, contributions on behalf of such Participant to the Plan or any other employee benefit plan (as defined by ERISA) other than as specified above, deferred compensation, imputed income due to life insurance coverage, unused and/or accrued vacation pay, contest prizes, severance pay, and any other form of additional remuneration and/or expense reimbursement which the Administrator, in its sole discretion, determines not to be compensation hereunder. The maximum annual compensation taken into account hereunder for purposes of calculating any Participant’s Accrued Benefit (including the right to any optional benefit) and for all other purposes under the Plan shall be $200,000 (or such higher amount permitted pursuant to Code Section 401(a)(17)). Compensation shall include compensation paid by General Electric Company and its affiliates with respect to anyone who is given service credit under Section 2.05 of this Part by reason of prior employment with such companies. For purposes of determining a Participant’s Average Monthly Compensation, a Participant with less than twenty-five (25) years of Vesting Service as of December 31, 2008 shall be treated as if his or her Severance from Service occurred on December 31, 2008.


 
A-3 4841-1404-2944.2 (c) “Benefit Service” means a Participant’s years of employment which are credited pursuant to Section 2.03 of this Part and used in determining the amount of a Participant’s benefits hereunder. (d) “Covered Compensation” means the average of the taxable wage bases under Section 230 of the Social Security Act for the thirty-five (35) calendar years ending with the year a Participant attains social security retirement age (as determined under Code Section 415(b)(8) and the Regulations thereunder). The taxable wage base for the current Plan Year and each subsequent Plan Year is assumed to be the same as the taxable wage base in effect at the beginning of the Plan Year for which Covered Compensation is being determined. Covered Compensation for a Participant whose Accrued Benefit is frozen on December 31, 2008 shall be his or her Covered Compensation as determined on December 31, 2008. (e) “Effective Date” means January 1, 1982. (f) “Employee” means, when used in this Part, any person actively employed on or after January 1, 1982 and before January 1, 2006 by an Employer: (i) who is compensated in whole or in part on a salaried basis (including salaried non-exempt) or who is employed in any capacity by REGAL-BELOIT Electric Motors, Inc.; and (ii) who is not an active participant or eligible to become an active participant upon completion of age and/or service requirements under any other Part of this Plan or any other qualified defined benefit pension plan to which an Employer is making contributions on his or her behalf; and (iii) who is a resident or citizen of the United States of America; and (iv) who is not in a collective bargaining unit with which an Employer has a bargaining agreement unless such agreement specifically provides that persons in such unit shall be covered by this Part of the Plan. Effective January 1, 2006, only those individuals who qualified as Employees on December 31, 2005 shall be entitled to be treated as an Employee for any period on or after January 1, 2006 and before January 1, 2009. Effective January 1, 2009, only those individuals who, on December 31, 2008, (i) qualified as Employees and (ii) had at least twenty-five (25) years of Vesting Service, shall be entitled to be treated as Employees for so long as each individual: (i) is employed by the Employer or any of its Affiliates, including but not limited to Regal-Beloit Corporation; and (ii) is a resident or citizen of the United States of America; and


 
A-4 4841-1404-2944.2 (iii) is not in a collective bargaining unit with which an Employer has a bargaining agreement unless such agreement specifically provides that persons in such unit shall be covered by the Plan. The term Employee shall not, however, include any employees employed at the Company’s Blytheville, Arkansas location, except for its plant manager, not including managers subsequent to the manager employed as such on November 1, 2000. (g) “Employer” means, when used in this Part, RBC Manufacturing Corporation and Marathon Special Products Corporation, or any successor thereto, but only with respect to the following portions of its business (i.e., those portions of its business that were previously separate corporations): Marathon Electric Manufacturing Corporation, REGAL- BELOIT Electric Motors, Inc., Lima Electric Co. Inc., and Regal Beloit Logistics, LLC, but specifically excluding Leeson Electric Corporation. (h) “Employment Commencement Date” means the first date on which a person completes an hour of service, which is an hour for which an employee is directly or indirectly paid or entitled to payment by an Employer or any Affiliate, and shall include hours for which back pay has been awarded or paid. Notwithstanding the foregoing, except as provided in Section 2.05 of this Part, in the event a person is employed with a corporation which is acquired by an Employer or Affiliate, his or her Employment Commencement Date shall be the effective date of such acquisition. (i) “Normal Retirement Date” means the first day of the month coincident with or next following a Participant’s sixty-fifth (65th) birthday. (j) “Other Benefits” means the amount of the reduction to be applied to any monthly benefits payable hereunder to a Participant or former Participant which is equal to that portion, if any, of the monthly benefits payable to such Participant or former Participant under any other Part of the Plan or under any other qualified defined benefit pension plan to which an Affiliate or any predecessor to an Affiliate contributes other than a Prior Plan, which benefit is attributable to Affiliate contributions and is based upon a period of service that is recognized both under such other pension plan and this Part of the Plan for benefit accrual purposes; provided that, if the time and/or form of benefit payments under such other qualified pension plan is different from the time and/or form of benefits to be paid under this Plan, the reduction amount to be treated as “Other Benefits” shall be the Actuarial Equivalent of the aforesaid portion which appropriately reflects such difference. (k) “Prior Plan(s)” means, when used in this Part, the Marathon Electric Profit Sharing Retirement Plan (hereinafter referred to as the “Profit Sharing Plan”) and/or the Retirement Plan for Salaried Non-Exempt Employees of Marathon Electric Manufacturing Corporation (hereinafter referred to as the “Non-Exempt Plan”), each as in effect prior to the Effective Date. (l) “Profit Sharing Benefit” means for any Participant who was a participant in the Profit Sharing Plan the balance of his or her account under the Profit Sharing Plan as of December 31, 1981, plus interest compounded at the annual rate of seven percent (7%) from


 
A-5 4841-1404-2944.2 such date until such balance is depleted, calculated in such manner as may be determined by the Administrator from time to time. The Profit Sharing Benefit shall be reduced by any benefit payments to the Participant, his or her Spouse, or any Beneficiary hereunder. (m) “Severance from Service” means the earlier to occur of the following: (i) the date that a Participant quits, retires, is terminated or dies, whichever occurs first; or (ii) subject to Section 2.04 of this Part, the first anniversary of the date a Participant commences a continuous absence from service with the Affiliates for any other reason, such as illness, disability, layoff, vacation, or authorized leave of absence; provided, however, that for purposes of the Plan, “an authorized leave of absence” means an absence from active service with the Affiliates which an Affiliate authorizes pursuant to uniform rules consistently applied in like circumstances for its personnel who are similarly situated in respect to such Participant. (n) “Spouse” means either (1) the person to whom a Participant is lawfully married on his or her Annuity Starting Date or (2) in the event the Participant dies prior to his or her Annuity Starting Date, the person to whom the Participant was married throughout the one (1) year period preceding the Participant’s death. For purposes hereof, “lawfully married” means legally married (A) under the laws of the United States (or one of the United States) or any other generally recognized jurisdiction and (B) for federal tax purposes. (o) “Total and Permanent Disability” means any physical or mental condition which renders the Participant totally and permanently disabled, as evidenced by eligibility for and receipt of disability benefits under the federal Social Security Act. (p) “Vesting Service” means a Participant’s years of employment which are credited under Section 2.02 of this Part.


 
A-6 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE II. PARTICIPATION AND SERVICE Section 2.01. Participation. Prior to January 1, 2006, each Employee commenced participation under this Part of the Plan on the first day of the month coincident with or immediately subsequent to the latest of (1) the Employee’s twenty-first (21st) birthday, (2) the date that is twelve (12) calendar months subsequent to his or her first day of employment or (3) the date on which he transfers into Employee status. Employees previously employed by Lincoln Electric will be treated as having been employed by the Employer during the period of their employment at Lincoln Electric solely for purposes of the 12 month employment requirement set forth above. Notwithstanding the foregoing, only those individual who qualified as Employees on December 31, 2005 are entitled to continue participation under this Part of the Plan after January 1, 2006. Accordingly, those who first begin employment that would otherwise be covered on or after January 1, 2006, or who are re-hired or transferred into such employment on or after that date, will not be eligible to begin to accrue Benefit Service or to continue such accruals if previously covered by this Part of the Plan. Section 2.02. Vesting Service. Each Employee’s eligibility for benefits hereunder shall be based in part upon his or her years of Vesting Service. Subject to Sections 2.04 and 2.05 of this Part, each Employee shall be credited with Vesting Service calculated in years and fractional months thereof, rounded to the next highest twelfth, for the period beginning on his or her Employment Commencement Date and ending on the date his or her employment with the Affiliates is terminated, less any period(s) of severance which exceed(s) twelve (12) months in duration. In no event shall an Employee’s years of Vesting Service be less than the number credited under the terms of a Prior Plan. Section 2.03. Benefit Service. The amount of each Participant’s Accrued Benefit hereunder shall be determined in part by his or her years of Benefit Service. Each Employee shall be credited with Benefit Service calculated in years and fractional months thereof rounded to the next highest twelfth, equal to his or her Vesting Service, provided that: (i) no Benefit Service shall be credited for any period of time that the person is employed in a status other than as an Employee or for any period of severance; (ii) Benefit Service shall be adjusted pursuant to Sections 2.04, 2.06, and 2.07 of this Part; and (iii) Benefit Service shall not be granted for any period on or after January 1, 2006 to anyone who is not an Employee on December 31, 2005. Effective January 1, 2009, a Participant with less than twenty-five (25) years of Vesting Service as of December 31, 2008 shall not accrue additional Benefit Service.


 
A-7 4841-1404-2944.2 Section 2.04. Period of Severance. (a) For purposes of this Article, a “period of severance” shall commence on an Employee’s Severance from Service and shall end on the date the Employee first performs paid services as an employee of an Affiliate following such date, and said period shall be calculated in years, months and days. (b) If an Employee who is not entitled to a vested benefit pursuant to Article III of this Part incurs a period of severance of at least seventy-two (72) months which equals or exceeds the sum of one (1) year plus his or her period of Vesting Service, his or her Vesting Service and Benefit Service earned prior to the period of severance shall be cancelled and disregarded under Sections 2.02 and 2.03 of this Part. This rule shall not apply for any Participant employed by an Employer on January 1, 1982 with respect to periods of severance prior to that date. (c) Except as provided in Section 2.01 of this Part, any former Participant who is rehired as an Employee shall be a Participant immediately. Section 2.05. Special Service Rule. Subject to the qualification for acquisitions in Section 1.01(h) of this Part, and solely for purposes of Sections 2.01, 2.02, and 2.04 of this Part, employment with an Affiliate shall include employment with any predecessor of the Affiliate and with any corporation which is in the controlled group of corporations of which the Affiliate is a member within the meaning of Code Section 1563(a). Furthermore, solely for purposes of Sections 2.01, 2.02 and 2.04 above, employment with General Electric Company and its affiliates shall be treated as if it were employment with the Company, for those individuals whose employment with REGAL-BELOIT Electric Motors, Inc. commenced by reason of their transfer of employment from General Electric Company or one of its affiliates as a result of certain business purchases from General Electric Company by REGAL-BELOIT CORPORATION in 2004. Section 2.06. Transfer Out of Employee Status. (a) If a Participant is transferred to non-Employee status, his or her benefits which have accrued under this Part of the Plan through the date of transfer shall remain in suspense while he or she is in the non-Employee employment. (b) If such individual returns to employment with an Employer as an Employee prior to January 1, 2009, his or her Benefit Service and Average Monthly Compensation accrual shall recommence upon the date of such return. Any individual who transfers to Employee status on and after January 1, 2009 (including those who had twenty-five (25) years of Vesting Service as of December 31, 2008) shall not recommence participation in this Part of the Plan. (c) If such individual does not return to employment with an Employer as an Employee, his or her monthly pension under this Part of the Plan shall be equal to his or her Accrued Benefit determined as of the date he or she ceased active participation hereunder by transferring to non-Employee employment and shall be payable in accordance with Articles III and IV hereof upon his or her subsequent Severance from Service.


 
A-8 4841-1404-2944.2 Section 2.07. Transfer to Employee Status. (a) Except as may otherwise be provided in subsection (b) below, an individual who transfers to Employee status from an Affiliate shall not receive any credit under this Plan for benefit accrual purposes for any service with such Affiliate(s) prior to such transfer. (b) If an individual transfers to Employee status on or after January 1, 1982 and prior to January 1, 2009, and accumulates ten (10) or more years of Benefit Service after the date of such transfer, or if such individual accumulates five (5) or more years of Benefit Service after the date of such transfer and retires on or after his or her Normal Retirement Date under this Part of the Plan, any period of employment with any Affiliate after his or her Employment Commencement Date but prior to the date of such transfer that may not be ignored under break- in-service rules in effect under the qualified retirement plan(s) in which such individual was a participant prior to such transfer, shall be counted as Benefit Service under Section 2.03 of this Part, subject to the limitations thereof and subject to benefit reduction by any applicable Other Benefits. Section 2.08. Transfer to Employment with an Affiliate. If a Participant is transferred by an Employer to employment with an Affiliate which is not an Employer, such individual shall remain a Participant in this Part of the Plan so long as he or she otherwise continues to meet the requirements of an Employee (without regard to the requirement that employment be with an Employer) and service with such Affiliate shall count as Benefit Service under the Plan, provided that no additional benefits shall accrue on or after January 1, 2009 for a Participant who had less than twenty-five (25) years of Vesting Service as of December 31, 2008. Section 2.09. Termination. For purposes of this Part of the Plan, a Participant’s employment will be considered terminated: (i) subject to Section 2.04 of the Master Plan Document, as of his or her last day of active employment if he or she becomes a member of the armed forces and fails to return within ninety (90) days of his or her discharge or separation from active duty, or if he or she re-enlists in the armed forces, (ii) as of his or her last day of active employment if he or she does not return to work upon the expiration of a leave of absence, (iii) if he or she is continuously laid-off commencing on or after January 1, 1982 for over twelve (12) months, or (iv) if he or she resigns, retires, is discharged, or dies.


 
A-9 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE III. BENEFITS Section 3.01. Accrued Benefit Formula. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this Section 3.01 and Section 7.07 of the Master Plan Document, and subject to the provisions of Article III and IV of this Part concerning the form and commencement of payment, for any Participant whose employment is terminated on or after January 1, 1989, the Accrued Benefit shall be a monthly amount equal to: (i) The sum of: (A) .8% of his or her Average Monthly Compensation, multiplied by his or her Years of Benefit Service; plus (B) .6% of his or her Average Monthly Compensation in excess of his or her Covered Compensation multiplied by his or her Years of Benefit Service not in excess of thirty-five (35) years; less (ii) any Other Benefits. (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a) above, a Participant shall have an Accrued Benefit equal to the greater of the amount determined under (a) above or an amount equal to $12.00 times his or her years of Benefit Service. For Participants whose employment is terminated after December 31, 1995, the minimum benefit will be $15.00 times his or her Years of Benefit Service. (c) Notwithstanding subsection (a) above, any Participant who was a participant in the Profit Sharing Plan shall have an Accrued Benefit equal to the greater of the amount determined under (a) above or an amount equal to the Actuarial Equivalent of his or her Profit Sharing Benefit. (d) Notwithstanding subsection (a) above, any Participant shall have an Accrued Benefit equal to the greater of the amount determined under (a) above or his or her Accrued Benefit as of December 31, 1988 based upon the Plan provisions then in effect, as set forth in Schedule A-2 attached hereto. (e) Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Participant’s benefit shall not be less than the sum of his or her Accrued Benefit as of December 31, 1993, plus an additional amount determined under paragraph (a) above, based only upon Years of Benefit Service after December 31, 1993 and subject to an overall limit of 35 Years of Benefit Service with respect to the portion of the benefit calculated under (a)(i)(B) above, counting both Years of Benefit Service before January 1, 1994 and after December 31, 1993. Section 3.02. Normal Retirement Benefit. Any Participant whose employment is terminated after the Effective Date and on or after his or her Normal Retirement Date, shall be entitled to a normal retirement benefit. The normal retirement benefit shall be a monthly amount determined in accordance with Section 3.01 of this Part, but in no event shall be less than the


 
A-10 4841-1404-2944.2 amount that would have been payable for the Participant if he or she had terminated under Section 3.04 of this Part. Section 3.03. Disability Retirement. (a) A Participant who terminates employment after the Effective Date by reason of a Total and Permanent Disability shall be entitled to a disability retirement benefit calculated as if his or her date of termination of employment was his or her Normal Retirement Date. (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), effective with respect to disabilities occurring on and after January 1, 1990, Disability Retirement shall not apply to any Participant who is eligible for coverage under the Company’s insured long term disability program. Section 3.04. Early Retirement or Deferred Vested Benefit. (a) Any Participant who terminates employment after the Effective Date and at any time following completion of five (5) or more years of Vesting Service and who is not eligible for benefits pursuant to Sections 3.02 or 3.03 of this Part shall be entitled to an early retirement or deferred vested benefit upon proper application therefor. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Participant who is actively employed by the Employer or any of its Affiliates on December 31, 2008 shall be fully vested under this Part of the Plan. (b) The benefit under this Section 3.04 shall be a monthly amount determined in the same manner as the normal retirement benefit based on his or her Benefit Service, Average Monthly Compensation and the benefit formula as of the date his or her employment terminates. The Participant may commence receiving his or her benefit under this Section 3.04 on or after his or her attainment of age fifty-five (55); reduced, however, by one-half of one percent (0.5%) for each month by which the Participant’s Annuity Starting Date precedes his or her Normal Retirement Date. Section 3.05. Death Benefits. (a) If a Participant has accrued at least five (5) years of Vesting Service or has attained age sixty-five (65), his or her Spouse shall be entitled to a death benefit in the event that the Participant dies after the Effective Date and prior to the Participant’s termination of employment from the Employer and its Affiliates. The Spouse of a Participant who has terminated employment from the Employer and its Affiliates after attaining age fifty-five (55) and completing at least ten (10) years of Vesting Service shall be entitled to a death benefit in the event that the Participant dies after the Effective Date and prior to his or her Annuity Starting Date. The death benefit payable to the Spouse shall be a monthly amount equal to fifty percent (50%) of the retirement benefit the Participant would have been entitled to receive if he or she had retired on the date of his or her death and had begun to receive benefits as of the date the Spouse’s benefit is to begin, and had elected a life only annuity, provided that the early commencement reduction factor shall be no greater than sixty percent (60%). The special surviving spouse benefit under this subsection (a) shall be payable during the life of the Spouse


 
A-11 4841-1404-2944.2 commencing with any month beginning with the month following the death of the Participant and no later than the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date, as the Spouse may elect. (b) If a Participant who terminated from employment with the Affiliates on or after August 23, 1984 (but prior to attaining age fifty-five (55) and/or completing at least ten (10) years of Vesting Service) and is eligible for a benefit pursuant to Section 3.04, dies prior to his or her Annuity Starting Date, his or her Spouse, if any, will be entitled to a special surviving spouse benefit. If a Participant separated from employment with the Affiliates after December 31, 1975 but prior to August 23, 1984 with a deferred vested benefit and as of August 23, 1984 was alive and had not begun to receive benefits under this Plan, the Participant may elect to have the special surviving spouse benefit of this subsection apply by submitting a written election to the Administrator on or after August 23, 1984, and prior to the commencement of his or her benefits under the Plan or, if earlier, his or her death. The special surviving spouse benefit under this subsection (b) shall be payable during the life of the Spouse commencing with any month beginning with the month following the death of the Participant (or, if later, the month following the date he would have attained age 55) and no later than the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date, as the Spouse may elect. The death benefit under this subsection (b) shall be a monthly amount equal to fifty percent (50%) of the retirement benefit the Participant would have been entitled to receive if he or she had retired on the date of his or her death and had begun to receive benefits as of the date the Spouse’s benefit is to begin, and had elected the normal form of a fifty percent (50%) joint and survivor benefit pursuant to Section 4.02(a) hereof. (c) If a Participant with a Profit Sharing Benefit dies and does not have a Spouse, or if such Spouse dies, a death benefit equal to the remaining Profit Sharing Benefit shall be paid to the Participant’s designated Beneficiary. Each Participant with a Profit Sharing Benefit may name, or change the name of, his or her Beneficiary who will receive any death benefits payable hereunder. To be effective, a beneficiary designation must be on file with the Administrator on the Participant’s date of death. If there is no form on file, or if the Beneficiary predeceases the Participant, the estate of the Participant shall be deemed to be his or her Beneficiary unless the Participant’s Spouse was receiving death benefits hereunder; in such event, the estate of the Spouse shall be deemed to be the Beneficiary. (d) Notwithstanding the foregoing subsections (b) and (c), a Spouse eligible for an annuity benefit pursuant to subsection (b) may elect to receive a lump sum payment equal to the Participant’s Profit Sharing Benefit, with the annuity under subsection (b) being reduced in order that the lump sum and reduced annuity are the Actuarial Equivalent of the surviving spouse annuity payable on a life only annuity basis. If the Actuarial Equivalent lump sum value of the reduced annuity benefit under subsection (b) does not exceed $10,000, then, in lieu of the annuity benefit described in subsection (b), the Spouse may elect a distribution of the annuity portion of the death benefit in the form of a lump sum that is the Actuarial Equivalent of such reduced annuity benefit.


 
A-12 4841-1404-2944.2 Section 3.06. 1981 Retirees. With respect to those former employees of the Employers prior to the Effective Date as listed in Schedule A-1 hereto who would have been eligible for normal or early retirement benefits under this Plan if it was in effect on January 1, 1981, such former employees shall be treated for all purposes of this Part of the Plan as Participants eligible for benefits hereunder commencing as of the Effective Date. Benefit Service shall be computed as of the dates of termination in 1981 and Average Monthly Compensation shall be determined as of such dates of termination but restricting the computation under Section 1.01(b) of this Part to the last sixty (60) consecutive calendar months of employment. Section 3.07. Applicable Benefits. (a) In the event payment of any of the foregoing benefits is deferred or suspended, or this Part of the Plan is amended or the benefit formulas revised subsequent to a Participant’s retirement or other termination of employment, the amount of benefit payable and any other terms or conditions applicable to payment of such benefit shall be determined on the basis of the rates and provisions of the Plan (including this Part) in effect as of the date the Participant terminates his or her employment, except the forms of optional payment which may be permitted from time to time, the age at which the payment of benefits may commence, and the early commencement discount factors, all of which shall be determined as of the date of benefit commencement. (b) Unless otherwise expressly stated, the provisions hereof apply to Employees on and after the Effective Date. Any benefit payments for Participants who are not active after the Effective Date shall be paid in accordance with the terms of the applicable Prior Plan, except the forms of optional payment which may be permitted from time to time, the age at which the payment of benefits may commence, and the early commencement discount factors, all of which shall be determined as of the date of benefit commencement.


 
A-13 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE IV. PAYMENT OF BENEFITS Section 4.01. Normal Form of Payment. (a) Retirement benefits under this Part shall be payable in the normal form of payment described under Section 3.01 of the Master Plan Document. (b) Any Participant who becomes eligible to receive retirement benefits hereunder may select an optional form of payment as provided in Section 4.02 hereof in lieu of the normal form. Section 4.02. Optional Forms of Payment. (a) In lieu of the normal form of payment provided in Section 3.01 of the Master Plan Document, a Participant who is eligible for retirement benefits under this Part of the Plan may elect an optional form of payment described in Section 3.02 of the Master Plan Document. (b) In lieu of the normal form of payment provided in Section 3.01 of the Master Plan Document or an optional form of payment described in Section 3.02 of the Master Plan Document, a Participant who is eligible for a Profit Sharing Benefit may elect the Lump Sum and Annuity or Installments and Annuity optional forms of payment as hereinafter described, each of which are the Actuarial Equivalent of the Life Only Option described in Article III of the Master Plan Document: (i) Lump Sum and Annuity. A lump sum payment equal to the Participant’s Profit Sharing Benefit shall be payable to the Participant at his or her direction on the Annuity Starting Date, and an annuity benefit actuarially reduced to reflect the lump sum payment shall be payable in the form of an optional annuity hereunder on the Annuity Starting Date. In lieu of the lump sum payment, a married Participant may elect to take a joint and 50% or joint and 75% survivor annuity that is the Actuarial Equivalent of the lump sum payment, commencing immediately with monthly payments for the Participant’s life and continued payments equal to 50% or 75%, as applicable of the amount payable during the Participant’s lifetime to the Participant’s Spouse (as of the date payments commence) for the Spouse’s lifetime in the event the Participant predeceases the Spouse. If the Actuarial Equivalent lump sum value of the Participant’s reduced annuity benefit (as described earlier in this subsection) does not exceed $10,000, then, in lieu of the annuity benefit described above, the Participant may elect a distribution of the annuity portion of the Participant’s benefit in the form of an Actuarial Equivalent lump sum on the Annuity Starting Date.


 
A-14 4841-1404-2944.2 (ii) Installments and Annuity. An amount equal to the Participant’s Profit Sharing Benefit shall be payable to the Participant as described below, and an annuity benefit actuarially reduced to reflect the value of such Profit Sharing Benefit as of the date of commencement shall be payable in the form of an optional annuity hereunder. The Profit Sharing Benefit shall be paid at the Participant’s direction in annual installments, commencing on the Annuity Starting Date, over a period determined by the Participant not to exceed ten years. Installments shall generally be substantially equivalent amounts, but the Participant may elect to receive part of the Profit Sharing Benefit in an initial lump sum amount on the Annuity Starting Date. During any period of installment payments, interest shall continue to be credited under the provisions of Section 1.01(l) of this Part on the outstanding balance until such entire amount has been paid to the Participant or his or her designated Beneficiary. (c) If a Participant who is eligible for a Profit Sharing Benefit elects the Lump Sum and Annuity or Installments and Annuity optional forms of payment as described in Section 4.02(b) of this Part, payment of the Participant’s annuity benefit shall commence on the same Annuity Starting Date on which the Participant receives or commences payment of his or her Profit Sharing Benefit under Section 4.02(b) of this Part. [The remainder of this page is intentionally left blank.]


 
A-15 4841-1404-2944.2 SCHEDULE A-1 1981 Retirees Eligible for Benefit Payments Name Section 3.01(a) Accrued Benefit1 Howard Duffey .................................................... $255.44 Orville Heinz ....................................................... 182.25 Earl Holdridge ..................................................... 617.06 Marie Hughes ....................................................... 226.20 Rudolph P. Salzman ............................................. 30.15 1 Such monthly amounts are subject to offset for Other Benefits and for any payments from the Marathon Electric Profit Sharing Retirement Plan.


 
A-16 4841-1404-2944.2 SCHEDULE A-2 The Accrued Benefit of Participants whose employment was terminated on or after January 1, 1982 and prior to January 1, 1989 shall be a monthly amount equal to: (i) the difference of (A) 1.14% of his or her Average Monthly Compensation, multiplied by his or her years of Benefit Service to a maximum of forty-five (45) years; less (B) 1.43% of his or her Social Security Benefit; multiplied by his or her years of Benefit Service to a maximum percentage of 63.2%; less (ii) any Other Benefits. For this purpose, “Average Monthly Compensation” is determined according to Section 1.01(b) of this Part, without regard to the second paragraph thereof. “Social Security Benefit” means the estimated monthly primary old-age insurance benefit available at the later of the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date or Severance from Service, determined under the provisions of the federal Social Security Act in effect on the date of the Participant’s Severance from Service. If a Participant’s Severance from Service is prior to his or her Normal Retirement Date, his or her estimated old-age insurance benefit under said Act shall be determined by (i) applying the provisions thereof as in effect on his or her Severance from Service and (ii) assuming continuation of his or her compensation for the Plan Year immediately preceding such Severance from Service until his or her Normal Retirement Date. In the Administrator’s discretion, covered earnings for years prior to termination may be estimated on the basis of uniform assumptions consistently applied by the Administrator to all Participants in like circumstances unless the Participant furnishes evidence satisfactory to the Administrator which shows such covered earnings to have been actually different than the amount estimated. Once the monthly amount of a Participant’s Social Security Benefit has been determined as hereinabove specified, such amount shall not thereafter be subject to adjustment except for arithmetical errors in the computation thereof and shall, for all purposes of the Plan, be assumed to remain as thus finally computed regardless of any subsequent fact, event or occurrence which might cause a change or an adjustment in the monthly amount thereof actually available to the Participant such as, but not limited to, continuation in covered employment under said Act following commencement of his or her insurance benefit payments thereunder or increases in the insurance benefit amounts available thereunder by reason of automatic and/or legislated increases thereunder at any time subsequent to such Participant’s Severance from Service. Written notice of a Participant’s rights regarding the calculation of the earnings history will be given by the Administrator at such times and in such manner as may be prescribed under the Code.


 
A-17 4841-1404-2944.2 Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Participant who was a participant in a Prior Plan who has at least ten (10) years of Vesting Service shall have an Accrued Benefit equal to $7.50 times his or her years of Benefit Service or an amount equal to the Actuarial Equivalent of his or her Profit Sharing Benefit, whichever is greater, if such accrued benefit exceeds the accrued benefit under the foregoing formula.


 
B-1 4841-1404-2944.2 PART B: LEBANON AND WEST PLAINS HOURLY PENSION PLAN Overview: • Participation frozen effective December 31, 2005. • Benefits frozen effective December 31, 2008.


 
B-2 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND FORMAT OF TERMS Section 1.01. Format. Capitalized words and phrases defined in Section 1.02 of this Part shall have that defined meaning when used in this Part, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Additional capitalized terms used herein are defined in Section 1.01 of the Master Plan Document. Similarly, cross references in this Part shall apply to the referenced section in this Part, unless specifically referred to as a section of the Master Plan Document. Section 1.02. Defined Terms. The following words and phrases when used in this Part of the Plan shall have the following respective meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise,: (a) “Actuarial Equivalent” shall be determined for all purposes (except as required by Code Section 417(e)), including for purposes of converting from one periodic form of payment to another and different commencement dates for payment, using an interest rate of seven percent (7%) per annum compounded annually and the 1971 Group Annuity Table with an eighty percent (80%) male weighting and a twenty percent (20%) female weighting. (b) “Benefit Service” means a Participant’s years of employment which are credited under Section 2.03 of this Part. (c) “Early Retirement Date” means the date a Participant attains age sixty (60) and completes at least fifteen (15) years of Vesting Service. (d) “Effective Date” means July 1, 1979. (e) “Employee” means, for purposes of this Part, any person employed by a Participating Employer as an hourly paid or office clerical (other than non-exempt salaried) employee at the Participating Employer’s West Plains, Missouri facility or the Participating Employer’s Lebanon, Missouri facility. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no one who is not an Employee on December 31, 2005 shall be entitled to be treated as an Employee for any period on or after January 1, 2006. (f) “Hour of Service” means: (i) an hour for which an employee of the Employer is directly or indirectly paid or entitled to payment for the performance of duties, plus (ii) each hour not credited under (1) above for which back pay, irrespective of mitigation of damages, has been either awarded or agreed to by the Employer, with respect to an employee of the Employer, and each of the first five hundred one (501) hours during any single continuous period of absence for which the employee is paid or entitled to payment, for vacation, holiday, illness, incapacity (including disability), layoff, jury duty, or leave of absence; provided, however, that no credit shall be given for any payment made for the sole purpose of complying with


 
B-3 4841-1404-2944.2 applicable worker’s compensation laws or unemployment compensation laws. The Administrator shall determine each employee’s Hours of Service on the basis of time actually worked and, in the case of Hours of Service which are credited under (ii) above, on the basis of the Participant’s regular work schedule. Hours of Service shall be credited to the Plan Year in which such hours occur and in accordance with Department of Labor Regulations §2530.200b-2(b) and (c). “Hours of Service as an Employee” means those Hours of Service credited while the person was an Employee as defined in subsection (e) hereof. (g) “Normal Retirement Date” means the first day of the month coincident with or next following a Participant’s sixty-fifth (65th) birthday. (h) “Participating Employer” means RBC Manufacturing Corporation or Regal Beloit Logistics, LLC. (i) “Spouse” means either (1) the person to whom a Participant is lawfully married on his or her Annuity Starting Date or (2) in the event the Participant dies before his or her Annuity Starting Date, the person to whom the Participant was married throughout the one (1) year period preceding the Participant’s death. For purposes hereof, “lawfully married” means legally married (A) under the laws of the United States (or one of the United States) or any other generally recognized jurisdiction and (B) for federal tax purposes. (j) “Vesting Service” means a Participant’s years of employment with the Participating Employer and its Affiliates which are credited under Section 2.02 of this Part.


 
B-4 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE II. PARTICIPATION AND SERVICE Section 2.01. Participation. (a) Each Employee on the Effective Date who has completed the qualifying period defined in subsection (b) below shall commence participation under this Part of the Plan on such date. Subject to subsection (c), each other Employee shall commence participation under this Part of the Plan on the first day of the month next following the completion of his or her qualifying period. (b) The qualifying period shall be the twelve (12) month period commencing on the Employee’s employment commencement date or any subsequent January 1 during which the Employee completes at least one thousand (1,000) Hours of Service. (c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, no one who is not an Employee on December 31, 2005 shall be entitled to begin participation under this Part of the Plan. Accordingly, those who first begin employment on or after January 1, 2006 that would otherwise be covered under this Part, or who are re-hired or transferred into such employment on or after that date, will not be eligible to begin to accrue Benefit Service or to continue such accruals if previously covered by this Part of the Plan. Section 2.02. Vesting Service. Each Participant’s eligibility for benefits hereunder shall be based in part upon his or her years of Vesting Service. Each Participant shall be credited with one (1) year of Vesting Service for each Plan Year in which he or she completes at least one thousand (1,000) Hours of Service. Plan Years ending both before and after the Effective Date are counted for purposes of this Section. Solely for purposes of Sections 2.01 and 2.02 of this Part, employment with any Affiliate shall be counted. Section 2.03. Benefit Service. The amount of each Participant’s benefit hereunder shall be determined in part by his or her years of Benefit Service. Each Participant shall be credited with one (1) year of Benefit Service for each Plan Year in which he or she completes at least one thousand eight hundred (1,800) Hours of Service as an Employee. A Participant who completes fewer than one thousand eight hundred (1,800) Hours of Service as an Employee in any Plan Year shall be credited with a partial year of Benefit Service for such Plan Year, as determined from the following table: Hours of Service as an Employee Year of Benefit Service 1,800 or more 1 1,400 to 1,799 3/4 1,000 to 1,399 1/2 less than 1,000 none Notwithstanding the foregoing, Benefit Service shall not be credited for any period on or after January 1, 2006 to anyone who is not an Employee on January 1, 2006. Effective January 1, 2009, a Participant shall not accrue additional Benefit Service.


 
B-5 4841-1404-2944.2 Section 2.04. Break in Service. (a) A Participant incurs a break in service if his or her employment with the Participating Employers is severed and he or she fails to complete more than five hundred (500) Hours of Service during a Plan Year. A break in service shall continue each Plan Year thereafter in which the Participant fails to complete more than five hundred (500) Hours of Service. (b) If a Participant with less than five (5) years of Vesting Service incurs a break-in-service and the break-in-service is at least six (6) years in length, his or her Vesting Service and Benefit Service prior to the break-in-service shall be cancelled and disregarded under Sections 2.02 and 2.03 of this Part of the Plan. (c) Except as provided in Section 2.01(c) of this Part, any former Participant who is rehired as an Employee shall be a Participant immediately regardless of the length of any break in service.


 
B-6 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE III. BENEFITS Section 3.01. Normal Retirement Benefit. (a) Any Participant whose employment is terminated from the Participating Employers and their Affiliates after the Effective Date and on or after his or her attainment of age 65 shall be entitled to a normal retirement benefit. The normal retirement benefit shall be a monthly amount equal to the dollar multiplier times his or her years of Benefit Service (and fractions thereof) as of his or her retirement date. The dollar multiplier for Participants terminating employment with the Participating Employer at its West Plains, Missouri facility on the dates indicated below are as follows: Date of Termination of Employment Multiplier July 1, 1979 to June 30, 1980 $3.00 July 1, 1980 to June 30, 1985 $4.00 July 1, 1985 to December 31, 1987 $4.50 January 1, 1988 to December 31, 1988 $6.00 January 1, 1989 to December 31, 1989 $7.00 January 1, 1990 to December 31, 1993 $7.50 January 1, 1994 to December 31, 1998 $8.50 January 1, 1999 to December 31, 1999 $9.50 On and after January 1, 2000 $10.00 The dollar multiplier for Participants terminating employment with the Participating Employer at its Lebanon, Missouri facility on the dates indicated below are as follows: Date of Termination of Employment Multiplier June 1, 1982 to December 31, 1986 $4.00 January 1, 1987 to April 30, 1988 $4.50 May 1, 1988 to April 30, 1989 $6.00 May 1, 1989 to April 30, 1990 $7.00 May 1, 1990 to April 30, 1994 $7.50 May 1, 1994 to April 30, 1999 $8.50 May 1, 1999 to April 30, 2000 $9.50 On and after May 1, 2000 $10.00 In the case of a transfer from one facility to the other, if the dollar amount of the multiplier is less at the new facility than at the prior facility at the time of transfer, the prior facility’s multiplier shall apply with respect to service before the transfer and the new facility’s multiplier shall apply to service after the transfer until such time as the new facility’s multiplier


 
B-7 4841-1404-2944.2 equals or exceeds the prior facility’s multiplier in effect at the date of the transfer and thereafter. In such event, the new facility’s multiplier shall apply to all service. Section 3.02. Early Retirement Benefit. Any Participant whose employment with the Participating Employers and their Affiliates is terminated on or after his or her Early Retirement Date but prior to his or her attainment of age sixty-five (65) shall be entitled to an early retirement benefit. With respect to early retirement benefits paid on or after the Effective Date, the early retirement benefit shall be a monthly amount determined in the same manner as the normal retirement benefit, reduced, however, by one half of one percent (0.5%) for each month by which the date the Participant commences receiving early retirement benefits precedes his or her Normal Retirement Date. Section 3.03. Deferred Vested Benefit. (a) Any Participant whose employment with the Participating Employers and their Affiliates is terminated at any time following his or her completion of five (5) or more years of Vesting Service shall be entitled to a deferred vested benefit upon proper application therefor. The deferred vested benefit shall be a monthly amount determined in the same manner as the normal retirement benefit and commencing no earlier than the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date, except as permitted by subsection (b) below. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any Participant who is actively employed by the Participating Employers or any of their Affiliates on December 31, 2008 shall be fully vested under this Part of the Plan. (b) A Participant whose employment with the Participating Employers and their Affiliates is terminated at any time following his or her completion of fifteen (15) years of Vesting Service but prior to his or her attainment of age sixty (60) may, by filing proper application, elect to commence receiving his or her deferred vested benefit at any time after his or her sixtieth (60th) birthday and prior to his or her attainment of age sixty-five (65), provided, however, that the monthly benefit shall be reduced by one-one hundred eightieth (1/180th) for each complete month by which the date the Participant commences receiving deferred vested benefits precedes his or her Normal Retirement Date. Section 3.04. Spouse’s Death Benefit. (a) In the event, (i) a Participant with five (5) or more years of Vesting Service or who is at least age sixty-five (65) and who dies while an employee of the Participating Employer on or after January 1, 1989, or (ii) a Participant with a deferred vested benefit which had not commenced who had terminated from the Participating Employer after December 31, 1975 dies on or after January 1, 1989, or (iii) a Participant who retired under the normal or early retirement provisions but dies before his or her Annuity Starting Date,


 
B-8 4841-1404-2944.2 the Spouse, if any, of such Participant will be entitled to a Spouse’s death benefit. The Spouse’s benefit shall be a monthly amount equal to the retirement benefit the Spouse would have been entitled to receive if the Participant had terminated employment at the date of death, survived to the date benefits are to begin pursuant to subsection (b), and commenced receipt of benefits in the normal form of a fifty percent (50%) joint and survivor benefit pursuant to Section 3.01(a) of the Master Plan Document. (b) The Spouse’s death benefit shall commence with the month following the later of the Participant’s date of death or the date the Participant was or would have attained age sixty-five (65), except that for a Participant with at least fifteen (15) years of Vesting Service, the Spouse may elect to have benefits commence with any month following the later of the Participant’s date of death or the date the Participant would have attained age sixty (60). Section 3.05. Applicable Benefit Rate. In the event payment of any of the foregoing benefits is deferred or suspended, or the Plan is amended or benefit rates increased subsequent to a Participant’s retirement or other termination of employment, the amount of benefit payable and any other terms or conditions applicable to payment of such benefit shall be determined on the basis of the rates and provisions of the Plan in effect as of the date the Participant last completed an Hour of Service.


 
C-1 4841-1404-2944.2 PART C: RBC MANUFACTURING CORPORATION WAUSAU HOURLY PENSION PLAN Overview: • Participation frozen to IBEW Participants effective August 31, 2007 and to Teamsters Participants effective May 31, 2009. • Benefits frozen to IBEW Participants effective April 30, 2010; Benefit Service capped at 45 years for Teamsters Participants.


 
C-2 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND FORMAT OF TERMS Section 1.01. Format. Capitalized words and phrases defined in Section 1.02 of this Part shall have that defined meaning when used in this Part, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Additional capitalized terms used herein are defined in Section 1.01 of the Master Plan Document. Similarly, cross references in this Part shall apply to the referenced section in this Part, unless specifically referred to as a section of the Master Plan Document. Section 1.02. Defined Terms. The following words and phrases when used in the Plan, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, shall have the following respective meanings: (a) “Actuarial Equivalent” shall be determined, effective May 1, 1985, for all purposes (except as required by Code Section 417(e)), including for purposes of converting from one periodic form of payment to another, and different commencement dates for payment, by using an interest rate of seven percent (7%) per annum compounded annually and the 1971 Group Annuity Table with an eighty percent (80%) male weighting and a twenty percent (20%) female weighting. For Participants terminating employment prior to April 1, 1985, the interest rate and mortality factors used for the purposes set forth above were two and one half percent (2.5%) interest and Group Annuity Mortality Table (1951) modified one year. Notwithstanding any provision herein to the contrary, no Participant as of March 31, 1985 shall receive a smaller pension under the applicable provision of this Part of the Plan than such Participant would have been entitled to receive had such person had a nonforfeitable interest and retired on April 30, 1985. (b) “Basic Agreement” means the collective bargaining agreement between the Participating Employer and a Union as amended and supplemented from time to time. (c) “Benefit Service” means a Participant’s years of employment with the Participating Employer which are credited under Section 2.03 of this Part. (d) “Effective Date” means January 1, 1969. (e) “Employee” means any person employed by the Participating Employer on or after the Effective Date at the Participating Employer’s Wausau, Wisconsin facility who is in the bargaining unit covered by the Basic Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any individual who is hired, rehired or transferred to a position that would otherwise be covered under this Part of the Plan on or after September 1, 2007 and is a member of the bargaining unit covered by the Basic Agreement with Local 1791, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, AFL CIO, shall not be considered an Employee under this Part of the Plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any individual who is hired, rehired or transferred to a position that would otherwise be covered under this Part of the Plan on or after June 1, 2009 and is a member of the bargaining unit covered by the Basic Agreement with Teamsters Union Number 662 shall not be considered an Employee under this Part of the Plan.


 
C-3 4841-1404-2944.2 (f) “Hour of Service” means: (i) an hour for which an employee of the Participating Employer is directly or indirectly paid or entitled to payment for the performance of duties, plus (ii) each hour not credited under (1) above for which back pay, irrespective of mitigation of damages, has been either awarded or agreed to by the Participating Employer, with respect to an employee of the Participating Employer, and each hour for which the employee is paid or entitled to payment, for vacation, holiday, illness, incapacity (including disability), layoff, jury duty, military duty, or leave of absence; provided, however, that no credit shall be given for any payment made for the sole purpose of complying with applicable worker’s compensation laws or unemployment compensation laws. The Administrator shall determine each employee’s Hours of Service on the basis of time actually worked and, in the case of Hours of Service which are credited under (2) above, on the basis of the Participant’s regular work schedule. Hours of Service shall be credited to the Plan Year in which such hours occur and in accordance with Department of Labor Regulations 2530.200b 2(b) and (c). “Hours of Service as Employee” means those Hours of Service credited while the person was an Employee as defined in subsection (e) of this Part. (g) “Normal Retirement Date” means the first day of the month coincident with or next following a Participant’s sixty-fifth (65th) birthday. (h) “Participating Employer” means RBC Manufacturing Corporation. (i) “Spouse” means either (1) the person to whom a Participant is lawfully married on his or her Annuity Starting Date or (2) in the event the Participant dies before his or her Annuity Starting Date, the person to whom the Participant was married throughout the one (1) year period preceding the Participant’s death. For purposes hereof, “lawfully married” means legally married (A) under the laws of the United States (or one of the United States) or any other generally recognized jurisdiction and (B) for federal tax purposes. (j) “Total and Permanent Disability” means any physical or mental condition which renders the Participant totally and permanently disabled as evidenced by eligibility for and receipt of disability benefits from Social Security. (k) “Union” means Teamsters Union Number 662 (hereinafter “Teamsters”) or Local 1791, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, AFL CIO (hereinafter “IBEW”). (l) “Vesting Service” means a Participant’s years of employment with the Participating Employer which are credited under Section 2.02 of this Part.


 
C-4 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE II. PARTICIPATION AND SERVICE Section 2.01. Participation. Each employee of the Participating Employer shall commence participation under this Part of the Plan on the date he or she becomes an Employee. Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any member of the bargaining unit covered by the Basic Agreement with IBEW, no one who is not an Employee on August 31, 2007, shall be entitled to participate in this Part of the Plan. Accordingly, any member of the bargaining unit covered by the Basic Agreement with IBEW who first begins employment that would otherwise be covered under this Part of the Plan on or after September 1, 2007, or who is rehired or transferred into such employment on or after that date will not be eligible to begin to accrue Benefit Service or to continue accruals if previously covered by this Part of the Plan. In addition, notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any member of the bargaining unit covered by the Basic Agreement with Teamsters, no one who is not an Employee on May 31, 2009, shall be entitled to participate in this Part of the Plan. Accordingly, any member of the bargaining unit covered by the Basic Agreement with Teamsters who first begins employment that would otherwise be covered under this Part of the Plan on or after June 1, 2009, or who is rehired or transferred into such employment on or after that date will not be eligible to begin to accrue Benefit Service or to continue accruals if previously covered by this Part of the Plan. Section 2.02. Vesting Service. Each Participant’s eligibility for benefits hereunder shall be based in part upon his or her years of Vesting Service. For employment prior to January 1, 1976 a Participant shall be credited with full and fractional years of Vesting Service equal to the years of Vesting Service credited under the Plan as in effect on December 31, 1975. For employment after December 31, 1975, each Participant shall be credited with one (1) year of Vesting Service for each Plan Year in which he or she completes at least one thousand (1,000) Hours of Service. In addition, if a Participant does not complete at least one thousand (1,000) Hours of Service for a Plan Year, he or she shall be credited with a fractional year of Vesting Service as determined from the following table: Hours of Service Year of Vesting Service 900 to 999 1/2 450 to 899 1/4 less than 450 none Solely for purposes of Sections 2.01 and 2.02 of this Part, employment with any Affiliate shall be treated as employment with the Participating Employer. Section 2.03. Benefit Service. The amount of each Participant’s benefit hereunder shall be determined in part by his or her years of Benefit Service. Each Participant shall be credited with Benefit Service as determined below:


 
C-5 4841-1404-2944.2 (i) Teamsters. For service after April 30, 1970 each Participant who is a member of the bargaining unit represented by the Teamsters shall be credited with one (1) year of Benefit Service for each Plan Year in which he or she completes at least one thousand eight hundred (1,800) Hours of Service as an Employee. A Participant who completes less than one thousand eight hundred (1,800) Hours of Service shall be credited with a partial year of Benefit Service as determined from the following table: Hours of Service as an Employee Year of Benefit Service 1,800 or more 1 1,350 to 1,799 3/4 900 to 1,349 1/2 450 to 899 1/4 less than 450 none For service prior to May 1, 1970 each Participant who was a Participant on that date and who is a member of the bargaining unit represented by the Teamsters shall be credited with one (1) year of Benefit Service for each full year of continuous service with the Participating Employer prior to that date. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, Benefit Service for a Participant who is a member of the bargaining unit represented by the Teamsters shall be capped at a maximum of forty-five (45) years. (ii) IBEW. For service after January 1, 1982, each Participant who is a member of the bargaining unit represented by the IBEW shall be credited with one (1) year of Benefit Service for each Plan Year in which he or she completes at least one thousand four hundred and one (1,401) Hours of Service as an Employee. A Participant who completes less than one thousand four hundred and one (1,401) Hours of Service shall be credited with a partial year of Benefit Service, as determined from the following table: Hours of Service as an Employee Year of Benefit Service 1,401 or more 1 1,000 to 1,400 1/2 600 to 999 1/4 less than 600 none less than 450 none


 
C-6 4841-1404-2944.2 For service after the Effective Date and prior to January 1, 1982, each Participant who is a member of the bargaining unit represented by the IBEW shall be credited with one (1) year of Benefit Service for each Plan Year in which he or she completes at least one thousand eight hundred (1,800) Hours of Service as an Employee. A Participant who completes less than one thousand eight hundred (1,800) Hours of Service shall be credited with a partial year of Benefit Service, as determined from the following table: Hours of Service as an Employee Year of Benefit Service 1,800 or more 1 1,350 to 1,799 3/4 900 to 1,349 1/2 450 to 899 1/4 less than 450 none For service prior to the Effective Date each Participant who is a member of the bargaining unit represented by the IBEW shall be credited with one (1) year of Benefit Service (not to exceed fifteen (15) years) for each full year of continuous service with the Participating Employer prior to the Effective Date. The maximum number of years of Benefit Service shall be thirty (30). Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, Benefit Service for a Participant who is a member of the bargaining unit represented by the IBEW shall not include any periods of service after April 30, 2010. Section 2.04. Break in Service. (a) A Participant incurs a break in service if his or her employment with the Participating Employer is severed and he or she fails to complete more than four hundred forty nine (449) Hours of Service during a Plan Year. A break in service shall continue each Plan Year thereafter in which the Participant fails to complete more than four hundred forty nine (449) Hours of Service. (b) If a Participant with less than five (5) years of Vesting Service incurs a break in service and the break in service is at least six (6) years in length , then his or her Vesting Service and Benefit Service prior to the break in service shall be cancelled and disregarded under Sections 2.02 and 2.03 of this Part. (c) Except as provided in Section 2.01 of this Part, any former Participant who is rehired as an Employee shall be a Participant immediately, regardless of the length of any break in service.


 
C-7 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE III. BENEFITS Section 3.01. Normal Retirement Benefit. (a) Any Participant whose employment with the Participating Employer and its Affiliates is terminated on or after his or her attainment of age sixty-five (65) shall be entitled to a normal retirement benefit. The normal retirement benefit shall be a monthly amount equal to the applicable dollar rate at the time of termination as an Employee times the Participant’s years of Benefit Service (and fractions thereof) as of his or her retirement date, subject to the limitations described in Section 2.03 of this Part. The applicable dollar rate for Participants represented by the Teamsters shall be determined from the following table: Participants Terminating Applicable Dollar Rate From January 1, 1984 to August 31, 1985 $ 9.50 From September 1, 1985 to May 31, 1986 10.50 From June 1, 1986 to May 31, 1989 11.00 From June 1, 1989 to May 31, 1990 12.00 From June 1, 1990 to May 31, 1991 13.00 From June 1, 1991 to May 31, 1992 14.00 From June 1, 1992 to May 31, 1993 15.00 From June 1, 1993 to May 31, 1994 16.00 From June 1, 1994 to May 31, 1995 17.00 From June 1, 1995 to May 31, 1996 17.50 From June 1, 1996 to May 31, 1997 18.00 From June 1, 1997 to May 31, 1998 19.00 From June 1, 1998 to May 31, 1999 20.00 From June 1, 1999 to May 31, 2000 21.00 From June 1, 2000 to May 31, 2001 22.00 From on and after June 1, 2001 23.00 The applicable dollar rate for Participants represented by the IBEW shall be determined at the time of termination as an Employee from the following table and shall be subject to a limit on the number of years of Benefit Service that may be considered as set forth below: Participants Terminating Applicable Dollar Rate Maximum Years of Benefit Service From September 1, 1983 to August 31, 1984 $ 9.50 30 years From September 1, 1984 to August 31, 1986 10.50 30 years From September 1, 1986 to August 31, 1989 11.00 30 years From September 1, 1989 to August 31, 1990 11.50 30 years From September 1, 1990 to August 31, 1991 11.50 32 years From September 1, 1991 to August 31, 1992 12.00 32 years From September 1, 1992 to August 31, 1993 13.00 32 years From September 1, 1993 to August 31, 1994 13.50 32 years


 
C-8 4841-1404-2944.2 From September 1, 1994 to August 31, 1995 14.00 32 years From September 1, 1995 to August 31, 1996 14.50 32 years From September 1, 1996 to August 31, 1997 15.00 32 years From September 1, 1997 to August 31, 1998 15.25 32 years From September 1, 1998 to August 31, 1999 15.50 32 years From September 1, 1999 to August 31, 2000 15.75 33 years From September 1, 2000 to August 31, 2001 16.00 34 years From September 1, 2001 to August 31, 2002 16.50 34 years From September 1, 2002 to August 31, 2003 16.75 35 years From September 1, 2003 to August 31, 2004 17.00 35 years From September 1, 2004 to August 31, 2006 17.25 36 years On or after September 1, 2006 17.50 36 years Section 3.02. Early Retirement or Deferred Vested Benefit. (a) Any Participant whose employment with the Participating Employer and its Affiliates is terminated at any time following his or her completion of five (5) or more years of Vesting Service shall be entitled to an early retirement or deferred vested benefit upon proper application therefor. The benefit hereunder shall be a monthly amount determined in the same manner as the normal retirement benefit and payable no earlier than the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date, except as permitted by subsection (b) below. (b) A Participant whose employment is terminated at any time following his or her completion of fifteen (15) years of Vesting Service may, by filing proper application, elect to commence receiving his or her benefit under this Section 3.02 at any time after his or her sixtieth (60th) birthday and prior to his or her attainment of age sixty five (65), provided, however, that the Accrued Benefit shall be reduced by one half of one percent (0.5%) for each complete month by which the Participant’s Annuity Starting Date precedes his or her Normal Retirement Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for benefits commencing prior to April 1, 1985 the applicable reduction factor shall be determined by the Actuarial Equivalent then in effect. (c) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, each unvested Participant who is a member of the bargaining unit represented by the IBEW and who is in employment with the Participating Employer on April 30, 2010 shall be deemed to have completed five (5) years of Vesting Service under this Part regardless of such Participant’s actual years of Vesting Service. Section 3.03. Spouse’s Death Benefit. (a) If a Participant has accrued at least five (5) years of Vesting Service or has attained his or her Normal Retirement Date, his or her Spouse shall be entitled to a death benefit in the event that the Participant dies prior to the Participant’s termination of employment. The Spouse of a Participant who has terminated employment from the Participating Employer and its Affiliates after attaining age sixty (60) and completing at least fifteen (15) years of Vesting Service shall be entitled to a death benefit in the event that the Participant dies prior to his or her Annuity Starting Date. The death benefit shall be a monthly amount equal to fifty percent (50%) of the retirement benefit the Participant would have been entitled to receive if he or she had


 
C-9 4841-1404-2944.2 retired on the date of his or her death and had elected a life only annuity commencing at age sixty five (65). Such amount shall be payable during the life of the Spouse commencing with the month following the death of the Participant. (b) If a Participant who terminated from employment with the Participating Employer on or after August 23, 1984 and is eligible for a deferred vested benefit pursuant to Section 3.02 of this Part (but prior to attaining age sixty (60) and/or completing at least fifteen (15) years of Vesting Service), dies prior to commencement of such benefits, his or her Spouse, if any, will be entitled to a surviving spouse benefit. This surviving spouse benefit shall be a monthly amount equal to fifty percent (50%) of the retirement benefit the Participant would have been entitled to receive if the Participant had commenced receipt of benefits on the date benefits to the Spouse commence and had elected the normal form of a fifty percent (50%) joint and survivor benefit pursuant to Section 3.01(a) of the Master Plan Document. The benefit shall commence with the month following the later of the Participant’s date of death or the date the Participant was or would have attained age sixty five (65), except that the spouse of a Participant who dies before age sixty five (65) with at least fifteen (15) years of Vesting Service may elect to have benefits commence with any month beginning with the month following the date the Participant would have attained age sixty (60), but no earlier than the month following his or her death. The surviving spouse benefit shall cease with the death of the spouse. Section 3.04. Applicable Benefit Rate. In the event payment of any of the foregoing benefits is deferred or suspended, or this Part of the Plan is amended or benefit rates increased subsequent to a Participant’s retirement or other termination of employment, the amount of benefit payable and any other terms or conditions applicable to payment of such benefit shall be determined on the basis of the rates and provisions of the Plan in effect as of the date the Participant last completed an Hour of Service as an Employee. Section 3.05. Disability Retirement. (a) With respect to employees represented by the IBEW, effective with respect to disabilities occurring on and after September 1, 1995, an employee with ten (10) or more years of Vesting Service is eligible for a Disability Retirement Benefit calculated as if his or her date of Total and Permanent Disability was his or her Normal Retirement Date. The applicable dollar rate for purposes of determining the benefit is the rate in effect at the time the Administrator determines that the Participant has experienced a Total and Permanent Disability. The Disability Retirement Benefit shall not be subject to reduction for early commencement.


 
D-1 4841-1404-2944.2 PART D: RBC MANUFACTURING MARATHON SPECIAL PRODUCTS HOURLY PENSION PLAN Overview: • Participation frozen effective May 31, 2008. • Benefits frozen effective December 31, 2011.


 
D-2 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND FORMAT OF TERMS Section 1.01. Format. Capitalized words and phrases defined in Section 1.02 of this Part shall have that defined meaning when used in this Part, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Additional capitalized terms used herein are defined in Section 1.01 of the Master Plan Document. Similarly, cross references in this Part shall apply to the referenced section in this Part, unless specifically referred to as a section of the Master Plan Document. Section 1.02. Defined Terms. The following words and phrases when used in this Part shall have the following respective meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (a) “Actuarial Equivalent” shall be determined for all purposes (except as required by Code Section 417(e)), including for purposes of converting from one periodic form of payment to another and different commencement dates for payment, by using an interest rate of seven percent (7%) per annum compounded annually and the 1971 Group Annuity Table with an eighty percent (80%) male weighting and a twenty percent (20%) female weighting. (b) “Basic Agreement” means the collective bargaining agreement between the Participating Employer and the Union as amended and supplemented from time to time. (c) “Benefit Service” means a Participant’s years of employment with the Participating Employer which are credited under Section 2.03 of this Part. (d) “Effective Date” means March 22, 1980. (e) “Employee” means any person employed by the Participating Employer on or after the Effective Date at the Participating Employer’s Bowling Green, Ohio facility who is in the bargaining unit covered by the Basic Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any individual who is hired, rehired or transferred to a position that would otherwise be covered under this Part of the Plan on or after June 1, 2008, shall not be considered an Employee hereunder. (f) “Hour of Service” means: (i) an hour for which an employee of the Participating Employer is directly or indirectly paid or entitled to payment for the performance of duties, plus (ii) each hour not credited under (1) above for which back pay, irrespective of mitigation of damages, has been either awarded or agreed to by the Participating Employer, with respect to an employee of the Participating Employer, and each of the first five hundred one (501) hours during any single continuous period of absence for which the employee is paid or entitled to payment, for vacation, holiday, illness, incapacity (including disability), layoff, jury duty, or leave of absence; provided, however, that no


 
D-3 4841-1404-2944.2 credit shall be given for any payment made for the sole purpose of complying with applicable worker’s compensation laws or unemployment compensation laws. The Administrator shall determine each employee’s Hours of Service on the basis of time actually worked and, in the case of Hours of Service which are credited under (2) above, on the basis of the Participant’s regular work schedule. Hours of Service shall be credited to the Plan Year in which such hours occur and in accordance with Department of Labor Regulations §2530.200b-2(b) and (c). “Hours of Service as an Employee” means those Hours of Service credited while the person was an Employee as defined in subsection (e) of this Section 1.01. (g) “Normal Retirement Date” means the first day of the month coincident with or next following a Participant’s sixty-fifth (65th) birthday. (h) “Participating Employer” means Marathon Special Products Corporation, a subsidiary of RBC Manufacturing Corporation. (i) “Spouse” means either (1) the person to whom a Participant is lawfully married on his or her Annuity Starting Date or (2) in the event the Participant dies prior to his or her Annuity Starting Date, the person to whom the Participant was married throughout the one (1) year period preceding the Participant’s death. For purposes hereof, “lawfully married” means legally married (A) under the laws of the United States (or one of the United States) or any other generally recognized jurisdiction and (B) for federal tax purposes. (j) “Union” means the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers AFL- CIO Local 1076. (k) “Vesting Service” means a Participant’s years of employment with the Participating Employer and its Affiliates which are credited under Section 2.02 of this Part.


 
D-4 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE II. PARTICIPATION AND SERVICE Section 2.01. Participation. (a) Each Employee on the Effective Date who has completed the qualifying period defined in subsection (b) below shall commence participation under the Plan on such date. Each other Employee shall commence participation under the Plan on the first day of the month next following the completion of his or her qualifying period. (b) The qualifying period shall be the twelve (12) month period commencing on the Employee’s employment commencement date or any subsequent January 1 during which the Employee completes at least one thousand (1,000) Hours of Service. (c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, no one who is not an Employee on May 31, 2008, shall be entitled to begin participation under this Part of the Plan. Accordingly, those who first begin employment that would otherwise be covered under this Part of the Plan on or after June 1, 2008, or who are rehired or transferred into such employment on or after that date, will not be eligible to begin to accrue Benefit Service or to continue accruals if previously covered by this Part of the Plan. Section 2.02. Vesting Service. Each Participant’s eligibility for benefits hereunder shall be based in part upon his or her years of Vesting Service. Each Participant shall be credited with one (1) year of Vesting Service for each Plan Year before or after the Effective Date in which he or she completes at least one thousand (1,000) Hours of Service. In addition, if a Participant does not complete at least one thousand (1,000) Hours of Service for the Plan Year 1980 but does complete one thousand (1,000) Hours between March 22, 1980 and March 22, 1981, he or she shall be credited with one (1) year of Vesting Service. Solely for purposes of Sections 2.01 and 2.02 of this Part, employment with any Affiliate shall be treated as employment with the Participating Employer. Section 2.03. Benefit Service. The amount of each Participant’s benefit hereunder shall be determined in part by his or her years of Benefit Service. Each Participant shall be credited with one (1) year of Benefit Service for each Plan Year before or after the Effective Date and prior to January 1, 2012 in which he or she completes at least one thousand eight hundred (1,800) Hours of Service as an Employee. A Participant who completes fewer than one thousand eight hundred (1,800) Hours of Service as an Employee in any Plan Year before or after the Effective Date and prior to January 1, 2012 shall be credited with a partial year of Benefit Service for such Plan Year, as determined from the following table:


 
D-5 4841-1404-2944.2 Hours of Service as an Employee Year of Benefit Service 1,800 or more 1 1,400 to 1,799 3/4 1,000 to 1,399 1/2 Less than 1,000 none less than 450 none For the Plan Year 1980 each Participant shall be credited with at least the following Benefit Service: Hours of Service as an Employee During Plan Year Year of Benefit Service 1,350 or more 1 1,050 to 1,349 3/4 750 to 1,049 1/2 Less than 750 none Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, Benefit Service shall not include any periods of service after December 31, 2011. Section 2.04. Break in Service. (a) A Participant incurs a break in service if his or her employment with the Participating Employer is severed and he or she fails to complete more than five hundred (500) Hours of Service during a Plan Year. A break in service shall continue each Plan Year thereafter in which the Participant fails to complete more than five hundred (500) Hours of Service. (b) If a Participant with less than five (5) years of Vesting Service incurs a break-in-service and the break-in-service is at least six (6) years in length, then his or her Vesting Service and Benefit Service prior to the break-in-service shall be cancelled and disregarded under Section 2.02 and 2.03 of this Part. (c) Except as provided in Section 2.01(c) of this Part, any former Participant who is rehired as an Employee shall be a Participant immediately, regardless of the length of any break in service.


 
D-6 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE III. BENEFITS Section 3.01. Normal Retirement Benefit. (a) Any Participant whose employment is terminated after the Effective Date and on or after his or her attainment of age sixty-five (65) shall be entitled to a normal retirement benefit. The normal retirement benefit shall be a monthly amount equal to the Participant’s years of Benefit Service times the applicable dollar rate set forth in the schedule below, based upon the date of the Participant’s termination of employment as an Employee. Participants Terminating Applicable Dollar Rate March 22, 1980 or March 31, 1988 $4.00 April 1, 1988 to March 31, 1989 $4.50 April 1, 1989 to March 31, 1990 $5.00 April 1, 1990 to March 31, 1991 $6.00 April 1, 1991 to March 31, 1994 $7.00 April 1, 1994 to March 31, 1995 $7.50 April 1, 1995 to March 31, 1996 $8.00 April 1, 1996 to March 31, 1997 $8.50 April 1, 1997 to March 31, 1998 $9.00 April 1, 1998 to March 31, 1999 $9.50 April 1, 1999 to March 31, 2000 $10.00


 
D-7 4841-1404-2944.2 April 1 2000 to March 31, 2001 $10.50 April 1, 2001 and thereafter $11.00 Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) with respect to any Participant who is employed on December 31, 2011, such Participant’s applicable dollar rate shall be determined as if such Participant terminated employment on December 31, 2011, and (ii) with respect to any other Participant, such Participant’s applicable dollar rate shall be determined with respect to the period through the date on which the Participant most recently terminated employment as an Employee prior to January 1, 2012. Section 3.02. Early Retirement or Deferred Vested Benefit. (a) Any Participant whose employment is terminated at any time following his or her completion of five (5) or more years of Vesting Service shall be entitled to an early retirement or deferred vested benefit upon proper application therefor. The benefit hereunder shall be a monthly amount determined in the same manner as the normal retirement benefit and payable commencing no earlier than the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date, except as permitted by subsection (b) below. (b) A Participant whose employment is terminated at any time following his or her completion of ten (10) years of Vesting Service may, by filing proper application, elect to commence receiving his or her benefit under this Section 3.02 at any time after his or her sixtieth (60th) birthday and prior to his or her attainment of age sixty-five (65), provided, however, that the Accrued Benefit shall be reduced by one half of one percent (0.5%) for each complete month by which the Participant’s Annuity Starting Date precedes his or her Normal Retirement Date. (c) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, any unvested Participant who completes at least one Hour of Service on or after December 31, 2011 shall be deemed to have completed five (5) years of Vesting Service under this Part regardless of such Participant’s actual years of Vesting Service. Section 3.03. Spouse’s Death Benefit. (a) In the event, (i) a Participant with five (5) or more years of Vesting Service or who is at least age sixty-five (65) (or who is otherwise fully vested) dies while an employee of the Participating Employer on or after January 1, 1989, or (ii) a Participant with a deferred vested benefit which had not commenced and who had terminated from the Participating Employer after December 31, 1975 dies on or after August 23, 1984, or


 
D-8 4841-1404-2944.2 (iii) a Participant who retired under the normal retirement provisions but had not commenced benefits dies, the Spouse of such Participant, if any, will be entitled to a Spouse’s death benefit. The Spouse’s death benefit shall be a monthly amount equal to the retirement benefit the Spouse would have been entitled to receive if the Participant had terminated employment at the date of death, survived to the date benefits are to begin pursuant to subsection (b), and commenced receipt of benefits in the normal form of a fifty percent (50%) joint and survivor benefit pursuant to Section 3.01(a) of the Master Plan Document. (b) The Spouse’s death benefit shall commence no earlier than the month following the later of the Participant’s date of death or the date the Participant was or would have attained age sixty-five (65), except that for a Participant with at least ten (10) years of Vesting Service, the Spouse may elect to have benefits commence with any month following the later of the Participant’s date of death or the date the Participant would have attained age sixty (60), but not later than the date the Participant would have attained age sixty-five (65). Section 3.04. Applicable Benefit Rate. In the event payment of any of the foregoing benefits is deferred or suspended, or this Part of the Plan is amended or benefit rates increased subsequent to a Participant’s retirement or other termination of employment as an Employee, the amount of benefit payable and any other terms or conditions applicable to payment of such benefit shall be determined on the basis of the rates and provisions of the Plan in effect as of the date the Participant last completed an Hour of Service as an Employee.


 
E-1 4841-1404-2944.2 PART E: UNICO, INC. EMPLOYEES’ PENSION PLAN Overview: • Participation frozen effective April 30, 2011. • Benefits frozen effective April 30, 2011.


 
E-2 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND FORMAT OF TERMS Section 1.01. Format. Capitalized words and phrases defined in Section 1.02 of this Part shall have that defined meaning when used in this Part, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Additional capitalized terms used herein are defined in Section 1.01 of the Master Plan Document. Similarly, cross references in this Part shall apply to the referenced section in this Part, unless specifically referred to as a section of the Master Plan Document. Section 1.02. Defined Terms. The following words and phrases when used in this Part shall have the following respective meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (a) “Actuarial Equivalent” shall be determined for all purposes (except as required by Code Section 417(e)(3)) using an interest rate of six percent (6%) compounded annually and the 1971 Group Annuity Mortality Table for Males with a one year setback for Participants and a five year setback for Spouses of Participants and contingent Beneficiaries of Participants. (b) “Break in Service” means: (i) For Purposes of Eligibility Service, a computation period during which a Participant does not complete more than 500 Hours of Service. The computation period for measuring breaks in service shall be the same as for measuring Years of Eligibility Service. (ii) For Purposes of Vesting Service, a 12-month Period of Severance. (c) “Compensation” means an Employee’s wages, salary, fees for professional service and other amounts received (without regard to whether or not an amount is paid in cash) for personal services actually rendered in the course of employment with the Participating Employer to the extent that the amounts are includable in gross income and reported on the Employee’s Form W-2 for purposes of federal income tax withholding for the determination period, adjusted as follows: (i) Including elective deferrals (as defined in Code Section 402(g)(3)) and any amount that is contributed or deferred by the Participating Employer at the election of the Employee and not includable in the gross income of the Employee by reason of Code Sections 125 or 132(f)(4); and (ii) Excluding (A) reimbursements or other expense allowances, (B) fringe benefits (cash and noncash), (C) moving expenses, (D) deferred compensation (unless otherwise specifically included) and (E) welfare benefits.


 
E-3 4841-1404-2944.2 Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Plan, Compensation earned after April 30, 2011 shall not be counted under this Part of the Plan for the purposes of benefit accruals. For purposes of this subsection, the “determination period” is a Plan Year, unless any other section of this Part of the Plan explicitly provides for the determination of Compensation over an applicable period other than the Plan Year. The annual Compensation of each Participant in any Plan Year shall not exceed the annual compensation limit of Code Section 401(a)(17), as adjusted for increases in the cost of living in accordance with Code Section 401(a)(17)(B). The cost-of-living adjustment in effect for a calendar year applies for the Plan Year that begins with or within such calendar year. If the Plan determines Compensation for a determination period that is less than 12 consecutive months, the annual compensation limit is multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of months in the short Plan Year, and the denominator of which is 12. The annual Compensation of each Participant taken into account in determining benefit accruals in any Plan Year beginning after December 31, 2001 shall not exceed $200,000, as adjusted as described above. In determining benefit accruals in Plan Years beginning after December 31, 2001, the Annual Compensation Limit for determination periods beginning before January 1, 2002, shall be as follows: $150,000 for any determination period beginning in 1996 or earlier; $160,000 for any determination period beginning in 1997, 1998 or 1999; and $170,000 for any determination period beginning in 2000 or 2001. Compensation paid within the later of 2½ months after severance from Employment (within the meaning of Section 1.415(a)-1(f)(5) of the Treasury regulations) or the end of the limitation year that includes the date of severance from Employment shall be included in Compensation if the payments, absent the severance from Employment, would have been paid to the employee while the Employee continued in Employment with the Participating Employer and are regular compensation for services during the Employee’s regular working hours, compensation for services outside the Employee’s regular working hours, or other similar circumstances. Payments not described above shall not be considered Compensation if paid after severance from Employment, even if paid within the time period referenced above. (d) “Covered Compensation” means the average (without indexing) of the taxable wage bases in effect for each calendar year during the 35-year period ending with the last day of the calendar year in which the Participant attains (or will attain) social security retirement age (as defined in Code Section 415(b)(8)). In determining a Participant’s Covered Compensation for a Plan Year, the taxable wage base for all calendar years beginning after the first day of the Plan Year shall be assumed to be the same as the taxable wage base in effect as of the beginning of the Plan Year for which the determination is being made. A Participant’s Covered Compensation is automatically adjusted for each Plan Year according to tables published by the Internal Revenue Service.


 
E-4 4841-1404-2944.2 (i) A Participant’s Covered Compensation for a Plan Year before the 35-year period described in this subsection (d) is the taxable wage base in effect as of the beginning of the Plan Year. (ii) A Participant’s Covered Compensation for a Plan Year after the 35-year period described in this subsection (d) is the Participant’s Covered Compensation for the Plan Year during which the 35- year period ends. (e) “Effective Date” means January 1, 1979. (f) “Employee” means any common law employee of Unico, Inc. or a related Participating Employer who meets the requirements in Section 2.01 of this Part. A Leased Employee shall not be considered an Employee. (g) “Employment” means an individual’s employment with a Participating Employer. (h) “Extended Break in Service” means a Period of Severance that equals or exceeds the greater of five Breaks in Service for vesting purposes or the aggregate number of the Participant’s Years of Service before his or her reemployment. (i) “Final Average Compensation” means a Participant’s average annual Compensation paid to the Participant during the 60 consecutive months of the final 120 months of the Participant’s Employment that produce the highest average. If a Participant has less than 60 months of Employment, the average shall be taken over his or her total period of Employment. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, Final Average Compensation shall not include any Compensation earned by or paid to any Participant after April 30, 2011. (j) “Hour of Service” means an hour counted for the purpose of determining an Employee’s eligibility to participate in this Part of the Plan pursuant to Article II of this Part and shall include: (i) Each hour for which an individual is paid, or entitled to payment, for the performance of service for the Participating Employer; (ii) Each hour for which an individual is paid, or entitled to payment by the Participating Employer without the performance of service (regardless of whether the employment relationship has terminated) due to vacation, holiday, layoff, illness, incapacity (including disability), jury duty, military duty, or leave of absence. No more than 501 Hours of Service will be credited for any single continuous period (whether or not such period occurs in a single Plan Year or other computation period). Hours under this paragraph will be calculated and credited pursuant to Sections 2530.200b-2 and 3 of the Department of Labor Regulations, which are incorporated herein by this reference; and


 
E-5 4841-1404-2944.2 (iii) Each hour for which back pay, regardless of any mitigation of damages, is either awarded or agreed to by the Participating Employer. The same Hours of Service will not be credited pursuant to both paragraphs (i) or (ii), as the case may be, and paragraph (iii). An Employee who is not compensated on an hourly basis shall be credited with 190 Hours of Service for each calendar month in which he or she would be credited with one or more Hours of Service if he or she were compensated on an hourly basis. Hours of Service shall be credited for employment with Affiliates and as a Leased Employee, except as provided in the Plan’s definition of Leased Employee, for purposes of calculating Years of Eligibility Service and Years of Vesting Service. (k) “Normal Retirement Date” means the first day of the month coincident with or next following a Participant’s sixty-fifth (65th) birthday. (l) “Participating Employer” means Unico, Inc. and any other Affiliate which had adopted this Part of the Plan prior to April 30, 2011, which was the date that this Part of the Plan was frozen. (m) “Period of Severance” means a continuous period of time during which the Employee is not employed by the Participating Employer. Such period begins on the date the Employee retires, quits or is discharged, or if earlier, the 12-month anniversary of the date on which the Employee was otherwise first absent from service. In the case of an individual who is absent from work for maternity or paternity reasons, the 12-consecutive month period beginning on the first anniversary of the first date of such absence shall not constitute a break in service. For purposes of this paragraph, an absence from work for maternity or paternity reasons means an absence (i) by reason of the pregnancy of the individual, (ii) by reason of the birth of a child of the individual, (iii) by reason of the placement of a child with the individual in connection with the adoption of such child by such individual, or (iv) for purposes of caring for such child for a period beginning immediately following such birth or placement. (n) “Severance from Service Date” means the earlier of (i) the date on which the Employee quits, retires, is discharged, or dies; or (ii) the first anniversary of the first day of a period in which an Employee remains absent from service with the Participating Employer for any reason other than quit, retirement, discharge, or death such as vacation, holiday, sickness, disability, leave of absence or layoff. The Severance from Service Date of an Employee who is absent from service beyond the first anniversary of the first day of absence by reason of maternity or paternity absence is the second anniversary of the first day of such absence. For purposes of this paragraph, an absence from work for maternity or paternity reasons means an absence (i) by reason of the pregnancy of the individual, (ii) by reason of the birth of a child of the individual, (iii) by reason of the placement of a child with the individual in connection with the adoption of such child by such individual, or (iv) for purposes of caring for such child for a period beginning immediately following such birth or placement.


 
E-6 4841-1404-2944.2 (o) “Social Security Retirement Age” means age 65 if the Participant attains age 62 before January 1, 2000 (i.e., born before January 1, 1938), age 66 if the Participant attains age 62 after December 31, 1999 but before January 1, 2017 (i.e., born after December 31, 1937 but before January 1, 1955) and age 67 if the Participant attains age 62 after December 31, 2016 (i.e., born after December 31, 1954). (p) “Spouse” means the person to whom a Participant is legally married on the date of the Participant’s death. For purposes hereof, “legally married” means legally married (A) under the laws of the United States (or one of the United States) or any other generally recognized jurisdiction and (B) for federal tax purposes. (q) “Year of Credited Service” means a year of service for purposes of benefit accruals, in years plus days. Each Employee will receive a Year of Credit Service for the period beginning on the date the Employee commences participation under the Plan and ending on the earlier of (i) the Severance From Service Date, (ii) the date the individual no longer qualifies as an Employee (i.e., ceases to be a member of an eligible class of employees), or (iii) May 1, 2011, exclusive of any Breaks in Service. (r) “Year of Eligibility Service” means a 12-consecutive month period beginning on the date an Employee first performs an Hour of Service, or any Plan Year thereafter, in which an Employee completes at least 1,000 Hours of Service. (s) “Year of Service” means a Participant’s periods of service divided into whole years. Subject to the rules stated in Section 2.03 of this Part, nonsuccessive periods of service and less than whole year periods of service must be aggregated. In aggregating less than whole years, 12 months of service or 365 days of service shall equal a whole year.


 
E-7 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE II. ELIGIBILITY AND PARTICIPATION Section 2.01. Eligible Class of Employees. This Article II refers to Employees eligible to participate in this Part of the Plan as “Eligible Employees.” An Eligible Employee is any Employee who is not a nonresident alien who receives no U.S. source earned income. Section 2.02. Commencement of Participation. An Eligible Employee shall become a Participant as of the July 1 immediately preceding the date he or she attains age 21 (age 25 before July 1, 1985) and completes one Year of Eligibility Service. An Eligible Employee who satisfied the above requirements on or before January 1, 1979 shall become a Participant on January 1, 1979. Before July 1, 1988, an Employee first employed by the Participating Employer after age 60 could not become a Participant. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, no individual may become a Participant in this Part of the Plan on or after May 1, 2011. Section 2.03. Reemployment. (a) Prior to a Break in Service. If a former or inactive Participant resumes Employment prior to incurring a Break in Service and prior to May 1, 2011, he or she shall immediately participate in the Plan provided he or she is employed as an Eligible Employee. (b) After a Break in Service. (i) With Vested Rights. If a former or inactive Participant had vested rights in his or her Accrued Benefit and subsequently resumes active Employment after incurring a Break in Service but prior to May 1, 2011, he or she shall immediately participate in the Plan provided he or she is employed as an Eligible Employee. (ii) With No Vested Rights. If a former or inactive Participant (including a former Employee who satisfied the requirements of Section 2.02 of this Part but was not actively employed on the appropriate entry date set forth in Section 2.02 of this Part) had no vested rights in his or her Accrued Benefit and resumes Employment before incurring an extended Break in Service and prior to May 1, 2011, he or she shall immediately participate in the Plan provided he or she is employed as an Eligible Employee. If a former or inactive Participant had no vested rights in his or her Accrued Benefit and subsequently resumes Employment after incurring an extended Break in Service and prior to May 1, 2011, he or she shall be treated as a new Employee for eligibility purposes and shall participate in the Plan pursuant to the requirements of this Article II. For purposes of this subsection 2.03(b), an “extended Break in Service” is a period of Breaks in Service equaling or exceeding the greater of


 
E-8 4841-1404-2944.2 (i) five-consecutive years or (ii) the number of Years of Eligibility Service a Participant completes prior to the Break in Service. The number of Years of Eligibility Service a Participant completed prior to a Break in Service shall not include any Years of Eligibility Service disregarded pursuant to this subsection 2.03(b) by reason of prior Breaks in Service.


 
E-9 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE III. BENEFITS Section 3.01. Normal Retirement Benefit. Any Participant whose employment is terminated after the Effective Date and on or after his or her Normal Retirement Date shall be entitled to a normal retirement benefit. The normal retirement benefit shall be the amount of the frozen monthly benefit communicated to the Employer at the time the predecessor plan was acquired by the Employer, which should be equal to the sum of (a) and (b), but not less than the amount determined under (c), as applicable. (a) Normal Retirement Benefit for Years of Credited Service After December 31, 2001. The normal retirement benefit for Years of Credited Service completed after December 31, 2001 shall equal 1/12 of the sum of (i) and (ii) below: (i) .35% of the Participant’s Final Average Compensation multiplied by the Participant’s Years of Credited Service completed after December 31, 2001, to a maximum of 30 total Years of Credited Service (completed before or after December 31, 2001); plus (ii) .3% of the amount by which the Participant’s Final Average Compensation exceeds the Participant’s Covered Compensation, times the Participant’s Years of Credited Service completed after December 31, 2001, to a maximum of 30 total Years of Credited Service (completed before or after December 31, 2001). The Participant’s normal retirement benefit shall not to be less than the amount accrued as of December 31, 2001. If a Participant has already completed 30 or more Years of Credited Service as of December 31, 2001, he shall accrue no additional benefits after December 31, 2001. (b) Normal Retirement Benefit for Years of Credited Service Before January 1, 2002. For an individual who completes any period of service after June 30, 1989, the normal retirement benefit for Years of Credited Service completed as of December 31, 2001 shall equal 1/12 of the sum of (i) and (ii) below: (i) .7% of the Participant’s Final Average Compensation multiplied by the Participant’s Years of Credited Service as of December 31, 2001 to a maximum of 35 Years of Credited Service; plus (ii) .6% of the amount by which the Participant’s Final Average Compensation exceeds the Participant’s Covered Compensation, times the Participant’s Years of Credited Service as of December 31, 2001 to a maximum of 35 Years of Credited Service. (c) Minimum Normal Retirement Benefit for Years of Credited Service Before July 1, 1989. A Participant’s normal retirement benefit for Years of Credited Service before July 1, 1989 shall equal no less than 1/12th of the sum of (i) and (ii) below:


 
E-10 4841-1404-2944.2 (i) .5% of the Participant’s Final Average Compensation as of June 30, 1989 times the Participant’s Years of Credited Service as of June 30, 1989; plus (ii) 1.0% of the amount by which the Participant’s Final Average Compensation as of June 30, 1989 exceeds the Participant’s Covered Compensation, times the Participant’s Years of Credited Service as of June 30, 1989. Section 3.02. Early Retirement or Deferred Vested Retirement Benefit. (a) A Participant with at least three Years of Service on July 1, 1989 shall be 40% vested in his or her Accrued Benefit upon completing four Years of Service. In all other circumstances, a Participant’s Accrued Benefit shall vest according to the following schedule: Years of Service Vested Percentage Fewer than 5 0% 5 or more 100% (b) A Participant’s monthly benefit under this Section 3.02 shall be the Participant’s Accrued Benefit payable commencing no earlier than the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date, except as permitted by subsection (c) below. (c) A Participant with a benefit under this Section 3.02 may, by filing proper application, elect to commence receiving his or her benefit at any time after his or her fifty-fifth (55th) birthday and prior to his or her attainment of age sixty-five (65). The benefit shall be the Accrued Benefit, but reduced by 1/180th for each of the first 60 months and 1/360th for each of the next 60 months by which the Participant’s Annuity Starting Date precedes the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date. (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, each Participant who is an active Employee on April 30, 2011 shall be 100% vested in his or her accrued benefit under this Part regardless of the number of Years of Service he or she has completed.


 
E-11 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE IV. PRERETIREMENT DEATH BENEFITS FOR MARRIED PARTICIPANTS Section 4.01. Death Benefits for Married Participants. The surviving Spouse of a deceased Participant is eligible to receive a death benefit under this Part of the Plan if the following conditions are satisfied: (a) The Participant’s Spouse must be living and married to the Participant on the date of the Participant’s death; (b) The Participant must have earned a vested right to benefits under this Part of the Plan; and (c) The Participant must have died before his or her Annuity Starting Date. Section 4.02. Amount of Surviving Spouse Death Benefit. (a) Death On or Before Earliest Payment Date. The surviving spouse death benefit payable with respect to a Participant who dies on or before the earliest date on which the Participant could have elected to receive benefits from the Plan shall be a monthly amount for the life of the surviving spouse equal to the amount which would have been payable to the spouse under a 100-percent joint and survivor annuity described in Section 3.02 of the Master Plan Document, calculated as if the Participant had: (i) Terminated his or her Employment on his or her date of death or his or her actual date of termination of Employment, if earlier; (ii) Survived to the earliest date on which he or she could have elected to receive benefits from the Plan; (iii) Retired with an immediate 100% joint and survivor annuity at such earliest payment date; and (iv) Died on the day after such earliest payment date. (b) Death After Earliest Payment Date. The surviving spouse death benefit payable with respect to a Participant who dies after the earliest date on which he or she could have elected to receive benefits from the Plan but before his or her Normal Retirement Date shall be the amount which would have been payable to the spouse under a 100-percent joint and survivor annuity described in Section 3.02 of the Master Plan Document, calculated as if the Participant had begun to receive benefits in the form of a 100-percent joint and survivor annuity as of the day before the Participant’s date of death. Such amount shall be based on the Participant’s normal retirement benefit determined as of his or her date of death reduced in accordance with Section 3.02 of this Part. (c) Commencement of Surviving Spouse’s Benefits. The surviving Spouse can elect that payments commence on the first day of any month, but not earlier than: (i) with respect to a Participant who dies on or before the earliest date on which he or she could have elected to receive benefits from this Part of the Plan, beginning on the first day of the month


 
E-12 4841-1404-2944.2 coinciding with or immediately following the earliest date the Participant would have been eligible to receive a deferred vested benefit if he or she had survived; and (ii) with respect to a Participant who dies after the earliest date on which he or she could have elected to receive benefits from this Part of the Plan, the first day of the month following the month the Participant died.


 
F-1 4841-1404-2944.2 PART F: TIPP CITY PLANT INDUSTRIAL PENSION PLAN Overview: • Participation frozen effective November 30, 2011. • Benefits frozen effective November 30, 2011.


 
F-2 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND FORMAT OF TERMS Section 1.01. Format. Capitalized words and phrases defined in Section 1.02 of this Part shall have that defined meaning when used in this Part, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Additional capitalized terms used herein are defined in Section 1.01 of the Master Plan Document. Similarly, cross references in this Part shall apply to the referenced section in this Part, unless specifically referred to as a section of the Master Plan Document. Section 1.02. Definitions. The following words and phrases when used in this Part of the Plan shall have the following respective meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise,: (a) “Acquisition Agreement” means the Asset and Stock Purchase Agreement dated as of December 12, 2010, by and between A.O. Smith Corporation and Regal Beloit Corporation. (b) “Actuarial Equivalent” or “Actuarially Calculated” shall be determined for all purposes (except as required by Code Section 417(e)) using the RP-2000CH mortality table (weighted 50% male and 50% female) and an 8% interest rate; provided that, in no event shall a Participant’s actuarial equivalent optional form of benefit hereunder be less valuable than the value of such Participant’s accrued benefit under Section 3.01 of the Prior Plan as of December 1, 2011 calculated based on the 1971 Group Annuity Mortality Table using a 95% male and 5% female weighting, with interest at 8%. (c) “Break in Service” means any Plan Year during which an Employee has 500 or less Hours of Service. Solely for the purposes of determining whether an Employee has incurred a Break in Service, the Employee shall be credited with Hours of Service with respect to any period of unpaid absence under the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993 (“FMLA”), or with respect to any period of a child-rearing absence which is due to: (i) the Employee’s pregnancy; (ii) the birth of a child of the Employee; (iii) the placement of a child with the Employee as a result of the Employee’s adoption of such child; or (iv) the caring of such child immediately following such birth or placement. Such Hours of Service shall be credited on the basis of the Hours of Service with which the Employee would have been credited but for such absence or, where those hours cannot be determined by the Administrator, eight hours per normal workday of the absence. No more than 501 such hours shall be credited with respect to any single continuous period of a child- related or FMLA absence due to one or more of the reasons specified above, even though some or all of those hours may also be recognized as Hours of Service under Section 1.01(h). The Hours credited under this subsection shall apply to the Plan Year immediately following the Plan Year in which the child-related or FMLA absence commences unless such credit is needed to


 
F-3 4841-1404-2944.2 avoid a Break in Service in the former Plan Year. Regardless of the Plan Year to which such credit is applied, only that portion of such credit which is credited under Section 1.01(h), shall be recognized in determining the number of years of Vesting Service. No Hours of Service credit shall be given for a child-related or FMLA absence under this Section unless sufficient information to establish the number of days needed for such absence and that such absence is for one or more of the reasons specified in the FMLA or in clauses (i)-(iv) above, as applicable, is provided by the Employee to the Administrator in such form and at such time as the Administrator may specify from time to time under uniform rules consistently applied in like circumstances for personnel who are similarly situated in respect to such Employee. (d) “Credited Service” means employment for which credit is given for purposes of determining the amount of benefits, as follows: (i) With respect to an Employee who is considered a Transferred Employee (as defined in the Acquisition Agreement), such employee will be credited with Credited Service equal to the Credited Service (in whole and fractional years) credited to such individual under the terms of the Prior Plan as of the date such individual becomes a Transferred Employee. (ii) On and after the Effective Date and until November 30, 2011, Employees shall receive credit for one year of Credited Service for each Plan Year during which the Employee receives pay from the Participating Employer for 1,700 or more hours; or a proportionate credit to the nearest complete 1/10th year for each year during which the Employee receives pay from the Participating Employer for less than 1,700 hours. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (x) with respect to the Plan’s initial Plan Year, any Hours of Service credited to a Transferred Employee under the Prior Plan for the period from January 1, 2011 through the date such individual becomes a Transferred Employee and that are not counted in determining Credited Service under such Prior Plan shall be counted towards Credited Service hereunder and (y) Credited Service will continue to be counted after November 30, 2011 solely for the purposes of Section 2.04 and Section 3.01 of this Part. (iii) Employees shall receive credit for all service credited under any other retirement plan or plans to which the Participating Employer contributes; provided, however, that there shall be no duplication of benefits for the same period of Credited Service under the various plans to which the Participating Employer contributes. (iv) A non-vested Employee shall lose his or her Credited Service if his or her employment is terminated and he or she incurs five consecutive Breaks in Service.


 
F-4 4841-1404-2944.2 (v) Any Employee who is reemployed prior to five consecutive Breaks in Service and prior to November 30, 2011 shall have his or her original Credited Service restored upon completion of one additional year of Vesting Service after reemployment. (vi) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, Credited Service shall not include any periods of service after November 30, 2011 except for purposes of Section 2.04 of this Part. (e) “Early Retirement Date” means the first day of the month coincident with or next following the date a Participant is eligible for benefits under Section 2.03, 2.04, or 2.05 of this Part. (f) “Effective Date” means August 22, 2011. (g) “Employee” means any person on the active hourly employment payroll of the Participating Employer at its Tipp City, Ohio plant who is included in the collective bargaining unit represented by a labor organization whose collective bargaining agreement with the Participating Employer designates participation in the Prior Plan and whose most recent date of hire or rehire is prior to November 30, 2011. (h) “Hour of Service” means the measurement which is used to determine an Employee’s Vesting Service and Credited Service. An Hour of Service shall be earned for: (i) An hour for which an individual directly or indirectly receives pay (or is entitled to payment) for services performed in the course of employment for the Participating Employer and any Affiliate Participating Employer and its Affiliates, or for reasons other than the performance of duties during the applicable computation period, such as vacation, holidays, jury duty, sick or funeral leaves, and similar periods of nonworking time; (ii) Periods of absence because of military leaves (as to which the individual is entitled to reinstatement as defined in the Veteran’s Reemployment Rights Act or the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act); (iii) Periods for which back pay is awarded or agreed to (irrespective of mitigation of damages); and (iv) Periods of approved personal leaves, but only if the individual returns within the period authorized for such leave. The number of Hours of Service credited to an individual as a result of payment for other than duties performed shall be the same number of Hours of Service the individual would have received if services had been performed for the Participating Employer and any Affiliate during that computation period, based upon the individual’s customary Hours of Service immediately prior to the absence. Hours of Service shall be deemed accumulated for all


 
F-5 4841-1404-2944.2 purposes herein during the period for which they accrued irrespective of when payment is made, and shall be calculated and credited pursuant to Section 2530.200b-2 of the Department of Labor regulations which are hereby incorporated by reference. (i) “Normal Retirement Date” means the first day of the month coincident with or next following the date on which the Employee attains age 65. (j) “Participating Employer” means Regal Beloit EPC, Inc., a Wisconsin corporation. (k) “Prior Plan” means the A.O. Smith Corporation Tipp City Plant Industrial Pension Plan, a component of the A.O. Smith Retirement Plan. (l) “Spouse” means either (i) the person to whom a Participant is lawfully married on his or her Annuity Starting Date or (ii) in the event the Participant dies before his or her Annuity Starting Date, the person to whom the Participant was married throughout the one (1) year period preceding the Participant’s death. For purposes hereof, “lawfully married” means legally married (A) under the laws of the United States (or one of the United States) or any other generally recognized jurisdiction and (B) for federal tax purposes. (m) “Total and Permanent Disability” means total disability caused by bodily injury or disease, physical or mental, or both, sufficient to prevent the Employee from engaging in any regular occupation or employment for remuneration or profit, which disability will be permanent and continuous during the remainder of the Employee’s life; provided, however, that no Employee shall be deemed to be totally and permanently disabled for the purposes of this Part of the Plan if the incapacity consists of chronic alcoholism or addiction to narcotics, or if such incapacity was: (i) contracted, suffered or incurred while engaged in a felonious enterprise or resulted therefrom; (ii) resulted from an intentionally self-inflicted injury; or (iii) resulted from service in the armed forces of any country. The existence of Total and Permanent Disability shall be determined by the Administrator on the basis of medical evidence. (n) “Vesting Service” means employment for which credit is given for purposes of determining eligibility for benefits, as follows: (i) With respect to an Employee who is considered a Transferred Employee (as defined in the Acquisition Agreement) such employee will be credited with Vesting Service equal to the Vesting Service (in whole and fractional years) credited to such individual under the terms of the Prior Plan as of the date such individual becomes a Transferred Employee. (ii) On and after the Effective Date, Employees shall receive credit for one year of Vesting Service for each Plan Year during which at least 1,000 Hours of Service are accumulated. A proportionate year of Vesting Service to the nearest completed one-tenth year shall be accrued for each 170 Hours of Service for Plan Years during which the Employee does not accumulate at least 1,000 Hours of Service. Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to


 
F-6 4841-1404-2944.2 the Plan’s initial Plan Year, any Hours of Service credited to a Transferred Employee under the Prior Plan for the period from January 1, 2011 through the date such individual becomes a Transferred Employee and that are not counted in determining Vesting Service under such Prior Plan shall be counted towards Vesting Service hereunder. (iii) A non-vested Employee shall lose his or her Vesting Service if his or her employment is terminated and he incurs five consecutive Breaks in Service. (iv) Any Employee who is reemployed prior to five consecutive Breaks in Service shall have his or her original Vesting Service restored upon completion of one year of Vesting Service after reemployment.


 
F-7 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE II. ELIGIBILITY Section 2.01. Participation. Prior to December 1, 2011, each Employee was eligible to participate in the Plan immediately upon the date he or she qualified as an Employee. Participation shall cease on the date an individual ceases to qualify as an Employee. No individual shall become a Participant after November 30, 2011. Section 2.02. Normal Retirement Eligibility. An Employee with 10 or more years of Vesting Service whose employment with the Participating Employer and its Affiliates is terminated upon or after the Employee’s 65th birthday shall be eligible for Normal Retirement Benefits. Section 2.03. Special Early Retirement Eligibility. An Employee with 10 or more years of Vesting Service whose employment with the Participating Employer and its Affiliates is terminated upon or after the Employee’s 62nd birthday shall be eligible for Normal Retirement Benefits. Section 2.04. 30 and Out Eligibility. An Employee with 30 or more years of Credited Service whose employment with the Participating Employer and its Affiliates is terminated shall be eligible for Normal Retirement Benefits at any age. Section 2.05. Early Retirement Eligibility. An Employee with 10 or more years of Vesting Service whose employment with the Participating Employer and its Affiliates is terminated upon or after the Employee’s 57th birthday but prior to such Employee’s 65th birthday shall be eligible for Early Retirement Benefits. Section 2.06. Disability Retirement Eligibility. An Employee with 10 or more years of Vesting Service, who has a Total and Permanent Disability prior to age 65, shall be eligible for Disability Retirement Benefits. Total and Permanent Disability must exist while the Employee is on the active payroll of the Participating Employer or an Affiliate, either as an active Employee or while on continuous sick leave within 36 months from the date of last active employment with the Participating Employer or an Affiliate, and an application for Disability Retirement Benefits must be filed during such period. Section 2.07. Deferred Vested Eligibility. Employees not otherwise eligible for benefits under the Plan may be eligible for Deferred Vested Benefits if at the time of termination of employment with the Participating Employer and its Affiliates: (a) the Employee had five or more years of Vesting Service; or (b) the Employee had attained age 65 and had completed five years of employment with the Participating Employer and its Affiliates.


 
F-8 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE III. RETIREMENT BENEFITS Section 3.01. Normal and Early Retirement Benefits. Every eligible Employee upon retirement may elect to receive whichever of the following benefits is applicable: (a) Normal Retirement Benefits: Subject to subsection (c), the Normal Retirement Benefit for an eligible Employee shall be a monthly amount per year of Credited Service based on the following table: Retirement Date Monthly Amount On or after August 22, 2011 $28.00 (b) Early Retirement Benefits: Subject to subsection (c), the Early Retirement Benefit for an eligible Employee shall be an immediate or deferred benefit as determined in accordance with Section 3.01(a) of this Part, reduced by 4/10 of 1% thereof for each full month by which the Annuity Starting Date precedes the first day of the month following the month age 62 is attained, except if age 62 is attained on the first day of a month, that month shall not be included. (c) Offset from Benefits Payable under the Prior Plan. With respect to any eligible Employee who was a Transferred Employee, the Normal Retirement Benefit or Early Retirement Benefit shall be reduced by the amount of the benefit payable to such eligible Employee under the terms of the Prior Plan, calculated assuming the benefit payment under the Prior Plan had the same Annuity Starting Date as the benefits payable under this Part of the Plan. Section 3.02. Disability Retirement Benefits. The Disability Retirement Benefit for an Employee eligible therefor shall be composed of a disability annuity and a supplemental disability benefit. The disability annuity shall be a monthly amount computed in the same manner as Section 3.01(a) of this Part (including with application of the offset described in Section 3.01(c) of this Part). The supplemental disability benefit shall be an additional monthly amount computed in the same manner as Section 3.01(a) of this Part (including the application of the offset described in Section 3.01(c) of this Part), except that the supplemental disability benefit shall be reduced by the amount of Worker’s Compensation benefits and any present or future payments on account of injury, disease or disability under the Federal Social Security Act, as amended, or any other Federal or State Law under which the Participating Employer contributes through taxes or otherwise to benefits for injury, disease or disability of Employees, whether occupational or nonoccupational. The supplemental disability benefit shall be payable until the earlier of age 62 or the Employee’s death. Disability Retirement Benefits shall commence at the time set forth in the Master Plan Document. The benefits payable pursuant to this Section shall cease on the last day of the month during which the earliest of the following occurs: (a) the disability retiree recovers and returns to work; or (b) the Administrator determines that the disability retiree has sufficiently recovered to return to a regular occupation or employment for remuneration or profit; or


 
F-9 4841-1404-2944.2 (c) the disability retiree refuses to undergo a medical examination ordered by the Administrator; or (d) the disability retiree dies, or (e) the disability retiree elects to receive an Early Retirement Benefit; or (f) the disability retiree attains age 65. A disability retiree who returns to work after recovery will have prior Credited Service reinstated in lieu of the monthly Disability Retirement Benefit. A disability retiree who does not return to work after recovery will be eligible only for those benefits otherwise provided under the terms of this Part of the Plan as it existed at the time of Disability Retirement. A disability retiree shall be eligible to elect an Early Retirement Benefit or Normal Retirement Benefit if at the time of his or her election, he or she meets the age and service requirements of Section 2.03, 2.04 or 2.05 of this Part as in effect on the date of his or her Disability Retirement. The Early Retirement Benefit or Normal Retirement Benefit shall be calculated and payable under the terms of the Plan as in effect on the date of the Employee’s Disability Retirement including the right to elect any form of payment available at such time. Section 3.03. Deferred Vested Benefits. The Deferred Vested Benefit shall be a monthly amount determined in accordance with Section 3.01(a) of this Part (subject to the offset described in Section 3.01(c) of this Part). An Employee may elect to receive such benefits upon attainment of age 65, or on or after the attainment of age 57, subject to the reduction calculated in accordance with Table F-1. Section 3.04. Automatic Pre-Retirement Survivor Protection. In the event, (a) an Employee dies after meeting the eligibility criteria for a retirement benefit pursuant to Section 2.02, 2.03, 2.04, 2.05 of this Part or a Deferred Vested Benefit under 2.07 of this Part; or (b) a disability retiree dies while receiving Disability Retirement Benefits, the surviving Spouse of the Employee or disability retiree shall be entitled to a survivor’s benefit. The monthly benefit will be an amount equal to 50% of the monthly benefit to which the Employee would have otherwise been entitled pursuant to Section 3.01(a) of the Master Plan Document if the benefit were paid in form of a single life annuity commencing at the later of the date of death or the date the Employee would have been first eligible for a retirement or deferred vested benefit, provided that the benefit payments to the surviving Spouse shall be reduced by 1% for each full year exceeding 10 years by which the Employee’s Spouse is younger than the Employee. The surviving Spouse benefit shall commence on the latest of: (i) the month following the Employee’s or disability retiree’s date of death, (ii) the month following the date the Employee would have been first eligible for a retirement or a deferred vested benefit, or


 
F-10 4841-1404-2944.2 (iii) the Annuity Starting Date requested by the surviving Spouse as the starting date in accordance with the procedures established by the Administrator, but in no event later than the Employee’s Normal Retirement Date. Benefit payments under this Section shall cease with the death of the surviving Spouse. Section 3.05. Supplemental Allowance. Any provision to the contrary herein notwithstanding: (a) Employees retiring with 30 or more years of Credited Service shall be entitled to a monthly supplemental allowance in the amount of $150.00 upon attaining age 57 which is to be added to the monthly benefit calculated in accordance with Section 3.01 of this Part; provided that such supplemental allowance shall not be paid under the Plan if it is payable by the Prior Plan. (b) If the monthly benefit payable under Section 3.01 of this Part is in the form of a survivor annuity, then the amount of supplemental allowance calculated in this Section shall be added to the Employee’s benefit without regard to the actuarial reduction; however, such supplemental allowance shall not be payable to a surviving Spouse. (c) Payment of the supplemental allowance shall cease on the first occurrence of (i) the first day of the month following the Employee’s death, or (ii) the date the Employee first becomes eligible for old age benefits under the then applicable Federal Social Security Act, or (iii) the date on which the disability commences for Social Security disability insurance purposes and the Employee is entitled to receive disability benefits under the then applicable Federal Security Social Security Act, regardless of the date of the decision by the Social Security Administration. Upon cessation of the supplemental allowance, the Employee will be eligible only for the monthly benefit otherwise payable. Section 3.06. Additional Benefits. Any Employee who retires under Section 2.02, 2.03, 2.04, 2.05 or 2.06 of this Part shall be paid an additional monthly amount (hereinafter “Additional Benefit”) equal to that required at retirement (not to exceed $18.50 per month per individual or $37.00 per month for retired Employee and Spouse) to purchase Medicare coverage; provided that such Additional Benefit shall not be paid under this Part of the Plan if it is payable by the Prior Plan. The Additional Benefit will commence with the first calendar month following the month in which the retired Employee or Spouse, respectively, becomes eligible for Medicare coverage by virtue of age or disability. Payment of additional benefits shall be subject to the following limitations: (a) Payment to the Employee of the Spouse’s Additional Benefit shall cease the first of the month following the death of the Spouse. (b) Payment of the Spouse’s Additional Benefit shall cease upon the death of the Employee unless the Spouse is eligible to receive a survivor benefit under Section 3.04 of this Part or as a result of being a contingent annuitant.


 
F-11 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE IV. PAYMENT OF BENEFITS Section 4.01. Transfers and Reemployment. (a) Out of Employee Status: If either (x) an Employee is transferred to or (y) a terminated former Employee is reemployed in non-Employee status with a Participating Employer or an Affiliate, the benefits hereunder shall be determined as of the date such individual ceased active participation hereunder by (x) transferring to non-Employee employment or (y) terminating employment, and shall be payable in accordance with the terms of this Part of the Plan in effect on such date, but only upon subsequent termination of employment with all Participating Employer and its Affiliates. For purposes of this Section, the applicable benefit determined as of the date of (x) transfer or (y) initial termination shall be the individual’s accrued benefit. If the individual is eligible under another defined benefit plan or another Part of the Plan with a corollary provision to this Section and elects to have the equivalent to this Section apply in such other plan or Part, then the applicable benefit shall also include any retirement supplements to which the individual (x) would then have been entitled if he or she had retired on the date of transfer, or (y) was or, if he or she had then retired, would have been entitled on the date of initial termination, except for any location closedown benefits, early retirement window supplements, periodic retiree increases limited to retirement within specified time periods, or similar benefits which require termination of employment due to certain causes or within a certain time period which is not satisfied. (b) Into Employee Status: Either (x) an individual who transfers to Employee status from non-Employee employment with a Participating Employer or its Affiliates or (y) a terminated, former Employee of a Participating Employer and its Affiliates who is subsequently reemployed in Employee status shall receive from this Plan a benefit calculated as described in (i), (ii), if eligible, or (iii) below at the individual’s election: (i) This method provides a benefit as follows: (A) a benefit using the formula hereunder with Credited Service earned from and after the date the individual becomes an Employee; plus (B) the Normal Retirement Date benefit payable under the defined benefit plan or other Part of this Plan in which the individual participated prior to becoming an Employee (the “prior plan”) using the formula and service credits of the prior plan or prior Part as of (x) the transfer date and assuming termination of employment on that date, or (y) the date of initial termination; plus (C) in the event (1) the benefit payable from the prior plan or prior Part is a deferred vested benefit, and (2) the prior plan or prior Part has a different calculation formula for Deferred Vested Participants than for retirees, and (3) such individual retires from this Part of the Plan, the benefit


 
F-12 4841-1404-2944.2 under this Part of the Plan shall be increased by a supplement equal to the difference between the retirement and deferred vested calculations referenced in (1) and (2). The benefit amount calculated above is payable as a Normal Retirement Date benefit. Vesting provisions, any early commencement factors, and optional form of payment factors shall be determined pursuant to this Part of the Plan, together with eligibility for any retirement supplements. In order to elect this option (i), an individual must receive any benefits payable from the prior plan or prior Part in the same form, at the same time, and subject to the same actuarial adjustment factors as provided in this Part of the Plan, and there shall be a monthly offset under this Part of the Plan for the amount of any benefit payment from the prior plan or prior Part. In no event may an individual receive duplicate benefits from this Part of the Plan and the prior plan or prior Part. (ii) If either (x) an individual transfers to Employee status and remains an Employee for a minimum of 36 consecutive calendar months following the end of the month preceding such transfer or (y) a terminated, former Employee of a Participating Employer and its Affiliates is subsequently reemployed in Employee status and remains an Employee for a minimum of 36 consecutive calendar months following the end of the month preceding such reemployment, the individual may elect this option (ii). The 36-month service requirement shall be waived for any individual (x) transferring to or (y) reemployed in Employee status who had previously been an Employee hereunder or who, while an Employee, dies, becomes totally and permanently disabled, or is terminated as a result of job abolition. Under this option, the benefit payable under this Part of the Plan shall be the greater of the following: the amount determined under (i) above, or (A) the amount determined under the formula of this Part using all years of Credited Service before and after (x) the transfer date or (y) the date of reemployment, calculated using the Credited Service definition under this Part of the Plan, both for service as an Employee and for service prior to the (x) transfer date or (y) date of initial termination. The benefit amount calculated above is payable as a Normal Retirement Date benefit. Vesting provisions, any early commencement factors and optional form of payment factors shall be determined pursuant to this Part of the Plan, together with eligibility for any retirement supplements. In order to elect this option (ii), an individual must receive any benefits payable from the prior plan in the same form, at the same time, and subject to the same actuarial adjustment factors as provided in this Part of the Plan, and there shall be a monthly offset under this


 
F-13 4841-1404-2944.2 Part of the Plan for the amount of any benefit payment from the prior plan or prior Part. In no event may an individual receive duplicate benefits from this Part of the Plan and the prior plan or prior Part. (iii) This option is the benefit payable under the prior plan or prior Part with the following three rules: (1) using the actuarial factors and supplements of the prior plan or prior Part to which (x) the individual would have been entitled if termination of employment occurred at the transfer date, or (y) the individual was or would have been entitled at the date of initial termination; (2) with vesting calculated using the terms of the prior plan or prior Part as of (x) the transfer date, or (y) the date of initial termination, but (3) disregarding any location closedown benefits, early retirement window supplements, periodic retiree increases limited to retirement within specified time periods, or similar benefits which require termination of employment due to certain causes or within a certain time period which is not satisfied. If assets and liabilities are transferred to this Plan from the prior plan, this subsection benefit shall be paid from this Plan; otherwise, it shall be paid from the prior plan. (c) For purposes of this Section, previous employment with an Affiliate includes only employment with such entity while it is an Affiliate and not employment prior to the date such entity became an Affiliate, if applicable.


 
F-14 4841-1404-2944.2 TABLE F-1 DEFERRED VESTED EARLY PAYMENT PERCENTAGES Participant’s Age At Commencement Of Benefit Month 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 0 46.0% 50.0% 55.0% 61.0% 67.0% 73.0% 81.0% 90.0% 100.0% 1 46.3 50.4 55.5 61.5 67.5 73.7 81.8 90.8 2 46.7 50.8 56.0 62.0 68.0 74.3 82.5 91.7 3 47.0 51.2 56.5 62.5 68.5 75.0 83.3 92.5 4 47.3 51.7 57.0 63.0 69.0 75.7 84.0 93.3 5 47.7 52.1 57.5 63.5 69.5 76.3 84.8 94.2 6 48.0 52.5 58.0 64.0 70.0 77.0 85.5 95.0 7 48.3 52.9 58.5 64.5 70.5 77.7 86.3 95.8 8 48.7 53.3 59.0 65.0 71.0 78.3 87.0 96.7 9 49.0 53.7 59.5 65.5 71.5 79.0 87.8 97.5 10 49.3 54.2 60.0 66.0 72.0 79.7 88.5 98.3 11 49.7 54.6 60.5 66.5 72.5 80.3 89.3 99.2


 
G-1 4841-1404-2944.2 PART G: MT. STERLING PLANT INDUSTRIAL PENSION PLAN


 
G-2 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND FORMAT OF TERMS Section 1.01. Format. Capitalized words and phrases defined in Section 1.02 of this Part shall have that defined meaning when used in this Part, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Additional capitalized terms used herein are defined in Section 1.01 of the Master Plan Document. Similarly, cross references in this Part shall apply to the referenced section in this Part, unless specifically referred to as a section of the Master Plan Document. Section 1.02. Definitions. The following words and phrases when used in this part of the Plan shall have the following respective meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (a) “Acquisition Agreement” means the Asset and Stock Purchase Agreement dated as of December 12, 2010, by and between A.O. Smith Corporation and Regal Beloit Corporation. (b) “Actuarial Equivalent” or “Actuarially Calculated” shall be determined for all purposes (except as required by Code Section 417(e)) using the RP-2000CH mortality table (weighted 50% male and 50% female) and an 8% interest rate; provided that, in no event shall a Participant’s actuarial equivalent optional form of benefit hereunder be less valuable than the value of such Participant’s accrued benefit under Section 3.01 of the Prior Plan as of December 1, 2011 calculated based on the 1971 Group Annuity Mortality Table using a 95% male and 5% female weighting, with interest at 8%. (c) “Break in Service” means any Plan Year during which an Employee has 500 or less Hours of Service. Solely for the purposes of determining whether an Employee has incurred a Break in Service, the Employee shall be credited with Hours of Service with respect to any period of unpaid absence under the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993 (“FMLA”), or with respect to any period of a child-rearing absence which is due to: (i) the Employee’s pregnancy; (ii) the birth of a child of the Employee; (iii) the placement of a child with the Employee as a result of the Employee’s adoption of such child; or (iv) the caring of such child immediately following such birth or placement. Such Hours of Service shall be credited on the basis of the Hours of Service with which the Employee would have been credited but for such absence or, where those hours cannot be determined by the Administrator, eight hours per normal workday of the absence. No more than 501 such hours shall be credited with respect to any single continuous period of a child- related or FMLA absence due to one or more of the reasons specified above, even though some or all of those hours may also be recognized as Hours of Service under Section 1.01(h). The Hours credited under this subsection shall apply to the Plan Year immediately following the Plan Year in which the child-related or FMLA absence commences unless such credit is needed to


 
G-3 4841-1404-2944.2 avoid a Break in Service in the former Plan Year. Regardless of the Plan Year to which such credit is applied, only that portion of such credit which is credited under Section 1.01(h), shall be recognized in determining the number of years of Vesting Service. No Hours of Service credit shall be given for a child-related or FMLA absence under this Section unless sufficient information to establish the number of days needed for such absence and that such absence is for one or more of the reasons specified in the FMLA or in clauses (i)-(iv) above, as applicable, is provided by the Employee to the Administrator in such form and at such time as the Administrator may specify from time to time under uniform rules consistently applied in like circumstances for personnel who are similarly situated in respect to such Employee. (d) “Credited Service” means employment for which credit is given for purposes of determining the amount of benefits, as follows: (i) With respect to an Employee who is considered a Transferred Employee (as defined in the Acquisition Agreement), such employee will be credited with Credited Service equal to the Credited Service (in whole and fractional years) credited to such individual under the terms of the Prior Plan as of the date such individual becomes a Transferred Employee. (ii) On and after the Effective Date, Employees shall receive credit for one year of Credited Service for each Plan Year during which the Employee receives pay from the Participating Employer for 1,700 or more hours; or a proportionate credit to the nearest complete 1/10th year for each year during which the Employee receives pay from the Participating Employer for less than 1,700 hours. Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to the Plan’s initial Plan Year, any Hours of Service credited to a Transferred Employee under the Prior Plan for the period from January 1, 2011 through the date such individual becomes a Transferred Employee and that are not counted in determining Credited Service under such Prior Plan shall be counted towards Credited Service hereunder. (iii) Employees shall receive credit for all service credited under any other retirement plan or plans to which the Participating Employer contributes; provided, however, that there shall be no duplication of benefits for the same period of Credited Service under the various plans to which the Participating Employer contributes. (iv) A non-vested Employee shall lose his or her Credited Service if his or her employment is terminated and he or she incurs five consecutive Breaks in Service. (v) Any Employee who is reemployed prior to five consecutive Breaks in Service shall have his or her original Credited Service


 
G-4 4841-1404-2944.2 restored upon completion of one additional year of Vesting Service after reemployment. (e) “Early Retirement Date” means the first day of the month coincident with or next following the date a Participant is eligible for benefits under Section 2.03, 2.04, or 2.05 of this Part. (f) “Effective Date” means August 22, 2011. (g) “Employee” means any person on the active hourly employment payroll of the Participating Employer at its Mt. Sterling, Kentucky plant or Winchester, Kentucky plant who is included in the collective bargaining unit represented by a labor organization whose collective bargaining agreement with the Participating Employer designates participation in the Prior Plan. (h) “Hour of Service” means the measurement which is used to determine an Employee’s Vesting Service and Credited Service. An Hour of Service shall be earned for: (i) An hour for which an individual directly or indirectly receives pay (or is entitled to payment) for services performed in the course of employment for the Participating Employer and any Affiliate Participating Employer and its Affiliates, or for reasons other than the performance of duties during the applicable computation period, such as vacation, holidays, jury duty, sick or funeral leaves, and similar periods of nonworking time; (ii) Periods of absence because of military leaves (as to which the individual is entitled to reinstatement as defined in the Veteran’s Reemployment Rights Act or the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act); (iii) Periods for which back pay is awarded or agreed to (irrespective of mitigation of damages); and (iv) Periods of approved personal leaves, but only if the individual returns within the period authorized for such leave. The number of Hours of Service credited to an individual as a result of payment for other than duties performed shall be the same number of Hours of Service the individual would have received if services had been performed for the Participating Employer and any Affiliate Participating Employer and its Affiliates during that computation period, based upon the individual’s customary Hours of Service immediately prior to the absence. Hours of Service shall be deemed accumulated for all purposes herein during the period for which they accrued irrespective of when payment is made, and shall be calculated and credited pursuant to Section 2530.200b-2 of the Department of Labor regulations which are hereby incorporated by reference. (i) “Normal Retirement Date” means the first day of the month coincident with or next following the date on which the Employee attains age 65.


 
G-5 4841-1404-2944.2 (j) “Participating Employer” means Regal Beloit EPC, Inc., a Wisconsin corporation. (k) “Prior Plan” means the A.O. Smith Corporation Mt. Sterling Plant Industrial Pension Plan, a component of the A.O. Smith Retirement Plan. (l) “Spouse” means either (i) the person to whom a Participant is lawfully married on his or her Annuity Starting Date or (ii) in the event the Participant dies before his or her Annuity Starting Date, the person to whom the Participant was married throughout the one (1) year period preceding the Participant’s death. For purposes hereof, “lawfully married” means legally married (A) under the laws of the United States (or one of the United States) or any other generally recognized jurisdiction and (B) for federal tax purposes. (m) “Total and Permanent Disability” means total disability caused by bodily injury or disease, physical or mental, or both, sufficient to prevent the Employee from engaging in any regular occupation or employment for remuneration or profit, which disability will be permanent and continuous during the remainder of the Employee’s life; provided, however, that no Employee shall be deemed to be totally and permanently disabled for the purposes of this Part of the Plan if the incapacity consists of chronic alcoholism or addiction to narcotics, or if such incapacity was: (i) contracted, suffered or incurred while engaged in a felonious enterprise or resulted therefrom; (ii) resulted from an intentionally self-inflicted injury; or (iii) resulted from service in the armed forces of any country. The existence of Total and Permanent Disability shall be determined by the Administrator on the basis of medical evidence. (n) “Vesting Service” means employment for which credit is given for purposes of determining eligibility for benefits, as follows: (i) With respect to an Employee who is considered a Transferred Employee (as defined in the Acquisition Agreement) such employee will be credited with Vesting Service equal to the Vesting Service (in whole and fractional years) credited to such individual under the terms of the Prior Plan as of the date such individual becomes a Transferred Employee. (ii) On and after the Effective Date, Employees shall receive credit for one year of Vesting Service for each Plan Year, during which at least 1,000 Hours of Service are accumulated. A proportionate year of Vesting Service to the nearest completed one-tenth year shall be accrued for each 170 Hours of Service for Plan Years during which the Employee does not accumulate at least 1,000 Hours of Service. Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to the Plan’s initial Plan Year, any Hours of Service credited to a Transferred Employee under the Prior Plan for the period from January 1, 2011 through the date such individual becomes a Transferred Employee and that are not counted in determining Vesting Service under such Prior Plan shall be counted towards Vesting Service hereunder.


 
G-6 4841-1404-2944.2 (iii) A non-vested Employee shall lose his or her Vesting Service if his or her employment is terminated and he incurs five consecutive Breaks in Service. (iv) Any Employee who is reemployed prior to five consecutive Breaks in Service shall have his or her original Vesting Service restored upon completion of one year of Vesting Service after reemployment.


 
G-7 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE II. ELIGIBILITY Section 2.01. Participation. Each Employee shall be eligible to participate in the Plan immediately upon the date he or she qualifies as an Employee. Participation shall cease on the date an individual ceases to qualify as an Employee. Section 2.02. Normal Retirement Eligibility. An Employee with 10 or more years of Vesting Service whose employment with the Participating Employer and its Affiliates is terminated upon or after the Employee’s 65th birthday shall be eligible for Normal Retirement Benefits. Section 2.03. Special Early Retirement Eligibility. An Employee with 10 or more years of Vesting Service whose employment with the Participating Employer and its Affiliates is terminated upon or after the Employee’s 62nd birthday, or an Employee with 30 or more years of Credited Service whose employment with the controlled group (which includes any group of employers aggregated pursuant to Code Sections 414(b), (c) or (m)) is terminated upon or after the Employee’s 57th birthday, shall be eligible for Normal Retirement Benefits. Section 2.04. Early Retirement Eligibility. An Employee with 10 or more years of Vesting Service whose employment with the Participating Employer and its Affiliates is terminated upon or after the Employee’s 57th birthday but prior to such Employee’s 65th birthday shall be eligible for Early Retirement Benefits. Section 2.05. Disability Retirement Eligibility. An Employee with 10 or more years of Vesting Service, who has a Total and Permanent Disability prior to age 65, shall be eligible for Disability Retirement Benefits. Total and Permanent Disability must exist while the Employee is on the active payroll of the Participating Employer or an Affiliate, and the application for Disability Retirement Benefits must be filed while on the active payroll. Section 2.06. Deferred Vested Eligibility. Employees not otherwise eligible for benefits under the Plan may be eligible for Deferred Vested Benefits if at the time of termination of employment with the Participating Employer and its Affiliates: (a) the Employee had five or more years of Vesting Service; or (b) the Employee had attained age 65 and had completed five years of employment with the Participating Employer and its Affiliates.


 
G-8 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE III. RETIREMENT BENEFITS Section 3.01. Normal and Early Retirement Benefits. Every eligible Employee upon retirement may elect to receive whichever of the following benefits is applicable: (a) Normal Retirement Benefits: Subject to subsection (c), the Normal Retirement Benefit for an eligible Employee shall be a monthly amount per year of Credited Service based on the following table: Retirement Date Monthly Amount On or after August 22, 2011 $27.50 (b) Early Retirement Benefits: Subject to subsection (c), the Early Retirement Benefit for an eligible Employee shall be an immediate or deferred benefit as determined in accordance with Section 3.01(a) of this Part, reduced by 1/180th thereof for each full month by which the Annuity Starting Date precedes the first day of the month following the month age 65 is attained, except if age 65 is attained on the first day of a month, that month shall not be included. (c) Offset from Benefits Payable under the Prior Plan. With respect to any eligible Employee who was a Transferred Employee, the Normal Retirement Benefit or Early Retirement Benefit shall be reduced by the amount of the benefit payable to such eligible Employee under the terms of the Prior Plan, calculated assuming the benefit payment under the Prior Plan had the same Annuity Starting Date as the benefits payable under this Part of the Plan. Section 3.02. Disability Retirement Benefits. The Disability Retirement Benefit for an Employee eligible therefor shall be composed of a disability annuity and a supplemental disability benefit. The disability annuity shall be a monthly amount computed in the same manner as Section 3.01(a) of this Part (including with application of the offset described in Section 3.01(c) of this Part). The supplemental disability benefit shall be an additional monthly amount computed in the same manner as Section 3.01(a) of this Part (including the application of the offset described in Section 3.01(c) of this Part), except that the supplemental disability benefit shall be reduced by the amount of Worker’s Compensation benefits and any present or future payments on account of injury, disease or disability under the Federal Social Security Act, as amended, or any other Federal or State Law under which the Participating Employer contributes through taxes or otherwise to benefits for injury, disease or disability of Employees, whether occupational or nonoccupational. Disability Retirement Benefits shall commence at the time set forth in the Master Plan Document. The benefits payable pursuant to this Section shall cease on the last day of the month during which the earliest of the following occurs: (a) the disability retiree recovers and returns to work; or (b) the Administrator determines that the disability retiree has sufficiently recovered to return to a regular occupation or employment for remuneration or profit; or


 
G-9 4841-1404-2944.2 (c) the disability retiree refuses to undergo a medical examination ordered by the Administrator; or (d) the disability retiree dies, or (e) the disability retiree elects to receive an Early Retirement Benefit or a Deferred Vested Benefit, as applicable; or (f) the disability retiree attains age 65. A disability retiree who returns to work after recovery will have prior Credited Service reinstated in lieu of the monthly Disability Retirement Benefit. A disability retiree who does not return to work after recovery will be eligible only for those benefits otherwise provided under the terms of this Part of the Plan as it existed at the time of Disability Retirement. A disability retiree shall be eligible to elect an Early Retirement Benefit or Normal Retirement Benefit if at the time of his or her election, he or she meets the age and service requirements of Section 2.03 or 2.04 of this Part as in effect on the date of his or her Disability Retirement. The Early Retirement Benefit or Normal Retirement Benefit shall be calculated and payable under the terms of the Plan as in effect on the date of the Employee’s Disability Retirement including the right to elect any form of payment available at such time. Section 3.03. Deferred Vested Benefits. The Deferred Vested Benefit shall be a monthly amount determined in accordance with Section 3.01(a) of this Part (subject to the offset described in Section 3.01(c) of this Part). An Employee may elect to receive such benefits upon attainment of age 65, or on or after the attainment of age 57, subject to the reduction calculated in accordance with Table G-1. Section 3.04. Automatic Pre-Retirement Survivor Protection. In the event, (a) an Employee dies after meeting the eligibility criteria for a retirement benefit pursuant to Section 2.02, 2.03, 2.04 of this Part or a Deferred Vested Benefit under 2.06 of this Part; or (b) a disability retiree dies while receiving Disability Retirement Benefits, the surviving spouse of the Employee or disability retiree shall be entitled to a survivor’s benefit. The monthly benefit will be an amount equal to 50% of the monthly benefit to which the Employee would have otherwise been entitled pursuant to Section 3.01(a) of the Master Plan Document – if the benefit were paid in the form of a single life annuity at the later of the date of death or the date the Employee would have been age 57, provided that the benefit payments to the surviving Spouse shall be reduced by 1% for each full year exceeding 10 years by which the Employee’s Spouse is younger than the Employee. The surviving Spouse benefit shall commence on the latest of: (i) the month following the Employee’s or disability retiree’s date of death,


 
G-10 4841-1404-2944.2 (ii) the month following the date the Employee would have been first eligible for a retirement or a deferred vested benefit, or (iii) the Annuity Starting Date requested by the surviving Spouse as the starting date in accordance with the procedures established by the Administrator, but in no event later than the Employee’s Normal Retirement Date. Benefit payments under this Section shall cease with the death of the surviving Spouse.


 
G-11 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE IV. PAYMENT OF BENEFITS Section 4.01. Transfers and Reemployment. (a) Out of Employee Status: If either (x) an Employee is transferred to or (y) a terminated former Employee is reemployed in non-Employee status with a Participating Employer or an Affiliate, the benefits hereunder shall be determined as of the date such individual ceased active participation hereunder by (x) transferring to non-Employee employment or (y) terminating employment and shall be payable in accordance with the terms of this Part of the Plan in effect on such date, but only upon subsequent termination of employment with all Participating Employers and its Affiliates. For purposes of this Section, the applicable benefit determined as of the date of (x) transfer or (y) initial termination shall be the individual’s accrued benefit. If the individual is eligible under another defined benefit plan or another Part of the Plan with a corollary provision to this Section and elects to have the equivalent to this Section apply in such other plan or Part, then the applicable benefit shall also include any retirement supplements to which the individual (x) would then have been entitled if he or she had retired on the date of transfer, or (y) was or, if he or she had then retired, would have been entitled on the date of initial termination, except for any location closedown benefits, early retirement window supplements, periodic retiree increases limited to retirement within specified time periods, or similar benefits which require termination of employment due to certain causes or within a certain time period which is not satisfied. (b) Into Employee Status: Either (x) an individual who transfers to Employee status from non-Employee employment with a Participating Employer or its Affiliates or (y) a terminated, former Employee of a Participating Employer and its Affiliates who is subsequently reemployed in Employee status shall receive from this Plan a benefit calculated as described in (i), (ii), if eligible, or (iii) below at the individual’s election: (i) This method provides a benefit as follows: (A) a benefit using the formula hereunder with Credited Service earned from and after the date the individual becomes an Employee; plus (B) the Normal Retirement Date benefit payable under the defined benefit plan or other Part of this Plan in which the individual participated prior to becoming an Employee (the “prior plan”) using the formula and service credits of the prior plan or prior Part as of (x) the transfer date and assuming termination of employment on that date, or (y) the date of initial termination; plus (C) in the event (1) the benefit payable from the prior plan or prior Part is a deferred vested benefit, and (2) the prior plan or prior Part has a different calculation formula for Deferred Vested Participants than for retirees, and (3) such individual retires from this Part of the Plan, the benefit


 
G-12 4841-1404-2944.2 under this Part of the Plan shall be increased by a supplement equal to the difference between the retirement and deferred vested calculations referenced in (1) and (2). The benefit amount calculated above is payable as a Normal Retirement Date benefit. Vesting provisions, any early commencement factors, and optional form of payment factors shall be determined pursuant to this Part of the Plan, together with eligibility for any retirement supplements. In order to elect this option (i), an individual must receive any benefits payable from the prior plan or prior Part in the same form, at the same time, and subject to the same actuarial adjustment factors as provided in this Part of the Plan, and there shall be a monthly offset under this Part of the Plan for the amount of any benefit payment from the prior plan or prior Part. In no event may an individual receive duplicate benefits from this Part of the Plan and the prior plan or prior Part. (ii) If either (x) an individual transfers to Employee status and remains an Employee for a minimum of 36 consecutive calendar months following the end of the month preceding such transfer or (y) a terminated, former Employee of a Participating Employer and its Affiliates is subsequently reemployed in Employee status and remains an Employee for a minimum of 36 consecutive calendar months following the end of the month preceding such reemployment, the individual may elect this option (ii). The 36-month service requirement shall be waived for any individual (x) transferring to or (y) reemployed in Employee status who had previously been an Employee hereunder or who, while an Employee, dies, becomes totally and permanently disabled, or is terminated as a result of job abolition. Under this option, the benefit payable under this Part of the Plan shall be the greater of the following: the amount determined under (i) above, or (A) the amount determined under the formula of this Part using all years of Credited Service before and after (x) the transfer date or (y) the date of reemployment, calculated using the Credited Service definition under this Part of the Plan, both for service as an Employee and for service prior to the (x) transfer date or (y) date of initial termination. The benefit amount calculated above is payable as a Normal Retirement Date benefit. Vesting provisions, any early commencement factors and optional form of payment factors shall be determined pursuant to this Part of the Plan, together with eligibility for any retirement supplements. In order to elect this option (ii), an individual must receive any benefits payable from the prior plan in the same form, at the same time, and subject to the same actuarial adjustment factors as provided in this Part of the Plan, and there shall be a monthly offset under this Part of the Plan for the amount of any benefit payment from the prior plan or prior Part. In


 
G-13 4841-1404-2944.2 no event may an individual receive duplicate benefits from this Part of the Plan and the prior plan or prior Part. (iii) This option is the benefit payable under the prior plan or prior Part with the following three rules: (1) using the actuarial factors and supplements of the prior plan or prior Part to which (x) the individual would have been entitled if termination of employment occurred at the transfer date, or (y) the individual was or would have been entitled at the date of initial termination; (2) with vesting calculated using the terms of the prior plan or prior Part as of (x) the transfer date, or (y) the date of initial termination, but (3) disregarding any location closedown benefits, early retirement window supplements, periodic retiree increases limited to retirement within specified time periods, or similar benefits which require termination of employment due to certain causes or within a certain time period which is not satisfied. If assets and liabilities are transferred to this Plan from the prior plan, this subsection benefit shall be paid from this Plan; otherwise, it shall be paid from the prior plan. (c) For purposes of this Section, previous employment with an Affiliate includes only employment with such entity while it is an Affiliate and not employment prior to the date such entity became an Affiliate, if applicable.


 
G-14 4841-1404-2944.2 TABLE G-1 DEFERRED VESTED EARLY PAYMENT PERCENTAGES Participant’s Age At Commencement Of Benefit Month 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 0 46.0% 50.0% 55.0% 61.0% 67.0% 73.0% 81.0% 90.0% 100.0% 1 46.3 50.4 55.5 61.5 67.5 73.7 81.8 90.8 2 46.7 50.8 56.0 62.0 68.0 74.3 82.5 91.7 3 47.0 51.2 56.5 62.5 68.5 75.0 83.3 92.5 4 47.3 51.7 57.0 63.0 69.0 75.7 84.0 93.3 5 47.7 52.1 57.5 63.5 69.5 76.3 84.8 94.2 6 48.0 52.5 58.0 64.0 70.0 77.0 85.5 95.0 7 48.3 52.9 58.5 64.5 70.5 77.7 86.3 95.8 8 48.7 53.3 59.0 65.0 71.0 78.3 87.0 96.7 9 49.0 53.7 59.5 65.5 71.5 79.0 87.8 97.5 10 49.3 54.2 60.0 66.0 72.0 79.7 88.5 98.3 11 49.7 54.6 60.5 66.5 72.5 80.3 89.3 99.2


 
H-1 4841-1404-2944.2 PART H: RETIREMENT PLAN NUMBER ONE FOR HOURLY EMPLOYEES OF MCGILL MANUFACTURING CO., INC. Overview: • Participation frozen effective July 2, 2016. • Benefits frozen effective December 31, 2016. The purpose of this Part H is to provide benefits for Eligible Employees under this Part.


 
H-2 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND FORMAT OF TERMS Section 1.01. Format. Capitalized words and phrases defined in Section 1.02 shall have that defined meaning when used in this Part, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Additional capitalized terms used herein are defined in Section 1.01 of the Master Plan Document. Similarly, cross references in this Part shall apply to the referenced section in this Part, unless specifically referred to as a section of the Master Plan Document. Section 1.02. Definitions. (a) “Accrued Benefit” means an amount equal to a Participant’s Normal Retirement Benefit at his or her Normal Retirement Date, based on his or her Years of Credited Service and the dollar benefit rate as applicable to such Participant as of the date of determination. (b) “Actuarial Equivalent” means the dollar value of any Accrued Benefit on a specified date, computed in accordance with the actuarial assumptions set forth on Exhibit H-1. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Actuarial Equivalent of any lump sum benefit (or other form of payment to which Code Section 417(e)(3) applies) payable under the Plan shall be determined using the Applicable Mortality Table and the Applicable Interest Rate. (c) “Break in Service” means each twelve (12) consecutive month period which begins on the employment or reemployment anniversary date of an Employee next following each termination of employment and which ends immediately prior to his or her reemployment by the Employer or an Affiliate. (d) “Credited Service” means that period of Service determined pursuant to Section 4.01. (e) “Early Retirement Benefit” means the benefit as described in Section 5.02. (f) “Early Retirement Date” means the date as described in Section 3.02. (g) “Eligible Employee” means any Employee who is paid on an hourly basis and employed at the Bearing Division, Valparaiso Plant, including any such Employee who, whether as a result of corporate restructuring or the Employee’s successful application, becomes employed by a Legacy Regal Company on or after January 30, 2015 and before July 2, 2016. In no event, however, shall the definition of Eligible Employee include a Leased Employee, any Employee of the Employer who was previously employed by a Legacy Regal Company, or any Employee who was most recently hired or rehired on or after July 2, 2016. (h) “Employee” means, for purposes of this Part, any person classified by the Employer or a member of the Employer’s controlled group (within the meaning provided under Code Sections 414(b), (c), or (m) and including any other entity required to be aggregated with the Employer under regulations issued pursuant to Code Section 414(o)) as an employee on its payroll records.


 
H-3 4841-1404-2944.2 (i) “Employer” means, for purposes of this Part, McGill Manufacturing Co., Inc., an Indiana Corporation. (j) “Legacy Regal Company” means any entity that was a member of the Regal Beloit Corporation controlled group (within the meaning provided under Code Sections 414(b), (c), or (m)) as of January 29, 2015 or any successor thereto. (k) “Normal Payment Form,” in the case of a married Participant, means a joint and survivor or annuity payable to the Participant and his or her Spouse with the amount of the annuity of the surviving Spouse to be 50% of the amount of the annuity paid to the Participant. The term “Normal Payment Form,” in the case of a non-married Participant, means an annuity payable to the Participant for the Participant’s life. Determination of marital status and who is the Participant’s Spouse is determined at the Annuity Starting Date. (l) “Normal Retirement Age” means such Participant’s attainment of age 65 and the fifth anniversary of the time such Participant commenced participation in the Plan. (m) “Normal Retirement Benefit” means the benefit as described in Section 5.01. (n) “Normal Retirement Date” means the date described in Section 3.01. (o) “Postponed Retirement Benefit” means the benefit described in Section 5.03. (p) “Postponed Retirement Date” means the date described in Section 3.03. (q) “Qualified Plan” means any plan qualified under Code Section 401. (r) “Required Beginning Date” means the April 1 following the calendar year in which the Participant attains age 70 1/2, even if the Participant is still employed. (s) “Service” means any day on which an individual performs services for the Employer as an Employee within the meaning of this Part. (t) “Spouse” means either (1) the person to whom a Participant is lawfully married on his or her Annuity Starting Date or (2) in the event the Participant dies prior to his or her Annuity Starting Date, the person to whom the Participant was married throughout the one (1) year period preceding the Participant’s death. For purposes hereof, “lawfully married” means legally married (A) under the laws of the United States (or one of the United States) or any other generally recognized jurisdiction and (B) for federal tax purposes. (u) “Vesting Service” means that period of Service determined pursuant to Section 4.02.


 
H-4 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE II. ELIGIBILITY Section 2.01. Participants. Each person who was a Participant on December 31, 2016 shall continue to be a Participant on January 1, 2017. No individual shall become a participant on or after January 1, 2017. Section 2.02. Cessation Of Participation. A person shall cease to be a Participant when he or she has ceased to be employed by the Employer, and (a) he or she has no vested benefit under the Plan; or (b) he or she has received from the Plan a lump sum distribution or a series of distributions of cash or other property which represents the balance to his or her credit under the Plan; or (c) the entire benefit rights of the person (i) are fully guaranteed by an insurance company, insurance service or insurance organization licensed to do business in a State, and are legally enforceable by the sole choice of the individual against the insurance company, insurance service or insurance organization; and (ii) a contract, policy or certificate describing the benefits to which the person is entitled under the Plan has been issued to the person.


 
H-5 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE III. RETIREMENT DATES Section 3.01. Normal Retirement Date. A Participant’s Normal Retirement Date shall be the first day of the month coinciding with or next following his or her Normal Retirement Age, provided that the Participant has terminated employment with the Employer and its Affiliates as of such date. Section 3.02. Early Retirement Date. A Participant’s Early Retirement Date shall be the first day of the month coinciding with or next following the later of (a) or (b): (a) the date he or she has attained age 55 and completed 10 years of Credited Service, or such later date the Participant may select that is before the date he or she attains age 65; and (b) the date he or she terminates employment with the Employer and its Affiliates other than by death or permanent and total disability as defined in Section 6.02, provided such date is before the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date. Section 3.03. Postponed Retirement Date. A Participant’s Postponed Retirement Date shall be the first day of the month coinciding with or next following the date he or she ceases employment with the Employer and its Affiliates (other than by death) after his or her Normal Retirement Date, but prior to his or her Required Beginning Date.


 
H-6 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE IV. SERVICE Section 4.01. Credited Service. “Credited Service” means the full and fractional years which are credited to a Participant for the purpose of determining his or her Accrued Benefit determined as follows: (a) A Participant shall be granted Credited Service for any periods of employment with the Employer as an Eligible Employee. A year of Credited Service means twelve (12) months of Credited Service, and any fractional year of a Participant’s total Credited Service in excess of a whole number of years shall be calculated in completed months; provided, that any portion of a month in excess of a whole number of months shall be counted as a completed month; provided further, that the number of years of Credited Service which a Participant is granted for the period between January 1, 1968 and December 31, 1985 (inclusive) shall not be less than the number of years of Credited Service which he or she would have been granted for such period in accordance with the terms of Retirement Plan Number One for Hourly Employees of McGill Manufacturing Co., Inc. as in effect as of June 30, 1985. (b) If a Participant terminated employment with McGill Manufacturing Co., Inc., or its predecessors, prior to January 1, 1976 and is rehired at a later date, any years of Credited Service prior to such employment termination date shall not be recognized after the Participant is rehired if such years of Credited Service would not have been recognized under the terms of the Retirement Plan Number One for Hourly Employees of McGill Manufacturing Co., Inc. as in effect on December 31, 1975 because of such break in service. (c) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, Credited Service shall not include periods of service after December 31, 2016 other than for purposes of determining a Participant’s eligibility for, and the amount of, an Early Retirement Benefit under Section 4.2 and Section 6.2 hereof. Section 4.02. Vesting Service. “Vesting Service” means the full and fractional years which are credited to an Employee for the purpose of determining the vested portion of his or her Accrued Benefit, determined as follows: (a) Except as otherwise provided below, a year of Vesting Service shall be granted for each full twelve (12) month period between an Employee’s date of hire (or August 1, 1968, if later) and his or her termination of employment from the Employer and its Affiliates. A year of Vesting Service shall be granted for the twelve (12) month period commencing on the Participant’s employment anniversary date (or, if the Employee was hired prior to August 1, 1968, the August 1) next preceding his or her termination of employment date, provided, that during the portion of such period before his or her termination of employment date the Employee has completed one thousand (1,000) Hours of Service; otherwise, the Employee shall be granted a fractional year of Vesting Service for the period between such employment anniversary date (or such August 1) and his or her termination of employment date calculated in completed months, and any portion of a month in excess of a whole number of months during that period shall be counted as a completed month.


 
H-7 4841-1404-2944.2 (b) If a Participant terminated employment with McGill Manufacturing Co., Inc., or its predecessors, prior to January 1, 1976 and is rehired at a later date, any service prior to such termination of employment date shall not be recognized as years of Vesting Service if such service would not have been recognized as Credited Service under the terms of Retirement Plan Number One for Hourly Employees of McGill Manufacturing Co., Inc. as in effect on December 31, 1975 because of such break in service. For purposes of this Section, Hours of Service shall be credited for any period of a Participant’s temporary layoff or other leave of absence which is included in years of Vesting Service, on the basis of a Participant’s normal (but not to exceed a forty-five (45) hour) work week. Section 4.03. Leave of Absence. (a) Business Agent. A leave of absence for service as a business agent for the collective bargaining representative of Participants shall be included in years of Credited Service for a period not to exceed four (4) years, subject to Section 4.01(c). (b) Layoff. A period of temporary layoff shall be included in (i) years of Credited Service for a period not to exceed two (2) years, subject to Section 4.01(c), and (ii) years of Vesting Service for a period not to exceed one (1) year. For purposes of the Plan, a period of temporary layoff shall be treated as a leave of absence, except as may be expressly provided to the contrary elsewhere in the Plan. (c) Failure to Return. If a Participant, in the case of an unpaid leave of absence, does not return to active employment within the time period prescribed therefor and has not retired in accordance with subsection (d) or died during the term of the leave of absence, the Participant shall be considered to have terminated employment for purposes of the Plan as of the first to occur of (i) the date the Participant resigns or is dismissed from the employ of the Employer; (ii) the first anniversary of the date the leave of absence of the Participant commenced; or (iii) the last day of the term of the leave of absence of the Participant. (d) Election to Commence Benefits. A Participant on a leave of absence may elect to commence benefits without returning to active employment with the Employer if otherwise eligible. Section 4.04. Credited Service and Vesting Service Prior to Break in Service. If a person’s employment with the Employer and its Affiliates is terminated when he or she has no nonforfeitable right to a benefit under the Plan and the number of his or her consecutive years in which he or she has a Break in Service equals or exceeds the greater of (a) five (5) or (b) the number of his or her years of Vesting Service accrued prior to such termination, the years of Credited Service and Vesting Service accrued prior to such termination of employment will be disregarded. Section 4.05. Maternity or Paternity Absence. In the case of an Eligible Employee who is absent from work: (a) by reason of the pregnancy of the individual,


 
H-8 4841-1404-2944.2 (b) by reason of the birth of a child of the individual, (c) by reason of the placement of a child with the individual in connection with the adoption of such child by such individual, or (d) for purposes of caring for such child for a period beginning immediately following such birth or placement, the Eligible Employee shall be credited with Service following the date such absence begins until the third employment or reemployment anniversary date of such Eligible Employee following the date such absence begins. In order to receive credit under this Section, an Eligible Employee must furnish to the Employer information establishing (i) that the absence from work is for one of the reasons described in this Section and (ii) the number of days for which the Eligible Employee was absent. Section 4.06. Family and Medical Leave Act. Solely for purposes of determining whether a Break in Service has occurred, an Eligible Employee shall be credited with Service during a leave of absence taken pursuant to the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.


 
H-9 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE V. PENSION BENEFITS Section 5.01. Normal Retirement Benefit. A Participant who commences benefits at his or her Normal Retirement Date shall receive a monthly Normal Retirement Benefit for his or her life, at the time and in the manner specified in Article IX, in an amount equal to the number of years of Credited Service of the Participant multiplied by the dollar benefit rate as applicable to such Participant determined as follows: (a) Pre-July 1, 1993 Hire Date: If hired prior to July 1, 1993 and the date of employment termination is: Applicable Benefit Rate On or after 7/1/85 but prior to 7/1/87 $15.00 On or after 7/1/87 but prior to 7/1/88 $15.50 On or after 7/1/88 but prior to 7/1/89 $16.00 On or after 7/1/89 but prior to 3/1/92 $16.50 On or after 3/1/92 but prior to 7/1/92 $17.50 On or after 7/1/92 but prior to 7/1/98 $18.50 On or after 7/1/98 but prior to 7/3/00 $19.00 On or after 7/3/00 but prior to 7/1/01 $19.50 On or after 7/1/01 but prior to 7/1/05 $20.50 On or after 7/1/05 but prior to 7/1/06 $21.00 On or after 7/1/06 but prior to 7/1/08 $21.50 On or after 7/1/08 but prior to 7/1/10 $22.00 On or after 7/1/10 but prior to 7/1/11 $22.50 On or after 7/1/11 but prior to 7/1/13 $23.00 On or after 7/1/13 but prior to 7/1/15 $23.50 On or after 7/1/15 $24.00 (b) July 1, 1991 and Later Hire Date: If hired on or after July 1, 1993 and the date of employment termination is: Applicable Benefit Rate On or after 7/1/93 but prior to 7/1/98 $14.00 On or after 7/1/98 but prior to 7/3/00 $14.50 On or after 7/3/00 but prior to 7/1/01 $15.00 On or after 7/1/01 hut prior to 7/1/05 $16.00 On or after 7/1/05 but prior to 7/1/06 $16.50 On or after 7/1/06 but prior to 7/1/08 $17.00 On or after 7/1/08 but prior to 7/1/10 $17.50 On or after 7/1 /10 but prior to 7/1/11 $18.00 On or after 7/1/11 but prior to 7/1/13 $18.50 On or after 7/1/13 but prior to 7/1/15 $19.00 On or after 7/1/15 $19.50


 
H-10 4841-1404-2944.2 (c) Freeze of Benefit Rate. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) with respect to any Participant who is employed on December 31, 2016, such Participant’s applicable benefit rate shall be determined as if such participant terminated employment on December 31, 2016, and (ii) with respect to any other Participant, such Participant’s applicable benefit rate shall be determined with respect to the period through the date on which the Participant most recently terminated employment prior to January 1, 2017. Section 5.02. Early Retirement Benefit. A Participant who commences benefits at his or her Early Retirement Date shall receive a monthly Early Retirement Benefit at the time and in the manner specified in Article IX. Such benefit, when expressed as a monthly benefit for the Participant’s life, shall be equal to the benefit to which he or she would be entitled at his or her Normal Retirement Date as calculated under Section 5.01 based on his or her years of Credited Service up to, and the dollar benefit rate applicable to such Participant as of, such Early Retirement Date (or as of December 31, 2016, if earlier), but such monthly benefit shall be reduced to a percentage thereof determined in accordance with the following table: Years of Credited Service Age Less Than 30 Years 30 Years or More 64 94% 100% 63 88% 100% 62 82% 100% 61 76% 100% 60 70% 100% 59 66% 100% 58 62% 97% 57 58% 94% 56 54% 91% 55 50% 88% If payment of a Participant’s Early Retirement Benefit does not commence on his or her birthday, then the percentage corresponding to the Participant’s age at his or her birthday next preceding his or her Annuity Starting Date shall be increased, for each full month between that birthday and his or her Annuity Starting Date, by one-twelfth (1/12) of the difference between said percentage and the percentage corresponding to the age of the Participant at his or her birthday next following his or her Annuity Starting Date. Section 5.03. Postponed Retirement Benefit. (a) Commencement. A Participant who commences benefits at his or her Postponed Retirement Date but before his or her Required Beginning Date shall receive a monthly Postponed Retirement Benefit at the time and in the manner specified in Article IX. Such benefit, when expressed as a monthly benefit for the Participant’s life, shall be equal to the benefit to which he or she would be entitled at his or her Normal Retirement Date as calculated under Section 5.01 based on his or her years of Credited Service up to, and the dollar benefit rate applicable to such Participant as of, the Participant’s actual retirement (or as of December 31,


 
H-11 4841-1404-2944.2 2016, if earlier). Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, in no event shall the Participant’s Postponed Retirement Benefit be less than the Normal Retirement Benefit as of his or her Normal Retirement Date increased by an actuarially equivalent value to reflect the monthly payments that would have been paid, if he or she had actually retired on such date, for each calendar month that he or she does not receive pay for at least 40 Hours of Service (disregarding for this purpose any Hours of Service resulting from an award or agreement as to back pay); provided, that the amount of such increase shall be reduced (but not below zero) on an actuarially equivalent basis to reflect the amount, if any, the Participant accrues since his or her Normal Retirement Date (but not beyond his Required Beginning Date). (b) Suspension. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if a Participant remains employed by the Employer beyond his or her Normal Retirement Date, then his Normal Retirement Benefit shall be suspended until his or her Postponed Retirement Date or, if earlier, his or her Required Beginning Date. The Employer shall notify the Participant of such suspension pursuant to the requirements of Department of Labor Regulations Section 2530.203-3 during the first calendar month in which the Participant attains his or her Normal Retirement Date. If, however, the Employer fails to provide such notice, then the benefits payable under the Plan shall be increased by an actuarially equivalent value in accordance with the requirements of the Code and ERISA Section 203(a); provided, that the amount of such increase shall be reduced (but not below zero) on an actuarially equivalent basis to reflect the amount the Participant accrues since his or her Normal Retirement Date (but not beyond his Required Beginning Date). In no event, however, shall a Participant’s benefits be suspended hereunder if he or she earns fewer than 40 Hours of Service during a calendar month after such Participant’s Normal Retirement Date. Section 5.04. In-Service Benefit. A Participant who remains employed by the Employer until his or her Required Beginning Date shall begin receiving a monthly in-service Benefit commencing as of his or her Required Beginning Date in the manner specified in Article IX. The amount of a Participant’s in-service benefit, when expressed as a monthly benefit for the Participant’s life, shall be equal to the benefit to which he or she would be entitled at his or her Normal Retirement Date as calculated under Section 5.01 based on his or her years of Credited Service up to, and the dollar benefit rate applicable to such Participant as of, the date on which his or her benefits commence (or as of December 31, 2016, if earlier). As long as such a Participant remains employed by the Employer, his or her benefit shall be recalculated as of the first day of each succeeding calendar year based on his or her years of Credited Service up to, and the dollar benefit rate applicable to such Participant as of, the date of such calculation (or as of December 31, 2016, if earlier), but such recalculated benefit shall be offset by the Actuarial Equivalent of the in-service benefits which the Participant has received under the Plan. In no event shall any such recalculated benefit be less than the benefit the Participant was receiving immediately prior to such recalculation.


 
H-12 4841-1404-2944.2 Section 5.05. Actuarial Increase. The benefit of a Participant whose Annuity Starting Date is later than the April 1 following the calendar year in which he or she attains age 70½ shall be actuarially increased, to the extent required under Code Section 401(a)(9)(C), to take into account the period after such April 1 during which the Participant is not receiving any benefits under the Plan. Section 5.06. Limitation Of Benefit. Notwithstanding anything in this Plan to the contrary, a Participant who is no longer employed by the Employer or any Affiliate shall be considered a terminated Employee and such Participant’s accrual of benefits under the Plan shall cease no later than the date he or she no longer is employed.


 
H-13 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE VI. DISABILITY BENEFIT Section 6.01. Disability Payments. A Participant who has attained age 40 and completed 20 years of Credited Service (or 10 years of Credited Service if hired before July 1, 1990) and who becomes permanently and totally disabled, as set out in Section 6.02 hereof, prior to his or her Normal Retirement Date shall become fully vested (if not already fully vested) in his or her benefit. Such Participant may elect, after he or she is determined to be disabled, to begin receiving the benefits provided in Section 5.01 as of an Annuity Starting Date. Such benefit shall be based on his or her years of Credited Service, and the dollar benefit rate applicable to such Participant, as of his or her date of disability (or as of December 31, 2016, if earlier). The Participant’s disability benefit shall be reduced by any benefits payable to the Participant under Worker’s Compensation or Occupational Disease laws for which the Employer is liable (except fixed statutory payments for the loss of any bodily member). Any lump sum payment on account of Worker’s Compensation or Occupational Disease laws which is deductible in accordance with this Section shall be divided by the number of weeks for which the award is based and the monthly amount shall be charged against the monthly disability benefit otherwise payable under the Plan from the date of such lump sum payment until such lump sum, as so charged, is exhausted. If prior to the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date the Administrator determines that the Participant is no longer disabled, or if the Participant refuses to submit to a medical examination at any reasonable time prior to his or her Normal Retirement Date (no more frequently than semi-annually) for the purpose of verifying the continuance of his or her disability, payment of his or her disability benefit shall cease. If the Participant’s disability benefit is not discontinued prior to his or her Normal Retirement Date, the Participant shall continue to be entitled to the same monthly benefit after his or her Normal Retirement Date. Section 6.02. Determination Of Disability. A Participant shall be deemed to be permanently and totally disabled only if: (a) while employed by the Employer he or she has been totally disabled by bodily injury or disease so as to be prevented thereby from engaging in any substantial gainful activity; and (b) such total disability shall have continued for a period of six (6) consecutive months and will, in the opinion of a qualified physician satisfactory to the Administrator, be permanent and continuous during the remainder of such Participant’s lifetime. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a permanent and total disability which is either incurred while serving in the armed forces, intentionally self-inflicted, or the result of malicious criminal conduct, addiction to narcotics or habitual drunkenness shall not give rise to a disability benefit under this Section. The Administrator shall have the right to verify the continued existence of a Participant’s permanent and total disability at reasonable times prior to his or her Normal Retirement Date. A Participant who refuses to submit to a medical examination shall be presumed to have recovered from his or her permanent and total disability.


 
H-14 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE VII. PRE-RETIREMENT DEATH BENEFIT Section 7.01. Pre-Retirement Death Benefit. If a Participant (a) has a vested entitlement to benefits under the Plan, (b) dies before his or her Annuity Starting Date under the Plan, and (c) was married for the full year ending on his or her date of death, his or her surviving Spouse shall be paid, commencing on the first day of the month following the later of the Participant’s death or the date the Participant would have attained age 65, or 55, whichever date the Participant is first eligible to retire, a death benefit payable in the form of a survivor annuity for the life of the surviving Spouse; provided, however, that distribution to the surviving Spouse shall not be made prior to the date the Participant would have attained age 65 without the consent of the surviving Spouse. The amount payable to the Participant’s surviving Spouse shall be 50% (or such larger amount elected under Section 3.02 of the Master Plan Document, with the surviving Spouse as joint annuitant, within ninety (90) days before the Participant’s Annuity Starting Date) of the amount calculated under Section 5.01 based on the Participant’s years of Credited Service until, and the dollar benefit rate applicable to such Participant as of, his or her death (or as of December 31, 2016, if earlier), with the following adjustments: (i) The amount payable shall be adjusted downward by the actuarial factor applied to convert a life annuity to such form of benefit; and (ii) If payments begin before the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date, the amount payable shall be further adjusted downward by applying the early retirement reduction factors.


 
H-15 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE VIII. VESTING Section 8.01. Benefits On Termination of Employment. (a) Vesting. A Participant whose employment is terminated prior to becoming eligible for a benefit under Article III shall be entitled to the vested percentage of such Participant’s Accrued Benefit. Such benefit shall be based on his or her years of Credited Service up to, and the dollar benefit rate applicable to such Participant as of, his or her termination of employment (or as of December 31, 2016, if earlier). A Participant’s vested percentage of such benefit shall be determined in accordance with the following: Years of Vesting Service Vested Percentage of Accrued Benefit Less than 5 0% 5 100% (b) Commencement of Benefit. Such Participant may elect, after attaining Normal Retirement Age or satisfying the requirements for an Early Retirement Date, to begin receiving the benefits provided in Article V as of an Annuity Starting Date based on his or her years of Credited Service up to, and the dollar benefit rate applicable to such Participant as of, his or her termination of employment (or as of December 31, 2016, if earlier). Section 8.02. Duplicating Payments. No Participant receiving Normal, Early, Postponed or in-service Retirement Benefits under the provisions of Article V shall be entitled to receive any additional or duplicating pension payments under this Article and no Participant entitled to receive benefits pursuant to this Article shall be eligible for the Disability Benefit provided by Article VI. Section 8.03. Timing And Manner Of Payments. Benefits provided pursuant to this Article shall be paid at the time and in the manner specified in Article III of the Master Plan Document. Section 8.04. Termination Prior To Vesting. A Participant whose employment is terminated before he or she has a vested interest in Plan benefits shall receive no benefits under this Article. Section 8.05. Vesting Upon Attainment Of Normal Retirement Date. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Plan, a Participant who remains in the employment of the Employer or one of its Affiliates until attainment of his or her Normal Retirement Age shall have a nonforfeitable right to 100% of his or her Normal Retirement Benefit calculated under Section 5.01. Section 8.06. Accelerated Vesting. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Plan, each Participant who is an active Participant on December 31, 2016 shall have a nonforfeitable right to such Participant’s Accrued Benefit, regardless of the number of years of Vesting Service such Participant has completed as of such date.


 
H-16 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE IX. TIMING AND OPTIONAL FORMS OF BENEFITS Section 9.01. Suspension of Benefits Upon Reemployment. In the event a Participant who is receiving benefits under the Plan returns to the full-time employment of the Employer (as defined in the Employer’s employment practices) prior to his or her Required Beginning Date, payment of his or her benefits will continue. Upon his or her subsequent termination of employment with the Employer, the Participant shall continue to receive the benefit he or she was receiving during the period of reemployment; provided that, if the Participant’s most recent termination of employment occurred prior to January 1, 2018, then, to the extent the law so requires, in no event shall the Participant receive a benefit that is less valuable, on an actuarial basis, than the benefits to which he or she would be entitled under the Plan as in effect on the date of such subsequent termination, taking into account his or her age at the time of such subsequent termination and his or her years of Credited Service earned during his or her period of reemployment (if any), reduced by the value of the benefits, other than disability benefits, he or she received prior to his or her subsequent termination date. Section 9.02. Timing Of Distributions. (a) Prior To Normal Retirement Date. If a Participant’s employment is terminated before his or her Normal Retirement Date for any reason other than his or her death, the Participant may request the distribution application forms at any time on or after the date ninety (90) days before the date he or she is first eligible to begin receiving an Early Retirement Benefit or Normal Retirement Benefit, as applicable. If a Participant remains employed until he or she meets the requirement for early retirement, such Participant may request at any time that the Employer provide him or her with the distribution notice described in Section 3.03 of the Master Plan Document as well as benefit election forms. When such a request is made, the Employer shall promptly provide the distribution notice and benefit election forms to the Participant if the Actuarial Equivalent lump sum value of the Participant’s vested Accrued Benefit exceeds $5,000. In order to begin receiving benefits, the Participant must properly complete his or her benefit election forms and make certain the Employer receives them before the first day of the month which contains the date which is ninety (90) days after the date of the distribution notice provided by the Employer. If the forms are properly completed and timely received, distribution of the Participant’s benefits will commence in the form elected by the Participant (1) as of the first day of the month following the date the distribution notice is distributed to the Participant if properly completed forms are returned either on or before such first day of the month or before the expiration of the seven (7) day period beginning the day after the date the distribution notice is distributed, or (2) as of the first day of the month after the Employer receives properly completed forms if such forms are returned after the time described in (1) above. Such first day of the month shall be his or her Annuity Starting Date. In no event shall any payments be made before seven (7) days have elapsed since the date the Participant received the distribution notice. (b) Continued Employment Until Required Beginning Date. A Participant who remains employed by the Employer until the January immediately preceding his or her Required Beginning Date shall receive the distribution notice described in Section 3.03 of the Master Plan Document as well as benefit election forms within the 30- to 90-day period before his or her Required Beginning Date. If the Participant properly completes his or her benefit


 
H-17 4841-1404-2944.2 election forms and returns them to the Employer before his or her Required Beginning Date, the Participant’s benefits will commence in the form elected by the Participant as of his or her Required Beginning Date. If the Participant fails to properly complete and return his or her benefit election forms before his or her Required Beginning Date, distribution of his or her vested Accrued Benefit will commence at his or her Required Beginning Date in the Normal Payment Form, and his or her Annuity Starting Date shall be his or her Required Beginning Date. Section 9.03. Payment Forms. In the absence of an election otherwise, a Participant’s will receive his or her retirement benefits in the Normal Payment Form. A Participant may elect, in lieu of the Normal Payment Form, to receive his or her retirement benefits in one of the optional payment forms provided in Section 3.02 of the Master Plan Document.


 
H-18 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE X. TRANSFERS Section 10.01. Termination Of Employment. Transfers within the Employer or between the Employer and any Affiliate shall not be considered a termination of employment under the Plan. Termination of employment under the Plan shall occur when an employee is no longer employed by the Employer or any Affiliate. Section 10.02. Vesting Service. In determining Vesting Service under the Plan, periods of Service by an Employee with the Employer or any Affiliate shall be included, but only with respect to Service during any period that such entities are required to be aggregated under Code Sections 414(b), (c) or (m) or regulations issued pursuant to Code Section 414(o). Section 10.03. Acquisition Of Assets. If the Employer acquired the assets (through purchase, merger or otherwise) of any other entity and hired persons who had been employed by such entity, the division or other subgroup in which such persons were employed shall be excluded from the groups included in the definition of “Eligible Employee” unless the Employer communicated to such division or subgroup that such division or subgroup would be accruing benefits under the Plan.


 
H-19 4841-1404-2944.2 EXHIBIT H-1 Actuarial Assumptions I. Joint and Survivor Annuity Form of Payment Age of Employee Less Age of Joint Annuitant Age-Related Retirement Percent of Life Annuity Payable To Employee with 50%, 66-2/3%, 75% Or 100% of Reduced Amount Payable to Joint Annuitant Disability Retirement Percent of Life Annuity Payable to Employee with 50% of Reduced Amount Payable to Joint Annuitant 50% 66-2/3% 75% 100% 20* 78.20 76.10 74.10 68.10 66.30 19 78.40 76.40 74.40 68.40 66.60 18 78.70 76.70 74.70 68.80 66.90 17 79.00 77.10 75.10 69.20 67.20 16 79.40 77.50 75.50 69.60 67.60 15 79.80 77.90 75.90 70.10 68.00 14 80.20 78.40 76.40 70.70 68.40 13 80.60 78.90 76.90 71.30 68.80 12 81.00 79.40 77.40 71.90 69.20 11 81.40 79.90 77.90 72.50 69.60 10 81.80 80.40 78.40 73.10 70.00 9 82.20 80.90 78,90 73.70 70.40 8 82.60 81.40 79.40 74.30 70.80 7 83.00 81.90 79.90 74.90 71.30 6 83.40 82.40 80.40 75.50 71.80 5 83.90 82.90 81.00 76.10 72.30 4 84.40 83.40 81.50 76.80 72.80 3 84.90 83.90 82.10 77.50 73.40 2 85.40 84.50 82.70 78.20 74.00 1 85.90 85.10 83.30 79.00 74.60 0 86.40 85.70 84.00 79.80 75.20 -1 86.90 86.20 84.60 80.60 75.80 -2 87.40 86.70 85.20 81.40 76.40 -3 87.90 87.20 85.80 82.20 77.00 -4 88.40 87.70 86.40 83.00 77.70 -5 88.90 88.20 86.90 83.70 78.40 -6 89.40 88.70 87.50 84.40 79.20 -7 89.90 89.20 88.10 85.10 80.00 -8 90.40 89.70 88.60 85.80 80.80 -9 90.90 90.20 89.20 86.50 81.50 -10 91.40 90.70 89.80 87.20 82.20 -11 91.90 91.20 90.30 87.90 82.90 -12 92.40 91.70 90.90 88.60 83.60


 
H-20 4841-1404-2944.2 Age of Employee Less Age of Joint Annuitant Age-Related Retirement Percent of Life Annuity Payable To Employee with 50%, 66-2/3%, 75% Or 100% of Reduced Amount Payable to Joint Annuitant Disability Retirement Percent of Life Annuity Payable to Employee with 50% of Reduced Amount Payable to Joint Annuitant -13 92.90 92.20 91.50 89.30 84.30 -14 93.40 92.70 92.00 90.00 85.00 -15 93.90 93.20 92.60 90.70 85.70 -16 94.30 93.70 93.10 91.40 86.40 -17 94.70 94.20 93.70 92.10 87.10 -18 95.00 94.70 94.20 92.80 87.80 -19 95.30 95.20 94.60 93.40 88.50 -20 or more 95.60 95.70 95.10 93.90 89.20 Reduce applicable Percent by an additional .20% for the Joint & 50% Contingent Annuity form, and by an additional .30% for the other forms, for each year in excess of 20. Example: Under the Joint & 50% Contingent Annuitant form, if employee is 23 years older than joint annuitant, reduce the 78.20% by .60% to 77.605. II. 10 Years Certain and Life Form Age at Date of Retirement Percent of Life Annuity Benefits Payable to Employee 55 97.30% 56 97.00% 57 96.60% 58 96.20% 59 95.80% 60 95.30% 61 94.80% 62 94.10% 63 93.40% 64 92.60% 65 91.70% 66 90.70% 67 89.70% 68 88.50% 69 87.30% 70 85.90% Note: The above table only gives the factors for years of attained age. The factor used to determine a Retirement benefit will take into account years and months of attained age at Retirement for example, the factor of age 62 and 6 months is 93.75%.


 
I-1 4841-1404-2944.2 PART I: REGAL POWER TRANSMISSIONS SOLUTIONS PENSION PLAN – APPENDIX A – KOP-FLEX MEMORIAL LODGE 1784 & DISTRICT LODGE 12 UNION EMPLOYEES Overview: • Plan frozen to new hires effective January 30, 2015. The purpose of this Part I is to provide benefits for Eligible Employees under this Part.


 
I-2 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND FORMAT OF TERMS Section 1.01. Format. Capitalized words and phrases defined in Section 1.02 shall have that defined meaning when used in this Part, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Additional capitalized terms used herein are defined in Section 1.01 of the Master Plan Document. Similarly, cross references in this Part shall apply to the referenced section in this Part, unless specifically referred to as a section of the Master Plan Document. Section 1.02. Definitions. (a) “Accrued Benefit” means a Participant’s benefit, as determined hereunder, expressed in the Normal Form beginning on or after the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date. (b) “Actuarial Equivalent” for benefits shall be determined on the basis of 7.5% interest and the 1983 Group Annuity Mortality Table as set forth in Revenue Ruling 95-6, 1995-1 C.B. 80. (c) “Break in Service” means the completion of 500 or fewer Hours of Service by an Employee or former Employee during a computation period or any twelve (12) consecutive month Period of Severance, as applicable. (d) “Contingent Annuitant” means an individual named by the Participant to receive a benefit after the Participant’s death in accordance with a survivorship annuity. (e) “Early Retirement Age and Service Requirements” means the date on which a Participant first meets the requirement(s) of either (i) or (ii) below: (i) He or she has attained age sixty (60) and completed ten (10) years of Vesting Service. (ii) He or she has completed thirty (30) years of Vesting Service. (f) “Early Retirement Date” means the first day of any month before a Participant’s Normal Retirement Date that the Participant selects for the start of his retirement benefits. This day shall be on or after the date he or she has a Severance from Employment and satisfies the Early Retirement Age and Service Requirements. (g) “Eligible Employee” means, for purposes of this Part I, a person classified by the Employer as an employee of Kop-Flex, Inc. as an hourly paid employee who is represented for collective bargaining purposes by the Union. As of January 30, 2015, no active Employees are covered by this Part I. (h) “Employment Commencement Date” means the date an Employee first performs an Hour of Service. (i) “Late Retirement Date” means the first day of any month that is after a Participant’s Normal Retirement Date and on which retirement benefits begin. If a Participant continues to work for the Employer after his or her Normal Retirement Date, his or her Late


 
I-3 4841-1404-2944.2 Retirement Date shall be the first day of the month on or after the date he or she has a Severance from Employment. (j) “Normal Form” means a single life annuity with certain period of five years. (k) “Normal Retirement Age” means the later of age sixty-five (65) or a Participant’s fifth (5th) anniversary of the first day of the Plan Year in which the Participant commenced participation in the Plan. (l) “Normal Retirement Benefit” means the Participant’s Accrued Benefit. (m) “Normal Retirement Date” means the first day of the month on or after the date the Participant reaches his Normal Retirement Age, provided that he or she has terminated employment from the Company and its Affiliates before such date. (n) “Parental Absence” means an Employee’s absence from work: (i) by reason of the pregnancy of the Employee, (ii) by reason of the birth of a child of the Employee, (iii) by reason of the placement of a child with the Employee in connection with adoption of such child by such Employee, or (iv) for purposes of caring for such child for a period beginning immediately following such birth or placement. (o) “Pension Credited Service” means an Eligible Employee’s Period of Service. Pension Credited Service may continue to be credited for up to two (2) years if a Participant is on lay-off, pursuant to the collective bargaining agreement between the Employer and the Union. However, Pension Credited Service for benefit accrual purposes shall not include: (i) service before November 1, 1986, and (ii) service while not an Eligible Employee. (p) “Period of Service” means a period of time beginning on an Employee’s Employment Commencement Date or Reemployment Commencement Date (whichever applies) and ending on his or her most recent Severance Date. For purposes of calculating an Employee’s Period of Service, the following rules shall apply: (i) A Period of Service shall be expressed as years and fractional parts of a year (to two decimal places) on the basis that 365 days equal one year. (ii) A Period of Severance shall be deemed to be a Period of Service under either of the following conditions: (A) the Period of Severance immediately follows a period during which an Employee is not absent from work and ends within twelve (12) months; or (B) the Period of Severance immediately follows a


 
I-4 4841-1404-2944.2 period during which an Employee is absent from work for any reason other than quitting, being discharged, or retiring (such as a leave of absence or layoff) and ends within twelve (12) months of the date he or she was first absent. (iii) A Period of Service shall be reduced by (A) all or any part of a Period of Service that is not counted pursuant to the rules set forth in this Plan and/or (B) any Period of Severance that occurred prior to his most recent Severance Date, unless such Period of Severance is included under the service spanning rules described in (ii) above. (q) “Period of Severance” means a period of time beginning on an Employee’s Severance Date and ending on the date he or she again performs an Hour of Service. A one-year Period of Severance means a Period of Severance of twelve (12) consecutive months. Solely for purposes of determining whether a one-year Period of Severance has occurred for eligibility or vesting purposes, the consecutive twelve (12) month period beginning on the first anniversary of the first date of a Parental Absence shall not be a one-year Period of Severance. (r) “Predecessor Employer” means a firm of which the Employer was once a part (e.g., due to a spinoff or change of corporate status) or a firm absorbed by the Employer because of a merger or acquisition (stock or asset, including a division or an operation of such company) that maintained this Plan or that is named below: Koppers Company, Inc. (s) “Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity” means, for a Participant who has a Spouse, an immediate survivorship life annuity, where the survivorship percentage is fifty percent (50%) and the Contingent Annuitant is the Participant’s Spouse. A former Spouse will be treated as the Spouse to the extent provided under a qualified domestic relations order as described in Code Section 414(p). This Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity shall be at least the Actuarial Equivalent of any form of annuity benefit offered under the Plan. (t) “Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity” means a straight life annuity payable to the surviving Spouse of a Participant who dies before his Annuity Starting Date with a vested benefit hereunder calculated as provided in Section 4.01. A former Spouse will be treated as the surviving Spouse to the extent provided under a qualified domestic relations order as described in Code Section 414(p). (u) “Reemployment Commencement Date” means the date an Employee first performs an Hour of Service following a Period of Severance. (v) “Severance Date” means the earlier of: (i) the date on which an Employee quits, retires, dies, or is discharged, or


 
I-5 4841-1404-2944.2 (ii) the first anniversary of the first date an Employee remains absent from service (with or without pay). This absence may be the result of any combination of reasons, including vacation, holiday, sickness, disability, leave of absence, or layoff, but excluding quit, retirement, discharge or death. Solely to determine whether a one-year Period of Severance has occurred for eligibility or vesting purposes for an Employee who is absent from service beyond the first anniversary of the first day of a Parental Absence, the Severance Date is the second anniversary of the first day of the Parental Absence. The period between the first and second anniversaries of the first day of the Parental Absence is not a Period of Service and is not a Period of Severance. (w) “Severance from Employment” means the date an Employee has ceased to be an Employee. (x) “Special Early Retirement Date” means the first day of any month before a Participant’s Normal Retirement Date which the Participant selects for the start of his or her retirement benefits. A Special Early Retirement Date can occur only if the Participant is absent from work due to: (i) a permanent shutdown of a plant, or department; (ii) a layoff, or physical disability; (iii) an elective layoff, made in connection with a permanent shutdown, and made pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement; or (iv) a physical disability, or layoff (other than the one described above), where the Employer declares that the Participant’s return to active employment is unlikely. If one of the requirements above is met, then the Special Early Retirement Date shall be the first day of any month before a Participant’s Normal Retirement Date on which the Participant meets the requirements of either (x) or (y) below: (x) He or she has attained age fifty-five (55), has completed ten (10) or more years of Vesting Service, and the sum of his or her age and Vesting Service equals or exceeds seventy- five (75). (y) The sum of his or her age and Vesting Service equals or exceeds eight (80). (y) “Spouse” means either (1) the person to whom a Participant is lawfully married on his or her Annuity Starting Date or (2) in the event the Participant dies prior to his or her Annuity Starting Date, the person to whom the Participant was married throughout the one (1) year period preceding the Participant’s death. For purposes hereof, “lawfully married” means


 
I-6 4841-1404-2944.2 legally married (A) under the laws of the United States (or one of the United States) or any other generally recognized jurisdiction and (B) for federal tax purposes. (z) “Totally and Permanently Disabled” (or derivations thereof) means that, as a result of sickness or injury, the Participant is prevented from performing any work, or engaging in any occupation for wage or profit, and has been continuously disabled for six (6) months, and, in the opinion of a physician selected by the Administrator, such disability will be permanent, continuous and is expected to result in death. Initial written proof that the disability exists and has continued uninterruptedly for at least five (5) months must be furnished to the Administrator by the Participant within one (1) year after the date the disability begins. The Administrator, upon receipt of any notice of proof of a Participant’s total and permanent disability, shall have the right and opportunity to have a physician it designates examine the Participant when and as often as it may reasonably require, but not more than once each year after the disability has continued uninterruptedly for at least two (2) years beyond the date of furnishing the first proof. However, a Participant shall not be entitled to receive any disability benefits under the Plan if his or her disability results from any of the following: (i) habitual use of illegal drugs or alcohol; (ii) injury or disease sustained while serving in any armed forces or as a result of warfare for which he or she is receiving a pension; (iii) an intentional, self-inflicted injury; or (iv) was contracted, suffered or incurred while the Participant was engaged in, or resulting from engagement in, a criminal enterprise. (aa) “Union” means the Memorial Lodge No. 1784, District Lodge No. 12 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. (bb) “Vesting Service” means an Employee’s Pension Credited Service. In addition, an Employee’s service before October 13, 1986 with a Predecessor Employer that did not maintain this Plan shall be included as Vesting Service with the Employer. This service excludes service performed while a proprietor or partner.


 
I-7 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE II. PARTICIPATION AND SERVICE Section 2.01. Participation. (a) There are no active participants under this Part I. (b) An inactive participant or a former Participant shall not again become an active participant (shall not resume active participation in the Plan). Section 2.02. Cessation of Participation. A Participant shall cease to be a Participant on the earlier of the following: (a) The date of his or her death. (b) The date he or she receives a single sum distribution in satisfaction of all of his or her benefits under the Plan. An inactive participant shall also cease to be a Participant on the earliest date on which he or she is not entitled to a deferred monthly income under Section 7.07 of the Master Plan Document. An individual who ceases to be a Participant hereunder shall not resume participation at any later date. Section 2.03. Calculation of Pension Credited Service - Special Rules. (a) Disregarded Service. If a person’s employment with the Employer and its Affiliates is terminated when he or she has no nonforfeitable right to a benefit derived from Employer contributions under the Plan, then if the number of days in the Employee’s Period of Severance equals or exceeds the greater of six (6) years or one (1) year plus his or her Period of Service, whether or not consecutive, completed before such Period of Severance, then any Period of Service accrued prior to such break in service shall be disregarded. (b) Service with Foreign Corporation. A Participant who leaves the employment of the Employer and its Affiliates to accept employment with a corporation which is directly or indirectly owned fifty percent (50%) or more by the Company or a Subsidiary but which is organized outside of the United States, or to accept employment (at the written request of the Employer) with any other corporation organized outside of the United States, shall, if he or she thereafter returns to employment in the United States with the Employer or its Affiliates for at least twelve (12) months, earn benefits as if he or she had continued in the employment of the Employer and its Affiliates for the period of such foreign employment; provided, however, that any benefits credited for such period shall be reduced (but not below zero) by the amount of any foreign pension or severance payment earned during such period. (c) Disability Accrual. Except as may be provided otherwise in this Part, a Participant who becomes disabled while employed by the Employer or any Affiliate and is receiving disability benefits pursuant to the Social Security Laws shall for the purposes of this Plan be considered as having continued in the employment of the Employer, so long as he or she continues to receive such benefits, until the earliest of (i) the date he or she is no longer


 
I-8 4841-1404-2944.2 permanently and totally disabled, (ii) the date he or she has attained his or her Normal Retirement Date, (iii) his or her Annuity Starting Date, or (iv) the date he or she dies.


 
I-9 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE III. RETIREMENT BENEFITS Section 3.01. Retirement Benefits. (a) Normal Retirement Benefit. A Participant who terminates employment from the Employer and its Affiliates on his or her Normal Retirement Date may commence receiving his or her vested Normal Retirement Benefit. The monthly Normal Retirement Benefit is an amount equal to the product of (i) and (ii) below: (i) An amount equal to $37.50 ($38.00, for a Participant who was credited with an Hour of Service as a Part I Employee on and after January 1, 2012). (ii) His or her Pension Credited Service on such date. (b) Early Retirement Date. Except as otherwise provided in this Section, a Participant’s retirement benefit on his Early Retirement Date shall be equal to his or her Accrued Benefit on such date, multiplied by the factor shown below corresponding to the number of years his or her Annuity Starting Date precedes his or her Normal Retirement Date. NUMBER OF YEARS EARLY RETIREMENT DATE PRECEDES NORMAL RETIREMENT DATE FACTOR 1 .9333 2 .8667 3 .8000 4 .7333 5 .6667 The above factors shall be prorated for a partial year (counting a partial month as a complete month). If the Participant was covered under the Plan on the last day of the 1988 Plan Year, his or her retirement benefit on his or her Early Retirement Date shall not be less than his or her Accrued Benefit on such date multiplied by the applicable early retirement factor as if the Plan as in effect on that date had continued unchanged. An active Participant’s retirement benefit on his or her Early Retirement Date shall be equal to his or her Accrued Benefit on such date, with no reduction, if he or she has completed 30 years of Vesting Service. (c) Special Early Retirement Date. An active Participant’s retirement benefit on his or her Special Early Retirement Date shall be equal to his or her Accrued Benefit on such date.


 
I-10 4841-1404-2944.2 (d) Late Retirement Date. An active Participant’s retirement benefit on his or her Late Retirement Date shall be equal to the greatest of (i), (ii), or (iii) below: (i) The Participant’s Accrued Benefit on his or her Late Retirement Date. (ii) The Participant’s Accrued Benefit on his or her Normal Retirement Date, multiplied by the factor shown below corresponding to the number of years the Late Retirement Date follows his or her Normal Retirement Date. NUMBER OF YEARS EARLY LATE RETIREMENT DATE FOLLOWS NORMAL RETIREMENT DATE FACTOR 1 1.0600 2 1.1200 3 1.1900 4 1.2600 5 1.3400 6 1.4200 7 1.5000 8 1.5900 9 1.6900 10 1.7900 The above factors shall be prorated for a partial year (counting a partial month as a complete month). Factors for years beyond ten (10) shall be determined using a consistently applied reasonable actuarially equivalent method. (iii) This (iii) applies only to a Participant whose Late Retirement Date occurs after the April 1 following the calendar year in which he or she attains age 70½. Such Participant’s retirement benefit will be adjusted to take into account the period after such date in which the Participant was not receiving his or her retirement benefit. The amount in this (iii) shall be equal to the retirement benefit that would have been paid on such date (determined as if his or her Late Retirement Date had occurred on such date) multiplied by the factor in (ii) above for one (1) year past Normal Retirement Date, prorated for a partial year based on the number of months in the period (counting a partial month as a complete month). If the Participant’s Late Retirement Date occurs after the first day of the Plan Year following such date, the amount in this (iii) shall


 
I-11 4841-1404-2944.2 be equal to the retirement benefit that would have been paid on the first day of the Plan Year, multiplied by the factor in (ii) above for one (1) year past Normal Retirement Date, prorated for a partial year based on the number of months since the first day of the Plan Year (counting a partial month as a complete month). The amount in this (iii) shall be redetermined on the first day of each Plan Year based on the retirement benefit that would have been paid on such date (determined as if his Late Retirement Date has occurred on such date) multiplied by the factor in (ii) above for one (1) year past Normal Retirement Date, prorated for a partial year based on the number of months since the first day of the Plan Year (counting a partial month as a complete month). (e) Special Lump Sum Payment. If a Participant retires under normal, early, special early or late retirement, he or she is eligible to receive a lump sum special payment to cover his or her first three (3) months of retirement. This special payment is equal to thirteen (13) weeks of vacation pay for the vacation year in which he or she retires, less any vacation pay he or she actually receives for that vacation year, multiplied by his or her weekly rate of vacation pay for that vacation year. This special payment will be paid to the Participant in a lump sum within the first full month following his or her retirement. A Participant is entitled to only one special payment. If he or she returns to work after retiring, he or she will not receive a second special payment when he or she retires again. (f) Benefit Not Less than Early Retirement Amount. A Participant’s retirement benefit under the Normal Form shall not be less than the greatest amount of benefit that would have been provided for him or her had he or she retired on any earlier retirement date. (g) Benefits Upon Employment After Retirement Date. If a Participant is employed by the Employer after his or her Annuity Starting Date, any monthly retirement benefit payment he or she is receiving shall continue unchanged. If such Participant again became an active Participant after his or her Retirement Date, his or her benefits under this Plan shall not be duplicated. The retirement benefit from the Accrued Benefit resulting from such additional period of Pension Credited Service shall be payable according to the provisions of Article V. Any death benefit from the Accrued Benefit he or she accrued during his or her latest period as an active Participant shall be determined as provided in Section 4.01. Section 3.02. Disregard of Accrued Benefit. If a Participant receives a single sum payment equal to the Actuarial Equivalent present value of his or her entire vested Accrued Benefit, then his or her entire Accrued Benefit as of the date of the distribution shall be disregarded. If the Actuarial Equivalent present value of a Participant’s vested Accrued Benefit was zero and he or she was deemed to have received a distribution of such present value of his


 
I-12 4841-1404-2944.2 entire vested Accrued Benefit, and he or she again becomes an Eligible Employee before the end of the first period of five (5) consecutive one-year Periods of Severance that begin after the date of the deemed distribution, upon the date he or she again performs an Hour of Service as an Eligible Employee, the Employer-derived Accrued Benefit (including all optional forms of benefits and subsidies relating to such benefits) shall be restored to the amount of such Accrued Benefit on the date of the deemed distribution.


 
I-13 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE IV. OTHER BENEFITS Section 4.01. Death Benefits. (a) A Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity shall be payable only if the Participant is survived by a Spouse. If this requirement is met, then the Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity shall become payable on the earliest date on or after the date of the Participant’s death on which he or she could have elected to retire if he or she had a Severance from Employment on the date of his death (or the date he or she last had a Severance from Employment, if earlier) and survived to retire. The Spouse may elect to start benefits on any later first day of the month. If the Spouse chooses to start benefits later, the Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity shall be the Actuarial Equivalent of the Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity that would have been payable on the date the Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity would otherwise have been payable. Benefits must start by the date the Participant would have been age 70 1/2. If the Spouse dies before the Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity starts, no death benefits are payable hereunder. Subject to applicable Code rules, a surviving Spouse who is entitled to a Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity may elect to receive such benefit in any annuity that is an optional form of retirement benefit. (b) If a vested Participant dies while an Employee and after meeting the Early Retirement Age and Service Requirements, and if a Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity is not payable upon the Participant’s death, then his or her Beneficiary will receive sixty (60) monthly payments. The amount of each payment is equal to the monthly amount the Participant would have received had he or she retired on the day before his or her death under the Normal Form. (c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Participant elects within ninety (90) days before the Participant’s Annuity Starting Date a survivorship annuity providing a greater than fifty percent (50%) death benefit and the Contingent Annuitant is the Participant’s Spouse, then such greater percentage shall be paid in lieu of the fifty percent (50%) benefit described in subsection (c) above. Such election must be a qualified election according to the provisions of Sections 3.02 and 3.03 of the Master Plan Document. Section 4.02. Disability Benefits. If an active Participant became Totally and Permanently Disabled before his or her Normal Retirement Date, a disability benefit shall be payable to him or her if the disability occurs on or after he or she has completed ten (10) years of Vesting Service. The disability benefit payable to a Participant who met the requirements above is an immediate monthly benefit equal to his or her Accrued Benefit on the day before his or her monthly disability benefit begins, but not less than $100. Monthly disability benefit payments shall begin on the earliest first day of the month on or after the date the Participant meets the requirements under this Section. Such payments shall continue through the last monthly payment made before the earliest of his or her


 
I-14 4841-1404-2944.2 Annuity Starting Date (or Normal Retirement Date, if earlier), the date of his or her death, or the day following the date he or she is no longer Totally and Permanently Disabled. If the payments continue through the month immediately preceding the Participant’s Annuity Starting Date (or Normal Retirement Date, if earlier), retirement benefits shall be provided for him or her on his retirement date under the provisions of Article III. The Participant’s Accrued Benefit shall be equal to his or her Accrued Benefit as of the day before the disability benefit began. However, such Accrued Benefit shall not be less than the amount of monthly disability payment paid to him or her under this Section. If, before the Participant’s Annuity Starting Date (or Normal Retirement Date, if earlier), he or she recovers and returns to active work for the Employer within one month of his or her recovery, then the payments shall stop. If, before the Participant’s Annuity Starting Date (or Normal Retirement Date, if earlier), he or she recovers and does not return to active work for the Employer within one (1) month of his or her recovery, then the payments shall stop and his or her benefits shall become payable under the Deferred Vested Benefits provisions of the Plan. Section 4.03. Vested Benefits. (a) If a vested Participant dies before his or her Annuity Starting Date, the only death benefits payable shall be the Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity, or, if applicable, the death benefit described in subsection (e). (b) If a Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity becomes payable pursuant to subsection (a), the Participant’s surviving Spouse shall be paid, commencing on the first day of the month following the later of the Participant’s death or the date the Participant would have attained his or her Early Retirement Age, a survivor annuity for the life of the surviving Spouse; provided, however, that distribution to the surviving Spouse shall not be made prior to the date the Participant would have attained his or her Normal Retirement Age without the consent of the surviving Spouse. Benefits must start by the date the Participant would have been age 70½. If the Spouse dies before the Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity starts, no death benefits are payable hereunder. (c) If the Participant is employed by the Employer at the time of his or her death, then the amount payable to the Participant’s surviving Spouse in the form of a Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity shall be fifty percent (50%) of the amount calculated under Section 3.01 of this Part based on the Pension Credited Service accrued as of the date of his or her death, reduced by the early retirement reduction factors if the death benefit begins before the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date. If the Participant is not employed at the time of his or her death, the amount payable to the Participant’s surviving Spouse in the form of Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity shall be fifty percent (50%) of the amount calculated under Section 3.01 of this Part based on the Pension Credited Service accrued as of the date of his or her death, with the following adjustments: (i) The benefit shall be reduced by the actuarial factors used to convert the benefit under Section 3.02 to a Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity; and


 
I-15 4841-1404-2944.2 (ii) The early retirement reduction factors shall be applied if the death benefit begins before the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date. (d) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Participant elects within ninety (90) days before the Participant’s Annuity Starting Date a survivorship annuity providing a greater than fifty percent (50%) death benefit and the Contingent Annuitant is the Participant’s Spouse, then such greater percentage shall be paid in lieu of the fifty percent 50% benefit described in subsection (c) above. Such election must be a qualified election according to the provisions of Sections 3.02 and 3.03 of the Master Plan Document. (e) If a vested Participant dies while an Employee and after meeting the Early Retirement Age and Service Requirements, and if a Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity is not payable upon the Participant’s death, then his or her Beneficiary will receive sixty (60) monthly payments. The amount of each payment is equal to the monthly amount the Participant would have received had he or she retired on the day before his or her death under the Normal Form.


 
I-16 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE V. WHEN BENEFITS START AND DISTRIBUTION OF BENEFITS Section 5.01. When Benefits Start. (a) A Participant with a vested benefit who terminates employment on or after meeting the Early Retirement Age and Service Requirements may commence receipt of his or her benefits on an Early Retirement Date, or on any later date as he or she may elect. (b) A Participant who terminates employment prior to his or her Early Retirement Date but who has met the service requirements under the Early Retirement Age and Service Requirements may elect to begin receiving an early retirement benefit on the first day of any month coincident with or following his or her Early Retirement Age, or on any later date as he or she may elect, or may elect to receive a Normal Retirement Benefit commencing on his or her Normal Retirement Date. Section 5.02. Automatic Forms of Distribution. Unless an optional form of benefit is selected pursuant to a qualified election within the election period (as provided in Sections 3.02 and 3.03 of the Master Plan Document), the automatic form of benefit payable to or on behalf of a Participant is determined as follows: (a) Retirement Benefits. The automatic form of retirement benefit for a Participant who does not die before his Annuity Starting Date shall be: (i) The Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity for a Participant who has a Spouse on his or her Annuity Starting Date. (ii) The Normal Form for a Participant who does not have a Spouse on his or her Annuity Starting Date. (b) Death Benefits. The automatic form of death benefit for a Participant who dies before his or her Annuity Starting Date is determined according to the provisions of Section 4.01. Section 5.03. Optional Forms Of Retirement Benefits. The optional forms of retirement benefits shall be those stated in Section 3.02 of the Master Plan Document, as well as a single life annuity with a certain period of five (5) years. For the 5-year period certain option, an actuarially reduced benefit shall be payable to the Participant through the month in which the participant dies, and in the event the Participant dies prior to receiving sixty (60) monthly payments, monthly payments in the same amount shall be continued payable to the Participant’s Beneficiary until an aggregate of sixty (60) monthly payments have been made. The Participant must designate a Beneficiary on a form prescribed by and submitted to the Administrator in accordance with Section 3.02 of the Master Plan Document. Such designation may be changed or revoked at any time prior to the death of the Participant. If both the Participant and his or her Beneficiary die prior to the receipt of sixty (60) monthly payments in the aggregate, then the remainder of such sixty (60) monthly payments shall be paid to the estate of the last to die of the Participant or his or her Beneficiary.


 
J-1 4841-1404-2944.2 PART J: REGAL POWER TRANSMISSIONS SOLUTIONS PENSION PLAN – APPENDIX 8 – BROWNING MANUFACTURING DIVISION EMPLOYEES Overview: • Plan frozen to new hires effective January 30, 2015. The purpose of this Part J is to provide benefits for Eligible Employees equal to the sum of their benefit with their prior employer(s) as calculated under the Emerson Electric Co. Retirement Plan (including Appendix 8 thereto) (the “Emerson Plan”) and their benefit provided with the Employer for periods on and after January 30, 2015, but then offset by the benefits that have accrued under the Emerson Plan. The following provisions shall apply only to persons who are Eligible Employees under this Part.


 
J-2 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND FORMAT OF TERMS Section 1.01. Format. Capitalized words and phrases defined in Section 1.02 shall have that defined meaning when used in this Part, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Additional capitalized terms used herein are defined in Section 1.01 of the Master Plan Document. Similarly, cross references in this Part shall apply to the referenced section in this Part, unless specifically referred to as a section of the Master Plan Document. Section 1.02. Definitions. (a) “Accrued Benefit” means a Participant’s benefit (determined pursuant hereto) expressed in the Normal Form beginning on or after the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date. (b) “Actuarial Equivalent” means a benefit of equivalent value calculated using an interest rate of 6.5% per annum, compounded annually, and the 1984 unisex mortality table (UP 1984 Mortality Table) published by the Society of Actuaries in The Proceedings Volume XXV. (c) “Average Compensation” means one-fifth (1/5th) of the aggregate Compensation received by an Employee during his or her five consecutive Computation Periods as an Employee which give rise to the highest aggregate; provided that if an Employee has fewer than five consecutive Computation Periods as an Employee, his or her Average Compensation shall be the aggregate Compensation received by him or her as an Employee divided by his or her years and fractions thereof as an Employee. In determining Average Compensation, all compensation earned during periods of service by an Employee with the Employer and any Affiliate shall be included, whether or not as a Eligible Employee. (d) “Average Social Security Wage Base” means the average of the Social Security wage bases during the thirty-five (35) calendar years ending with the calendar year an individual attains his or her Social Security Retirement Age. In determining a Participant’s Average Social Security Wage Base for any particular calendar year, it is assumed that the Social Security wage base in effect at the beginning of such calendar year will remain in effect for all future years. (e) “Benefit Factors” means the numerical factors used in determining the amount of a Participant’s Accrued Benefit, as they exist at a particular point in time. (f) “Compensation” means, for Computation Periods commencing on or prior to June 1, 2014, the Compensation credited under the Emerson Plan, as reported by the Administrator of the Emerson Plan. For all Computation Periods commencing on and after June 1, 2015, “Compensation” means the sum of (a) the annual rate of basic earnings as of each June 1 plus (b) the amount of the Participant’s incentive payment (but only to the extent such payment does not exceed 20% of such rate of basic earnings) paid during the 12 months ending on the December 31 immediately preceding the June 1 on which Compensation is determined; provided that, for the Computation Period commencing June 1, 2015, the incentive payments paid by Emerson Electric Co. during calendar year 2014 shall be treated as incentive payments hereunder. Overtime earnings, discretionary bonuses, compensation in any form provided under


 
J-3 4841-1404-2944.2 an equity plan or award, and incentive bonuses in excess of the above stated maximum are also excluded. Compensation taken into account under the Plan for any Plan Year or calendar year shall not exceed $265,000 (adjusted for changes in the cost of living as provided in Section 415(d) of the Code). (g) “Computation Period” means the twelve month period commencing on June 1 and ending on May 31. (h) “Contingent Annuitant” means an individual named by the Participant to receive a benefit after the Participant’s death in accordance with a survivorship annuity. (i) “Contributing Participant” includes any Participant at June 1, 1976 who was a “B” Member under the Retirement Plan of Browning Manufacturing Division of Emerson Electric Co. as in effect on May 31, 1976 or who was eligible under the terms of the Plan prior to October 1, 1989 to make contributions and so elected. No Employee will be permitted to make contributions to the Plan on or after October 1, 1989. (j) “Early Retirement Age and Service Requirements” means age fifty-five (55) with no service requirement. (k) “Early Retirement Date” means the first day of any month before a Participant’s Normal Retirement Date that the Participant selects as his or her Annuity Starting Date. This day shall be on or after the date he or she has a Severance from Employment and satisfies the early retirement age and service requirements as set forth in the applicable Part. (l) “Eligible Employee” means an Employee who is classified by the Employer as an employee of the Browning Manufacturing Division of Power Transmission Solutions Corporation and is employed in such classification on January 30, 2015. Prior to January 30, 2015, the Employer was Kop-Flex, Inc. (m) “Employment Commencement Date” means the date an Employee first performs an Hour of Service. (n) “Late Retirement Date” means the first day of any month that is after a Participant’s Normal Retirement Date and on which retirement benefits begin. If a Participant continues to work for the Employer after his or her Normal Retirement Date, his or her Late Retirement Date shall be the first day of the month on or after the date he or she has a Severance from Employment. (o) “Normal Form” means a single life annuity with certain period of five years. (p) “Normal Retirement Age” means age sixty-five (65). (q) “Normal Retirement Benefit” means the Participant’s Accrued Benefit. (r) “Normal Retirement Date” means the first day of the month on or after the date the Participant reaches their Normal Retirement Age.


 
J-4 4841-1404-2944.2 (s) “Parental Absence” means an Employee’s absence from work: (i) by reason of the pregnancy of the Employee, (ii) by reason of the birth of a child of the Employee, (iii) by reason of the placement of a child with the Employee in connection with adoption of such child by such Employee, or (iv) for purposes of caring for such child for a period beginning immediately following such birth or placement. (t) “Pension Credited Service” means for periods prior to January 30, 2015, the service as credited under the Emerson Plan, as reported by the Administrator of the Emerson Plan. For periods on or after January 30, 2015, an Eligible Employee shall accrue Pension Credited Service equaling his or her Period of Service. For purposes of benefit accrual hereunder, Pension Credited Service accrued while not an Eligible Employee shall be disregarded. (u) “Period of Service” means a period of time beginning on an Employee’s Employment Commencement Date or Reemployment Commencement Date (whichever applies) and ending on his most recent Severance Date. For purposes of calculating an Employee’s Period of Service, the following rules shall apply: (i) A Period of Service shall be expressed as years and fractional parts of a year (to two decimal places) on the basis that 365 days equal one year. (ii) A Period of Severance (as defined in Section 1.02) shall be deemed to be a Period of Service under either of the following conditions: (A) the Period of Severance immediately follows a period during which an Employee is not absent from work and ends within twelve (12) months; or (B) the Period of Severance immediately follows a period during which an Employee is absent from work for any reason other than quitting, being discharged, or retiring (such as a leave of absence or layoff) and ends within twelve (12) months of the date he or she was first absent. (iii) A Period of Service shall be reduced by (A) all or any part of a Period of Service that is not counted pursuant to the rules set forth in this Plan and/or (B) any Period of Severance that occurred prior to his most recent Severance Date, unless such Period of Severance is included under the service spanning rules described in (ii) above. (v) “Period of Severance” means a period of time beginning on an Employee’s Severance Date and ending on the date he or she again performs an Hour of Service.


 
J-5 4841-1404-2944.2 A one-year Period of Severance means a Period of Severance of twelve (12) consecutive months. Solely for purposes of determining whether a one-year Period of Severance has occurred for eligibility or vesting purposes, the consecutive twelve (12) month period beginning on the first anniversary of the first date of a Parental Absence shall not be a one-year Period of Severance. (w) “Permanent and Total Disability” (or derivations thereof) means an Eligible Employee shall be deemed to be permanently and totally disabled only if: (i) while employed by the Employer he or she has been totally disabled by bodily injury or disease so as to be prevented thereby from engaging in any substantial gainful activity, and (ii) he or she is eligible for and is receiving disability benefits under the Social Security Act and has provided the Administrator with evidence of such eligibility and receipt. The Administrator shall have the right to verify the continued existence of a Participant’s permanent and total disability at reasonable times prior to the date he or she begins to receive either his or her Early or Normal Retirement Benefit. A Participant who refuses to submit to a medical examination shall be presumed to have recovered from his or her Permanent and Total Disability. (x) “Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity” means, for a Participant who has a Spouse, an immediate survivorship life annuity, where the survivorship percentage is fifty percent (50%) and the Contingent Annuitant is the Participant’s Spouse. A former Spouse will be treated as the Spouse to the extent provided under a qualified domestic relations order as described in Code Section 414(p). If a Participant does not have a Spouse, the Normal Form means the Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity. This Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity shall be at least the Actuarial Equivalent of any form of annuity benefit offered under the Plan. (y) “Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity” means a straight life annuity payable to the surviving Spouse of a Participant who dies before his Annuity Starting Date with a vested benefit hereunder. A former Spouse will be treated as the surviving Spouse to the extent provided under a qualified domestic relations order as described in Code Section 414(p). (z) “Reemployment Commencement Date” means the date an Employee first performs an Hour of Service following a Period of Severance. (aa) “Severance Date” means the earlier of: (i) the date on which an Employee quits, retires, dies, or is discharged, or (ii) the first anniversary of the first date an Employee remains absent from service (with or without pay). This absence may be the result of any combination of reasons, including vacation, holiday,


 
J-6 4841-1404-2944.2 sickness, disability, leave of absence, or layoff, but excluding quit, retirement, discharge or death. Solely to determine whether a one-year Period of Severance has occurred for eligibility or vesting purposes for an Employee who is absent from service beyond the first anniversary of the first day of a Parental Absence, the Severance Date is the second anniversary of the first day of the Parental Absence. The period between the first and second anniversaries of the first day of the Parental Absence is not a Period of Service and is not a Period of Severance. (bb) “Severance from Employment” means an Employee has ceased to be an Employee. (cc) “Social Security Retirement Age” means the age used as the retirement age under Section 216(1) of the Social Security Act, except that such section shall be applied: (a) without regard to the age increase factor, and (b) as if the early retirement age under Section 216(1)(2) of the Social Security Act were age 62. (dd) “Spouse” means either (i) the person to whom a Participant is lawfully married on his or her Annuity Starting Date or (ii) in the event the Participant dies prior to his or her Annuity Starting Date, the person to whom the Participant was married throughout the ninety (90) day period preceding the Participant’s death. For purposes hereof, “lawfully married” means legally married (A) under the laws of the United States (or one of the United States) or any other generally recognized jurisdiction and (B) for federal tax purposes. (ee) “Vesting Service” – see Pension Credited Service.


 
J-7 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE II. PARTICIPATION AND SERVICE Section 2.01. Eligibility. Each Eligible Employee who was a “Participant” under Appendix 8 of the Emerson Plan on January 29, 2015, shall become a Participant hereunder on January 30, 2015. Each other Eligible Employee shall become a Participant hereunder as of the first day of any month coinciding with or next following the date three (3) months from the date he or she commences employment with the Employer. No individual who is employed or re-employed after January 30, 2015 shall become a Participant hereunder. Section 2.02. inactive Participant. (a) An active Participant shall become an inactive Participant (stop accruing benefits) on the earliest of the following: (i) The date he or she ceases to be an Eligible Employee. (ii) The effective date of complete termination of the Plan under Section 6.02 of the Master Plan Document. (iii) Their Severance from Employment date. (b) An inactive participant or a former Participant shall not again become an active participant (shall not resume active participation in the Plan). Section 2.03. Cessation of Participation. A Participant, whether active or inactive, shall cease to be a Participant on the earlier of the following: (a) The date of his death. (b) The date he or she receives a single sum distribution in satisfaction of all of his or her benefits under the Plan. An inactive participant shall also cease to be a Participant on the earliest date on which he or she is not entitled to a deferred monthly income under Section 7.07 of the Master Plan Document. An individual who ceases to be a Participant hereunder shall not resume participation at any later date. Section 2.04. Calculation of Pension Credited Service - Special Rules. (a) Disregarded Service. If a person’s employment with the Employer and its Affiliates is terminated when he or she has no nonforfeitable right to a benefit derived from Employer contributions under the Plan, then if the number of days in the Employee’s Period of Severance equals or exceeds the greater of six (6) years or one year plus his or her Period of Service, whether or not consecutive, completed before such Period of Severance, then any Period of Service accrued prior to such break in service shall be disregarded.


 
J-8 4841-1404-2944.2 (b) Service with Foreign Corporation. A Participant who leaves the employment of the Employer and its Affiliates to accept employment with a corporation which is directly or indirectly owned fifty percent (50%) or more by the Company or an Affiliate but which is organized outside of the United States, or to accept employment (at the written request of the Employer) with any other corporation organized outside of the United States, shall, if he or she thereafter returns to employment in the United States with the Employer or its Affiliates for at least twelve (12) months, earn benefits as if he or she had continued in the employment of the Employer and its Affiliates for the period of such foreign employment; provided, however, that any benefits credited for such period shall be reduced (but not below zero) by the amount of any foreign pension or severance payment earned during such period (c) Disability Accrual. Except as may be provided otherwise in this Part, a Participant who becomes disabled while employed by the Employer or its Affiliates and who is receiving disability benefits pursuant to the Social Security Laws shall, for the purposes of this Plan, be considered as having continued in the employment of the Employer, so long as he or she continues to receive such benefits, until the earliest of (i) the date he or she is no longer permanently and totally disabled, (ii) the date he or she has attained his or her Normal Retirement Date, (iii) his or her Annuity Starting Date, or (iv) the date he or she dies.


 
J-9 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE III. RETIREMENT BENEFITS Section 3.01. Normal Retirement Benefit. A Participant who retires on his or her Normal Retirement Date may commence receiving his or her vested Normal Retirement Benefit. The monthly Normal Retirement Benefit shall be equal to one-twelfth (1/12) of: (a) 1.0% of his or her Average Compensation multiplied by his or her years of Pension Credited Service, up to a maximum of 35 years of Pension Credited Service; plus (b) 0.5% of his or her Average Compensation which is in excess of his or her Average Social Security Wage Base multiplied by his or her years of Pension Credited Service, up to a maximum of 35 years of Pension Credited Service, reduced by the years of Pension Credited Service taken into account in Section 5-1, subsection A(1)(ii) and B(2) of Appendix 8 of the Emerson Plan; plus (c) 0.25% of Average Compensation multiplied by his or her Pension Credited Service in excess of 35 years; minus (d) The monthly Normal Retirement Benefit amount payable to the Participant under the Emerson Plan in the Normal Form (e.g., the Emerson Plan accrued benefit). Section 3.02. Early Retirement. A Participant who retires on an Early Retirement Date shall receive a monthly early retirement benefit equal to his or her monthly Normal Retirement Benefit reduced by 1/2% times the number of full months between his or her Early Retirement Date and his or her Normal Retirement Date. Section 3.03. Postponed Retirement Benefit. The postponed retirement benefit shall be the benefit a Participant would have received at Normal Retirement Date but based upon his or her Benefit Factors up to his or her actual retirement. Section 3.04. Benefits Upon Employment After Annuity Starting Date. If a Participant is employed by the Employer after his or her Annuity Starting Date, any monthly retirement benefit payment he or she is receiving shall continue unchanged. If such Participant again became an active Participant after his or her Annuity Starting Date, his or her benefits under this Plan shall not be duplicated. The retirement benefit from the Accrued Benefit resulting from such additional period of Pension Credited Service shall be payable according to the provisions of Article III and Article IV. Any death benefit from the Accrued Benefit he or she accrued during his or her latest period as an active Participant shall be determined as provided in Article IV and Section 4.01 below. Section 3.05. Disregard of Accrued Benefit. If a Participant receives a single sum payment equal to the Actuarial Equivalent present value of his or her entire vested Accrued Benefit, then his or her entire Accrued Benefit as of the date of the distribution shall be disregarded.


 
J-10 4841-1404-2944.2 If the Actuarial Equivalent present value of a Participant’s vested Accrued Benefit was zero and he or she was deemed to have received a distribution of such present value of his entire vested Accrued Benefit, and he or she again becomes an Eligible Employee before the end of the first period of five (5) consecutive one-year Periods of Severance that begin after the date of the deemed distribution, upon the date he or she again performs an Hour of Service as an Eligible Employee, the Employer derived Accrued Benefit (including all optional forms of benefits and subsidies relating to such benefits) shall be restored to the amount of such Accrued Benefit on the date of the deemed distribution.


 
J-11 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE IV. OTHER BENEFITS Section 4.01. Death Benefits. (a) If a vested Participant dies before his or her Annuity Starting Date, the only death benefits payable shall be the Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity. (b) If a Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity becomes payable pursuant to subsection (a), the Participant’s surviving Spouse shall be paid, commencing on the first day of the month following the later of the Participant’s death or the date the Participant would have attained his or her Early Retirement Age, a survivor annuity for the life of the surviving Spouse; provided, however, that distribution to the surviving Spouse shall not be made prior to the date the Participant would have attained his or her Normal Retirement Age without the consent of the surviving Spouse. Benefits must start by the date the Participant would have been age 70½. If the Spouse dies before the Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity starts, no death benefits are payable hereunder. (c) If the Participant is employed by the Employer at the time of his or her death, then the amount payable to the Participant’s surviving Spouse in the form of a Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity shall be fifty percent (50%) of the amount calculated under Section 3.01 of this Part based on the Pension Credited Service accrued as of the date of his or her death, reduced by the early retirement reduction factors if the death benefit begins before the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date. If the Participant is not employed at the time of his or her death, the amount payable to the Participant’s surviving Spouse in the form of a Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity shall be fifty percent (50%) of the amount calculated under Section 3.01 of this Part based on the Pension Credited Service accrued as of the date of his or her death, with the following adjustments: (i) The benefit shall be reduced by the actuarial factors used to convert the benefit under Section 3.02 to a Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity; and (ii) The early retirement reduction factors shall be applied if the death benefit begins before the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date. (d) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Participant elects within ninety (90) days before the Participant’s Annuity Starting Date a survivorship annuity providing a greater than fifty percent (50%) death benefit and the Contingent Annuitant is the Participant’s Spouse, then such greater percentage shall be paid in lieu of the fifty percent (50%) benefit described in subsection (c) above. Such election must be a qualified election according to the provisions of Sections 3.02 and 3.03 of the Master Plan Document. (e) Alternative Pre-Retirement Death Benefit – The surviving Spouse of a Participant who: (i) dies while employed by the Employer as an Eligible Employee after such Participant has attained age 40 but not age 55;


 
J-12 4841-1404-2944.2 (ii) has on the date of such death at least 10 years of Pension Credited Service; and (iii) has been married to such survivor for the 90-day period immediately prior to death; may elect to be paid a benefit under this section in lieu of the benefit payable under Section 4.01(a). A surviving Spouse who elects to receive a benefit hereunder shall be paid, commencing on the first day of the month following the Participant’s death, a monthly benefit equal to forty percent (40%) of the pension which the Participant would have received commencing at his or her Normal Retirement Date taking into account only his or her Pension Credited Service until his or her death and without conversion into a Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity. Such monthly benefit shall continue until the earliest to occur of the survivor’s death, remarriage or receipt of 120 monthly payments. Section 4.02. Disability Benefits. A Participant who: (a) has fifteen (15) years of Pension Credited Service; and (b) has met the requirements for Permanent and Total Disability, shall receive a monthly Disability Benefit of $100, beginning with the date he or she is eligible to receive disability benefits under the Social Security Act. Such Disability Benefit shall continue until the Participant ceases to be Permanently and Totally Disabled, dies, or reaches his or her Normal Retirement Date or Annuity Starting Date, whichever is earliest. If the disabled Participant is not entitled to receive disability benefits for any period after his or her Normal Retirement Date pursuant to a long term disability plan maintained by the Employer, he or she will be deemed to be retired on his or her Normal Retirement Date and shall be eligible to receive a Normal Retirement Benefit, in accordance with the Plan’s procedures (including the requirement that an application for benefits be made). If the disabled Participant is entitled to receive disability benefits for any period after his or her Normal Retirement Date pursuant to a long term disability plan maintained by the Employer, then he or she shall continue to receive his or her Disability Benefit hereunder, and when his or her benefit pursuant to such long term disability plan ceases, his or her Disability Benefit hereunder shall cease and he or she shall be deemed to be retired at his or her Late Retirement Date and shall be eligible to receive a Postponed Retirement Benefit, in accordance with the Plan’s procedures (including the requirement that an application for benefits be made). In calculating the Early Retirement Benefit (if any), Normal Retirement Benefit, or Postponed Retirement Benefit, for purposes of this section, only the Benefit Factors earned before the Participant became permanently and totally disabled shall be counted. Section 4.03. Vested BenefitsA Participant whose employment is terminated after he or she has earned at least five (5) years of Vesting Service shall be entitled to a benefit as described in this section. (b) A person whose employment is terminated other than by death before he or she has earned five (5) years of Vesting Service or reached Normal Retirement Age shall receive no benefit under this Plan.


 
J-13 4841-1404-2944.2 (c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, a Participant who dies while employed with the Employer or who remains in employment with the Employer until the date he or she satisfies the requirements for Normal Retirement Age shall have a one-hundred percent (100%) nonforfeitable right to his or her Accrued Benefit. (d) A Participant who becomes an inactive Participant before retirement or death (and, if applicable, before the date a disability payment begins under Section 4.02) will be entitled to one of the following, whichever is applicable: (i) Payment of his Accrued Benefit to begin on his or her Normal Retirement Date. (ii) If the Participant has satisfied the Early Retirement Age and Service Requirements, a deferred monthly retirement benefit under the Normal Form to begin on his or her Early Retirement Date. The deferred retirement benefit shall be equal to the amount under (i) above multiplied by the applicable early retirement factor set forth in Section 3.01(b). (iii) A deferred monthly retirement benefit under the Normal Form to begin on his Late Retirement Date. The deferred retirement benefit shall be determined as follows: (A) For a Participant who became an inactive Participant on or before his or her Normal Retirement Date, an amount equal to the amount under (i) above multiplied by the late retirement factor in Article III that corresponds to the number of years his Late Retirement Date follows his Normal Retirement Date. (B) For a Participant who became an inactive Participant after his or her Normal Retirement Date, an amount equal to the greater of (1) or (2) below: (1) The Participant’s Accrued Benefit on the day before the date he or she became an inactive Participant. (2) His or her Accrued Benefit on his or her Normal Retirement Date actuarially adjusted to reflect the delay in commencement of benefits after his Normal Retirement Date. Provided, however, for an inactive Participant whose Late Retirement Date occurs after the April 1 following the calendar year in which he or she attains age 70½, such Participant’s deferred monthly retirement benefit determined in (1) or (2) above, whichever applies, shall be actuarially adjusted to reflect the delay in commencement of benefits after such April 1 date.


 
J-14 4841-1404-2944.2 Any distribution of vested benefits shall be a retirement benefit and shall be subject to the distribution of benefits provisions of Article V and the provisions of Section 3.06 of the Master Plan Document. The Participant’s Accrued Benefit shall be calculated on the day before he or she became an inactive Participant. The amount of payment under any form (other than the Normal Form) shall be determined as provided under Section 3.02 of the Master Plan Document. If the Participant dies before his or her Annuity Starting Date, death benefits shall be distributed according to the provisions of Section 4.01. (e) Vesting Exception – A Participant whose employment is terminated after he or she has attained age 55 shall become fully vested in his or her Accrued Benefit.


 
J-15 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE V. WHEN BENEFITS START AND DISTRIBUTION OF BENEFITS Section 5.01. When Benefits Start. (a) A Participant with a vested benefit who terminates employment on or after meeting the Early Retirement Age and Service Requirements may commence receipt of his or her benefits on an Early Retirement Date, or on any later date as he or she may elect. (b) A Participant who terminates employment prior to his or her Early Retirement Date but who has met the service requirements under the Early Retirement Age and Service Requirements may elect to begin receiving an early retirement benefit on the first day of any month coincident with or following his or her Early Retirement Age, or on any later date as he or she may elect, or may elect to receive a Normal Retirement Benefit commencing on his or her Normal Retirement Date. Section 5.02. Mandatory Participant Contributions. Prior to October 1, 1989, “Contributing Participants” may have contributed to the Emerson Plan. Any withdrawal rights with respect to such contributions shall be provided under the Emerson Plan, not this Plan. Section 5.03. Automatic Forms of Distribution. Unless an optional form of benefit is selected pursuant to a qualified election within the election period (see Sections 3.02 and 3.03 of the Master Plan Document), the automatic form of benefit payable to or on behalf of a Participant is determined as follows: (a) Retirement Benefits. The automatic form of retirement benefit for a Participant who does not die before his Annuity Starting Date shall be: (i) The Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity for a Participant who has a Spouse on his or her Annuity Starting Date. (ii) The Normal Form for a Participant who does not have a Spouse on his or her Annuity Starting Date. (b) Death Benefits. The automatic form of death benefit for a Participant who dies before his or her Annuity Starting Date is determined according to the provisions of Section 4.01. Section 5.04. Optional Forms Of Retirement Benefits. The optional forms of retirement benefits shall be those stated in Section 3.02 of the Master Plan Document, as well as a single life annuity with a certain period of five (5) years. For the 5-year period certain option, an actuarially reduced benefit shall be payable to the Participant through the month in which the participant dies, and in the event the Participant dies prior to receiving sixty (60) monthly payments, monthly payments in the same amount shall be continued payable to the Participant’s Beneficiary until an aggregate of sixty (60) monthly payments have been made. The Participant must designate a Beneficiary on a form prescribed by and submitted to the Administrator in accordance with Section 3.02 of the Master Plan Document. Such designation may be changed or revoked at any time prior to the death of the Participant. If


 
J-16 4841-1404-2944.2 both the Participant and his or her Beneficiary die prior to the receipt of sixty (60) monthly payments in the aggregate, then the remainder of such sixty (60) monthly payments shall be paid to the estate of the last to die of the Participant or his or her Beneficiary.


 
K-1 4841-1404-2944.2 PART K: REGAL POWER TRANSMISSIONS SOLUTIONS PENSION PLAN – APPENDIX 40 – MORSE/BEARINGS DIVISION (MOREHEAD, KY)/SOLUS INDUSTRIAL/KOP-FLEX SALARIED EMPLOYEES Overview: • Plan frozen to new hires effective January 30, 2015. The purpose of this Part K is to provide benefits for Eligible Employees equal to the sum of their benefit with their prior employer(s) as calculated under the Emerson Electric Co. Retirement Plan (including Appendix 40 thereto) (the “Emerson Plan”) and their benefit provided with the Employer for periods on and after January 30, 2015, but then offset by the benefits that have accrued under the Emerson Plan. The following provisions shall apply only to persons who are Eligible Employees under this Part.


 
K-2 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND FORMAT OF TERMS Section 1.01. Format. Capitalized words and phrases defined in Section 1.02 shall have that defined meaning when used in this Part, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Additional capitalized terms used herein are defined in Section 1.01 of the Master Plan Document. Similarly, cross references in this Part shall apply to the referenced section in this Part, unless specifically referred to as a section of the Master Plan Document. Section 1.02. Definitions. (a) “Actuarial Equivalent” means a benefit of equivalent value calculated using an interest rate of 6.5% per annum, compounded annually, and the 1984 unisex mortality table (UP 1984 Mortality Table) published by the Society of Actuaries in The Proceedings Volume XXV. (b) “Average Compensation” means one-fifth (1/5th) of the aggregate Compensation received by an Employee during his or her five consecutive Computation Periods as an Employee which give rise to the highest aggregate; provided that if an Employee has fewer than five consecutive Computation Periods as an Employee, his or her Average Compensation shall be the aggregate Compensation received by him or her as an Employee divided by his or her years and fractions thereof as an Employee. In determining Average Compensation, all compensation earned during periods of service by an Employee with the Employer and any Affiliates shall be included, whether or not as an Eligible Employee. (c) “Average Social Security Wage Base” means the average of the Social Security Wage Bases during the three calendar years prior to the calendar year an individual terminates his or her employment with the Employer. (d) “Benefit Factors” means the numerical factors used in determining the amount of a Participant’s Accrued Benefit, as they exist at a particular point in time. (e) “Break in Service” means the completion of 500 or fewer Hours of Service by an Employee or former Employee during a Computation Period or any 12 consecutive month Period of Severance, as applicable. (f) “Compensation” means, for Computation Periods commencing prior to January 1, 2015, the Compensation credited under the Emerson Plan, as reported by the Administrator of the Emerson Plan. For all Computation Periods commencing on and after January, 2015, “Compensation” means all cash pay received during the Computation Period, but excluding the following items: any reimbursed item, compensation in any form provided under an equity plan or award, any payment deferred for more than one year, and any severance pay. Such Compensation amounts shall include amounts contributed through a salary reduction arrangement to a qualified plan which meets the requirements of Code Section 401(k) or a cafeteria plan which meets the requirements of Code Section 125, but shall not otherwise include Employer contributions to or benefits under this plan or any other qualified plan. Compensation taken into account under the Plan for any Plan Year or calendar year shall not exceed $265,000 (adjusted for changes in the cost of living as provided in Section 415(d) of the Code).


 
K-3 4841-1404-2944.2 (g) “Computation Period” means the calendar year. (h) “Contingent Annuitant” means an individual named by the Participant to receive a benefit after the Participant’s death in accordance with a survivorship annuity. (i) “Early Retirement Age and Service Requirements” means age fifty-five (55) with no service requirement. (j) “Early Retirement Date” means the first day of any month before a Participant’s Normal Retirement Date that the Participant selects as his or her Annuity Starting Date. This day shall be on or after the date he or she has a Severance from Employment and satisfies the Early Retirement Age and Service Requirements. (k) “Eligible Retirement Plan” means (i) an eligible plan under Code Section 457(b) that is maintained by a state, political subdivision of a state, or any agency or instrumentality of a state or political subdivision of a state and which agrees to separately account for amounts transferred into such plan from this Plan, (ii) an individual retirement account described in Code Section 408(a), (ii) an individual retirement annuity described in Code Section 408(b), (iv) an individual retirement plan described in Code Section 408A(b) subject to any limitations described in Code Section 408A(c), (v) an annuity plan described in Code Section 403(a), (vi) an annuity contract described in Code Section 403(b), or (vii) a qualified plan described in Code Section 401(a), that accepts the Distributee’s Eligible Rollover Distribution. Notwithstanding the foregoing with respect to a Distributee who is a non-Spouse Beneficiary, only the plans described in clauses (ii), (iii) or (iv) shall be considered an Eligible Retirement Plan. (l) “Eligible Employee” means a person classified by the Employer as an employee of: (i) Morse Industrial Division of Regal Power Transmission Solutions Corporation (formerly Emerson Power Transmission Corporation), (ii) the Bearing Division (located in Morehead, Kentucky) of Regal Power Transmission Corporation (formerly Emerson Power Transmission Corporation), (iii) Solus Industrial Innovations, LLC, or (iv) Kop-Flex, Inc. as a salaried employee, provided such person is not excluded by application of a collective bargaining agreement, and provided such person is employed in such classification on January 30, 2015. (m) “Hours of Service Method” means, for purposes of crediting service, the following:


 
K-4 4841-1404-2944.2 (i) Each hour for which a person is directly or indirectly paid or entitled to payment by an Employer for the performance of duties and for reasons other than the performance of duties; (ii) Each hour for which back pay, irrespective of mitigation of damages, is either awarded or agreed to by an Employer; provided that such Hours of Service shall be credited for the periods to which the award or agreement pertains rather than the period in which the award, agreement, or payment is made, and no Hours of Service shall be credited under this subparagraph which would duplicate any hours credited above; For a person on a leave of absence or eligible for disability accrual pursuant to Section 2.04(c), credit shall be given at the rate of 10 hours for each calendar day during such leave other than Saturdays and Sundays. For a person who is not compensated on the basis of a certain amount for each hour worked during a given period, credit shall be given at the rate of 10 Hours of Service for each calendar day of employment with an Employer for which he or she would be credited with one or more Hours of Service if (a) or (b) above applied regulations thereunder. (n) “Late Retirement Date” means the first day of any month that is after a Participant’s Normal Retirement Date and on which retirement benefits begin. If a Participant continues to work for the Employer after his or her Normal Retirement Date, his or her Late Retirement Date shall be the first day of the month on or after the date he or she has a Severance from Employment. (o) “Normal Form” means a single life annuity. (p) “Normal Retirement Age” means age sixty-five (65). (q) “Normal Retirement Benefit” means the Participant’s Accrued Benefit payable in the Normal Form. (r) “Normal Retirement Date” means the first day of the month on or after the date the Participant reaches their Normal Retirement Age. (s) “Parental Absence” means an Employee’s absence from work: (i) by reason of the pregnancy of the Employee, (ii) by reason of the birth of a child of the Employee, (iii) by reason of the placement of a child with the Employee in connection with adoption of such child by such Employee, or


 
K-5 4841-1404-2944.2 (iv) for purposes of caring for such child for a period beginning immediately following such birth or placement. (t) “Pension Credited Service” means a service period determined under the Hours of Service Method. For Computation Periods prior to January 1, 2015, Pension Credited Service means the service as credited under the Emerson Plan, as reported by the Administrator of the Emerson Plan. For periods on or after January 1, 2015, an Eligible Employee shall earn one year of Pension Credited Service for each Computation Period in which he or she has completed 1,000 Hours of Service as an Employee, except that if an Eligible Employee has less than 1,000 Hours of Service in his or her first or last Computation Period as an Eligible Employee, he or she shall receive a pro rata part of a year of Pension Credited Service based on Hours of Service divided by 1,000. For benefit accrued purposes, Pension Credited Service accrued while not an Eligible Employee shall be disregarded. (u) “Period of Severance” means a period of time beginning on an Employee’s Severance Date and ending on the date he or she again performs an Hour of Service. A one-year Period of Severance means a Period of Severance of 12 consecutive months. Solely for purposes of determining whether a one-year Period of Severance has occurred for eligibility or vesting purposes, the consecutive 12-month period beginning on the first anniversary of the first date of a Parental Absence shall not be a one-year Period of Severance. (v) “Permanent and Total Disability (and derivations thereof)” means a Participant shall be deemed to be permanently and totally disabled only if while employed by the Employer, he or she has been totally disabled by bodily injury or disease for a six (6) consecutive month period so as to be prevented thereby from engaging in any substantial gainful activity and such disability is expected to continue for the remainder of his or her life, as determined by the Administrator. (w) “Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity” means, for a Participant who has a Spouse, an immediate survivorship life annuity, where the survivorship percentage is fifty percent (50%) and the Contingent Annuitant is the Participant’s Spouse. A former Spouse will be treated as the Spouse to the extent provided under a qualified domestic relations order as described in Code Section 414(p). If a Participant does not have a Spouse, the Normal Form means the Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity. This Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity shall be at least the Actuarial Equivalent of any form of annuity benefit offered under the Plan. (x) “Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity” means a straight life annuity payable to the surviving Spouse of a Participant who dies before his Annuity Starting Date with a vested benefit hereunder calculated as provided in Section 4.01. A former Spouse will be treated as the surviving Spouse to the extent provided under a qualified domestic relations order as described in Code Section 414(p). (y) “Retirement Date” means the date a retirement benefit will begin and is a Participant’s Early, Special Early, Normal, or Late Retirement Date, as the case may be.


 
K-6 4841-1404-2944.2 (z) “Spouse” means either (i) the person to whom a Participant is lawfully married on his or her Annuity Starting Date or (ii) in the event the Participant dies prior to his or her Annuity Starting Date, the person to whom the Participant was married throughout the ninety (90) day period preceding the Participant’s death. For purposes hereof, “lawfully married” means legally married (A) under the laws of the United States (or one of the United States) or any other generally recognized jurisdiction and (B) for federal tax purposes. (aa) “Vesting Service” – see Pension Credited Service. (bb) “Years of Service” means a Computation Period in which the Employee completes 1,000 Hours of Service.


 
K-7 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE II. PARTICIPATION AND SERVICE Section 2.01. Eligibility. Each Eligible Employee who was a “Participant” under Appendix 40 of the Emerson Plan on January 29, 2015, shall become a Participant hereunder on January 30, 2015. Each other Eligible Employee shall become a Participant hereunder as of the first April 1 or October 1 coinciding with or next following the later of the date he or she attains age 21 and the date 12 months from the date he or she commenced employment provided he or she has completed 1,000 Hours of Service with the Employer during such 12-month period or, if the Eligible Employee has not completed 1,000 Hours of Service during such 12-month period, then he or she shall become a Participant on the January 1 first following the Computation Period in which he or she completes 1,000 Hours of Service. If a person is not an Eligible Employee when he or she meets the foregoing requirements, he or she shall not become a Participant until he or she becomes an Eligible Employee. No individual who is employed or re-employed after January 30, 2015 shall become a Participant hereunder. Section 2.02. Inactive Participant. (a) An active Participant shall become an inactive Participant (stop accruing benefits) on the earliest of the following: (i) The date he or she ceases to be an eligible Employee. (ii) The effective date of complete termination of the Plan under Section 6.02 of the Master Plan Document. (iii) Their Severance from Employment date. (b) An inactive participant or a former Participant shall not again become an active participant (shall not resume active participation in the Plan). Section 2.03. Cessation of Participation. A Participant, whether active or inactive, shall cease to be a Participant on the earlier of the following: (a) The date of his death. (b) The date he or she receives a single sum distribution in satisfaction of all of his or her benefits under the Plan. An inactive participant shall also cease to be a Participant on the earliest date on which he or she is not entitled to a deferred monthly income under Section 7.07 of the Master Plan Document. An individual who ceases to be a Participant hereunder shall not resume participation at any later date.


 
K-8 4841-1404-2944.2 Section 2.04. Calculation of Pension Credited Service - Special Rules. (a) Disregarded Service. Notwithstanding anything herein, the Pension Credited Service of an Employee shall not include any years of Pension Credited Service earned prior to a Break in Service if the Employee had no vested right to an accrued benefit derived from Employer contributions under the Plan at the time the Break in Service occurred, and the number of consecutive Computation Periods in which he or she has a Break in Service equals or exceeds the greater of (1) six or (2) the prior period of his or her Pension Credited Service plus one year. (b) Service with a Foreign Corporation. A Participant who leaves the employment of the Employer and its Affiliates to accept employment with a corporation which is directly or indirectly owned fifty percent (50%) or more by the Company or an Affiliate but which is organized outside of the United States, or to accept employment (at the written request of the Employer) with any other corporation organized outside of the United States, shall, if he or she thereafter returns to employment in the United States with the Employer or its Affiliates for at least twelve (12) months, earn benefits as if he or she had continued in the employment of the Employer and its Affiliates for the period of such foreign employment; provided, however, that any benefits credited for such period shall be reduced (but not below zero) by the amount of any foreign pension or severance payment earned during such period. (c) Disability Accrual. Except as may be provided otherwise in this Part, a Participant who becomes disabled while employed by the Employer or its Affiliates and is receiving disability benefits pursuant to the Social Security Laws shall for the purposes of this Plan be considered as having continued in the employment of the Employer, so long as he or she continues to receive such benefits, until the earliest of (i) the date he or she is no longer permanently and totally disabled, (ii) the date he or she has attained his or her Normal Retirement Date, (iii) his or her Annuity Starting Date, or (iv) the date he or she dies.


 
K-9 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE III. RETIREMENT BENEFITS Section 3.01. Retirement Benefits. (a) Normal Retirement Benefit. Subject to subsection (b), a Participant who retires at his or her Normal Retirement Date may commence receiving his or her vested Normal Retirement Benefit. The monthly Normal Retirement Benefit shall be equal to one-twelfth (1/12) of: (i) 1.3% of his or her Average Compensation up to the Average Social Security Wage Base plus 1.5% of his or her Average Compensation in excess of the Average Social Security Wage Base, multiplied by his or her years (and fractions thereof) of Pension Credited Service not in excess of 30, plus (ii) .25% of his or her Average Compensation multiplied by his or her years (and fractions thereof) of Pension Credited Service in excess of 30, minus (iii) The monthly Normal Retirement Benefit amount payable to the Participant under the Emerson Plan in the Normal Form (e.g., the Emerson Plan accrued benefit). (b) A Participant’s Normal Retirement Benefit shall not be less than the largest Early Retirement Benefit which he or she could have received if he or she had retired on an Early Retirement Date, computed on the basis of the Average Social Security Wage Base at his or her Normal Retirement Date. (c) For purposes of this Section and for purposes of calculating any benefits payable under the Plan (such as disability or death benefits), the retirement benefit (calculated without regard to this subsection) payable under the Plan to a Participant, Spouse or Beneficiary shall, on each January 1 which is at least six months after the commencement of such benefit, be increased (but not decreased) by an amount equal to such benefit at commencement multiplied by the lesser of: (i) 2% multiplied by the number of December 31st(s) which have occurred after the date a Participant’s benefits under the Plan commence (or the date death benefits (if any) commence if benefits had not commenced to the Participant prior to his or her death) or (ii) The percentage of increase, if any, in the Consumer Price Index for the period beginning on (a) the date the Participant’s pension benefits under the Plan commence (or the date of his or her death if said benefits had not commenced prior to his or her death) and ending on (b) the October 31 immediately preceding January 1 of each calendar year, determined by subtracting the Consumer Price Index in effect on the date in (a) above from the Consumer


 
K-10 4841-1404-2944.2 Price Index in effect on the date in (b) above, and dividing the result by the Consumer Price Index in effect on the date in (a) above. Consumer Price Index means the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (United States City Average) published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor. (1967 100). Notwithstanding the preceding, this subsection shall not apply to disability benefits payable to a Participant who became disabled prior to attaining age 55. Notwithstanding the preceding, no cost of living adjustments will be made after the termination of the Plan. (d) Early Retirement. A Participant who retires on an Early Retirement Date shall receive a monthly early retirement benefit equal to his or her monthly Normal Retirement Benefit multiplied by the applicable percentage from the following schedule: Age at Commencement of Benefit Applicable Percentage 65 100% 64 97% 63 94% 62 91% 61 84% 60 77% 59 70% 58 63% 57 56% 56 53% 55 50% If a Participant’s benefit does not commence on the first day of the month coinciding with or next following his or her birthday, the above percentages should be arithmetically interpolated based upon full months. (e) Postponed Retirement Benefit. The postponed retirement benefit shall be the benefit a Participant would have received at Normal Retirement Date but based upon his or her Benefit Factors up to his or her actual retirement. If an Employee continues working for an Employer or any Affiliate after his Normal Retirement Date, then the Employer shall notify the Employee during the first calendar month of the payroll period in which the Participant attains Normal Retirement Age that his benefits will not commence until the earlier of his actual retirement or, if applicable, his Required Beginning Date. Such notification shall contain a description of the specific reasons why benefit payments are being suspended, a general description of the Plan provisions relating to the suspension of payments, a copy of such Plan provisions, information regarding the Plan’s procedure for affording a review of the suspension of benefits, and a statement to the effect that applicable Department of Labor regulations may be found in section 2530.203-3 of Title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations.


 
K-11 4841-1404-2944.2 Section 3.02. Disregard of Accrued Benefit. If a Participant receives a single sum payment equal to the Actuarial Equivalent present value of his or her entire vested Accrued Benefit, then his or her entire Accrued Benefit as of the date of the distribution shall be disregarded. If the Actuarial Equivalent present value of a Participant’s vested Accrued Benefit was zero and he or she was deemed to have received a distribution of such present value of his entire vested Accrued Benefit, and he or she again becomes an Eligible Employee before the end of the first period of five (5) consecutive one-year Periods of Severance that begin after the date of the deemed distribution, upon the date he or she again performs an Hour of Service as an Eligible Employee, the Employer-derived Accrued Benefit (including all optional forms of benefits and subsidies relating to such benefits) shall be restored to the amount of such Accrued Benefit on the date of the deemed distribution.


 
K-12 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE IV. OTHER BENEFITS Section 4.01. Death Benefits. (a) If a vested Participant dies before his or her Annuity Starting Date, the only death benefits payable shall be the Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity. (b) If a Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity becomes payable pursuant to subsection (a), the Participant’s surviving Spouse shall be paid, commencing on the first day of the month following the later of the Participant’s death or the date the Participant would have attained his or her Early Retirement Age, a survivor annuity for the life of the surviving Spouse; provided, however, that distribution to the surviving Spouse shall not be made prior to the date the Participant would have attained his or her Normal Retirement Age without the consent of the surviving Spouse. Benefits must start by the date the Participant would have been age 70½. If the Spouse dies before the Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity starts, no death benefits are payable hereunder. (c) If the Participant is employed by the Employer at the time of his or her death, then the amount payable to the Participant’s surviving Spouse in the form of a Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity shall be fifty percent (50%) of the amount calculated under Section 3.01 of this Part based on the Pension Credited Service accrued as of the date of his or her death, reduced by the early retirement reduction factors if the death benefit begins before the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date. If the Participant is not employed at the time of his or her death, the amount payable to the Participant’s surviving Spouse in the form of a Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity shall be fifty percent (50%) of the amount calculated under Section 3.01 of this Part based on the Pension Credited Service accrued as of the date of his or her death, with the following adjustments: (i) The benefit shall be reduced by the actuarial factors used to convert the benefit under Section 3.02 to a Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity; and (ii) The early retirement reduction factors shall be applied if the death benefit begins before the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date. (d) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Participant elects within ninety (90) days before the Participant’s Annuity Starting Date a survivorship annuity providing a greater than fifty percent (50%) death benefit and the Contingent Annuitant is the Participant’s Spouse, then such greater percentage shall be paid in lieu of the fifty percent (50%) benefit described in subsection (c) above. Such election must be a qualified election according to the provisions of Sections 3.02 and 3.03 of the Master Plan Document. Section 4.02. Disability Benefits. A Participant who: (a) has 10 years of Pension Credited Service; and (b) has met the requirements for Permanent and Total Disability, shall receive a monthly Disability Benefit of:


 
K-13 4841-1404-2944.2 (i) the benefit to which he or she would be entitled at his or her Normal Retirement Date as calculated under Section 3.01(a) above (after subtracting the amount described in Section 3.01(e) above) but based on his or her Benefit Factors up to such disability; plus (ii) if the Participant is not eligible for disability benefits under the Social Security Act, $2.80 multiplied by his or her years (and fractions thereof) of Pension Credited Service; (iii) reduced by the amounts payable due to any sickness, injury or disability benefits under any Employer sponsored plan, except for any benefits provided by any long-term disability income plan under which the benefits are reduced by the benefits payable under this Plan; beginning with the date he or she is eligible to receive disability benefits under the Social Security Act. Such Disability Benefit shall continue until the Participant ceases to be Permanently and Totally Disabled, dies, or commences receiving a Normal Retirement Benefit or Postponed Retirement Benefit, whichever is earliest. If the disabled Participant is not entitled to receive disability benefits for any period after his or her Normal Retirement Date pursuant to a long-term disability plan maintained by the Employer, he or she will be deemed to be retired on his or her Normal Retirement Date and shall be eligible begin to receive a Normal Retirement Benefit, in accordance with the Plan’s procedures (including the requirement that an application for benefits be made). If the disabled Participant is entitled to receive disability benefits for any period after his or her Normal Retirement Date pursuant to a long-term disability plan maintained by the Employer, he or she shall continue to receive a disability hereunder, and when his or her benefit pursuant to such long-term disability plan ceases, his or her disability benefit hereunder shall cease and he or she shall be deemed to be retired at his or her Postponed Retirement Date and shall be eligible to receive a Postponed Retirement Benefit, in accordance with the Plan’s procedures (including the requirement that an application for benefits be made). Section 4.03. Vested Benefits. (a) A Participant whose employment is terminated after he or she has earned at least five (5) years of Vesting Service shall be entitled to a benefit as described in this section. (b) A person whose employment is terminated other than by death before he or she has earned five (5) years of Vesting Service or reached Normal Retirement Age shall receive no benefit under this Plan. (c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, a Participant who dies while employed with the Employer or who remains in employment with the Employer until the date he or she satisfies the requirements for Normal Retirement Age shall have a one hundred percent (100%) nonforfeitable right to his or her Accrued Benefit.


 
K-14 4841-1404-2944.2 (d) A Participant who becomes an inactive Participant before retirement or death (and, if applicable, before the date a disability payment begins under Section 4.02) will be entitled to one of the following, whichever is applicable: (i) Payment of his Accrued Benefit to begin on his or her Normal Retirement Date. (ii) If the Participant has satisfied the Early Retirement Age and Service Requirements, a deferred monthly retirement benefit under the Normal Form to begin on his or her Early Retirement Date. The deferred retirement benefit shall be equal to the amount under (i) above multiplied by the applicable early retirement factor set forth in Section 3.01(b). (iii) A deferred monthly retirement benefit under the Normal Form to begin on his Late Retirement Date. The deferred retirement benefit shall be determined as follows: (A) For a Participant who became an inactive Participant on or before his or her Normal Retirement Date, an amount equal to the amount under (i) above multiplied by the late retirement factor in Article III that corresponds to the number of years his Late Retirement Date follows his Normal Retirement Date. (B) For a Participant who became an inactive Participant after his or her Normal Retirement Date, an amount equal to the greater of (1) or (2) below: (1) The Participant’s Accrued Benefit on the day before the date he or she became an inactive Participant. (2) His or her Accrued Benefit on his or her Normal Retirement Date actuarially adjusted to reflect the delay in commencement of benefits after his Normal Retirement Date. Provided, however, for an inactive Participant whose Late Retirement Date occurs after the April 1 following the calendar year in which he or she attains age 70½, such Participant’s deferred monthly retirement benefit determined in (1) or (2) above, whichever applies, shall be actuarially adjusted to reflect the delay in commencement of benefits after such April 1 date. Any distribution of vested benefits shall be a retirement benefit and shall be subject to the distribution of benefits provisions of Article V and the provisions of Section 3.06 of the Master Plan Document. The Participant’s Accrued Benefit shall be calculated on the day before he or she became an inactive Participant. The amount of payment under any form (other


 
K-15 4841-1404-2944.2 than the Normal Form) shall be determined as provided under Section 3.02 of the Master Plan Document. If the Participant dies before his or her Annuity Starting Date, death benefits shall be distributed according to the provisions of Section 4.01.


 
K-16 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE V. WHEN BENEFITS START AND DISTRIBUTION OF BENEFITS Section 5.01. When Benefits Start. (a) A Participant with a vested benefit who terminates employment on or after meeting the Early Retirement Age and Service Requirements may commence receipt of his or her benefits on an Early Retirement Date, or on any later date as he or she may elect. (b) A Participant who terminates employment prior to his or her Early Retirement Date but who has met the service requirements under the Early Retirement Age and Service Requirements may elect to begin receiving an early retirement benefit on the first day of any month coincident with or following his or her Early Retirement Age, or on any later date as he or she may elect, or may elect to receive a Normal Retirement Benefit commencing on his or her Normal Retirement Date. Section 5.02. Mandatory Participant Contributions. Prior to October 1, 1989, “Contributing Participants” may have contributed to the Emerson Plan. Any withdrawal rights with respect to such contributions shall be provided under the Emerson Plan, not this Plan. Section 5.03. Automatic Forms of Distribution. Unless an optional form of benefit is selected pursuant to a qualified election within the election period (as provided in Sections 3.02 and 3.03 of the Master Plan Document), the automatic form of benefit payable to or on behalf of a Participant is determined as follows: (a) Retirement Benefits. The automatic form of retirement benefit for a Participant who does not die before his Annuity Starting Date shall be: (i) The Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity for a Participant who has a Spouse on his or her Annuity Starting Date. (ii) The Normal Form for a Participant who does not have a Spouse on his or her Annuity Starting Date. (b) Death Benefits. The automatic form of death benefit for a Participant who dies before his Annuity Starting Date is determined according to the provisions of Section 5.01.


 
L-1 4841-1404-2944.2 PART L: REGAL POWER TRANSMISSIONS SOLUTIONS PENSION PLAN – APPENDIX 78 – BEARINGS DIVISION EMPLOYEES Overview: • Plan frozen to new hires effective January 30, 2015. The purpose of this Part L is to provide benefits for Eligible Employees equal to the sum of their benefit accrued with their prior employer(s) as calculated under the Emerson Electric Co. Retirement Plan (including Appendix 78 thereto) (the “Emerson Plan”) and their benefit provided with the Employer for periods on and after January 30, 2015, but then offset by the benefit accrued under the Emerson Plan. The following designations and provision shall apply only to persons who are Eligible Employees under this Part.


 
L-2 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND FORMAT OF TERMS Section 1.01. Format. Capitalized words and phrases defined in Section 1.02 shall have that defined meaning when used in this Part, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Additional capitalized terms used herein are defined in Section 1.01 of the Master Plan Document. Similarly, cross references in this Part shall apply to the referenced section in this Part, unless specifically referred to as a section of the Master Plan Document. Section 1.02. Definitions. (a) “Actuarial Equivalent” means, notwithstanding anything in the Plan to the contrary, a benefit of equivalent value calculated using the table in Exhibit L-1 of this Part L. (b) “Average Compensation” means the monthly average of the Compensation paid to a Participant during the highest sixty (60) consecutive months out of the ten (10) year period immediately preceding the month in which occurs the earliest of (i) the date the Participant’s employment with McGill Manufacturing Company, Inc. terminates, (ii) the date the Participant is transferred to employment as an hourly-rated employee, or (iii) the date the Participant’s disability commenced if the Participant continues to accrue years of Pension Credited Service in accordance this Part after having become disabled. If a Participant who is transferred to hourly employment is thereafter transferred back to employment as an Eligible Employee, then in determining the Participant’s Average Compensation for purposes of the Plan, the Participant’s two periods of salaried employment will be considered as a single period of employment. (c) “Average Social Security Wage Base” means one-twelfth of the average of the Social Security Wage Bases during the thirty-five (35) calendar years ending with the year a Participant reaches his or her Social Security retirement age. The Average Social Security Wage Base is redetermined on October 1 each year. (d) “Benefit Factors” means the numerical factors used in determining the amount of a Participant’s Accrued Benefit, as they exist at a particular point in time. (e) “Break in Service” means the completion of five-hundred (500) or fewer Hours of Service by an Employee or former Employee during a computation period or any twelve (12) consecutive month Period of Severance, as applicable. (f) “Compensation” means, for periods prior to January 30, 2015, the Compensation credited under the Emerson Plan, as reported by the Administrator of the Emerson Plan. For periods on and after January 30, 2015 “Compensation” means all cash pay received during a year (or shorter period) from the Employer. In determining Compensation for any period, the following items shall be excluded: any reimbursed item, compensation in any form provided under an equity plan or award, any payment deferred for more than one year, and any severance pay. Such Compensation amounts shall include amounts contributed through a salary reduction arrangement to a qualified plan which meets the requirements of Code Section 401(k) or to a cafeteria plan which meets the requirements of Code Section 125, but shall not otherwise include Employer contributions to or benefits under this Plan or any other qualified plan. Compensation taken into account under the Plan for any Plan Year or calendar year shall not


 
L-3 4841-1404-2944.2 exceed $265,000 (adjusted for changes in the cost of living as provided in Section 415(d) of the Code). (g) “Contingent Annuitant” means an individual named by the Participant to receive a benefit after the Participant’s death in accordance with a survivorship annuity. (h) “Early Retirement Age and Service Requirements” means age fifty-five (55) with ten (10) years of Pension Credited Service. (i) “Early Retirement Date” means the first day of any month before a Participant’s Normal Retirement Date that the Participant selects as his or her Annuity Starting Date. This day shall be on or after the date he or she has a Severance from Employment and satisfies the Early Retirement Age and Service Requirements. (j) “Eligible Employee” means a person classified by the Employer as an employee of the Bearings Division of McGill Manufacturing Company, Inc. who is employed in such classification on January 30, 2015, provided: (i) Such a person is a salaried Employee who receives payment of his or her basic compensation for services rendered to Bearings Division/ McGill in fixed amounts at stated intervals, without regard to the number of hours worked, even though he or she may receive additional compensation in the form of bonuses, overtime pay or commissions for goods sold; or (ii) Such person is a salaried Employee of a foreign affiliate of Bearings Division/McGill who is a citizen or resident of the United States, provided that the Bearings Division/McGill has entered into an agreement under Code Section 3121(1) which applies to such Employee and such foreign affiliate employing such Employee. A person who by written contract has waived coverage under the Plan shall not be considered an Eligible Employee. (k) “Employment Commencement Date” means the date an Employee first performs an Hour of Service. (l) “Late Retirement Date” means the first day of any month that is after a Participant’s Normal Retirement Date and on which retirement benefits begin. If a Participant continues to work for the Employer after his or her Normal Retirement Date, his or her Late Retirement Date shall be the first day of the month on or after the date he or she has a Severance from Employment. (m) “Normal Form” means a single life annuity. (n) “Normal Retirement Age” means age sixty-five (65).


 
L-4 4841-1404-2944.2 (o) “Normal Retirement Benefit” means the Participant’s Accrued Benefit. (p) “Normal Retirement Date” means the first day of the month coinciding with or next following the later of the date a Participant attains Normal Retirement Age and the fifth anniversary of the date the Participant commenced participation of the Plan. (q) “Parental Absence” means an Employee’s absence from work: (i) by reason of the pregnancy of the Employee, (ii) by reason of the birth of a child of the Employee, (iii) by reason of the placement of a child with the Employee in connection with adoption of such child by such Employee, or (iv) for purposes of caring for such child for a period beginning immediately following such birth or placement. (r) “Pension Credited Service” means a service period determined using the Elapsed Time Method. For periods prior to January 30, 2015, Pension Credited Service is the service as credited under the Emerson Plan, as reported by the Administrator of the Emerson Plan. For periods on or after January 30, 2015, an Eligible Employee shall accrue Pension Credited Service equaling his or her Period of Service, subject to the rules in Section 2.04. For benefit accrual purposes, Pension Credited Service accrued while not an Eligible Employee shall be disregarded. (i) When determining Pension Credited Service for purposes other than vesting, the following special rules shall apply: (A) Only the first year of any Employer-approved leave of absence described in Section 2.04 of this Part shall be included as Pension Credited Service; (B) The first twelve (12) months of any period of layoff not treated as a termination of employment by McGill Manufacturing Company, Inc. shall be counted; (C) No portion of a Participant’s Periods of Severance shall be counted. (D) If an individual is transferred from employment as an hourly employee of McGill Manufacturing Company, Inc. to employment as an Eligible Employee, the individual’s Pension Credited Service as an hourly employee of McGill Manufacturing Company, Inc. shall be counted for purposes of computing his or her benefits under this Part; provided, however, that the benefit to which such individual is entitled under this Part shall be reduced by the


 
L-5 4841-1404-2944.2 actuarial equivalent of the benefits to which the individual is entitled under Part L (or any other Part that provides benefit accruals for such hourly service) or any qualified defined benefit plan which affords a benefit for such hourly service. (ii) When determining Pension Credited Service for vesting purposes, the following special rules shall apply: (A) A full year of Pension Credited Service shall be granted for the twelve (12) month period commencing on the Participant’s employment anniversary date next preceding his or her termination of employment date if the Participant completes 1,000 Hours of Service during the portion of such period before his or her termination of employment date; otherwise, the Participant shall be granted a fractional year of Pension Credited Service for the period between such employment anniversary date and his or her termination of employment date calculated in completed months, and any portion of a month in excess of a whole number of months during that period shall be counted as a completed month. However, if such a Participant is rehired before twelve (12) months have elapsed since his or her termination of employment date and thereby receives Pension Credited Service for vesting purposes for his or her Severance Period between his or her date of termination of employment and his or her date of rehire, the preceding sentence shall not apply. (B) Pension Credited Service completed prior to the date the Participant attains age 18 shall be disregarded. A Participant who becomes permanently and totally disabled while employed by the Employer after completing ten (10) years of Pension Credited Service and is receiving disability benefits pursuant to the Social Security Laws shall be treated as continuing employment of the Employer; provided, however, that if prior to such Participant’s Annuity Starting Date, the Administrator determines that the Participant is no longer disabled or the Participant refuses to submit to medical examinations at any reasonable time (but not more frequently than semi-annually) to verify the continuation of his or her disability, or such Participant declines to resume active employment with the Employer within ninety (90) days after said determination by the Administrator, then the Participant’s employment with the Employer shall be deemed to have terminated on the first anniversary of the date the Participant became disabled (or on the date of said determination by the Administrator, if earlier) for purposes of determining his or her entitlement to benefits under any other provisions of the Plan.


 
L-6 4841-1404-2944.2 (s) “Period of Service” means a period of time beginning on an Employee’s Employment Commencement Date or Reemployment Commencement Date (whichever applies) and ending on his most recent Severance Date. For purposes of calculating an Employee’s Period of Service, the following rules shall apply: (i) A Period of Service shall be expressed as years and fractional parts of a year (to two decimal places) on the basis that 365 days equal one year. (ii) A Period of Severance shall be deemed to be a Period of Service under either of the following conditions: (A) the Period of Severance immediately follows a period during which an Employee is not absent from work and ends within twelve (12) months; or (B) the Period of Severance immediately follows a period during which an Employee is absent from work for any reason other than quitting, being discharged, or retiring (such as a leave of absence or layoff) and ends within twelve (12) months of the date he or she was first absent. (iii) A Period of Service shall be reduced by (A) all or any part of a Period of Service that is not counted pursuant to the rules set forth in this Plan and/or (B) any Period of Severance that occurred prior to his most recent Severance Date, unless such Period of Severance is included under the service spanning rules described in (ii) above. (t) “Period of Severance” means a period of time beginning on an Employee’s Severance Date and ending on the date he or she again performs an Hour of Service. A one-year Period of Severance means a Period of Severance of twelve (12) consecutive months. Solely for purposes of determining whether a one-year Period of Severance has occurred for eligibility or vesting purposes, the consecutive twelve (12) month period beginning on the first anniversary of the first date of a Parental Absence shall not be a one-year Period of Severance. (u) “Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity” means a straight life annuity payable to the surviving Spouse of a Participant who dies before his Annuity Starting Date with a vested benefit hereunder calculated as provided in Section 4.01. A former Spouse will be treated as the surviving Spouse to the extent provided under a qualified domestic relations order as described in Code Section 414(p). (v) “Reemployment Commencement Date” means the date an Employee first performs an Hour of Service following a Period of Severance. (w) “Retirement Date” means the date a retirement benefit will begin and is a Participant’s Early, Special Early, Normal, or Late Retirement Date, as the case may be. (x) “Severance Date” means the earlier of:


 
L-7 4841-1404-2944.2 (i) the date on which an Employee quits, retires, dies, or is discharged, or (ii) the first anniversary of the first date an Employee remains absent from service (with or without pay). This absence may be the result of any combination of reasons, including vacation, holiday, sickness, disability, leave of absence, or layoff, but excluding quit, retirement, discharge or death. Solely to determine whether a one-year Period of Severance has occurred for eligibility or vesting purposes for an Employee who is absent from service beyond the first anniversary of the first day of a Parental Absence, the Severance Date is the second anniversary of the first day of the Parental Absence. The period between the first and second anniversaries of the first day of the Parental Absence is not a Period of Service and is not a Period of Severance. (y) “Severance from Employment” means the date an Employee has ceased to be an Employee. (z) “Spouse” means either (1) the person to whom a Participant is lawfully married on his or her Annuity Starting Date or (2) in the event the Participant dies prior to his or her Annuity Starting Date, the person to whom the Participant was married throughout the ninety (90) day period preceding the Participant’s death. For purposes hereof, “lawfully married” means legally married (A) under the laws of the United States (or one of the United States) or any other generally recognized jurisdiction and (B) for federal tax purposes. (aa) “Vesting Service” -- see Pension Credited Service.


 
L-8 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE II. PARTICIPATION AND SERVICE Section 2.01. Eligibility. Each Eligible Employee who was a Participant under Appendix 78 of the Emerson Plan on January 29, 2015, shall become a Participant hereunder on January 30, 2015. Each other Eligible Employee shall become a Participant hereunder as of the first day of the month coinciding with or next following the later of the date he or she attains age 21 and the date on which he or she completes a one (1) year Period of Service. If a person is not an Eligible Employee when he or she meets the foregoing requirements, he or she shall not become a Participant until he or she becomes an Eligible Employee. No individual who is employed or re-employed after January 30, 2015 shall become a Participant hereunder. Section 2.02. Inactive Participant. (a) An active Participant shall become an inactive Participant (stop accruing benefits) on the earliest of the following: (i) The date he or she ceases to be an eligible Employee. (ii) The effective date of complete termination of the Plan under Section 6.02 of the Master Plan Document. (iii) Their Severance from Employment date. (b) An inactive Participant or a former Participant shall not again become an active Participant (shall not resume active participation in the Plan). Section 2.03. Cessation of Participation. A Participant, whether active or inactive, shall cease to be a Participant on the earlier of the following: (a) The date of his death. (b) The date he or she receives a single sum distribution in satisfaction of all of his or her benefits under the Plan. An inactive Participant shall also cease to be a Participant on the earliest date on which he or she is not entitled to a deferred monthly income under Section 7.07 of the Master Plan Document. An individual who ceases to be a Participant hereunder shall not resume participation at any later date. Section 2.04. Calculation of Pension Credited Service. (a) Disregarded Service. If a person’s employment with the Employer and its Affiliates is terminated when he or she has no nonforfeitable right to a benefit derived from Employer contributions under the Plan, then if the number of days in the Employee’s Period of


 
L-9 4841-1404-2944.2 Severance equals or exceeds the greater of six (6) years or one year plus his or her Period of Service, whether or not consecutive, completed before such Period of Severance, then any Period of Service accrued prior to such break in service shall be disregarded. (b) Service with Foreign Corporation. A Participant who leaves the employment of the Employer and its Affiliates to accept employment with a corporation which is directly or indirectly owned fifty percent (50%) or more by the Company or a Subsidiary but which is organized outside of the United States, or to accept employment (at the written request of the Employer) with any other corporation organized outside of the United States, shall, if he or she thereafter returns to employment in the United States with the Employer or its Affiliates for at least twelve (12) months, earn benefits as if he or she had continued in the employment of the Employer and its Affiliates for the period of such foreign employment; provided, however, that any benefits credited for such period shall be reduced (but not below zero) by the amount of any foreign pension or severance payment earned during such period. (c) Disability Accrual. Except as may be provided otherwise in this Part, a Participant who becomes disabled while employed by the Employer or its Affiliates and is receiving disability benefits pursuant to the Social Security Laws shall for the purposes of this Plan be considered as having continued in the employment of the Employer, so long as he or she continues to receive such benefits, until the earliest of (i) the date he or she is no longer permanently and totally disabled, (ii) the date he or she has attained his or her Normal Retirement Date, (iii) his or her Annuity Starting Date, or (iv) the date he or she dies. (d) Leaves of Absence. A Participant under this Part on an Employer- approved leave of absence not described in Section 2.04 of the Master Plan Document shall be considered as having continued in the employment of the Employer for the period such leave of absence up to a maximum of two (2) years, provided such person (i) applies for and accepts (if offered) reemployment with the Employer or its Affiliates, and (ii) completes at least one (1) Year of Service with the Employer or its Affiliates after the completion of such leave of absence. Such approved leaves of absence shall be given on a uniform non-discriminatory basis.


 
L-10 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE III. RETIREMENT BENEFITS Section 3.01. Retirement Benefits. (a) Normal Retirement Benefit. A Participant who retires at his or her Normal Retirement Date may commence receiving his or her vested Normal Retirement Benefit. The monthly Normal Retirement Benefit shall be equal to the sum of (i) plus (ii) plus (iii), minus the amount described in (iv) below: (i) 1.0% of Average Compensation up to one-twelfth of the Average Social Security Wage Base multiplied by Pension Credited Service not to exceed 35 years; plus (ii) 1.4% of Average Compensation in excess of one-twelfth of the Average Social Security Wage Base multiplied by Pension Credited Service not to exceed 35 years; plus (iii) 1.0% of Average Compensation multiplied by Pension Credited Service in excess 35 years; minus (iv) The monthly Normal Retirement Benefit amount payable to the Participant under the Emerson Plan, in the Normal Form (e.g., the Emerson Plan accrued benefit). Notwithstanding the preceding, a Participant’s Normal Retirement Benefit (before offset by the amount described in (iv) above) shall not be less than the Participant’s Normal Retirement Benefit as of December 31, 1994, as reported by the Administrator of the Emerson Plan. This amount, after reduction by the amount described in (iv) above, shall be referred to in subsection (b) as the Participant’s Grandfathered Normal Retirement Benefit. (b) Early Retirement Reduction Factor(s). A Participant who retires at his or her Early Retirement Date shall receive a monthly Early Retirement Benefit equal to his or her monthly Normal Retirement Benefit, reduced for each month by which the Annuity Starting Date of the Participant precedes his or her Normal Retirement Date at the rate of 1/4% for each such month between the first day of the month on or after the 55th and 60th birthdays of the Participant, and at the rate of 1/6% for each such month between the first day of the month on or after 60th birthday of the Participant and his or her Normal Retirement Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if a Participant has completed 30 or more years of Pension Credited Service and attained age 60 on his or her Early Retirement Date, his or her Early Retirement Benefit shall not be less than the Participant’s Grandfathered Normal Retirement Benefit reduced by 1/3% for those months by which the Annuity Starting Date of the Participant precedes his or her attainment of age 60. If a Participant has completed 10 or more years of Pension Credited Service but not 30 years of Pension Credited Service, his or her Early Retirement Benefit shall not be less than the Participant’s Grandfathered Normal Retirement Benefit reduced for those months by which the Annuity Starting Date of the Participant precedes his or her Normal Retirement Date at the rate 1/3% for each such month between the first day of the month on or after the 55th and 60th birthdays of the Participant, and at the rate of 1/2% for those months


 
L-11 4841-1404-2944.2 between the first day of the month on or after the 60th birthday of the Participant and his or her Retirement Date. (c) Late Retirement Benefit. A Participant who retires at his or her Late Retirement Date shall receive a monthly Late Retirement Benefit equal to the benefit he or she would have received at his or her Normal Retirement Date but based upon his or her Benefit Factors up to his or her actual retirement. If an Employee continues working for an Employer or any Affiliate after his or her Normal Retirement Date, then the Employer shall notify the Employee during the first calendar month of the payroll period in which the Participant attains Normal Retirement Age that his benefits will not commence until the earlier of his or her actual retirement or, if applicable, his or her Required Beginning Date. Such notification shall contain a description of the specific reasons why benefit payments are being suspended, a general description of the Plan provisions relating to the suspension of payments, a copy of such Plan provisions, information regarding the Plan’s procedure for affording a review of the suspension of benefits, and a statement to the effect that applicable Department of Labor regulations may be found in section 2530.203-3 of Title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations. Section 3.02. Disregard of Accrued Benefit. If a Participant receives a single sum payment equal to the Actuarial Equivalent present value of his or her entire vested Accrued Benefit, then his or her entire Accrued Benefit as of the date of the distribution shall be disregarded. If the Actuarial Equivalent present value of a Participant’s vested Accrued Benefit was zero and he or she was deemed to have received a distribution of such present value of his entire vested Accrued Benefit, and he or she again becomes an Eligible Employee before the end of the first period of five (5) consecutive one-year Periods of Severance that begin after the date of the deemed distribution, upon the date he or she again performs an Hour of Service as an Eligible Employee, the Employer-derived Accrued Benefit (including all optional forms of benefits and subsidies relating to such benefits) shall be restored to the amount of such Accrued Benefit on the date of the deemed distribution.


 
L-12 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE IV. OTHER BENEFITS Section 4.01. Death Benefits. (a) If a vested Participant dies before his or her Annuity Starting Date, the only death benefits payable shall be the Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity. (b) If a Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity becomes payable pursuant to subsection (a), the Participant’s surviving Spouse shall be paid, commencing on the first day of the month following the later of the Participant’s death or the date the Participant would have attained his or her Early Retirement Age, a survivor annuity for the life of the surviving Spouse; provided, however, that distribution to the surviving Spouse shall not be made prior to the date the Participant would have attained his or her Normal Retirement Age without the consent of the surviving Spouse. Benefits must start by the date the Participant would have been age 70½. If the Spouse dies before the Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity starts, no death benefits are payable hereunder. (c) If the Participant is employed by the Employer at the time of his or her death, then the amount payable to the Participant’s surviving Spouse in the form of a Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity shall be fifty percent (50%) of the amount calculated under Section 3.01 of this Part based on the Pension Credited Service accrued as of the date of his or her death, reduced by the early retirement reduction factors if the death benefit begins before the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date. If the Participant is not employed at the time of his or her death, the amount payable to the Participant’s surviving Spouse in the form of a Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity shall be fifty percent (50%) of the amount calculated under Section 3.01 of this Part based on the Pension Credited Service accrued as of the date of his or her death, with the following adjustments: (i) The benefit shall be reduced by the actuarial factors used to convert the benefit under Section 3.02 to a Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity; and (ii) The early retirement reduction factors shall be applied if the death benefit begins before the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date. (d) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Participant elects within ninety (90) days before the Participant’s Annuity Starting Date a survivorship annuity providing a greater than fifty percent (50%) death benefit and the Contingent Annuitant is the Participant’s Spouse, then such greater percentage shall be paid in lieu of the fifty percent (50%) benefit described in subsection (c) above. Such election must be a qualified election according to the provisions of Sections 3.02 and 3.03 of the Master Plan Document.


 
L-13 4841-1404-2944.2 Section 4.02. Vested Benefits.A Participant whose employment is terminated after he or she has earned at least five (5) years of Vesting Service shall be entitled to a benefit as described in this section. (b) A person whose employment is terminated other than by death before he or she has earned five (5) years of Vesting Service or reached Normal Retirement Age shall receive no benefit under this Plan. (c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, a Participant who dies while employed with the Employer or who remains in employment with the Employer until the date he or she satisfies the requirements for Normal Retirement Age shall have a one-hundred percent (100%) nonforfeitable right to his or her Accrued Benefit. (d) A Participant who becomes an inactive Participant before retirement or death (and, if applicable, before the date a disability payment begins under Section 4.02) will be entitled to one of the following, whichever is applicable: (i) Payment of his Accrued Benefit to begin on his or her Normal Retirement Date. (ii) If the Participant has satisfied the Early Retirement Age and Service Requirements, a deferred monthly retirement benefit under the Normal Form to begin on his or her Early Retirement Date. The deferred retirement benefit shall be equal to the amount under (i) above multiplied by the applicable early retirement factor set forth in Section 3.01(b). (iii) A deferred monthly retirement benefit under the Normal Form to begin on his or her Late Retirement Date. The deferred retirement benefit shall be determined as follows: (A) For a Participant who became an inactive Participant on or before his or her Normal Retirement Date, an amount equal to the amount under (i) above multiplied by the late retirement factor in Article III that corresponds to the number of years his or her Late Retirement Date follows his Normal Retirement Date. (B) For a Participant who became an inactive Participant after his or her Normal Retirement Date, an amount equal to the greater of (1) or (2) below: (1) The Participant’s Accrued Benefit on the day before the date he or she became an inactive Participant. (2) His or her Accrued Benefit on his or her Normal Retirement Date actuarially adjusted to reflect the


 
L-14 4841-1404-2944.2 delay in commencement of benefits after his or her Normal Retirement Date. Provided, however, for an inactive Participant whose Late Retirement Date occurs after the April 1 following the calendar year in which he or she attains age 70½, such Participant’s deferred monthly retirement benefit determined in (1) or (2) above, whichever applies, shall be actuarially adjusted to reflect the delay in commencement of benefits after such April 1 date. Any distribution of vested benefits shall be a retirement benefit and shall be subject to the distribution of benefits provisions of Article V and the provisions of Section 3.06 of the Master Plan Document. The Participant’s Accrued Benefit shall be calculated on the day before he or she became an inactive Participant. The amount of payment under any form (other than the Normal Form) shall be determined as provided under Section 3.02 of the Master Plan Document. If the Participant dies before his or her Annuity Starting Date, death benefits shall be distributed according to the provisions of Section 4.01.


 
L-15 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE V. WHEN BENEFITS START AND DISTRIBUTION OF BENEFITS Section 5.01. When Benefits Start. (a) A Participant with a vested benefit who terminates employment on or after meeting the Early Retirement Age and Service Requirements may commence receipt of his or her benefits on an Early Retirement Date, or on any later date as he or she may elect. (b) A Participant who terminates employment prior to his or her Early Retirement Date but who has met the service requirements under the Early Retirement Age and Service Requirements may elect to begin receiving an early retirement benefit on the first day of any month coincident with or following his or her Early Retirement Age, or may elect to receive a Normal Retirement Benefit commencing on his or her Normal Retirement Date. Section 5.02. Mandatory Participant Contributions. Prior to October 1, 1989, “Contributing Participants” may have contributed to the Emerson Plan. Any withdrawal rights with respect to such contributions shall be provided under the Emerson Plan, not this Plan. Section 5.03. Automatic Forms of Distribution. Unless an optional form of benefit is selected pursuant to a qualified election within the election period (see Sections 3.02 and 3.03 of the Master Plan Document), the automatic form of benefit payable to or on behalf of a Participant is determined as follows: (a) Retirement Benefits. The automatic form of retirement benefit for a Participant who does not die before his or her Annuity Starting Date shall be: (i) The Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity for a Participant who has a Spouse on his or her Annuity Starting Date. (ii) The Normal Form for a Participant who does not have a Spouse on his or her Annuity Starting Date. (b) Death Benefits. The automatic form of death benefit for a Participant who dies before his or her Annuity Starting Date is determined according to the provisions of Section 5.01. Section 5.04. Suspension of Benefits Upon Reemployment. In the event a Participant who is receiving benefits under the Plan returns to the full-time employment of the Employer (as defined in the Employer’s employment practices) prior to his or her Required Beginning Date, payment of his or her benefits will continue. Upon his or her subsequent termination of employment with the Employer, the Participant shall continue to receive the benefit he or she was receiving during the period of reemployment; provided that, if the Participant’s most recent termination of employment occurred prior to January 1, 2018, then, to the extent the law so requires, in no event shall the Participant receive a benefit that is less valuable, on an actuarial basis, than the benefits to which he or she would be entitled under the Plan as in effect on the date of such subsequent termination, taking into account his or her age at the time of such subsequent termination and his or her Benefit Factors


 
L-16 4841-1404-2944.2 earned during his or her period of reemployment (if any), reduced by the value of the benefits, other than disability benefits, he or she received prior to his or her subsequent termination date.


 
L-17 4841-1404-2944.2 EXHIBIT L-1: ACTUARIAL ASSUMPTIONS I. Joint and Survivor Annuity Form of Payment Age of Employee Less Age of Contingent Annuitant Age-Related Retirement Percent of Life Annuity Payable to Employee with 50%, 66-2/3%, 75% or 100% of Reduced Amount Payable to Contingent Annuitant 50% 66-2/3% 75% 100% 20* 78.20 76.10 68.10 On File with Hewitt 19 78.40 76.40 68.40 18 78.70 76.70 68.80 17 79.00 77.10 69.20 16 79.40 77.50 69.60 15 79.80 77.90 70.10 14 80.20 78.40 70.70 13 80.60 78.90 71.30 12 81.00 79.40 71.90 11 81.40 79.90 72.50 10 81.80 80.40 73.10 9 82.20 80.90 73.70 8 82.60 81.40 74.30 7 83.00 81.90 74.90 6 83.40 82.40 75.50 5 83.90 82.90 76.10 4 84.40 83.40 76.80 3 84.90 83.90 77.50 2 85.40 84.50 78.20 1 85.90 85.10 79.00 0 86.40 85.70 79.80 -1 86.90 86.20 80.60 -2 87.40 86.70 81.40 -3 87.90 87.20 82.20 -4 88.40 87.70 83.00 -5 88.90 88.20 83.70 -6 89.40 88.70 84.40 -7 89.90 89.20 85.10 -8 90.40 89.70 85.80 -9 90.90 90.20 86.50 -10 91.40 90.70 87.20 -11 91.90 91.20 87.90 -12 92.40 91.70 88.60 -13 92.90 92.20 89.30 -14 93.40 92.70 90.00 -15 93.90 93.20 90.70 -16 94.30 93.70 91.40 -17 94.70 94.20 92.10 -18 95.00 94.70 92.80 -19 95.30 95.20 93.40 -20 or more 95.60 95.70 93.90 * Reduce applicable Percent by an additional .20% for the Joint & 50% Contingent Annuity form, and by an additional .30% for the other forms, for each year in excess of 20. Example: Under the Joint & 50% Contingent Annuitant form, if employee is 23 years older than Contingent Annuitant, reduce the 78.20% by .60% to 77.60.


 
M-1 4841-1404-2944.2 PART M: REGAL POWER TRANSMISSIONS SOLUTIONS PENSION PLAN – APPENDIX 79 – MCGILL MANUFACTURING NON-UNION HOURLY EMPLOYEES (MONTICELLO, IN) Overview: • Plan frozen to new hires effective January 30, 2015. The purpose of this Part M is to provide benefits for Eligible Employees equal to the sum of their benefit with their prior employer(s) as calculated under the Emerson Electric Co. Retirement Plan (including Appendix 79 thereto) (the “Emerson Plan”) and their benefit provided with the Employer for periods on and after January 30, 2015, but then offset by the benefits that will be provided under the Emerson Plan. The following designations and provisions shall apply only to persons who are Eligible Employees under this Part.


 
M-2 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND FORMAT OF TERMS Section 1.01. Format. Capitalized words and phrases defined in Section 1.02 shall have that defined meaning when used in this Part, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Additional capitalized terms used herein are defined in Section 1.01 of the Master Plan Document. Similarly, cross references in this Part shall apply to the referenced section in this Part, unless specifically referred to as a section of the Master Plan Document. Section 1.02. Definitions. (a) “Actuarial Equivalent” means, notwithstanding anything in the Plan to the contrary, a benefit of equivalent value calculated using the table in Exhibit M-1 of this Part M. (b) “Contingent Annuitant” means an individual named by the Participant to receive a benefit after the Participant’s death in accordance with a survivorship annuity. (c) “Early Retirement Age and Service Requirements” means age fifty-five (55) with ten (10) years of Pension Credited Service. (d) “Early Retirement Date” means the first day of any month before a Participant’s Normal Retirement Date that the Participant selects as his or her Annuity Starting Date. This day shall be on or after the date he or she has a Severance from Employment and satisfies the Early Retirement Age and Service Requirements. (e) “Eligible Employee” means an Employee who is classified by the Employer as a non-union hourly employee of McGill Manufacturing Company, Inc., at its Bearings Division, Monticello, Indiana Plant and is employed in such classification on January 30, 2015. A person who by written contract has waived coverage under the Plan shall not be considered an Eligible Employee. (f) “Employment Commencement Date” means the date an Employee first performs an Hour of Service. (g) “Late Retirement Date” means the first day of any month that is after a Participant’s Normal Retirement Date and on which retirement benefits begin. If a Participant continues to work for the Employer after his or her Normal Retirement Date, his or her Late Retirement Date shall be the first day of the month on or after the date he or she has a Severance from Employment. (h) “Normal Form” means a single life annuity. (i) “Normal Retirement Age” means age sixty-five (65). (j) “Normal Retirement Benefit” means the Participant’s Accrued Benefit. (k) “Normal Retirement Date” means the first day of the month coinciding with or next following the later of the date a Participant attains Normal Retirement Age and the fifth anniversary of the date the Participant commenced participation in the Plan.


 
M-3 4841-1404-2944.2 (l) “Parental Absence” means an Employee’s absence from work: (i) by reason of the pregnancy of the Employee, (ii) by reason of the birth of a child of the Employee, (iii) by reason of the placement of a child with the Employee in connection with adoption of such child by such Employee, or (iv) for purposes of caring for such child for a period beginning immediately following such birth or placement. (m) “Pension Credited Service” means a service period determined using the elapsed time method. For periods prior to January 30, 2015, Pension Credited Service is the service as credited under the Emerson Plan, as reported to the Administrator by the Emerson Plan. For periods on or after January 30, 2015, an Eligible Employee shall accrue Pension Credited Service equaling his or her Periods of Service, subject to the rules in Section 2.04. When determining Pension Credited Service for all purposes, all periods of any Employer-approved leave of absence described in Section 2.04 shall be included as Pension Credited Service for the location to which the leave relates; provided, however, that if a Participant, in the case of an unpaid leave of absence, does not return to active employment immediately following the expiration of his or her leave and has not terminated employment at his or her Early, Normal or Late Retirement Date or died during the term of the leave of absence, the Participant shall be considered to have terminated employment for purposes of the Plan as of the earlier of (i) the first anniversary of the date the leave of absence of the Participant commenced; or (ii) the last day of the term of the leave of absence of the Participant. When determining Pension Credited Service for all purposes other than vesting, no portion of a Participant’s Periods of Severance shall be counted. When determining Pension Credited Service for benefit accrual purposes, services while other than an Eligible Employee shall not be counted. When determining Pension Credited Service for vesting purposes, the following special rule shall apply: a full year of Pension Credited Service shall be granted for the twelve (12) month period commencing on the Participant’s employment anniversary date next preceding his or her termination of employment date if the Participant completes 1,000 Hours of Service during the portion of such period before his or her termination of employment date; otherwise, the Participant shall be granted a fractional year of Pension Credited Service for the period between such employment anniversary date and his or her termination of employment date calculated in completed months, and any portion of a month in excess of a whole number of months during that period shall be counted as a completed month. However, if such a Participant is rehired before twelve (12) months have elapsed since his or her termination of employment date and thereby receives Pension Credited Service for vesting purposes for his or her Severance Period between his or her date of termination of employment and his or her date of rehire, the preceding sentence shall not apply.


 
M-4 4841-1404-2944.2 (n) “Period of Service” means a period of time beginning on an Employee’s Employment Commencement Date or Reemployment Commencement Date (whichever applies) and ending on his most recent Severance Date. For purposes of calculating an Employee’s Period of Service, the following rules shall apply: (i) A Period of Service shall be expressed as years and fractional parts of a year (to two decimal places) on the basis that 365 days equal one year. (ii) A Period of Severance shall be deemed to be a Period of Service under either of the following conditions: (A) the Period of Severance immediately follows a period during which an Employee is not absent from work and ends within twelve (12) months; or (B) the Period of Severance immediately follows a period during which an Employee is absent from work for any reason other than quitting, being discharged, or retiring (such as a leave of absence or layoff) and ends within twelve (12) months of the date he or she was first absent. (iii) A Period of Service shall be reduced by (A) all or any part of a Period of Service that is not counted pursuant to the rules set forth in this Plan and/or (B) any Period of Severance that occurred prior to an Employee’s most recent Severance Date, unless such Period of Severance is included under the service spanning rules described in (ii) above. (o) “Period of Severance” means a period of time beginning on an Employee’s Severance Date and ending on the date he or she again performs an Hour of Service. A one-year Period of Severance means a Period of Severance of twelve (12) consecutive months. Solely for purposes of determining whether a one-year Period of Severance has occurred for eligibility or vesting purposes, the consecutive twelve (12) month period beginning on the first anniversary of the first date of a Parental Absence shall not be a one-year Period of Severance. (p) “Permanent and Total Disability” (or derivations thereof) means that an Eligible Employee is unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of a medically determinable physical or mental disability which has existed for six (6) continuous months and which, in the opinion of the qualified physician selected by the Administrator, can reasonably be expected to continue for the balance of his or her life, exclusive of disability resulting from service in the Armed Forces for which he or she received a military pension, intentional self-inflicted injury, participation in a felonious criminal act, or habitual excessive use of intoxicants, drugs or narcotics. The Administrator shall have the responsibility for determining whether a Participant has incurred a disability and, before approving payment of any disability retirement benefit, may require reasonable proof of such disability. (q) “Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity” means, for a Participant who has a Spouse, an immediate survivorship life annuity, where the survivorship percentage is fifty percent (50%) and the Contingent Annuitant is the Participant’s Spouse. A former spouse will be


 
M-5 4841-1404-2944.2 treated as the Spouse to the extent provided under a qualified domestic relations order as described in Code Section 414(p). This Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity shall be at least the Actuarial Equivalent of any form of annuity benefit offered under the Plan. (r) “Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity” means a straight life annuity payable to the surviving Spouse of a Participant who dies before his Annuity Starting Date with a vested benefit hereunder calculated as provided in Section 4.01. A former Spouse will be treated as the surviving Spouse to the extent provided under a qualified domestic relations order as described in Code Section 414(p). (s) “Reemployment Commencement Date” means the date an Employee first performs an Hour of Service following a Period of Severance. (t) “Severance Date” means the earlier of: (i) the date on which an Employee quits, retires, dies, or is discharged, or (ii) the first anniversary of the first date an Employee is absent from service (with or without pay). This absence may be the result of any combination of reasons, including vacation, holiday, sickness, disability, leave of absence, or layoff, but excluding quit, retirement, discharge or death. Solely to determine whether a one-year Period of Severance has occurred for eligibility or vesting purposes for an Employee who is absent from service beyond the first anniversary of the first day of a Parental Absence, the Severance Date is the second anniversary of the first day of the Parental Absence. The period between the first and second anniversaries of the first day of the Parental Absence is not a Period of Service and is not a Period of Severance. (u) “Severance from Employment” means an Employee has ceased to be an Employee. (v) “Spouse” means either (i) the person to whom a Participant is lawfully married on his or her Annuity Starting Date or (ii) in the event the Participant dies prior to his or her Annuity Starting Date, the person to whom the Participant was married throughout the ninety (90) day period preceding the Participant’s death. For purposes hereof, “lawfully married” means legally married (A) under the laws of the United States (or one of the United States) or any other generally recognized jurisdiction and (B) for federal tax purposes. (w) “Vesting Service” – see Pension Credited Service.


 
M-6 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE II. PARTICIPATION AND SERVICE Section 2.01. Eligibility. Each Eligible Employee who was a “Participant” under Appendix 79 of the Emerson Plan on January 29, 2015 shall become a Participant hereunder on January 30, 2015. No individual who is employed or re-employed after January 30, 2015 shall become a Participant hereunder. Section 2.02. Inactive Participant. (a) An active Participant shall become an inactive Participant (stop accruing benefits) on the earliest of the following: (i) The date he or she ceases to be an Eligible Employee. (ii) The effective date of complete termination of the Plan under Section 6.02 of the Master Plan Document. (iii) Their Severance from Employment date. (b) An inactive participant or a former Participant shall not again become an active participant (shall not resume active participation in the Plan). Section 2.03. Cessation of Participation. A Participant, whether active or inactive, shall cease to be a Participant on the earlier of the following: (a) The date of his death. (b) The date he or she receives a single sum distribution in satisfaction of all of his or her benefits under the Plan. An inactive participant shall also cease to be a Participant on the earliest date on which he or she is not entitled to a deferred monthly income under Section 7.07 of the Master Plan Document. An individual who ceases to be a Participant hereunder shall not resume participation at any later date. Section 2.04. Calculation of Pension Credited Service. (a) Disregarded Service. If a person’s employment with the Employer and its Affiliates is terminated when he or she has no nonforfeitable right to a benefit derived from Employer contributions under the Plan, then if the number of days in the Employee’s Period of Severance equals or exceeds the greater of six (6) years or one year plus his or her Period of Service, whether or not consecutive, completed before such Period of Severance, then any Period of Service accrued prior to such break in service shall be disregarded. (b) Service with Foreign Corporation. A Participant who leaves the employment of the Employer and its Affiliates to accept employment with a corporation which is


 
M-7 4841-1404-2944.2 directly or indirectly owned fifty percent (50%) or more by the Company or an Affiliate but which is organized outside of the United States, or to accept employment (at the written request of the Employer) with any other corporation organized outside of the United States, shall, if he or she thereafter returns to employment in the United States with the Employer or its Affiliates for at least twelve (12) months, earn benefits as if he or she had continued in the employment of the Employer and its Affiliates for the period of such foreign employment; provided, however, that any benefits credited for such period shall be reduced (but not below zero) by the amount of any foreign pension or severance payment earned during such period. (c) Disability Accrual. Except as may be provided otherwise in this Part, a Participant who becomes disabled while employed by the Employer or its Affiliates and who is receiving disability benefits pursuant to the Social Security Laws shall for the purposes of this Plan be considered as having continued in the employment of the Employer, so long as he or she continues to receive such benefits, until the earliest of (i) the date he or she is no longer permanently and totally disabled, (ii) the date he or she has attained his or her Normal Retirement Date, (iii) his or her Annuity Starting Date, or (iv) the date he or she dies. (d) Leaves of Absence. A Participant under this Part on an Employer- approved leave of absence not described in Section 2.04 of the Master Plan Document shall be considered as having continued in the employment of the Employer for the period such leave of absence up to a maximum of two (2) years, provided such person (i) applies for and accepts (if offered) reemployment with the Employer or its Affiliates, and (ii) completes at least one (1) Year of Service with the Employer or its Affiliates after the completion of such leave of absence. Such approved leaves of absence shall be given on a uniform non-discriminatory basis.


 
M-8 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE III. RETIREMENT BENEFITS Section 3.01. Retirement Benefits. (a) Normal Retirement Benefit. A Participant who terminates employment from the Company and its Affiliates at his or her Normal Retirement Date may commence receiving his or her vested Normal Retirement Benefit. The monthly Normal Retirement Benefit shall equal eighteen dollars and fifty cents ($18.50) multiplied by his or her years (and fractions thereof) of Pension Credited Service, reduced by the normal retirement benefit payable for such Participant under the Emerson Plan (e.g., the Emerson Plan accrued benefit). (b) Early Retirement Benefit. A Participant who terminates employment from the Company and its Affiliates after meeting the Early Retirement Age and Service Requirement and before Normal Retirement Age shall be entitled to receive a monthly Early Retirement Benefit equal to his or her monthly Normal Retirement Benefit, reduced as follows: (i) If a Participant has not completed 30 or more years of Pension Credited Service at his or her Annuity Starting Date, the amount so determined shall be reduced for each month by which the Annuity Starting Date of the Participant precedes his or her Normal Retirement Date at the rate of 1/3% for each such month between the first day of the month on or after the 55th and 60th birthdays of the Participant, and at the rate of 1/2% for each such month between the first day of the month on or after the 60th birthday of the Participant and his or her Normal Retirement Date. (ii) If a Participant has completed at least 30 years of Pension Credited Service at his or her Annuity Starting Date, the amounts so determined shall be reduced for each month by which the Annuity Starting Date of the Participant precedes his or her Normal Retirement Date at the rate of 1/3% for each such month between the first day of the month on or after the 55th and 60th birthdays of the Participant, and at the rate of 1/2% for each such month between the first day of the month on or after the 60th and 62nd birthdays of the Participant. (c) Late Retirement Benefit. A Participant who terminates employment from the Company and its Affiliates after Normal Retirement Age shall receive a monthly postponed Retirement Benefit equal to the benefit he or she would have received at his or her Normal Retirement Date but based upon his or her Pension Credited Service up to his or her actual retirement. If an Employee continues working for an Employer or any Affiliate after his Normal Retirement Date, then the suspension of benefits provisions of Section 3.08 of the Master Plan Document shall apply.


 
M-9 4841-1404-2944.2 Section 3.02. Disregard of Accrued Benefit. If a Participant receives a single sum payment equal to the Actuarial Equivalent present value of his or her entire vested Accrued Benefit, then his or her entire Accrued Benefit as of the date of the distribution shall be disregarded. If the Actuarial Equivalent present value of a Participant’s vested Accrued Benefit was zero and he or she was deemed to have received a distribution of such present value of his entire vested Accrued Benefit, and he or she again becomes an Eligible Employee before the end of the first period of five (5) consecutive one-year Periods of Severance that begin after the date of the deemed distribution, upon the date he or she again performs an Hour of Service as an Eligible Employee, the Employer derived Accrued Benefit (including all optional forms of benefits and subsidies relating to such benefits) shall be restored to the amount of such Accrued Benefit on the date of the deemed distribution.


 
M-10 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE IV. OTHER BENEFITS Section 4.01. Death Benefits. (a) If a vested Participant dies before his or her Annuity Starting Date, the only death benefits payable shall be the Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity. (b) If a Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity becomes payable pursuant to subsection (a), the Participant’s surviving Spouse shall be paid, commencing on the first day of the month following the later of the Participant’s death or the date the Participant would have attained his or her Early Retirement Age, a survivor annuity for the life of the surviving Spouse; provided, however, that distribution to the surviving Spouse shall not be made prior to the date the Participant would have attained his or her Normal Retirement Age without the consent of the surviving Spouse. Benefits must start by the date the Participant would have been age 70½. If the Spouse dies before the Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity starts, no death benefits are payable hereunder. (c) If the Participant is employed by the Employer at the time of his or her death, then the amount payable to the Participant’s surviving Spouse in the form of a Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity shall be fifty percent (50%) of the amount calculated under Section 3.01 of this Part based on the Pension Credited Service accrued as of the date of his or her death, reduced by the early retirement reduction factors if the death benefit begins before the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date. If the Participant is not employed at the time of his or her death, the amount payable to the Participant’s surviving Spouse in the form of a Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity shall be fifty percent (50%) of the amount calculated under Section 3.01 of this Part based on the Pension Credited Service accrued as of the date of his or her death, with the following adjustments: (i) The benefit shall be reduced by the actuarial factors used to convert the benefit under Section 3.02 to a Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity; and (ii) The early retirement reduction factors shall be applied if the death benefit begins before the Participant’s Normal Retirement Date. (d) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Participant elects within ninety (90) days before the Participant’s Annuity Starting Date a survivorship annuity providing a greater than fifty percent (50%) death benefit and the Contingent Annuitant is the Participant’s Spouse, then such greater percentage shall be paid in lieu of the fifty percent (50%) benefit described in subsection (c) above. Such election must be a qualified election according to the provisions of Sections 3.02 and 3.03 of the Master Plan Document. Section 4.02. Disability Benefits. (a) Disability Benefit Exception. A Participant who: (i) has twenty (20) years (ten (10) years if hired on or before July 1, 1989) of Pension Credited Service; (ii) has attained age 40; and (iii) has met the requirements for Permanent and Total Disability (while working as


 
M-11 4841-1404-2944.2 an Eligible Employee), shall receive a monthly Disability Benefit, beginning with the date he or she is eligible to receive disability benefits under the Social Security Act. The monthly Disability Benefit shall be a monthly amount equal to the benefit to which he or she would be entitled at his or her Normal Retirement Date as calculated under Section 3.01 but based on his or her Pension Credited Service accrued as of the first day of the month coincident with or next following the date the Participant is determined to be Permanently and Totally Disabled, reduced by any lump sum payment due on account of workers compensation or occupational disease laws. No disability benefit shall be due until such lump sum, as so charged on a monthly basis against the monthly disability retirement benefit otherwise payable under the Plan, is exhausted. Such Disability Benefit shall continue until the Participant ceases to be Permanently and Totally Disabled, dies, or reaches his or her Normal Retirement Date or Annuity Starting Date. If the disabled Participant is not entitled to receive disability benefits for any period after his or her Normal Retirement Date pursuant to a long term disability plan maintained by the Employer, he or she will be deemed to be retired on his or her Normal Retirement Date and shall be eligible to begin to receive a Normal Retirement Benefit, in accordance with the Plan’s procedures (including the requirement that an application for benefits be made). If the disabled Participant is entitled to receive disability benefits for any period after his or her Normal Retirement Date pursuant to a long term disability plan maintained by the Employer, he or she shall continue to receive his or her Disability Benefit hereunder, and when his or her benefit pursuant to such long term disability plan ceases, his or her Disability Benefit hereunder shall cease and he or she shall be deemed to be retired at his or her late Retirement Date and shall be eligible to receive a late Retirement Benefit, in accordance with the Plan’s procedures (including the requirement that an application for benefits be made). In calculating the Early Retirement Benefit (if any), Normal Retirement Benefit, or late Retirement Benefit, for purposes of this Section, only the Pension Credited Service earned before the Participant became Permanently and Totally Disabled shall be counted. Section 4.03. Vested Benefits. (a) A Participant whose employment is terminated after he or she has earned at least five (5) years of Vesting Service shall be entitled to a benefit as described in this section. (b) A person whose employment is terminated other than by death before he or she has earned five (5) years of Vesting Service or reached Normal Retirement Age shall receive no benefit under this Plan. (c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, a Participant who dies while employed with the Employer or who remains in employment with the Employer until the date he or she satisfies the requirements for Normal Retirement Age shall have a one-hundred percent (100%) nonforfeitable right to his or her Accrued Benefit. (d) A Participant who becomes an inactive Participant before retirement or death (and, if applicable, before the date a disability payment begins under Section 4.02) will be entitled to one of the following, whichever is applicable: (i) Payment of his Accrued Benefit to begin on his or her Normal Retirement Date.


 
M-12 4841-1404-2944.2 (ii) If the Participant has satisfied the Early Retirement Age and Service Requirements, a deferred monthly retirement benefit under the Normal Form to begin on his or her Early Retirement Date. The deferred retirement benefit shall be equal to the amount under (i) above multiplied by the applicable early retirement factor set forth in Section 3.01(b). (iii) A deferred monthly retirement benefit under the Normal Form to begin on his Late Retirement Date. The deferred retirement benefit shall be determined as follows: (A) For a Participant who became an inactive Participant on or before his or her Normal Retirement Date, an amount equal to the amount under (i) above multiplied by the late retirement factor in Article III that corresponds to the number of years his Late Retirement Date follows his Normal Retirement Date. (B) For a Participant who became an inactive Participant after his or her Normal Retirement Date, an amount equal to the greater of (1) or (2) below: (1) The Participant’s Accrued Benefit on the day before the date he or she became an inactive Participant. (2) His or her Accrued Benefit on his or her Normal Retirement Date actuarially adjusted to reflect the delay in commencement of benefits after his Normal Retirement Date. Provided, however, for an inactive Participant whose Late Retirement Date occurs after the April 1 following the calendar year in which he or she attains age 70½, such Participant’s deferred monthly retirement benefit determined in (1) or (2) above, whichever applies, shall be actuarially adjusted to reflect the delay in commencement of benefits after such April 1 date. Any distribution of vested benefits shall be a retirement benefit and shall be subject to the distribution of benefits provisions of Article V and the provisions of Section 3.06 of the Master Plan Document. The Participant’s Accrued Benefit shall be calculated on the day before he or she became an inactive Participant. The amount of payment under any form (other than the Normal Form) shall be determined as provided under Section 3.02 of the Master Plan Document. If the Participant dies before his or her Annuity Starting Date, death benefits shall be distributed according to the provisions of Section 4.01.


 
M-13 4841-1404-2944.2 ARTICLE V. WHEN BENEFITS START AND DISTRIBUTION OF BENEFITS Section 5.01. When Benefits Start. (a) A Participant with a vested benefit who terminates employment on or after meeting the Early Retirement Age and Service Requirements may commence receipt of his or her benefits on an Early Retirement Date, or on any later date as he or she may elect. (b) A Participant who terminates employment prior to his or her Early Retirement Date but who has met the service requirements under the Early Retirement Age and Service Requirements may elect to begin receiving an early retirement benefit on the first day of any month coincident with or following his or her Early Retirement Age, or on any later date as he or she may elect, or may elect to receive a Normal Retirement Benefit commencing on his or her Normal Retirement Date. Section 5.02. Mandatory Participant Contributions. Prior to October 1, 1989, “Contributing Participants” may have contributed to the Emerson Plan. Any withdrawal rights with respect to such contributions shall be provided under the Emerson Plan, not this Plan. Section 5.03. Automatic Forms of Distribution. Unless an optional form of benefit is selected pursuant to a qualified election within the election period (see Sections 3.02 and 3.03 of the Master Plan Document), the automatic form of benefit payable to or on behalf of a Participant is determined as follows: (a) Retirement Benefits. The automatic form of retirement benefit for a Participant who does not die before his Annuity Starting Date shall be: (i) The Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity for a Participant who has a Spouse on his or her Annuity Starting Date. (ii) The Normal Form for a Participant who does not have a Spouse on his or her Annuity Starting Date. (b) Death Benefits. The automatic form of death benefit for a Participant who dies before his Annuity Starting Date is determined according to the provisions of Section 4.01. Section 5.04. Suspension of Benefits Upon Reemployment. In the event a Participant who is receiving benefits under the Plan returns to the full-time employment of the Employer (as defined in the Employer’s employment practices) prior to his or her Required Beginning Date, payment of his or her benefits will continue. Upon his or her subsequent termination of employment with the Employer, the Participant shall continue to receive the benefit he or she was receiving during the period of reemployment; provided that, if the Participant’s most recent termination of employment occurred prior to January 1, 2018, then, to the extent the law so requires, in no event shall the Participant receive a benefit that is less valuable, on an actuarial basis, than the benefits to which he or she would be entitled under the Plan as in effect on the date of such subsequent termination, taking into account his or her age at the time of such subsequent termination and his or her Pension Credited


 
M-14 4841-1404-2944.2 Service earned during his or her period of reemployment (if any), reduced by the value of the benefits, other than disability benefits, he or she received prior to his or her subsequent termination date.


 
M-15 4841-1404-2944.2 EXHIBIT M-1: ACTUARIAL ASSUMPTIONS Actuarial Assumptions Joint and Survivor Annuity Form of Payment Age of Employee Less Age of Joint Annuitant Age-Related Retirement Percent of Life Annuity Payable to Employee with 50%, 66-2/3%, 75% or 100% of Reduced Amount Payable to Contingent Annuitant 50% 66-2/3% 75% 100% -2 87.40 86.70 81.40 -2 -3 87.90 87.20 82.20 -3 -4 88.40 87.70 83.00 -4 -5 88.90 88.20 83.70 -5 -6 89.40 88.70 84.40 -6 -7 89.90 89.20 85.10 -7 -8 90.40 89.70 85.80 -8 -9 90.90 90.20 86.50 -9 -10 91.40 90.70 87.20 -10 -11 91.90 91.20 87.90 -11 -12 92.40 91.70 88.60 -12 -13 92.90 92.20 89.30 -13 -14 93.40 92.70 90.00 -14 -15 93.90 93.20 90.70 -15 -16 94.30 93.70 91.40 -16 -17 94.70 94.20 92.10 -17 -18 95.00 94.70 92.80 -18 -19 95.30 95.20 93.40 -19 -20 or more 95.60 95.70 93.90 -20 or more * Reduce applicable Percent by an additional .20% for the Joint & 50% Contingent Annuity form, and by an additional .30% for the other forms, for each year in excess of 20. Example: Under the Joint & 50% Contingent Annuitant form, if employee is 23 years old than Contingent Annuitant, reduce the 78.20% by .60% to 77.60. 10 Years Certain and Life Form Age at Date of Retirement Percent of Life Annuity Benefits Payable to Employee 55 97.30% 56 97.00% 57 96.60% 58 96.20% 59 95.80% 60 95.30% 61 94.80% 62 94.10% 63 93.40% 64 92.60% 65 91.70% 66 90.70%


 
M-16 4841-1404-2944.2 67 89.70% 68 88.50% 69 87.30% 70 85.90% Note: The above table only gives the factors for years of attained age. The factor used to determine a Retirement benefit will take into account years and months of attained age at Retirement. For example, the factor of age 62 and 6 months is 93.75%.


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 

REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION
2018 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN
As Amended and Restated Effective October 4, 2021

1.Purpose and Effective Date.
(a)Purpose. The purpose of the Regal Rexnord Corporation 2018 Equity Incentive Plan (formerly, the Regal Beloit Corporation 2018 Equity Incentive Plan) is to promote the best interests of Regal Rexnord Corporation (formerly Regal Beloit Corporation, and together with any successor thereto, the “Company”) and its shareholders by providing key employees and consultants of the Company and its Affiliates (as defined below) and members of the Company’s Board of Directors who are not employees of the Company or its Affiliates with an opportunity to acquire shares of the Company’s common stock or receive monetary payments. It is intended that the Plan will promote continuity of management and increased incentive and personal interest in the welfare of the Company by those key employees who are primarily responsible for shaping and carrying out the long-range plans of the Company and securing the Company’s continued growth and financial success. In addition, by encouraging stock ownership by directors who are not employees of the Company or its Affiliates, the Company seeks to attract and retain on its Board of Directors persons of exceptional competence and to provide a further incentive to serve as a director of the Company.
(b)Term of Plan. This Plan will become effective, and Awards may be granted under this Plan, on and after April 30, 2018 (the “Effective Date”) contingent on the Plan being approved by the Company’s shareholders at the annual shareholders meeting on such date. This Plan will terminate as provided in Section 15.
(c)Prior Plans. If the Company’s shareholders approve this Plan, then the Regal Rexnord Corporation 2013 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Prior Plan”) will terminate, and no new awards will be granted under the Prior Plan, as of the Effective Date; provided that awards previously granted under the Prior Plan and still outstanding as of the Effective Date will continue to be subject to all terms and conditions of the Prior Plan and such awards shall continue in force and effect until fully distributed or terminated pursuant to their terms.
2.Definitions. Capitalized terms used in this Plan have the meanings given below. Additional defined terms are set forth in other sections of this Plan.
(a)“10% Shareholder” means an Eligible Employee who, as of the date an ISO is granted to such individual, owns more than ten percent (10%) of the total combined voting power of all classes of Stock then issued by the Company or a Subsidiary corporation.
(b)“Administrator” means (i) the Committee with respect to Participants who are Eligible Employees and Consultants and (ii) the Non-Employee Directors of the Board (or a committee of Non-Employee Directors appointed by the Board) with respect to Participants who are Directors.
(c)“Affiliate” means any entity that, directly or through one or more intermediaries, is controlled by, controls, or is under common control with the Company within the meaning of Code Sections 414(b) or (c); provided that, in applying such provisions, the phrase “at least 50 percent” shall be used in place of “at least 80 percent” each place it appears therein.
(d)“Award” means a grant of Options, Stock Appreciation Rights, Performance Shares, Performance Units, Restricted Stock, Restricted Stock Units, Deferred Stock Rights, Dividend Equivalent Units, or any other type of award permitted under the Plan.
(e)A Person shall be deemed to be the “Beneficial Owner” of any securities:
(i)that such Person or any of such Person’s Affiliates or associates has the right to acquire (whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time)
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pursuant to any agreement, arrangement or understanding, or upon the exercise of conversion rights, exchange rights, rights, warrants or options or otherwise; provided, however, that a Person shall not be deemed the Beneficial Owner of, or to beneficially own, securities tendered pursuant to a tender or exchange offer made by or on behalf of such Person or any of such Person’s Affiliates or associates until such tendered securities are accepted for purchase;
(ii)that such Person or any of such Person’s Affiliates or associates, directly or indirectly, has the right to vote or dispose of or has “beneficial ownership” of (as determined pursuant to Rule 13d-3 promulgated by the Commission under the Exchange Act), including pursuant to any agreement, arrangement or understanding; provided, however, that a Person shall not be deemed the Beneficial Owner of, or to beneficially own, any security under this clause (ii) as a result of an agreement, arrangement or understanding to vote such security if the agreement, arrangement or understanding: (A) arises solely from a revocable proxy or consent given to such Person in response to a public proxy or consent solicitation made pursuant to, and in accordance with, the applicable rules and regulations under the Exchange Act and (B) is not also then reportable on a Schedule 13D under the Exchange Act (or any comparable or successor report); or
(iii)that are beneficially owned, directly or indirectly, by any other Person with which such person or any of such Person’s Affiliates or associates has any agreement, arrangement or understanding for the purpose of acquiring, holding, voting (except pursuant to a revocable proxy as described in clause (ii) above) or disposing of any voting securities of the Company.
(f)“Board” means the Board of Directors of the Company.
(g)“Cause” means, except as otherwise determined by the Administrator and set forth in an Award Agreement, such act or omission by a Participant as is determined by the Administrator to constitute cause for termination, including but not limited to any of the following: (i) a material violation of any Company or Affiliate policy, including any policy contained in the Company Code of Business Conduct and Ethics; (ii) embezzlement from, or theft of property belonging to, the Company or any Affiliate; (iii) willful failure to perform or gross negligence in the performance of assigned duties; or (iv) other intentional misconduct, whether related to employment or otherwise, that has, or has the potential to have, an adverse effect on the business conducted by the Company or its Affiliates; provided that, during the twenty-four (24) month period following a Change of Control, “Cause” shall be limited to (A) the engaging by the Participant in intentional conduct not taken in good faith that the Company establishes, by clear and convincing evidence, has caused demonstrable and serious financial injury to the Company, as evidenced by a determination in a binding and final judgment, order or decree of a court or administrative agency of competent jurisdiction, in effect after exhaustion or lapse of all rights of appeal, in an action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative; (B) conviction of a felony (as evidenced by binding and final judgment, order or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction, in effect after exhaustion of all rights of appeal), which substantially impairs the Participant’s ability to perform his duties or responsibilities; or (C) continuing willful and unreasonable refusal by the Participant to perform the Participant’s duties or responsibilities (unless significantly changed without the Participant’s consent).
(h)“Change of Control” means the occurrence of an event described in any one of the following paragraphs:
(i)any Person, other than (A) the Company or any of its subsidiaries, (B) a trustee or other fiduciary holding securities under any employee benefit plan of the Company or any of its subsidiaries, (C) an underwriter temporarily holding securities pursuant to an offering of such securities or (D) a corporation owned, directly or indirectly, by the shareholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of stock in the Company (“Excluded Persons”), is or becomes the Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company (not including in the securities beneficially owned by such Person any securities acquired directly from the Company or its Affiliates after the Effective Date, pursuant to express authorization by the Board that refers to this exception) representing 20% or more of either the
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then outstanding Shares or the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding voting securities; or
(ii)the following individuals cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the number of directors of the Company then serving: (A) individuals who on the Effective Date constituted the Board and (B) any new director (other than a director whose initial assumption of office is in connection with an actual or threatened election contest, including but not limited to a consent solicitation, relating to the election of directors of the Company) whose appointment or election by the Board or nomination for election by the Company’s shareholders was approved by a vote of at least two-thirds (2/3) of the directors then still in office who either were Directors on the Effective Date, or whose appointment, election or nomination for election was previously so approved (collectively the “Continuing Directors”); provided, however, that individuals who are appointed to the Board pursuant to or in accordance with the terms of an agreement relating to a merger, consolidation or share exchange involving the Company (or any direct or indirect subsidiary of the Company) shall not be Continuing Directors for purposes of this Agreement until after such individuals are first nominated for election by a vote of at least two-thirds (2/3) of the then Continuing Directors and are thereafter elected as directors by the shareholders of the Company at a meeting of shareholders held following consummation of such merger, consolidation or share exchange; and provided further that in the event the failure of any such persons appointed to the Board to be Continuing Directors results in a Change in Control of the Company, the subsequent qualification of such persons as Continuing Directors shall not alter the fact that a Change in Control of the Company occurred; or
(iii)the consummation of a merger, consolidation or share exchange of the Company with any other corporation or the issuance of voting securities of the Company in connection with a merger, consolidation or share exchange of the Company (or any direct or indirect subsidiary of the Company), other than (A) a merger, consolidation or share exchange that would result in the voting securities of the Company outstanding immediately prior to such merger, consolidation or share exchange continuing to represent (either by remaining outstanding or by being converted into voting securities of the surviving entity or any parent thereof) at least 50% of the combined voting power of the voting securities of the Company or such surviving entity or any parent thereof outstanding immediately after such merger, consolidation or share exchange, or (B) a merger, consolidation or share exchange effected to implement a recapitalization of the Company (or similar transaction) in which no Person (other than an Excluded Person) is or becomes the Beneficial Owner, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company (not including in the securities beneficially owned by such Person any securities acquired directly from the Company or its Affiliates after the Effective Date, pursuant to express authorization by the Board that refers to this exception) representing 20% or more of either the then outstanding Shares or the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding voting securities;
(iv)the shareholders of the Company approve of a plan of complete liquidation or dissolution of the Company or there is consummated a sale or disposition by the Company of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets (in one transaction or a series of related transactions within any period of 24 consecutive months), other than a sale or disposition by the Company of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets to an entity at least 75% of the combined voting power of the voting securities of which are owned by Persons in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of the Company immediately prior to such sale.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, (1) no “Change of Control” shall be deemed to have occurred if there is consummated any transaction or series of integrated transactions immediately following which the record holders of the Stock immediately prior to such transaction or series of transactions continue to own, directly or indirectly, in the same proportions as their ownership in the Company, an entity that owns all or substantially all of the assets or voting securities of the Company immediately following such transaction or series of transactions and (2) with respect to an Award that is or may be considered deferred compensation subject to Code Section 409A, the definition of “Change of Control” herein shall be amended and interpreted in a manner that allows the definition to satisfy the requirements of a change of
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control under Code Section 409A solely for purposes of complying with the requirements of Code Section 409A.

(i) “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. Any reference to a specific provision of the Code includes any successor provision and the regulations promulgated under such provision.
(j)“Commission” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission or any successor agency.
(k)“Committee” means the Compensation and Human Resources Committee of the Board (or a successor committee with the same or similar authority), or such other committee of the Board designated by the Board to administer the Plan and composed of no fewer than two directors, each of whom is a “non-employee director” within the meaning of Rule 16b-3; provided that if no such committee shall be in existence at any time, the functions of the Committee shall be carried out by the Board.
(l)“Company” means Regal Rexnord Corporation, a Wisconsin corporation, or any successor thereto. Prior to October 4, 2021, the term “Company” meant Regal Beloit Corporation.
(m)“Consultant” means a person or entity rendering services to the Company or an Affiliate other than as an employee of any such entity or a Director.
(n)“Deferred Stock Right” means the right to receive Stock or Restricted Stock at some future time.
(o)“Director” means a member of the Board, and “Non-Employee Director” means a Director who is not also an employee of the Company or an Affiliate.
(p)"Disability" means, except as otherwise determined by the Administrator and set forth in an Award Agreement: (i) with respect to an ISO, the meaning given in Code Section 22(e)(3), and (ii) with respect to all other Awards, a physical or mental incapacity which qualifies an individual to collect a benefit under a long term disability plan maintained by the Company or an Affiliate, or such similar mental or physical condition which the Administrator may determine to be a disability, regardless of whether either the individual or the condition is covered by any such long term disability plan. The Administrator shall make the determination of Disability and may request such evidence of disability as it reasonably determines.
(q)“Dividend Equivalent Unit” means the right to receive a payment, in cash or Shares, equal to the cash dividends or other distributions paid with respect to a Share.
(r)“Eligible Employee” means any officer or other key employee of the Company or of any Affiliate who is responsible for or is in a position to contribute to the management, growth or profitability of the business of the Company or any Affiliate as determined by the Committee.
(s)“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Any reference to a specific provision of the Exchange Act includes any successor provision and the regulations and rules promulgated under such provision.
(t) “Fair Market Value” means, per Share on a particular date: (i) the closing price on such date on the New York Stock Exchange or, if no sales of Stock occur on the date in question, on the last preceding date on which there was a sale on such market; (ii) if the Shares are not listed on the New York Stock Exchange, but are traded on another national securities exchange or in an over-the-counter market, the last sales price (or, if there is no last sales price reported, the average of the last bid and asked prices) for the Shares on the particular date, or on the last preceding date on which there was a sale of Shares on that exchange or market; or (iii) if the Shares are neither listed on a national securities exchange nor traded in an over-the-counter market, the price determined by the Administrator. The
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Administrator also shall establish the Fair Market Value of any other property. If an actual sale of a Share occurs on the market, then the Company may consider the sale price to be the Fair Market Value of such Share.
(u)“Good Reason” means, except as otherwise determined by the Administrator and set forth in an Award Agreement:
(i)any breach by the Company of any employment or similar agreement between the Company (including, for purposes of this definition of Good Reason, any successor to the Company in a Change of Control) and the Participant, other than an isolated, insubstantial and inadvertent failure not occurring in bad faith that the Company remedies promptly after receipt of notice thereof given by the Participant;
(ii)any reduction in the Participant’s base salary, percentage of base salary available as incentive compensation or bonus opportunity or benefits, in each case relative to those most favorable to the Participant in effect at any time during the 180-day period prior to the Change of Control or, to the extent more favorable to the Participant, those in effect at any time after the Change of Control;
(iii)the removal of the Participant from, or any failure to reelect or reappoint the Participant to, any of the positions held with the Company on the date of the Change of Control or any other positions with the Company to which the Participant shall thereafter be elected, appointed or assigned, except in the event that such removal or failure to reelect or reappoint relates to the termination by the Company of the Participant’s employment for Cause or by reason of Disability;
(iv)a good faith determination by the Participant that there has been a material adverse change, without the Participant’s written consent, in the Participant’s working conditions or status with the Company relative to the most favorable working conditions or status in effect during the 180-day period prior to the Change of Control or, to the extent more favorable to the Participant, those in effect at any time after the Change of Control, including but not limited to (A) a significant change in the nature or scope of the Participant’s authority, powers, functions, duties or responsibilities, or (B) a significant reduction in the level of support services, staff, secretarial and other assistance, office space and accoutrements, but in each case excluding for this purpose an isolated, insubstantial and inadvertent event not occurring in bad faith that the Company remedies within ten (10) days after receipt of notice thereof given by the Participant;
(v)the relocation of the Participant’s principal place of employment to a location more than 50 miles from the Participant’s principal place of employment on the date 180 days prior to the Change of Control;
(vi)the Company requires the Participant to travel on Company business 20% in excess of the average number of days per month the Participant was required to travel during the 180-day period prior to the Change of Control; or
(vii)failure by the Company to obtain an agreement from any purchaser, assignee or transferee of substantially all of the Company’s business and assets, or the survivor in a merger, consolidation or combination with the Company, to expressly assume and agree to perform from and after the date of such assignment all of the terms, conditions and provisions imposed by an employment or similar agreement between the Participant and the Company.
(v)“Incentive Stock Option” or “ISO” mean an Option that meets the requirements of Code Section 422.
(w)“Option” means the right to purchase Shares at a stated price for a specified period of time.
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(x)“Participant” means an individual selected by the Administrator to receive an Award.
(y)“Performance Awards” means a Performance Share and Performance Unit, and any Award of Restricted Stock, Restricted Stock Units or Deferred Stock Rights the payment or vesting of which is contingent on the attainment of one or more Performance Goals.
(z)“Performance Goals” means any goals the Administrator establishes. The Performance Goals may include a threshold level of performance below which no payment will be made (or no vesting will occur), levels of performance at which specified payments will be paid (or specified vesting will occur), and a maximum level of performance above which no additional payment will be made (or at which full vesting will occur).
(aa) “Performance Shares” means the right to receive Shares (including Restricted Stock) to the extent Performance Goals are achieved.
(ab)“Performance Unit” means the right to receive a payment in cash or Shares valued in relation to a unit that has a designated dollar value or the value of which is equal to the Fair Market Value of one or more Shares, to the extent Performance Goals are achieved.
(ac)“Person” shall mean any individual, corporation, partnership, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or government or political subdivision thereof.
(ad)“Plan” means this Regal Rexnord Corporation 2018 Equity Incentive Plan, as may be amended from time to time.
(ae)“Restriction Period” means the length of time established relative to an Award during which the Participant cannot sell, assign, transfer, pledge or otherwise encumber the Stock or Stock Units subject to such Award and at the end of which the Participant obtains an unrestricted right to such Stock or Stock Units.
(af)“Restricted Stock” means a Share that is subject to a risk of forfeiture or a Restriction Period, or both a risk of forfeiture and a Restriction Period.
(ag)“Restricted Stock Unit” means the right to receive a payment in cash or Shares equal to the Fair Market Value of one Share that is subject to a risk of forfeiture or restrictions on transfer, or both a risk of forfeiture and restrictions on transfer.
(ah)“Retirement” means, except as otherwise determined by the Administrator and set forth in an Award agreement, (i) with respect to Participants who are Eligible Employees, termination of employment or service from the Company and its Affiliates (other than for Cause) on or after attainment of age fifty-eight (58) and completion of ten (10) years of service with the Company and its Affiliates, and (ii) with respect to Director Participants, the Director’s removal (other than for Cause), or resignation or failure to be re-elected (other than for Cause) on or after reaching the mandatory retirement age set forth in the Company’s Corporate Governance Guidelines. Unless otherwise determined by the Administrator, the calculation of an Eligible Employee’s years of service for purposes of the definition of Retirement shall include pre-acquisition service with any entity that was acquired by the Company or an Affiliate, provided such service was continuous until the time of the acquisition.
(ai)“Rule 16b-3” means Rule 16b-3 promulgated by the Commission under the Exchange Act, or any successor rule or regulation thereto.
(aj)“Section 16 Participants” means Participants who are subject to the provisions of Section 16 of the Exchange Act.
(ak)“Share” means a share of Stock.
(al)“Stock” means the Common Stock of the Company, par value $0.01 per share.
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(am)“Stock Appreciation Right” or “SAR” means the right to receive a payment in cash or Shares equal to the appreciation of the Fair Market Value of a Share during a specified period of time.
(an)“Stock Unit” means a right to receive a payment in cash or Shares equal to the Fair Market Value of one Share.
(ao)“Subsidiary” means any corporation or limited liability company (except such an entity that is treated as a partnership for U.S. income tax purposes) in an unbroken chain of entities beginning with the Company if each of the entities (other than the last entity in the chain) owns stock or equity interests possessing more than fifty percent (50%) of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock or equity interests in one of the other entities in the chain.
3.Administration.
(a)Administration. In addition to the authority specifically granted to the Administrator in this Plan, but subject to any restrictions specified herein, the Administrator has full discretionary authority to administer this Plan, including but not limited to the authority to: (i) interpret the provisions of this Plan and any Award agreement; (ii) prescribe, amend and rescind rules and regulations relating to this Plan; (iii) correct any defect, supply any omission, or reconcile any inconsistency in this Plan, any Award or agreement covering an Award in the manner and to the extent it deems desirable to carry this Plan or such Award into effect; and (iv) make all other determinations necessary or advisable for the administration of this Plan. All Administrator determinations shall be made in the sole discretion of the Administrator and are final and binding on all interested parties.
Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the contrary, the Administrator shall have the discretion to accelerate or shorten the vesting, Restriction Period or performance period of an Award, in connection with a Participant’s death, Disability, Retirement or termination by the Company without Cause or upon a Change of Control.
(b)Delegation to Other Committees or Officers. To the extent applicable law permits, the Board may delegate to another committee of the Board or to one or more officers of the Company, or the Committee may delegate to one or more officers of the Company, any or all of their respective authority and responsibility as an Administrator of the Plan; provided that no such delegation is permitted with respect to Stock-based Awards made to Section 16 Participants at the time any such delegated authority or responsibility is exercised unless the delegation is to another committee of the Board consisting entirely of Non-Employee Directors. If the Board or the Committee has made such a delegation, then all references to the Administrator in this Plan include such other committee or one or more officers to the extent of such delegation.
(c)Indemnification. The Company will indemnify and hold harmless each member of the Board and the Committee, and each officer or member of any other committee to whom a delegation under Section 3(b) has been made, as to any acts or omissions with respect to this Plan or any Award to the maximum extent that the law and the Company’s by-laws permit.
4.Eligibility. The Administrator may designate any of the following as a Participant from time to time, to the extent of the Administrator’s authority: any Eligible Employee, any Consultant or any Director, including a Non-Employee Director. The Administrator’s granting of an Award to a Participant will not require the Administrator to grant an Award to such individual at any future time. The Administrator’s granting of a particular type of Award to a Participant will not require the Administrator to grant any other type of Award to such individual.
5.Types of Awards. Subject to the terms of this Plan, the Administrator may grant any type of Award to any Participant it selects, but only employees of the Company or a Subsidiary may receive grants of Incentive Stock Options. Awards may be granted alone or in addition to, in tandem with, or in substitution for any other Award (or any other award granted under another plan of the Company or any Affiliate).
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6.Shares Reserved under this Plan.
(a)Plan Reserve. Subject to adjustment as provided in Section 16, an aggregate of Two Million One Hundred Thousand (2,100,000) Shares, plus the number of Shares available under the Prior Plan that had not been made subject to outstanding awards as of the Effective Date, plus the number of Shares described in Section 6(d) are reserved for issuance under this Plan. The Shares reserved for issuance may be either authorized and unissued Shares or Shares reacquired at any time and now or hereafter held as treasury stock. With respect to Awards that are settleable in Stock, the aggregate number of Shares reserved under Section 6(a) shall be depleted at the time an Award is granted, by the maximum number of Shares with respect to which such Award is granted; provided that the aggregate number of Shares reserved under Section 6(a) shall be depleted by two (2) Shares for each Share subject to a full-value Award. For this purpose, a full-value Award includes Restricted Stock, Restricted Stock Units, Performance Shares, Performance Units (valued in relation to a Share), Deferred Stock Rights and any other similar Award under which the value of the Award is measured as the full value of a Share, rather than the increase in the value of a Share. For purposes of determining the aggregate number of Shares reserved for issuance under this Plan, any fractional Share shall be rounded to the next highest full Share.
(b)Incentive Stock Option Award Limits. Subject to adjustment as provided in Section 16, the Company may issue only an aggregate of Five Hundred Thousand (500,000) Shares upon the exercise of Incentive Stock Options.
(c)Replenishment of Shares Under this Plan. If (i) an Award lapses, expires, terminates or is cancelled without the issuance of all of the Shares under the Award (whether due currently or on a deferred basis), (ii) it is determined during or at the conclusion of the term of an Award that all or some portion of the Shares with respect to which the Award was granted will not be issuable on the basis that the conditions for such issuance will not be satisfied, (iii) Shares are forfeited under an Award or (iv) Shares are issued under any Award and the Company subsequently reacquires them pursuant to rights reserved upon the issuance of the Shares, then such Shares shall be recredited to the Plan’s reserve (in the same number as they depleted the reserve) and may again be used for new Awards under this Plan, but Shares recredited to the Plan’s reserve pursuant to clause (iv) may not be issued pursuant to Incentive Stock Options. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall the following Shares be recredited to the Plan’s reserve: Shares tendered or withheld in payment of the exercise price of an Option or as a result of the net settlement of an outstanding SAR; Shares withheld to satisfy federal, state or local tax withholding obligations; and Shares purchased by the Company using proceeds from Option exercises.
(d)Addition of Shares from Prior Plan. After the Effective Date, if any Shares subject to awards granted under the Prior Plan would again become available for new grants under the terms of such plans if such plans were still in effect (taking into account such plan’s provisions concerning termination or expiration, if any), then those Shares will be available for the purpose of granting Awards under this Plan, thereby increasing the number of Shares available for issuance under this Plan as determined under Section 6(a). Any such Shares will not be available for future awards under the terms of the Prior Plan.
(e)Director Award Limit. In no event shall the aggregate grant date value (determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles) of all Awards granted to a Non-Employee Director in a fiscal year of the Company, taken together with any cash fees paid during a calendar year to the Non-Employee Director, exceed $500,000.
7.Options. Subject to the terms of this Plan, the Administrator will determine all terms and conditions of each Option, including but not limited to:
(a)Whether the Option is an Incentive Stock Option or a “nonqualified stock option” which does not meet the requirements of Code Section 422;
(b)The number of Shares subject to the Option;
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(c)The date of grant, which may not be prior to the date of the Administrator’s approval of the grant;
(d)The exercise price, which may not be less than the Fair Market Value of the Shares subject to the Option as determined on the date of grant; provided that an Incentive Stock Option granted to a 10% Shareholder must have an exercise price at least equal to 110% of the Fair Market Value of the Shares subject to the Option as determined on the date of grant;
(e)The terms and conditions of exercise, including the manner and form of payment of the exercise price; provided that if the aggregate Fair Market Value of the Shares subject to all ISOs granted to a Participant (as determined on the date of grant of each such Option) that become exercisable during a calendar year exceed $100,000, then such ISOs shall be treated as nonqualified stock options to the extent such $100,000 limitation is exceeded; and
(f)The term; provided that each Option must terminate no later than ten (10) years after the date of grant and each Incentive Stock Option granted to a 10% Shareholder must terminate no later than five (5) years after the date of grant.
In all other respects, the terms of any Incentive Stock Option should comply with the provisions of Code Section 422 except to the extent the Administrator determines otherwise. If an Option that is intended to be an Incentive Stock Option fails to meet the requirements thereof, the Option shall automatically be treated as a nonqualified stock option to the extent of such failure.
8.Stock Appreciation Rights. Subject to the terms of this Plan, the Administrator will determine all terms and conditions of each SAR, including but not limited to:
(a)Whether the SAR is granted independently of an Option or relates to an Option;
(b)The number of Shares to which the SAR relates;
(c)The date of grant, which may not be prior to the date of the Administrator’s approval of the grant;
(d)The grant price, provided that the grant price shall not be less than the Fair Market Value of the Shares subject to the SAR as determined on the date of grant;
(e)The terms and conditions of exercise or maturity;
(f)The term, provided that each SAR must terminate no later than ten (10) years after the date of grant; and
(g)Whether the SAR will be settled in cash, Shares or a combination thereof.
If an SAR is granted in relation to an Option, then, unless otherwise determined by the Administrator, the SAR shall be exercisable or shall mature at the same time or times, on the same conditions and to the extent and in the proportion, that the related Option is exercisable and may be exercised or mature for all or part of the Shares subject to the related Option. Upon exercise of any number of SARs, the number of Shares subject to the related Option shall be reduced accordingly and such Option may not be exercised with respect to that number of Shares. The exercise of any number of Options that relate to an SAR shall likewise result in an equivalent reduction in the number of Shares covered by the related SAR.
9.Performance and Stock Awards. Subject to the terms of this Plan, the Administrator will determine all terms and conditions of each award of Restricted Stock, Restricted Stock Units, Deferred Stock Rights, Performance Shares or Performance Units, including but not limited to:
(a)The number of Shares and/or units to which such Award relates;
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(b)Whether, as a condition for the Participant to realize all or a portion of the benefit provided under the Award, one or more Performance Goals must be achieved during such period as the Administrator specifies;
(c)The performance period for Performance Awards (which must be at least one (1) year or run from annual meeting date to annual meeting date, subject to the provisions of Sections 3, 13 and 17);
(d)With respect to Performance Units, whether to measure the value of each unit in relation to a designated dollar value or the Fair Market Value of one or more Shares; and
(e)With respect to Restricted Stock Units and Performance Units, whether to settle such Awards in cash, in Shares, or a combination thereof.
Unless the Administrator shall otherwise provide, during the time Restricted Stock is subject to the Restriction Period, (1) to the extent not prohibited by law, the Participant shall be deemed to have appointed the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Corporate Secretary, and each of them, as proxies, each with the power to appoint a substitute, authorizing them to represent and to vote the Participant’s Restricted Stock in accordance with the Board’s recommendations on all matters that are submitted to a shareholder vote (such appointment being irrevocable and coupled with an interest and extending until the expiration of the Restriction Period) and (2) the Participant shall have the right to receive any dividends paid with respect to such Stock; provided that such dividends shall be subject to the same conditions and restrictions applicable to such Stock and shall not be paid currently but shall be accrued and paid within thirty (30) days of such time as all applicable restrictions lapse and the Restriction Period expires.
Except as otherwise provided in the Plan, at such time as all restrictions applicable to an Award of Restricted Stock, Deferred Stock Rights or Restricted Stock Units are met and the Restriction Period expires, ownership of the Stock subject to such restrictions shall be transferred to the Participant free of all restrictions except those that may be imposed by applicable law; provided that if Restricted Stock Units are paid in cash, the payment shall be made to the Participant after all applicable restrictions lapse and the Restriction Period expires.
10.Dividend Equivalent Units. Subject to the terms of this Plan, the Administrator will determine all terms and conditions of each award of Dividend Equivalent Units, including but not limited to whether: (a) such Award will be granted in tandem with another Award; (b) payment of the Award be made currently or credited to an account for the Participant that provides for the deferral of such amounts until a stated time; and (c) the Award will be settled in cash or Shares; provided that Dividend Equivalent Units may be granted only in connection with a “full-value” Award as defined in Section 6(a) and may not may not be granted in connection with Options or SARs; and provided further that each Dividend Equivalent Unit granted in tandem with another Award shall provide for payment only if, when, and only to the same extent as, such other Award vests; and provided further that, to the extent settled in cash, Dividend Equivalent Units shall not deplete the number of Shares reserved under Section 6(a).
11.Other Stock-Based Awards. Subject to the terms of this Plan, the Administrator may grant to Participants other types of Awards, which shall be denominated or payable in, valued in whole or in part by reference to, or otherwise based on, Shares, either alone or in addition to or in conjunction with other Awards, and payable in Stock or cash. Without limitation, such Award may include the issuance of unrestricted Shares, which may be awarded in payment of director fees, in lieu of cash compensation, in exchange for cancellation of a compensation right, as a bonus, upon the attainment of Performance Goals or otherwise, or rights to acquire Stock from the Company. The Administrator shall determine all terms and conditions of the Award, including but not limited to, the time or times at which such Awards shall be made, and the number of Shares to be granted pursuant to such Awards or to which such Award shall relate; provided that any Award that provides for purchase rights shall be priced at 100% of Fair Market Value on the date of grant of the Award and provided further that any Dividend Equivalent Units relating to such Awards shall not be paid with respect to such Award prior to its vesting, and any dividend payable on any Share issued pursuant to this Section 11 shall be accumulated and paid if and only to the same extent as the Share vests.
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12.Minimum Vesting Period. All Awards granted under the Plan shall have a minimum vesting period of one year from the date of grant, provided that such minimum vesting period will not apply in connection with (a) a Change of Control as provided in Section 17(c), (b) a Participant’s termination due to death or Disability, (c) a substitute award that does not reduce the vesting period of the award being replaced, or (d) Awards with respect to up to 5% of the total number of Shares reserved pursuant to Section 6(a). For purposes of Awards granted to Non-Employee Directors, “one year” may mean the period of time from one annual shareholders meeting to the next annual shareholders meeting, provided that such period of time is not less than 50 weeks.
13.Effect of Termination on Awards. Subject to the provisions of Section 12, if the Participant has in effect an employment, retention, change of control, severance or similar agreement with the Company or any Affiliate that discusses the effect of the Participant’s termination of employment or service on the Participant’s Awards, then such agreement shall control. In any other case, subject to the provisions of Section 12, except as otherwise provided by the Administrator in an Award agreement or as determined by the Administrator prior to or at the time of termination of a Participant’s employment or service, the following provisions shall apply upon a Participant’s termination of employment or service with the Company and its Affiliates.
(a)Termination of Employment or Service. If a Participant’s service with the Company and its Affiliates as an employee or Director ends for any reason other than (i) a termination for Cause, (ii) death or (iii) Disability, then:
(i)Any outstanding unvested Options or SARs shall be forfeited immediately upon such termination, and any outstanding vested Options or SARs shall be exercisable until the earlier of one hundred eighty (180) days following the Participant’s termination date and the expiration date of the Option or SAR under the terms of the applicable Award agreement.
(ii)All other Awards made to the Participant, to the extent not then earned, vested or paid to the Participant, shall terminate on the Participant’s last day of employment or service.
(b)Death of Participant. If a Participant dies during employment with the Company and its Affiliates or while a Director:
(i)All outstanding unvested Options or SARs shall be forfeited immediately on the date of death, and any outstanding vested Options or SARS shall be exercisable by the Participant’s estate or the person who has acquired the right to exercise such Awards by bequest or inheritance. The Participant’s estate, or any person who succeeds to the Participant’s benefits under the Plan, may exercise such Options or SARs until the earlier of twelve (12) months following the date of the Participant’s death and the expiration date of the Option or SAR under the terms of the applicable Award agreement.
(ii)All restrictions on all outstanding Awards of Restricted Stock or Restricted Units (that are not Performance Awards) shall be deemed to have lapsed on a prorated basis based on the portion of the Restriction Period that the Participant has completed on the date of death.
(iii)All outstanding Deferred Stock Rights (that are not Performance Awards) shall be vested on a prorated basis based on the portion of the deferral period that the Participant has completed on the date of death.
(iv)All Performance Awards outstanding on the date of the Participant’s death shall be paid in either unrestricted Shares or cash, as the case may be, following the end of the performance period and based on achievement of the Performance Goals established for such Awards, as if the Participant had not died, but prorated based on the portion of the performance period that the Participant has completed at the time of death.
(c)Disability of Participant. If a Participant’s employment with the Company and its Affiliates or service as a Director terminates due to a Disability, then:
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(i)All outstanding unvested Options or SARs shall be forfeited immediately on such termination, and any outstanding vested Options or SARs shall be exercisable by the Participant until the earlier of twelve (12) months following the date of the Participant’s termination and the expiration date of the Option or SAR under the terms of the applicable Award agreement.
(ii)All restrictions applicable to an outstanding Award of Restricted Stock or Restricted Units (that are not Performance Awards) shall be deemed to have lapsed on a prorated basis, based on the portion of the Restriction Period the Participant completed as of the date of such termination.
(iii)All outstanding Deferred Stock Rights (that are not Performance Awards) shall be vested on a prorated basis based on the portion of the deferral period that the Participant completed on the date of such termination.
(iv)All Performance Awards outstanding on the date of such termination shall be paid in either unrestricted Shares or cash, as the case may be, based on the degree to which the Participant had attained the applicable Performance Goals as of the date of such termination, but prorated based on the portion of the performance period that the Participant has completed at the time of termination.
(d)Termination for Cause. If a Participant’s employment with the Company and its Affiliates or service as a Director is terminated for Cause, all Awards and grants of every type, whether or not then vested, shall terminate no later than the Participant’s last day of employment. The Committee shall have discretion to waive the application of this Section 13(d) in whole or in part and to determine whether the event or conduct at issue constitutes Cause for termination.
(e)Consultants and Other Stock-Based Awards. The Committee shall have the discretion to determine, at the time an Award is made, the effect of the termination of service of a Consultant on Awards held by such individual, and the effect on other Stock-based Awards of the Participant’s termination of employment or service with the Company and its Affiliates.
14.Transferability.
(a)Restrictions on Transfer. No Award (other than unrestricted Shares), and no right under any such Award, shall be assignable, alienable, saleable, or transferable by a Participant otherwise than by will or by the laws of descent and distribution; provided that, at the discretion of the Administrator, a Participant may be entitled, in the manner established by the Administrator, to designate a beneficiary or beneficiaries to exercise his or her rights, and to receive any property distributable, with respect to any Award upon the death of the Participant. No Award (other than unrestricted Shares), and no right under any such Award, may be pledged, attached or otherwise encumbered, and any purported pledge, attachment or encumbrance thereof shall be void and unenforceable against the Company or any Affiliate.
(b)Restrictions on Exercisability. Each Award, and each right under any Award, shall be exercisable during the lifetime of the Participant only by such individual or, if permissible under applicable law, by such individual’s guardian or legal representative.
15.Termination and Amendment of Plan; Amendment, Modification or Cancellation of Awards.
(a)Term of Plan. Unless the Board or Committee earlier terminates this Plan pursuant to Section 15(b), this Plan will terminate on the date all Shares reserved for issuance have been issued. If the term of this Plan extends beyond ten (10) years from the Effective Date, no Incentive Stock Options may be granted after such time unless the shareholders of the Company have approved an extension of this Plan.
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(b)Termination and Amendment. The Board or the Committee may amend, alter, suspend, discontinue or terminate this Plan at any time, subject to the following limitations:
(i)the Board must approve any amendment of this Plan to the extent the Company determines such approval is required by: (A) action of the Board, (B) applicable corporate law, or (C) any other applicable law;
(ii)shareholders must approve any amendment of this Plan to the extent the Company determines such approval is required by: (A) Section 16 of the Exchange Act, (B) the Code, (C) the listing requirements of any principal securities exchange or market on which the Shares are then traded, or (D) any other applicable law; and
(iii)shareholders must approve any of the following Plan amendments: (A) an amendment to materially increase any number of Shares specified in Section 6(a) or 6(b) (except as permitted by Section 16), (B) an amendment to expand the group of individuals that may become Participants, or (C) an amendment that would diminish the protections afforded by Section 15(e) or that would materially change the minimum vesting and performance requirements of an Award as required in the Plan.
(c)Amendment, Modification, Cancellation and Disgorgement of Awards.
(i)Except as provided in Section 15(e) and subject to the requirements of this Plan, the Administrator may modify, amend or cancel any Award or waive any restrictions or conditions applicable to any Award or the exercise of the Award, provided that any modification or amendment that materially diminishes the rights of the Participant, or the cancellation of the Award, shall be effective only if agreed to by the Participant or any other person(s) as may then have an interest in the Award, but the Administrator need not obtain Participant (or other interested party) consent for the modification, amendment or cancellation of an Award pursuant to the provisions of subsection (ii) or Section 16 or as follows: (A) to the extent the Administrator deems such action necessary to comply with any applicable law, the listing requirements of any principal securities exchange or market on which the Shares are then traded; (B) to the extent the Administrator deems necessary to preserve favorable accounting or tax treatment of any Award for the Company; or (C) to the extent the Administrator determines that such action does not materially and adversely affect the value of an Award or that such action is in the best interest of the affected Participant or any other person(s) as may then have an interest in the Award. Notwithstanding the foregoing, unless determined otherwise by the Administrator, any such amendment shall be made in a manner that will enable an Award intended to be exempt from Code Section 409A to continue to be so exempt, or to enable an Award intended to comply with Code Section 409A to continue to so comply.
(ii)Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in an Award Agreement, the Administrator shall have full power and authority to terminate or cause the Participant to forfeit an Award, and require the Participant to disgorge to the Company any gains attributable to the Award, if (A) while the Participant is employed by or in service with the Company or any Affiliate, the Participant competes with the Company or an Affiliate, participates in any enterprise that competes with the Company or an Affiliate or uses or discloses, other than as expressly authorized by the Company, any confidential business information or trade secrets that the Participant obtains during the course of his or her employment or service with the Company or any Affiliate; or (B) after the Participant is no longer employed by or in service with the Company or any Affiliate, the Participant is determined by the Administrator in its reasonable discretion (1) to be in breach of any confidentiality, noncompetition, nonsolicitation or similar agreement between the Participant, on the one hand, and the Company or any Affiliate, on the other hand (the Participant’s “Restrictive Agreement”), or (2) while any Award Agreement is in effect, to have engaged in conduct that would have constituted a breach of the Participant’s Restrictive Agreement if such Restrictive Agreement were then in effect.
(iii)Any Awards granted pursuant to this Plan, and any Stock issued or cash paid pursuant to an Award, shall be subject to (A) any recoupment, clawback, equity holding, stock
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ownership or similar policies adopted by the Company from time to time (to the extent contemplated by such policies) and (B) any recoupment, clawback, equity holding, stock ownership or similar requirements made applicable by law, regulation or listing standards to the Company from time to time (to the extent contemplated by such requirements).
(iv)Unless the Award Agreement specifies otherwise, the Administrator may cancel any Award at any time if the Participant is not in compliance with all applicable provisions of the Award Agreement and the Plan.
(d)Survival of Authority and Awards. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the authority of the Board and the Administrator under this Section 15 and to otherwise administer the Plan will extend beyond the date of this Plan’s termination. In addition, termination of this Plan will not affect the rights of Participants with respect to Awards previously granted to them, and all unexpired Awards will continue in force and effect after termination of this Plan except as they may lapse or be terminated by their own terms and conditions.
(e)Repricing and Backdating Prohibited. Notwithstanding anything in this Plan to the contrary, and except for the adjustments provided in Section 16, neither the Administrator nor any other person may decrease the exercise or grant price for any outstanding Option or SAR after the date of grant, cancel an outstanding Option or SAR in exchange for cash or other Awards (other than cash or other Awards with a value equal to the excess of the Fair Market Value of the Shares subject to such Option or SAR at the time of cancellation over the exercise or grant price for such Shares) or allow a Participant to surrender an outstanding Option or SAR to the Company as consideration for the grant of a new Option or SAR with a lower exercise price. In addition, the Administrator may not make a grant of an Option or SAR with a grant date that is effective prior to the date the Administrator takes action to approve such Award.
(f)Foreign Participation. To assure the viability of Awards granted to Participants employed or residing in foreign countries, the Administrator may provide for such special terms as it may consider necessary or appropriate to accommodate differences in local law, tax policy or custom. Moreover, the Administrator may approve such supplements to, or amendments, restatements or alternative versions of, this Plan as it determines is necessary or appropriate for such purposes. Any such amendment, restatement or alternative versions that the Administrator approves for purposes of using this Plan in a foreign country will not affect the terms of this Plan for any other country. In addition, all such supplements, amendments, restatements or alternative versions must comply with the provisions of Section 15(b)(ii).
In addition, if an Award is held by a Participant who is employed or residing in a foreign country and the amount payable or Shares issuable under such Award would be taxable to the Participant under Code Section 457A in the year such Award is no longer subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture, then the amount payable or Shares issuable under such Award shall be paid or issued to the Participant as soon as practicable after such substantial risk of forfeiture lapses (or, for Awards that are not considered nonqualified deferred compensation subject to Code Section 409A, no later than the end of the short-term deferral period permitted by Code Section 457A) notwithstanding anything in this Plan or the Award Agreement to contrary.
(g)Code Section 409A. The provisions of Code Section 409A are incorporated herein by reference to the extent necessary for any Award that is subject to Code Section 409A to comply therewith.
16.Taxes.
(a)Withholding. In the event the Company or an Affiliate of the Company is required to withhold any Federal, state or local taxes or other amounts in respect of any income recognized by a Participant as a result of the grant, vesting, payment or settlement of an Award or disposition of any Shares acquired under an Award, the Company may deduct (or require an Affiliate to deduct) from any payments of any kind otherwise due the Participant cash, or with the consent of the Committee, Shares otherwise deliverable or vesting under an Award, to satisfy such tax obligations. Alternatively, the
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Company may require such Participant to pay to the Company, in cash, promptly on demand, or make other arrangements satisfactory to the Company regarding the payment to the Company of the aggregate amount of any such taxes and other amounts. If Shares are deliverable upon exercise or payment of an Award, the Committee may permit a Participant to satisfy all or a portion of the Federal, state and local withholding tax obligations arising in connection with such Award by electing to (i) have the Company withhold Shares otherwise issuable under the Award, (ii) tender back Shares received in connection with such Award or (iii) deliver other previously owned Shares; provided that the amount to be withheld may not exceed the total maximum statutory tax withholding obligations associated with the transaction to the extent needed for the Company to avoid an accounting charge. If an election is provided, the election must be made on or before the date as of which the amount of tax to be withheld is determined and otherwise as the Committee requires. In any case, the Company may defer making payment or delivery under any Award if any such tax may be pending unless and until indemnified to its satisfaction.
(b)No Guarantee of Tax Treatment. Notwithstanding any provisions of the Plan, the Company does not guarantee to any Participant or any other Person with an interest in an Award that (i) any Award intended to be exempt from Code Section 409A shall be so exempt, (ii) any Award intended to comply with Code Section 409A or Code Section 422 shall so comply, (iii) any Award shall otherwise receive a specific tax treatment under any other applicable tax law, nor in any such case will the Company or any Affiliate indemnify, defend or hold harmless any individual with respect to the tax consequences of any Award.
(c)Participant Responsibilities. If a Participant shall dispose of Stock acquired through exercise of an ISO within either (i) two (2) years after the date the Option is granted or (ii) one (1) year after the date the Option is exercised (i.e., in a disqualifying disposition), such Participant shall notify the Company within seven (7) days of the date of such disqualifying disposition. In addition, if a Participant elects, under Code Section 83, to be taxed at the time an Award of Restricted Stock (or other property subject to such Code section) is made, rather than at the time the Award vests, such Participant shall notify the Company within seven (7) days of the date the Participant makes such an election.
17.Adjustment Provisions; Change of Control.
(a)Adjustment of Shares. If: (i) the Company shall at any time be involved in a merger or other transaction in which the Shares are changed or exchanged; (ii) the Company shall subdivide or combine the Shares or the Company shall declare a dividend payable in Shares, other securities or other property; (iii) the Company shall effect a cash dividend the amount of which, on a per Share basis, exceeds ten percent (10%) of the Fair Market Value of a Share at the time the dividend is declared, or the Company shall effect any other dividend or other distribution on the Shares in the form of cash, or a repurchase of Shares, that the Board determines by resolution is special or extraordinary in nature or that is in connection with a transaction that the Company characterizes publicly as a recapitalization or reorganization involving the Shares; or (iv) any other event shall occur, which, in the case of this clause (iv), in the judgment of the Board or Committee necessitates an adjustment to prevent dilution or enlargement of the benefits or potential benefits intended to be made available under this Plan, then the Administrator shall, in such manner as it may deem equitable to prevent dilution or enlargement of the benefits or potential benefits intended to be made available under this Plan, adjust as applicable: (A) the number and type of Shares subject to this Plan (including the number and type of Shares described in Section 6) and which may after the event be made the subject of Awards; (B) the number and type of Shares subject to outstanding Awards; (C) the grant, purchase, or exercise price with respect to any Award; and (D) the Performance Goals of an Award. In any such case, the Administrator may also (or in lieu of the foregoing) make provision for a cash payment to the holder of an outstanding Award in exchange for the cancellation of all or a portion of the Award (without the consent of the holder of an Award) in an amount determined by the Administrator effective at such time as the Administrator specifies (which may be the time such transaction or event is effective). However, in each case, with respect to Awards of Incentive Stock Options, no such adjustment may be authorized to the extent that such authority would cause this Plan to violate Code Section 422(b). Further, the number of Shares subject to any Award payable or denominated in Shares must always be a whole number. In any event, previously granted Options or SARs are subject only to such adjustments as are necessary to
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maintain the relative proportionate interest the Options and SARs represented immediately prior to any such event and to preserve, without exceeding, the value of such Options or SARs.
Without limitation, in the event of any reorganization, merger, consolidation, combination or other similar corporate transaction or event, whether or not constituting a Change of Control (other than any such transaction in which the Company is the continuing corporation and in which the outstanding Stock is not being converted into or exchanged for different securities, cash or other property, or any combination thereof), the Administrator may substitute, on an equitable basis as the Administrator determines, for each Share then subject to an Award and the Shares subject to this Plan (if the Plan will continue in effect), the number and kind of shares of stock, other securities, cash or other property to which holders of Stock are or will be entitled in respect of each Share pursuant to the transaction.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of a stock dividend (other than a stock dividend declared in lieu of an ordinary cash dividend) or subdivision or combination of the Shares (including a reverse stock split), if no action is taken by the Administrator, adjustments contemplated by this subsection that are proportionate shall nevertheless automatically be made as of the date of such stock dividend or subdivision or combination of the Shares.
(b)Issuance or Assumption. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Plan, and without affecting the number of Shares otherwise reserved or available under this Plan, in connection with any merger, consolidation, acquisition of property or stock, or reorganization, the Administrator may authorize the issuance or assumption of awards under this Plan upon such terms and conditions as it may deem appropriate.
(c)Change of Control. In the event of a Change of Control:
(i)If the purchaser, successor or surviving entity (or parent thereof) so agrees, some or all outstanding Awards shall be assumed, or replaced with the same type of award with similar terms and conditions, by the purchaser, successor or surviving entity (or parent thereof) in the Change of Control transaction. If applicable, each Award which is assumed by the purchaser, successor or surviving entity (or parent thereof) shall be appropriately adjusted, immediately after such Change of Control, to apply to the number and class of securities which would have been issuable to the Participant upon the consummation of such Change of Control had the Award been exercised, vested or earned immediately prior to such Change of Control, and other appropriate adjustments in the terms and conditions of the Award shall be made. Upon the Participant’s termination of employment by the successor or surviving entity without Cause, or by the Participant for Good Reason, in either case within twenty-four (24) months following the Change of Control, all of the Participant’s Awards that are in effect as of the date of such termination shall be vested in full or deemed earned in full (assuming the maximum performance goals provided under such Award were met, if applicable) effective on the date of such termination. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Participant has in effect an employment, retention, change of control, severance or similar agreement with the Company or any Affiliate that discusses the effect of a Participant’s termination of employment following Change of Control on the Participant’s Awards, then such agreement shall control to the extent it provides better treatment than is provided hereinabove.
(ii)To the extent the purchaser, successor or surviving entity (or parent thereof) in the Change of Control transaction does not assume the Awards or issue replacement awards as provided in clause (i), then immediately prior to the date of the Change of Control:
(A)    Each Option or SAR that is then held by a Participant who is employed by or in the service of the Company or an Affiliate shall become immediately and fully vested, and, unless otherwise determined by the Board or Committee, all Options and SARs shall be cancelled on the date of the Change of Control in exchange for a cash payment equal to the excess of the Change of Control price of the Shares covered by the Option or SAR that is so cancelled over the purchase or grant price of such Shares under the Award;
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(B)    Restricted Stock, Restricted Stock Units and Deferred Stock Rights (that are not Performance Awards) that are not then vested shall vest;

(C)    All Performance Awards that are earned but not yet paid shall be paid, and all Performance Awards for which the performance period has not expired shall be cancelled in exchange for a cash payment equal to the amount that would have been due under such Award(s) based on the level of achievement of the Performance Goals (as measured at the time of the Change of Control), but pro-rated based on the length of the performance period that has elapsed as of the date of the Change of Control ; and

(D)    All Dividend Equivalent Units that are not vested shall vest (to the same extent as the Award granted in tandem with the Dividend Equivalent Unit, if applicable) and be paid; and

(E)    All other Awards that are not vested shall vest (if vesting is based on time only) or shall vest in the same manner as described in clause (C) (if vesting is based on performance) and if an amount is payable under such vested Award, such amount shall be paid in cash based on the value of the Award.

For purposes of this clause (ii), if the value of an Award is based on the Fair Market Value of a Share, Fair Market Value shall be deemed to mean the per share Change of Control price. The Administrator shall determine the per share Change of Control price paid or deemed paid in the Change of Control transaction.
(d)Application of Limits on Payments.
(i)Determination of Cap or Payment. Except as otherwise expressly provided in any agreement between a Participant and the Company or an Affiliate, if any payment or benefits paid by the Company pursuant to this Plan, including vesting or similar provisions (“Plan Payments”), would cause some or all of the Plan Payments or any other payments made to or benefits received by a Participant in connection with a Change of Control (such payments or benefits, together with the Plan Payments, the “Total Payments”) to be subject to the tax (“Excise Tax”) imposed by Code Section 4999 but for this Section 17(d), then the Total Payments shall be delivered either (A) in full or (B) in an amount such that the value of the aggregate Total Payments that the Participant is entitled to receive shall be One Dollar ($1.00) less than the maximum amount that the Participant may receive without being subject to the Excise Tax, whichever of (A) or (B) results in the receipt by the Participant of the greatest benefit on an after-tax basis (taking into account applicable federal, state and local income taxes and the Excise Tax).
(ii)Procedures. Upon the reasonable request of either the Participant or the Company, the Company, at the Company’s expense, shall engage nationally recognized tax counsel (“National Tax Counsel”), selected by the Company’s independent auditors (which may be regular outside counsel to the Company), to make the determination (which need not be unqualified) of which alternative under the preceding paragraph results in the receipt by the Participant of the greatest benefit on an after-tax basis. The determination of National Tax Counsel shall be addressed to the Company and the Participant and shall be binding upon the Company and the Participant. If such National Tax Counsel so requests, the Company shall obtain, at the Company’s expense, and the National Tax Counsel may rely on, the advice of a firm of recognized executive compensation consultants for any matters relevant to such determination
(iii)Costs of Determinations. The Company agrees to bear all costs associated with, and to indemnify and hold harmless, the National Tax Counsel of and from any and all claims, damages, and expenses resulting from or relating to its determinations pursuant to this Section 17(d), except for claims, damages or expenses resulting from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such firm.
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18.Miscellaneous.
(a)Other Terms and Conditions. The grant of any Award may also be subject to other provisions (whether or not applicable to the Award granted to any other Participant) as the Administrator determines appropriate, including, without limitation, provisions for:
(i) one or more means to enable Participants to defer the delivery of Shares or recognition of taxable income relating to Awards or cash payments derived from the Awards on such terms and conditions as the Administrator determines, including, by way of example, the form and manner of the deferral election, the treatment of dividends paid on the Shares during the deferral period or a means for providing a return to a Participant on amounts deferred, and the permitted distribution dates or events (provided that no such deferral means may result in an increase in the number of Shares issuable under this Plan);
(ii)restrictions on resale or other disposition of Shares; and
(iii)compliance with federal or state securities laws and stock exchange requirements.
(b)Employment and Service. The issuance of an Award shall not confer upon a Participant any right with respect to continued employment or service with the Company or any Affiliate, or the right to continue as a Director. Unless determined otherwise by the Administrator, for purposes of the Plan and all Awards, the following rules shall apply:
(i)a Participant who transfers employment between the Company and its Affiliates, or between Affiliates, will not be considered to have terminated employment;
(ii)a Participant who ceases to be a Non-Employee Director because he or she becomes an employee of the Company or an Affiliate shall not be considered to have ceased service as a Non-Employee Director with respect to any Award until such Participant’s termination of employment with the Company and its Affiliates;
(iii)a Participant who ceases to be employed by the Company or an Affiliate and immediately thereafter becomes a Non-Employee Director, a non-employee director of an Affiliate, or a consultant to the Company or any Affiliate shall not be considered to have terminated employment until such Participant’s service as a director of, or consultant to, the Company and its Affiliates has ceased; and
(iv)a Participant employed by an Affiliate will be considered to have terminated employment when such entity ceases to be an Affiliate.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of an Award that is subject to Code Section 409A, if a Participant’s termination of employment or service triggers the payment of compensation under such Award, then the Participant will be deemed to have terminated employment or service upon his or her “separation from service” within the meaning of Code Section 409A. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Plan or an Award to the contrary, if any Participant is a “specified employee” within the meaning of Code Section 409A as of the date of his or her “separation from service” within the meaning of Code Section 409A, then, to the extent required by Code Section 409A, any payment made to the Participant on account of such separation from service shall not be made before a date that is six months after the date of the separation from service.
(c)No Fractional Shares. No fractional Shares or other securities may be issued or delivered pursuant to this Plan, and the Administrator may determine whether cash, other securities or other property will be paid or transferred in lieu of any fractional Shares or other securities, or whether such fractional Shares or other securities or any rights to fractional Shares or other securities will be canceled, terminated or otherwise eliminated.
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(d)Unfunded Plan. This Plan is unfunded and does not create, and should not be construed to create, a trust or separate fund with respect to this Plan’s benefits. This Plan does not establish any fiduciary relationship between the Company and any Participant or other person. To the extent any person holds any rights by virtue of an Award granted under this Plan, such rights are no greater than the rights of the Company’s general unsecured creditors. Income recognized by a Participant pursuant to an Award shall not be included in the determination of benefits under any employee pension benefit plan (as such term is defined in Section 3(2) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended) or group insurance or other benefit plans applicable to the Participant which are maintained by the Company or any Affiliate, except as may be provided under the terms of such plans or determined by resolution of the Board.
(e)Requirements of Law and Securities Exchange. The granting of Awards and the issuance of Shares in connection with an Award are subject to all applicable laws, rules and regulations and to such approvals by any governmental agencies or national securities exchanges as may be required. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Plan or any Award Agreement, the Company has no liability to deliver any Shares under this Plan or make any payment unless such delivery or payment would comply with all applicable laws and the applicable requirements of any securities exchange or similar entity, and unless and until the Participant has taken all actions required by the Company in connection therewith. The Company may impose such restrictions on any Shares issued under the Plan as the Company determines necessary or desirable to comply with all applicable laws, rules and regulations or the requirements of any national securities exchange.
(f)Restrictive Legends; Representations. All Shares delivered (whether in certificated or book entry form) pursuant to any Award or the exercise thereof shall bear such legends or be subject to such stop transfer orders as the Administrator may deem advisable under the Plan or under applicable laws, rules or regulations or the requirements of any national securities exchange. The Administrator may require each Participant or other Person who acquires Shares under the Plan by means of an Award to represent to the Company in writing that such Participant or other Person is acquiring the Shares without a view to the distribution thereof.
(g)Governing Law. This Plan, and all agreements under this Plan, will be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of Wisconsin, without reference to any conflict of law principles. Any legal action or proceeding with respect to this Plan, any Award or any Award Agreement, or for recognition and enforcement of any judgment in respect of this Plan, any Award or any Award Agreement, may only be heard in a “bench” trial, and any party to such action or proceeding shall agree to waive its right to a jury trial.
(h)Limitations on Actions. Any legal action or proceeding with respect to this Plan, any Award or any Award Agreement, must be brought within one year (365 days) after the day the complaining party first knew or should have known of the events giving rise to the complaint.
(i)Construction. Whenever any words are used herein in the masculine, they shall be construed as though they were used in the feminine in all cases where they would so apply; and wherever any words are used in the singular or plural, they shall be construed as though they were used in the plural or singular, as the case may be, in all cases where they would so apply. Titles of sections are for general information only, and this Plan is not to be construed with reference to such titles.
(j)Severability. If any provision of this Plan or any Award Agreement or any Award (i) is or becomes or is deemed to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, or as to any person or Award, or (ii) would disqualify this Plan, any Award Agreement or any Award under any law the Administrator deems applicable, then such provision should be construed or deemed amended to conform to applicable laws, or if it cannot be so construed or deemed amended without, in the determination of the Administrator, materially altering the intent of this Plan, Award Agreement or Award, then such provision should be stricken as to such jurisdiction, person or Award, and the remainder of this Plan, such Award Agreement and such Award will remain in full force and effect.

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Appendix A
Regal Rexnord Corporation 2018 Equity Incentive Plan
1.Assumed Equity Awards. In connection with the Spin-Off  (as defined in the Separation and Distribution Agreement dated as of February 15, 2021, by and among Rexnord Corporation (“Rexnord”), Land Newco, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Rexnord (“Spinco”), and Regal Beloit Corporation (the “Corporation”)) and the subsequent merger (the “Merger”) of Spinco with a subsidiary of the Corporation, as contemplated by the Agreement and Plan of Merger dated as of February 15, 2021 among the Corporation, Phoenix 2021, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Corporation, Rexnord and Spinco, equity-based awards held by certain employees of Rexnord and its subsidiaries that, prior to the Spinoff and Merger, related to securities of Rexnord, were substituted with awards that relate to common shares of the Corporation. Such awards (the “Replacement Awards”) are subject to all of the terms and conditions of this Plan except as modified by this Appendix A. Capitalized terms used, but not defined, in this Appendix A shall have the same meanings as in the Plan.

2.Change of Control. Upon a Change of Control, the following provisions shall apply to the Replacement Awards in lieu of the provisions in Sections 17(c) and (d) of the Plan:

(a)If the Administrator has made a provision for the substitution, assumption, exchange or other continuation or settlement of the Replacement Award or (unless the Administrator has provided for the termination of the award) the award would otherwise continue in accordance with its terms, then, unless the Replacement Award agreement provides otherwise and a Participant experiences an “involuntary termination” of employment from the Company and its Subsidiaries (or any successor employer thereto) during the period commencing 90 days prior to and ending on the second anniversary of the date of the Change of Control (the “Protection Period”), then, effective upon the later of the closing of the Change of Control or the Participant’s involuntary termination:

(i)each then-outstanding Option or SAR shall become fully vested,
(ii)all Restricted Stock Units then outstanding shall become fully vested and be settled in accordance with the terms of the Replacement Award agreement; and
(iii)each other Replacement Award that is then outstanding shall become payable to the holder of such award.

(b)For purposes of Section 2(a), a Participant shall have an “involuntary termination” of employment if his or her employment is terminated by the Company or an Affiliate without Cause or by the participant for Good Reason. Termination of employment due to death or Disability shall not be considered an involuntary termination.

(c)Cause” means any of the following:

(i)A Participant’s willful and continued failure to perform substantially his or her duties owed to the Company or an Affiliate after a written demand for substantial performance is delivered to the Participant specifically identifying the nature of such unacceptable performance and is not cured by the Participant within a reasonable period, not to exceed 30 days;
(ii)A Participant is convicted of (or pleads guilty or no contest to) a felony or any crime involving moral turpitude;
(iii)A Participant has engaged in conduct that constitutes gross misconduct in the performance of his or her employment duties; or
(iv)A Participant breaches any representation, warranty or covenant under an award agreement or an employment agreement or other agreement or arrangement with the Company or an Affiliate.
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An act or omission by a participant shall not be “willful” if conducted in good faith and with the participant’s reasonable belief that such conduct is in the best interests of the Company or an Affiliate.
(d)Good Reason” means, without the express written consent of a participant, the occurrence of any of the following events during a Protection Period:

(i)The Participant’s base salary or target annual bonus opportunity is materially reduced;
(ii)The Participant’s duties or responsibilities are negatively and materially changed in a manner inconsistent with the Participant’s position (including status, offices, titles, and reporting responsibilities) or authority; or
(iii)The Company or an Affiliate requires a Participant’s principal office to be relocated more than 50 miles from its location as of the date immediately preceding the Change of Control.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Good Reason shall not exist unless the Participant provides the Board not less than 30 but not more than 90 days’ written notice, with specificity, of the grounds constituting Good Reason and an opportunity for a period of at least 30 days during such notice period for the Company to cure such grounds, and the Company fails to cure such grounds within the prescribed time period. Such notice shall be given within 90 days following the initial existence of such grounds constituting Good Reason for such notice and subsequent termination, if not so cured above, to be effective.

(e)The Administrator may delay the payment or settlement of any award to the extent required to comply with Code Section 409A, and may accord the holder of any Replacement Award a right to refuse any acceleration, whether pursuant to the award agreement or otherwise, in such circumstances as the Administrator may approve.

(f)Notwithstanding anything else contained in the Plan or this Appendix A to the contrary, in no event shall any Replacement Award be accelerated to an extent or in a manner so that such Replacement Award, together with any other compensation and benefits provided to, or for the benefit of, the Participant under any other plan or agreement of the Company or any of its Affiliates, would not be fully deductible by the Company or an Affiliate for federal income tax purposes because of Section 280G of the Code. If a Participant would be entitled to benefits or payments hereunder and under any other plan or program that would constitute “parachute payments” as defined in Section 280G of the Code, then, subject to compliance with Section 409A of the Code, the Participant may, by written notice to the Company, designate the order in which such parachute payments will be reduced or modified so that neither the Company nor any Affiliate is not denied federal income tax deductions for any “parachute payments” because of Section 280G of the Code. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if a Participant is a party to an employment or other agreement with the Company or an Affiliate, or is a Participant in a severance program sponsored by the Company or an Affiliate, that contains express provisions regarding Section 280G and/or Section 4999 of the Code (or any similar successor provision), then the Section 280G and/or Section 4999 provisions of such employment or other agreement or plan, as applicable, shall control as to the Replacement Awards.

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REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION -- 2018 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN
RESTRICTED STOCK UNIT AWARD

[Name]
[Address]

Dear _____________________:

You have been granted an award of Restricted Stock Units (an “Award”) under the Regal Rexnord Corporation 2018 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) with the following terms and conditions:
                    
Grant Date:    __________, 20____

Number of Restricted
Stock Units:     __________________ (_______) Units

Vesting Schedule:    Except as otherwise provided herein, [percentage amount(s)] will vest on the [vesting time(s)], respectively, provided that you remain continuously employed by the Company through the applicable vesting date(s).

If the application of the foregoing vesting schedule would cause any fractional Restricted Stock Units to vest, then the number of Restricted Stock Units that vest on any vesting date other than the final vesting date shall be rounded down to the nearest whole share, and such fractional Restricted Stock Units shall accumulate and vest on the next vesting date that they add up to a whole share.
    
If your employment or service with the Company terminates (voluntarily or involuntarily) before your Restricted Stock Units are 100% vested, then all nonvested Restricted Stock Units will be forfeited. Exceptions to this rule are made for certain types of terminations, including termination due to death or Disability, in accordance with the terms of the Plan.

Issuance of Shares:    As soon as reasonably practicable after your Restricted Stock Units vest, the Company will issue to you a number of Shares equal to the number of Restricted Stock Units that have vested. In all events such settlement of any vested Restricted Stock Units shall occur no later than March 15 of the year following the year of vesting unless delivery is deferred pursuant to a nonqualified deferred compensation plan, if allowed by the Company, in accordance with the requirements of Section 409A of the Code, and subject to applicable withholding.

Change of Control:     Upon a Change of Control, this Award will be treated as provided in the Plan.

Transferability of Shares:    By accepting this Award, you agree not to sell any Shares acquired under this Award at a time when applicable laws, Company policies or an agreement between the Company and its underwriters prohibit a sale.

Rights as Shareholder:    You will not be deemed for any purposes to be a shareholder of the Company with respect to any of the Restricted Stock Units unless and until Shares are issued therefor upon vesting of the Restricted Stock Units. Accordingly, prior to Shares being issued to you upon vesting of the Restricted Stock Units, you may not exercise any voting rights and you will not be entitled to receive any dividends and other distributions
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paid with respect to any such Shares underlying the Restricted Stock Units.

If, however, after the Grant Date and prior to the settlement date, both a record date and payment date with respect to a cash dividend (other than a special or extraordinary dividend, including any dividend not paid as a regular quarterly dividend) on the Shares occurs, then on the date that such dividend is paid to Company shareholders you shall be credited with “dividend equivalents” in an amount equal to the dividends that would have been paid to you if you owned a number of Shares equal to the number of outstanding Restricted Stock Units hereunder as of such record date. The dividend equivalents will be deemed to be reinvested in additional Restricted Stock Units (determined by multiplying the cash dividends paid by the Fair Market Value of a Share on the dividend payment date) which will be subject to the same terms and conditions, and shall vest and be settled or be forfeited (if applicable) at the same time, as the Restricted Stock Units to which they are attributable.

Transferability of Award:    Except as otherwise provided in the Plan, you may not assign, alienate, sell or transfer this Award for any reason, other than under your will or as required by the laws of descent and distribution. This Award also may not be pledged, attached, or otherwise encumbered. Any purported assignment, alienation, sale, transfer, pledge, attachment or encumbrance of this Award in violation of its terms shall be null and void and unenforceable against the Company or any Affiliate.

Tax Withholding:    To the extent that the vesting of the Restricted Stock Units results in income to you for Federal, state or local income tax purposes, or the Company is otherwise required to withhold amounts with respect to the Restricted Stock Units, you shall deliver to the Company at the time the Company is obligated to withhold amounts, such amount as the Company requires to meet the statutory withholding obligation under applicable tax laws or regulations, and if you fail to do so, the Company has the right and authority to deduct or withhold from payment under this Award or other compensation payable to you an amount sufficient to satisfy its withholding obligations. You may satisfy the withholding requirement, in connection with the earning of the Restricted Stock Units, in whole or in part, in cash or by electing to have the Company withhold for its own account that number of Shares otherwise deliverable to you upon vesting of the Restricted Stock Units having an aggregate Fair Market Value sufficient to satisfy the Company’s withholding obligation; provided that the amount to be withheld may not exceed the total maximum statutory tax withholding obligations associated with the transaction to the extent needed for the Company to avoid an accounting charge. Your election must be irrevocable, in writing, and submitted to the Secretary of the Company before the date on which the applicable withholding obligation arises.

Restrictive Covenants:    By accepting this Award, you agree that this Award shall be subject to forfeiture, and any gains pursuant to this Award shall be subject to disgorgement, if (1) while you are employed by or in service with the Company or any Affiliate, you compete with the Company or an Affiliate, participate in any enterprise that competes with the Company or an Affiliate or use or disclose, other than as expressly authorized by the Company, any confidential business information or trade secrets that you obtain during the course of your employment or service with the Company or any Affiliate; or (2) after you are no longer employed by
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or in service with the Company or any Affiliate, you are determined by the Administrator in its reasonable discretion (A) to be in breach of any confidentiality, noncompetition, nonsolicitation or similar agreement between you, on the one hand, and the Company or any Affiliate, on the other hand (your “Restrictive Agreement”), or (B) while this Award is in effect, to have engaged in conduct that would have constituted a breach of your Restrictive Agreement if such Restrictive Agreement were then in effect.

Miscellaneous:    
As a condition of the granting of this Award, you agree, for yourself and your legal representatives or guardians, that this Award and the Plan shall be interpreted by the Administrator and that any interpretation by the Administrator of the terms of this Award or the Plan and any determination made by the Administrator pursuant to this Award or the Plan shall be final, binding and conclusive.
In general, this Award may be amended only by written consent signed by both you and the Company, unless the amendment is not to your detriment. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Award may be amended or terminated by the Administrator or the Company without your consent in accordance with the provisions of the Plan.
The failure of the Company to enforce any provision of this Award at any time shall in no way constitute a waiver of such provision or of any other provision hereof.
This Award shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of you and your heirs and personal representatives and the Company and its successors and legal representatives.
This Award may be executed in counterparts.
Prospectus
Delivery/Access:    
By accepting this Award you acknowledge that a prospectus for the Plan, along with a copy of the Plan and the Company’s most recent Annual Report to Shareholders, has been made available to you electronically via the Company’s designated stock plan administrator’s web portal.
A paper copy of the prospectus for the Plan is also available to participants upon request.



This Award is granted under and governed by the terms and conditions of the Plan. Additional provisions regarding your Award and definitions of capitalized terms used and not defined in this Award can be found in the Plan.



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UNLESS YOU DECLINE THIS AWARD WITHIN 90 DAYS, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS DESCRIBED HEREIN AND IN THE PLAN. YOU ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE HAVING READ THIS AWARD AND THE PLAN.



REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION


By: ____________________________        
Name:                     
Title:

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REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION -- 2018 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN
CASH SETTLED RESTRICTED STOCK UNIT AWARD

[Name]
[Address]

Dear _____________________:

You have been granted an award of Restricted Stock Units (an “Award”) under the Regal Rexnord Corporation 2018 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) with the following terms and conditions:
                    
Grant Date:    __________, 20____

Number of Restricted
Stock Units:     __________________ (_______) Units

Vesting Schedule:    Except as otherwise provided herein, [percentage amount(s)] will vest on the [vesting time(s)], respectively, provided that you remain continuously employed by the Company through the applicable vesting date(s).

If the application of the foregoing vesting schedule would cause any fractional Restricted Stock Units to vest, then the number of Restricted Stock Units that vest on any vesting date other than the final vesting date shall be rounded down to the nearest whole share, and such fractional Restricted Stock Units shall accumulate and vest on the next vesting date that they add up to a whole share.
    
If your employment or service with the Company terminates (voluntarily or involuntarily) before your Restricted Stock Units are 100% vested, then all nonvested Restricted Stock Units will be forfeited. Exceptions to this rule are made for certain types of terminations, including termination due to death or Disability, in accordance with the terms of the Plan.
Settlement of
Restricted Stock Units:    As soon as reasonably practicable after your Restricted Stock Units vest, the Company will deliver to you an amount of cash equal to the Fair Market Value, determined as of the vesting date, of a number of Shares equal to the number of Restricted Stock Units that have vested. In all events such settlement of any vested Restricted Stock Units shall occur no later than March 15 of the year following the year of vesting unless delivery is deferred pursuant to a nonqualified deferred compensation plan, if allowed by the Company, in accordance with the requirements of Section 409A of the Code, and subject to applicable withholding.

Change of Control:     Upon a Change of Control, this Award will be treated as provided in the Plan.

Rights as Shareholder:    You will not be deemed for any purposes to be a shareholder of the Company with respect to any of the Restricted Stock Units. Accordingly, you may not exercise any voting rights and you will not be entitled to receive any dividends and other distributions paid with respect to any such Shares underlying the Restricted Stock Units.

If, however, after the Grant Date and prior to the settlement date, both a record date and payment date with respect to a cash dividend (other than a special or extraordinary dividend, including any dividend not paid as a regular quarterly dividend) on the Shares occurs, then on the date
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that such dividend is paid to Company shareholders you shall be credited with “dividend equivalents” in an amount equal to the dividends that would have been paid to you if you owned a number of Shares equal to the number of outstanding RSUs hereunder as of such record date. The dividend equivalents will be deemed to be reinvested in additional RSUs (determined by multiplying the cash dividends paid by the Fair Market Value of a Share on the dividend payment date) which will be subject to the same terms and conditions, and shall vest and be settled or be forfeited (if applicable) at the same time, as the RSUs to which they are attributable.

Transferability of Award:    Except as otherwise provided in the Plan, you may not assign, alienate, sell or transfer this Award for any reason, other than under your will or as required by the laws of descent and distribution. This Award also may not be pledged, attached, or otherwise encumbered. Any purported assignment, alienation, sale, transfer, pledge, attachment or encumbrance of this Award in violation of its terms shall be null and void and unenforceable against the Company or any Affiliate.

Tax Withholding:    To the extent that the vesting of the Restricted Stock Units results in income to you for Federal, state or local income tax purposes, or the Company is otherwise required to withhold amounts with respect to the Restricted Stock Units, you shall deliver to the Company at the time the Company is obligated to withhold amounts, such amount as the Company requires to meet the statutory withholding obligation under applicable tax laws or regulations, and if you fail to do so, the Company has the right and authority to deduct or withhold from payment under this Award or other compensation payable to you an amount sufficient to satisfy its withholding obligations.

Restrictive Covenants:    By accepting this Award, you agree that this Award shall be subject to forfeiture, and any gains pursuant to this Award shall be subject to disgorgement, if (1) while you are employed by or in service with the Company or any Affiliate, you compete with the Company or an Affiliate, participate in any enterprise that competes with the Company or an Affiliate or use or disclose, other than as expressly authorized by the Company, any confidential business information or trade secrets that you obtain during the course of your employment or service with the Company or any Affiliate; or (2) after you are no longer employed by or in service with the Company or any Affiliate, you are determined by the Administrator in its reasonable discretion (A) to be in breach of any confidentiality, noncompetition, nonsolicitation or similar agreement between you, on the one hand, and the Company or any Affiliate, on the other hand (your “Restrictive Agreement”), or (B) while this Award is in effect, to have engaged in conduct that would have constituted a breach of your Restrictive Agreement if such Restrictive Agreement were then in effect.

Miscellaneous:    
As a condition of the granting of this Award, you agree, for yourself and your legal representatives or guardians, that this Award and the Plan shall be interpreted by the Administrator and that any interpretation by the Administrator of the terms of this Award or the Plan and any determination made by the Administrator pursuant to this Award or the Plan shall be final, binding and conclusive.
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In general, this Award may be amended only by written consent signed by both you and the Company, unless the amendment is not to your detriment. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Award may be amended or terminated by the Administrator or the Company without your consent in accordance with the provisions of the Plan.
The failure of the Company to enforce any provision of this Award at any time shall in no way constitute a waiver of such provision or of any other provision hereof.
This Award shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of you and your heirs and personal representatives and the Company and its successors and legal representatives.
This Award may be executed in counterparts.
Prospectus
Delivery/Access:    
By accepting this Award you acknowledge that a prospectus for the Plan, along with a copy of the Plan and the Company’s most recent Annual Report to Shareholders, has been made available to you electronically via the Company’s designated stock plan administrator’s web portal.
A paper copy of the prospectus for the Plan is also available to participants upon request.

This Award is granted under and governed by the terms and conditions of the Plan. Additional provisions regarding your Award and definitions of capitalized terms used and not defined in this Award can be found in the Plan.

UNLESS YOU DECLINE THIS AWARD WITHIN 90 DAYS, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS DESCRIBED HEREIN AND IN THE PLAN. YOU ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE HAVING READ THIS AWARD AND THE PLAN.



REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION


By: ____________________________        
Name:                     
Title:

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REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION -- 2018 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN
RESTRICTED STOCK AWARD

[Name]
[Address]

Dear _____________________:

You have been granted an award of Restricted Stock (an “Award”) under the Regal Rexnord Corporation 2018 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) with the following terms and conditions:
                    
Grant Date:     __________, 20____

Shares of Restricted
Stock: __________________

Vesting Schedule:    One hundred percent (100%) of your shares of Restricted Stock will vest on the first anniversary of the Grant Date. If your employment or service with the Company terminates (voluntarily or involuntarily) before your Restricted Stock is 100% vested, then all nonvested shares of Restricted Stock will be forfeited. Exceptions to this rule are made for certain types of terminations, including termination due to death or Disability, in accordance with the terms of the Plan.

Issuance of Shares: As soon as reasonably practicable after your shares of Restricted Stock vest, the Company will issue to you or a designated brokerage firm a number of Shares equal to the number of shares of Restricted Stock that have vested. In all events such settlement of any earned Restricted Stock shall occur no later than March 15 of the year following the year of vesting unless delivery is deferred pursuant to a nonqualified deferred compensation plan in accordance with the requirements of Section 409A of the Code, and subject to applicable withholding.


Change of Control: Upon a Change of Control, this Award will be treated as provided in the Plan.


Transferability of Shares:    By accepting this Award, you agree not to sell any Shares acquired under this Award at a time when applicable laws, Company policies or an agreement between the Company and its underwriters prohibit a sale.

Rights as Shareholder:    Prior to Shares being delivered to you upon vesting of the Restricted Stock, you may not exercise any voting rights with respect to any such Shares underlying the Restricted Stock.

If both a record date and payment date with respect to a cash dividend (other than a special or extraordinary dividend, including any dividend not paid as a regular quarterly dividend) on the Shares occurs prior to the settlement date, then on the date that such dividend is paid to Company shareholders you shall be credited with “dividend equivalents” in an amount equal to the dividends that would have been paid to you if you owned a number of Shares equal to the number of outstanding shares of Restricted Stock hereunder as of such record date. The dividend equivalents will be accumulated and paid in cash on or around the same date that the underlying shares of Restricted Stock to which they are attributable become vested.
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Transferability of Award:    Except as otherwise provided in the Plan, you may not assign, alienate, sell or transfer this Award for any reason, other than under your will or as required by the laws of descent and distribution. This Award also may not be pledged, attached, or otherwise encumbered. Any purported assignment, alienation, sale, transfer, pledge, attachment or encumbrance of this Award in violation of its terms shall be null and void and unenforceable against the Company or any Affiliate.

Tax Withholding:    To the extent that the vesting of the Restricted Stock results in income to you for Federal, state or local income tax purposes, or the Company is otherwise required to withhold amounts with respect to the Restricted Stock, you shall deliver to the Company at the time the Company is obligated to withhold amounts, such amount as the Company requires to meet the statutory withholding obligation under applicable tax laws or regulations, and if you fail to do so, the Company has the right and authority to deduct or withhold from payment under this Award or other compensation payable to you an amount sufficient to satisfy its withholding obligations. You may satisfy the withholding requirement, in connection with the vesting of Restricted Stock, in whole or in part, in cash or by electing to have the Company withhold for its own account that number of Shares otherwise deliverable to you upon vesting of the Restricted Stock having an aggregate Fair Market Value sufficient to satisfy the Company’s withholding obligation; provided that, to the extent required for the Company to avoid an accounting charge, the amount to be withheld may not exceed the total minimum federal, state and local tax withholding obligations. Your election must be irrevocable, in writing, and submitted to the Secretary of the Company before the date on which the applicable withholding obligation arises.

Restrictive Covenants:    By accepting this Award, you agree that this Award shall be subject to forfeiture, and any gains pursuant to this Award shall be subject to disgorgement, if (1) while you are employed by or in service with the Company or any Affiliate, you compete with the Company or an Affiliate, participate in any enterprise that competes with the Company or an Affiliate or use or disclose, other than as expressly authorized by the Company, any confidential business information or trade secrets that you obtain during the course of your employment or service with the Company or any Affiliate; or (2) after you are no longer employed by or in service with the Company or any Affiliate, you are determined by the Administrator in its reasonable discretion (A) to be in breach of any confidentiality, noncompetition, nonsolicitation or similar agreement between you, on the one hand, and the Company or any Affiliate, on the other hand (your “Restrictive Agreement”), or (B) while this Award is in effect, to have engaged in conduct that would have constituted a breach of your Restrictive Agreement if such Restrictive Agreement were then in effect.


Miscellaneous:    
As a condition of the granting of this Award, you agree, for yourself and your legal representatives or guardians, that this Award and the Plan shall be interpreted by the Administrator and that any interpretation by the Administrator of the terms of this Award or the Plan and any determination made by the Administrator pursuant to this Award or the Plan shall be final, binding and conclusive.
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This Award may be amended only by written consent signed by both you and the Company, unless the amendment is not to your detriment. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Award may be amended or terminated by the Administrator or the Company without your consent in accordance with the provisions of the Plan.
The failure of the Company to enforce any provision of this Award at any time shall in no way constitute a waiver of such provision or of any other provision hereof.
This Award shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of you and your heirs and personal representatives and the Company and its successors and legal representatives.
Prospectus Delivery/Access:    
By accepting this Award you acknowledge that a prospectus for the Plan, along with a copy of the Plan and the Company’s most recent Annual Report to Shareholders, has been made available to you electronically via the Company’s designated stock plan administrator’s web portal.
A paper copy of the prospectus for the Plan is also available to participants upon request.
This Award is granted under and governed by the terms and conditions of the Plan. Additional provisions regarding your Award and definitions of capitalized terms used and not defined in this Award can be found in the Plan.


UNLESS YOU DECLINE THIS AWARD WITHIN 90 DAYS, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS DESCRIBED HEREIN AND IN THE PLAN. YOU ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE HAVING READ THIS AWARD AND THE PLAN.

REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION


By: ____________________________        
Name:                     
Title:

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REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION -- 2018 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN
PERFORMANCE SHARE UNIT AWARD – ROIC Based

[Name]
[Address]

Dear _____________________:

You have been granted an award of Performance Share Units (an “Award”) under the Regal Rexnord Corporation 2018 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) with the following terms and conditions:

Grant Date:    ____________

Number of Performance PSUs: _________
Share Units (“PSUs”):

Performance Period: Fiscal Years ____-_____

Performance Vesting for PSUs:    The performance metric that will determine the number of PSUs you earn will be based on the Company’s return on invested capital (“ROIC”) and improvement in ROIC for one or more years in the performance period specified above (each, an “ROIC Goal”). The ROIC Goals applicable to each year within the performance period will be communicated to you separately. ROIC for each fiscal year in the performance period will be calculated as (i) the Company’s adjusted net operating profit after tax, divided by (ii) the Company’s total invested capital as of the end of such fiscal year, in each case as determined by the Administrator in its discretion.

For each ROIC Goal that is met, 25% of the PSUs may be earned.

Any PSUs that are earned based on performance will be earned on the date that the Administrator determines the achievement of the ROIC Goal(s), which will occur after the end of the Performance Period. Any PSUs that are not earned on such date, and that are not eligible to be earned on a future date, shall be forfeited as of such date.

If your employment or service with the Company and its Affiliates terminates (voluntarily or involuntarily) before the PSUs have been earned, then all unearned PSUs will be forfeited. Exceptions to this rule are made for certain types of terminations, including termination due to death or Disability, in accordance with the terms of the Plan.

Change of Control:    Upon a Change of Control, this Award will be treated as provided in the Plan.

Issuance of Shares: As soon as reasonably practicable after any PSUs have been earned, the Company will issue to you a number of Shares equal to the number of PSUs that have been earned. In all events such settlement of any earned PSUs shall occur no later than March 15 of the year following the year in which the PSUs are earned unless delivery is deferred pursuant to a nonqualified deferred compensation plan, if allowed by the Company, in accordance with the requirements of Section 409A of the Code, and subject to applicable withholding.

Transferability of Shares:    By accepting this Award, you agree not to sell any Shares acquired under this Award at a time when applicable laws, Company policies or
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an agreement between the Company and its underwriters prohibit a sale.

Rights as Shareholder:    You will not be deemed for any purposes to be a shareholder of the Company with respect to any of the PSUs unless and until Shares are issued therefor upon vesting of the units. Accordingly, prior to Shares being issued to you upon vesting of the PSUs, you may not exercise any voting rights and you will not be entitled to receive any dividends and other distributions paid with respect to any such Shares underlying the PSUs.

If, however, after the Grant Date and prior to the settlement date, both a record date and payment date with respect to a cash dividend (other than a special or extraordinary dividend, including any dividend not paid as a regular quarterly dividend) on the Shares occurs, then on the date that such dividend is paid to Company shareholders you shall be credited with “dividend equivalents” in an amount equal to the dividends that would have been paid to you if you owned a number of Shares equal to the number of outstanding Target PSUs hereunder as of such record date. The dividend equivalents will be deemed to be reinvested in additional Target PSUs (determined by dividing the cash dividends paid by the Fair Market Value of a Share on the dividend payment date) which will be subject to the same terms and conditions, and shall vest and be settled or be forfeited (if applicable) at the same time, as the Target PSUs to which they are attributable.

Transferability of Award:    Except as otherwise provided in the Plan, you may not assign, alienate, sell or transfer this Award for any reason, other than under your will or as required by the laws of descent and distribution. This Award also may not be pledged, attached or otherwise encumbered. Any purported assignment, alienation, sale, transfer, pledge, attachment or encumbrance of this Award in violation of its terms shall be null and void and unenforceable against the Company or any Affiliate.

Tax Withholding:    To the extent that the earning or payment of the PSUs results in income to you for Federal, state or local income tax purposes, or the Company is otherwise required to withhold amounts with respect to the PSUs, you shall deliver to the Company at the time the Company is obligated to withhold amounts, such amount as the Company requires to meet the statutory withholding obligation under applicable tax laws or regulations, and if you fail to do so, the Company has the right and authority to deduct or withhold from payment under this Award or other compensation payable to you an amount sufficient to satisfy its withholding obligations. You may satisfy the withholding requirement in connection with the earning of PSUs, in whole or in part, in cash or by electing to have the Company withhold for its own account that number of Shares otherwise deliverable to you upon the earning of the PSUs having an aggregate Fair Market Value sufficient to satisfy the Company’s withholding obligation; provided that the amount to be withheld may not exceed the total maximum statutory tax withholding obligations associated with the transaction to the extent needed for the Company to avoid an accounting charge. Your election must be irrevocable, in writing, and submitted to the Secretary of the Company before the date on which the applicable withholding obligation arises.

Restrictive Covenants:    By accepting this Award, you agree that this Award shall be subject to forfeiture, and any gains pursuant to this Award shall be subject to disgorgement, if (1) while you are employed by or in service with the
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Company or any Affiliate, you compete with the Company or an Affiliate, participate in any enterprise that competes with the Company or an Affiliate or use or disclose, other than as expressly authorized by the Company, any confidential business information or trade secrets that you obtain during the course of your employment or service with the Company or any Affiliate; or (2) after you are no longer employed by or in service with the Company or any Affiliate, you are determined by the Administrator in its reasonable discretion (A) to be in breach of any confidentiality, noncompetition, nonsolicitation or similar agreement between you, on the one hand, and the Company or any Affiliate, on the other hand (your “Restrictive Agreement”), or (B) while this Award is in effect, to have engaged in conduct that would have constituted a breach of your Restrictive Agreement if such Restrictive Agreement were then in effect.

Miscellaneous:    
As a condition of the granting of this Award, you agree, for yourself and your legal representatives or guardians, that this Award and the Plan shall be interpreted by the Administrator and that any interpretation by the Administrator of the terms of this Award or the Plan and any determination made by the Administrator pursuant to this Award or the Plan shall be final, binding and conclusive.
As a condition of the granting of this Award, you agree, for yourself and your legal representatives or guardians, that this Award, and any Shares issued or cash paid pursuant to this Award, shall be subject to (1) any recoupment, clawback, equity holding, stock ownership or similar policies adopted by the Company from time to time (to the extent contemplated by such policies) and (2) any recoupment, clawback, equity holding, stock ownership or similar requirements made applicable by law, regulation or listing standards to the Company from time to time (to the extent contemplated by such requirements).
In general, this Award may be amended only by written consent signed by both you and the Company, unless the amendment is not to your detriment. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Award may be modified, reduced, extinguished or canceled by the Administrator or the Company without your consent in accordance with the provisions of the Plan and the Administrator shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to adjust the Performance Goals at any time to reflect changes affecting ROIC that were not contemplated at the time the Performance Goals were established.
The failure of the Company to enforce any provision of this Award at any time shall in no way constitute a waiver of such provision or of any other provision hereof.
This Award shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of you and your heirs and personal representatives and the Company and its successors and legal representatives.
This Award may be executed in counterparts.

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Prospectus
Delivery/Access:    
By accepting this Award you acknowledge that a prospectus for the Plan, along with a copy of the Plan and the Company’s most recent Annual Report to Shareholders, has been made available to you electronically via the Company’s designated stock plan administrator’s web portal.
A paper copy of the prospectus for the Plan is also available to participants upon request.





This Award is granted under and governed by the terms and conditions of the Plan. Additional provisions regarding your Award and definitions of capitalized terms used and not defined in this Award can be found in the Plan.

UNLESS YOU DECLINE THIS AWARD WITHIN 90 DAYS, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS DESCRIBED HEREIN AND IN THE PLAN. YOU ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE HAVING READ THIS AWARD AND THE PLAN.


REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION


By: ____________________________        
Name:                     
Title:

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REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION -- 2018 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN
PERFORMANCE SHARE UNIT AWARD – TSR Based

[Name]
[Address]

Dear _____________________:

You have been granted an award of Performance Share Units (an “Award”) under the Regal Rexnord Corporation 2018 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) with the following terms and conditions:

Grant Date:    ____________

Number of Performance Target PSUs: _________
Share Units (“PSUs”): Maximum PSUs: 2x Target

Performance Period: Fiscal Years 2022-2024

Performance Vesting for PSUs:    The performance metric that will determine the number of PSUs you earn will be the Company’s cumulative 3-year total shareholder return (“TSR”) over the performance period specified above relative to the Company’s designated peer group as set forth and modified from time to time by the Plan Administrator (the “Peer Group”). TSR will be calculated using the 20 trading day average closing share price prior to the first day of the Performance Period and the 20 trading day average closing share price ending on the last day of the Performance Period, including reinvestment of any dividend(s) during the Performance Period on the ex-dividend date(s). 

The number of PSUs earned will be as follows:

TSR at 25th Percentile of the Peer Group = 25% PSUs
TSR at 50th Percentile of the Peer Group = Target PSUs
TSR at 75th Percentile of the Peer Group = Maximum PSUs

The number of PSUs earned will be interpolated between (i) 25% PSUs and Target PSUs for performance between the 25th Percentile of the Peer Group and the 50th Percentile of the Peer Group, or (ii) Target PSUs and Maximum PSUs for performance between the 50th Percentile of the Peer Group and the 75th Percentile of the Peer Group. Any PSUs that are earned based on performance will be earned on the date that the Administrator certifies the achievement of the applicable level of relative TSR. Any PSUs that are not earned on such date shall be forfeited.

If your employment or service with the Company and its Affiliates terminates (voluntarily or involuntarily) before the PSUs have been earned, then all unearned PSUs will be forfeited. Exceptions to this rule are made for certain types of terminations, including termination due to death or Disability, in accordance with the terms of the Plan.

Change of Control:    Upon a Change of Control, this Award will be treated as provided in the Plan.

Issuance of Shares: As soon as reasonably practicable after any PSUs have been earned, the Company will issue to you a number of Shares equal to the number of PSUs that have been earned. In all events such settlement of any earned PSUs shall occur no later than March 15 of the year following the
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year in which the PSUs are earned unless delivery is deferred pursuant to a nonqualified deferred compensation plan, if allowed by the Company, in accordance with the requirements of Section 409A of the Code, and subject to applicable withholding.

Transferability of Shares:    By accepting this Award, you agree not to sell any Shares acquired under this Award at a time when applicable laws, Company policies or an agreement between the Company and its underwriters prohibit a sale.

Rights as Shareholder:    You will not be deemed for any purposes to be a shareholder of the Company with respect to any of the PSUs unless and until Shares are issued therefor upon vesting of the units. Accordingly, prior to Shares being issued to you upon vesting of the PSUs, you may not exercise any voting rights and you will not be entitled to receive any dividends and other distributions paid with respect to any such Shares underlying the PSUs.

If, however, after the Grant Date and prior to the settlement date, both a record date and payment date with respect to a cash dividend (other than a special or extraordinary dividend, including any dividend not paid as a regular quarterly dividend) on the Shares occurs, then on the date that such dividend is paid to Company shareholders you shall be credited with “dividend equivalents” in an amount equal to the dividends that would have been paid to you if you owned a number of Shares equal to the number of outstanding Target PSUs hereunder as of such record date. The dividend equivalents will be deemed to be reinvested in additional Target PSUs (determined by multiplying the cash dividends paid by the Fair Market Value of a Share on the dividend payment date) which will be subject to the same terms and conditions, and shall vest and be settled or be forfeited (if applicable) at the same time, as the Target PSUs to which they are attributable.

Transferability of Award:    Except as otherwise provided in the Plan, you may not assign, alienate, sell or transfer this Award for any reason, other than under your will or as required by the laws of descent and distribution. This Award also may not be pledged, attached or otherwise encumbered. Any purported assignment, alienation, sale, transfer, pledge, attachment or encumbrance of this Award in violation of its terms shall be null and void and unenforceable against the Company or any Affiliate.

Tax Withholding:    To the extent that the earning or payment of the PSUs results in income to you for Federal, state or local income tax purposes, or the Company is otherwise required to withhold amounts with respect to the PSUs, you shall deliver to the Company at the time the Company is obligated to withhold amounts, such amount as the Company requires to meet the statutory withholding obligation under applicable tax laws or regulations, and if you fail to do so, the Company has the right and authority to deduct or withhold from payment under this Award or other compensation payable to you an amount sufficient to satisfy its withholding obligations. You may satisfy the withholding requirement in connection with the earning of PSUs, in whole or in part, in cash or by electing to have the Company withhold for its own account that number of Shares otherwise deliverable to you upon the earning of the PSUs having an aggregate Fair Market Value sufficient to satisfy the Company’s withholding obligation; provided that the amount to be withheld may not exceed the total maximum statutory tax withholding obligations associated with the transaction to the extent needed for the
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Company to avoid an accounting charge. Your election must be irrevocable, in writing, and submitted to the Secretary of the Company before the date on which the applicable withholding obligation arises.

Restrictive Covenants:    By accepting this Award, you agree that this Award shall be subject to forfeiture, and any gains pursuant to this Award shall be subject to disgorgement, if (1) while you are employed by or in service with the Company or any Affiliate, you compete with the Company or an Affiliate, participate in any enterprise that competes with the Company or an Affiliate or use or disclose, other than as expressly authorized by the Company, any confidential business information or trade secrets that you obtain during the course of your employment or service with the Company or any Affiliate; or (2) after you are no longer employed by or in service with the Company or any Affiliate, you are determined by the Administrator in its reasonable discretion (A) to be in breach of any confidentiality, noncompetition, nonsolicitation or similar agreement between you, on the one hand, and the Company or any Affiliate, on the other hand (your “Restrictive Agreement”), or (B) while this Award is in effect, to have engaged in conduct that would have constituted a breach of your Restrictive Agreement if such Restrictive Agreement were then in effect.

Miscellaneous:    
As a condition of the granting of this Award, you agree, for yourself and your legal representatives or guardians, that this Award and the Plan shall be interpreted by the Administrator and that any interpretation by the Administrator of the terms of this Award or the Plan and any determination made by the Administrator pursuant to this Award or the Plan shall be final, binding and conclusive.
As a condition of the granting of this Award, you agree, for yourself and your legal representatives or guardians, that this Award, and any Shares issued or cash paid pursuant to this Award, shall be subject to (1) any recoupment, clawback, equity holding, stock ownership or similar policies adopted by the Company from time to time (to the extent contemplated by such policies) and (2) any recoupment, clawback, equity holding, stock ownership or similar requirements made applicable by law, regulation or listing standards to the Company from time to time (to the extent contemplated by such requirements).
In general, this Award may be amended only by written consent signed by both you and the Company, unless the amendment is not to your detriment. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Award may be modified, reduced, extinguished or canceled by the Administrator or the Company without your consent in accordance with the provisions of the Plan and the Administrator shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to adjust the method of calculating TSR.
The failure of the Company to enforce any provision of this Award at any time shall in no way constitute a waiver of such provision or of any other provision hereof.
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This Award shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of you and your heirs and personal representatives and the Company and its successors and legal representatives.
This Award may be executed in counterparts.

Prospectus
Delivery/Access:    
By accepting this Award you acknowledge that a prospectus for the Plan, along with a copy of the Plan and the Company’s most recent Annual Report to Shareholders, has been made available to you electronically via the Company’s designated stock plan administrator’s web portal.
A paper copy of the prospectus for the Plan is also available to participants upon request.
This Award is granted under and governed by the terms and conditions of the Plan. Additional provisions regarding your Award and definitions of capitalized terms used and not defined in this Award can be found in the Plan.

UNLESS YOU DECLINE THIS AWARD WITHIN 90 DAYS, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS DESCRIBED HEREIN AND IN THE PLAN. YOU ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE HAVING READ THIS AWARD AND THE PLAN.


REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION
By:    image_0.jpg    
Name:     Louis V. Pinkham                
Title:     Chief Executive Officer


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REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION -- 2018 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN
RESTRICTED STOCK UNIT AWARD

Replacement to Rexnord RSU Award

[Name]
[Address]

Dear _____________________:

You have been granted this award of Restricted Stock Units (an “Award”) under the Regal Rexnord Corporation 2018 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”), having the following terms and conditions. This Award replaces your outstanding Rexnord Corporation (“Rexnord”) restricted stock unit award (the “Prior Award”) as required by the Employee Matters Agreement entered into by and between the Regal Beloit Corporation (currently, Regal Rexnord Corporation or the “Company”) and Rexnord in connection with the merger of a portion of Rexnord’s business with a Subsidiary of the Company.

Please note that: (1) the Grant Date below reflects the date that the Company issued this replacement Award and not the original grant date of the Prior Award, and (2) the number of Restricted Stock Units below is the original number from the Prior Award (as adjusted to reflect conversion to Company Shares). Some of the Restricted Stock Units may have already been settled under the Prior Award. To see the current number of Restricted Stock Units that have not been settled, please review your on-line account provided by the Company’s designated stock plan administrator.

Grant Date:            __________, 20___

Number of Restricted         __________________ (_______) Units
Stock Units:

Vesting Schedule:     [Insert vesting schedule].

    If your employment or service with the Company and its Affiliates terminates (voluntarily or involuntarily) before your Restricted Stock Units are 100% vested, then all nonvested Restricted Stock Units will be forfeited. For clarity, the foregoing provisions supersede Sections 13(a) through (e) of the Plan.

Issuance of Shares:    As soon as reasonably practicable after your Restricted Stock Units vest, the Company will issue to you a number of Shares equal to the number of Restricted Stock Units that have vested. In all events such settlement of any vested Restricted Stock Units shall occur no later than March 15 of the year following the year of vesting.

Change of Control:    Upon a Change of Control, this Award will be treated as provided in Appendix A to the Plan.

Transferability of Shares:    By accepting this Award, you agree not to sell any Shares acquired under this Award at a time when applicable laws, Company policies or an agreement between the Company and its underwriters prohibit a sale.

Rights as Shareholder;
Dividend Equivalent Units:    You will not be deemed for any purposes to be a shareholder of the Company with respect to any of the Restricted Stock Units unless and until Shares are issued therefor upon vesting of the units. Accordingly, prior to Shares being issued to you upon vesting of the Restricted Stock Units, you may not exercise any voting rights and you will not be entitled to receive any dividends, dividend equivalent payments and
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other distributions paid with respect to any such Shares underlying the Restricted Stock Units.

    If, however, after this Award is issued by the Company and prior to the settlement date, both a record date and payment date with respect to a cash dividend (other than a special or extraordinary dividend, including any dividend not paid as a regular quarterly dividend) on the Shares occurs, then on the date that such dividend is paid to Company shareholders you shall be credited with “dividend equivalents” in an amount equal to the dividends that would have been paid to you if you owned a number of Shares equal to the number of outstanding RSUs hereunder as of such record date. The dividend equivalents will be deemed to be reinvested in additional RSUs (determined by multiplying the cash dividends paid by the Fair Market Value of a Share on the dividend payment date) which will be subject to the same terms and conditions, and shall vest and be settled or be forfeited (if applicable) at the same time, as the RSUs to which they are attributable.

Transferability of Award:    Except as otherwise provided in the Plan, you may not assign, alienate, sell or transfer this Award for any reason, other than under your will or as required by the laws of descent and distribution. This Award also may not be pledged, attached, or otherwise encumbered. Any purported assignment, alienation, sale, transfer, pledge, attachment or encumbrance of this Award in violation of its terms shall be null and void and unenforceable against the Company or any Affiliate.

Tax Withholding:    To the extent that the vesting of the Restricted Stock Units results in income to you for Federal, state or local income tax purposes, or the Company is otherwise required to withhold amounts with respect to the Restricted Stock Units, you shall deliver to the Company at the time the Company is obligated to withhold amounts, such amount as the Company requires to meet the statutory withholding obligation under applicable tax laws or regulations, and if you fail to do so, the Company has the right and authority to deduct or withhold from payment under this Award or other compensation payable to you an amount sufficient to satisfy its withholding obligations. You may satisfy the withholding requirement, in connection with the earning of the Restricted Stock Units, in whole or in part, in cash or by electing to have the Company
    withhold for its own account that number of Shares otherwise deliverable to you upon vesting of the Restricted Stock Units having an aggregate Fair Market Value sufficient to satisfy the Company’s
    withholding obligation; provided that the amount to be withheld may not exceed the total maximum statutory tax withholding obligations associated with the transaction to the extent needed for the Company to avoid an accounting charge. Your election must be irrevocable, in writing, and submitted to the Secretary of the Company before the date on which the applicable withholding obligation arises.

Restrictive Covenants:    By accepting this Award, you agree to the restrictive covenants and other provisions contained in the Appendix hereto.

Miscellaneous:    As a condition of the granting of this Award, you agree, for yourself and your legal representatives or guardians, that this Award and the Plan shall be interpreted by the Administrator and that any interpretation by the Administrator of the terms of this Award or the Plan and any determination made by the Administrator pursuant to this Award or the Plan shall be final, binding and conclusive.

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    In general, this Award may be amended only by written consent signed by both you and the Company, unless the amendment is not to your detriment. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Award may be amended or terminated by the Administrator or the Company without your consent in accordance with the provisions of the Plan.

    The failure of the Company to enforce any provision of this Award at any time shall in no way constitute a waiver of such provision or of any
    Other provision hereof.

    This Award shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of you and your heirs and personal representatives and the Company and its successors and legal representatives.

    The Award may be executed in counterparts.

Prospectus Delivery/Access:    By accepting this Award you acknowledge that a prospectus for the Plan, along with a copy of the Plan and the Company’s most recent Annual Report to Shareholders, has been made available to you electronically via the Company’s designated stock plan administrator’s web portal.

    A paper copy of the prospectus for the Plan is also available to participants upon request.

This Award is granted under and governed by the terms and conditions of the Plan. Additional
provisions regarding your Award and definitions of capitalized terms used and not defined in this Award
can be found in the Plan.

BY ACCEPTING THIS RESTRICTED STOCK UNIT AWARD THROUGH THE COMPANY’S ON-LINE GRANT PROCESS, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ AND AGREE TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS AWARD, INCLUDING THE RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS APPENDIX, AND THE PLAN.

REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION


By: image_0a.jpg        
Name:     Louis V. Pinkham                
Title: Chairman/CEO

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APPENDIX
RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS

Reasonableness of Restrictions
You acknowledge that you have had and will continue to have access to Confidential Information (as defined in the section entitled “Non-Disclosure of Confidential Information” below), that such Confidential Information is of economic value to the Company and its Affiliates, that such Confidential Information would be of value to a competitor of the Company and/or one of its Affiliates in competing against the Company and/or one of its Affiliates, and that it would be unfair for you to exploit such Confidential Information for your personal benefit or for the benefit of a competitor. You further acknowledge that you have had and/or will have an opportunity to learn about, and develop relationships with, customers of the Company and/or its Affiliates and that the Company and its Affiliates have a legitimate interest in protecting relationships with such customers, and that it would be unfair for you to exploit information that you have learned about such customers and relationships which you have developed with such customers for your personal benefit or for the benefit of a competitor. You further acknowledge that the Company and its Affiliates currently market and sell products and services to customers throughout the United States and that your job duties have included and/or will include contact with products that are marketed throughout the entire United States and that the Confidential Information to which you have had and/or and will have access to, and your customer knowledge and contacts and relationships, would be of value to a competitor in competing against the Company and/or one of its Affiliates anywhere in the United States. Accordingly, you acknowledge that the protections provided to the Company and its Affiliates in this Appendix are reasonable and necessary to protect the legitimate interests of the Company and its Affiliates and that abiding by your obligations under this Appendix will not impose an undue hardship on you.

Restricted Services Obligation
Unless you are employed in, or reside in California during your employment with the Company and its Affiliates, for a period of two years following the end, for whatever reason, of your employment or service with the Company or any of its Affiliates, you agree not to directly or indirectly provide Restricted Services to any Competitor respecting its operations in the United States. “Restricted Services” means services of any kind or character comparable to those that you provided to the Company or any of its Affiliates during the one year period preceding the end of your employment or service with the Company or any of its Affiliates. “Competitor” means any business located in the United States which is engaged in the development and/or sale of any product line that is substantially similar to a product line sold by the Company or any of its Untied States Affiliates for which the you had direct managerial responsibility during the last year of the term of your employment or service with the Company or any of its United States Affiliates. For clarity, the foregoing paragraph does not apply if you reside in or are employed in California.

Customer Non-Solicitation
Unless you are employed in, or reside in, California during your employment with the Company and its Affiliates, for a period of two years following the end, for whatever reason, of your employment or service with the Company or any of its Affiliates, you agree not to directly or indirectly attempt to sell or otherwise provide to any Restricted Customer any goods, products or services of the type or substantially similar to the type sold or otherwise provided by the Company or any of its Affiliates for which you were employed during the twelve months prior to termination of your employment or service. “Restricted Customer” means any individual or entity (i) for whom/which the Company or any of its Affiliates provided goods, products or services, and (ii) with whom/which you were the primary contact on behalf of the Company during your last twelve months of employment or service or about whom/which you acquired non-public information during your last twelve months of employment or service that would be of benefit to you in selling or attempting to sell such goods, products or services in competition with the Company or any of its Affiliates. For clarity, the foregoing paragraph does not apply if you reside in or are employed in California.

Non-Solicitation of Employees
During the term of your employment or service with the Company or any of its Affiliates and for a period of one year thereafter, you shall not directly or indirectly encourage any employee of the Company or
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any of its United States Affiliates with whom you worked to terminate his or her employment with the Company or any such Affiliate or solicit such an individual for employment outside the Company or any of its Affiliates in a manner which would end or diminish that employee’s services to the Company or any of its Affiliates.

Non-Disparagement
During the term of your employment or service with the Company or any of its Affiliates and thereafter in perpetuity, you shall not knowingly disparage, criticize, or otherwise make derogatory statements regarding the Company or any of its Affiliates, successors, directors, officers, customers or suppliers.

Non-Disclosure of Confidential Information (Other than California)
Unless you are employed in, or reside in, California during your employment with the Company and its Affiliates, you shall maintain in confidence and shall not directly, indirectly or otherwise, use, disseminate, disclose or publish, or use for your benefit or the benefit of any other Person, or deliver to any Person any document, record, notebook, computer program or similar repository of or containing, any confidential or proprietary information or trade secrets of or relating to the Company or any of its Affiliates, including, without limitation, information with respect to the Company’s or any of its Affiliate’s operations, processes, products, inventions, business practices, finances, principals, vendors, suppliers, customers, potential customers, marketing methods, costs, prices, contractual relationships, regulatory status, compensation paid to employees or other terms of employment (the “Confidential Information”). Confidential Information shall be defined to exclude information which is or becomes public knowledge through no fault of you, or which was known to you before the start of your earliest relationship with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or which is otherwise not subject to protection under applicable law. Your obligations under this paragraph shall apply for so long as you continue to be employed by, or provide services to, the Company or any of its Affiliates. In addition, those obligations shall continue after your employment or service terminates with respect to each piece of Confidential Information for so long as that piece of Confidential Information continues to have economic value to the Company or any of its Affiliates and, accordingly, could be used by a competitor of the Company or one of its Affiliates to compete unfairly against the Company or one of its Affiliates.

Non-Disclosure of Confidential Information (California)
If you are employed in, or reside in, California during your employment with the Company and its Affiliates, you shall maintain in confidence and shall not directly, indirectly or otherwise, use, disseminate, disclose, publish or otherwise misappropriate, or use for your benefit or the benefit of any person, or deliver to any person any Confidential Information (as defined herein) or trade secrets of the Company. “Confidential Information” means any document, record, notebook, computer program or similar repository of or containing, any confidential or proprietary information of or relating to the Company or any of its Affiliates, including, without limitation, information with respect to the Company’s or any of its Affiliate’s operations, processes, products, inventions, business practices, finances, principals, vendors, suppliers, customers, potential customers, marketing methods, costs, prices, contractual relationships, regulatory status, compensation paid to employees or other terms of employment. Confidential Information shall be defined to exclude information which is or becomes public knowledge through no fault of your own, or which was known to you before the start of your earliest relationship with the Company or any of its Affiliates, or which is otherwise not subject to protection under applicable law. Your obligations under this paragraph shall apply for so long as you continue in the employment of the Company or any of its Affiliates and for two years following the termination of such employment, for whatever reason, as to any Confidential Information that does not constitute a trade secret under applicable law. As to any Confidential Information that does constitute a trade secret under applicable law, you agrees that your obligations under this paragraph shall apply for so long as the item qualifies as a trade secret.
Prohibition Against Use of Trade Secrets
You understand that in the course of your employment, you will have access to confidential information that constitutes a trade secret as defined by law, including but not limited to information: (i) not generally known to the public and (ii) not subject to discovery or replication by a third party without substantial expense and effort. You further understand that you can only use such trade secrets for the benefit of the Company, and not for any other purpose, and if you misappropriates such trade secrets
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during or after employment, the Company may pursue legal action against you under any applicable laws whether you are currently, or not currently, employed by the Company or any of its Affiliates.

Defend Trade Secrets Act Notice
Pursuant to the Defend Trade Secrets Act, you are advised that you may not be held criminally or civilly liable under any federal or state trade secret law for the disclosure of a trade secret that is made: (i) in confidence to a federal, state, or local government official, either directly or indirectly, or to an attorney, and provided that such disclosure is solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of the law, or (ii) in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding, provided that such filing is made under seal. Additionally, in the event you file a lawsuit against the Company for retaliation by the Company against you for reporting a suspected violation of law, you have the right to provide trade secret information to your attorney and use the trade secret information in the court proceeding, although you must file any document containing the trade secret under seal and may do not disclose the trade secret, except pursuant to court order.
Return of Company Property
All correspondence, drawings, manuals, letters, notes, notebooks, reports, programs, plans, proposals, financial documents, or any other documents concerning the Company’s or any of its Affiliates’ customers, business plans, marketing strategies, products or processes, whether confidential or not, is the property of the Company (the “Company Property”). Accordingly, upon your termination of employment for any reason, you shall promptly deliver to the Company all such Company Property, including any and all copies of any such Company Property, and shall not make any notes of or relating to any information contained in such Company Property. You may respond to a lawful and valid subpoena or other legal process but shall give the Company the earliest possible notice thereof, and shall, as much in advance of the return date as possible. Make available to the Company and its counsel the documents and other information sought and shall assist such counsel in resisting or otherwise responding to such process.


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Injunctive Relief
You hereby acknowledge that a breach of the covenants contained in this Appendix will cause irreparable damage to the Company and its goodwill, the exact amount of which will be difficult or impossible to ascertain, and that the remedies at law for any such breach will be inadequate. Accordingly, you hereby agree that, in the event of any actual or threatened breach of any of the covenants contained in this Appendix, in addition to any other remedy which may be available at law or in equity, the Company shall be entitled to specific performance and injunctive relief. In addition, should the Company prevail in obtaining legal relief against you as related to a breach of the covenants contained in this Appendix, you shall indemnify the Company for reasonable costs and expenses, including, but not limited, to court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees that the Company incurred pursuant to the enforcement of this Appendix.

Other Obligations
The obligations and restrictions set forth in this Appendix are in addition to and not in lieu of any obligations or restrictions imposed on you under any other agreement or any law or statute including, but not limited to, any obligations you may owe under any law governing trade sections, any common law duty of loyalty, or any fiduciary duty. No time or geographic restriction provided above shall affect the availability or scope of protection afforded to the Company’s trade secrets.

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REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION -- 2018 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN
RESTRICTED STOCK UNIT AWARD

Replacement to Rexnord PSU Award

[Name]
[Address]

Dear _____________________:

You have been granted this award of Restricted Stock Units (an “Award”) under the Regal Rexnord Corporation 2018 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”), having the following terms and conditions. This Award replaces your outstanding Rexnord Corporation (“Rexnord”) performance stock unit award (the “Prior Award”) as required by the Employee Matters Agreement entered into by and between the Regal Beloit Corporation (currently, Regal Rexnord Corporation or the “Company”) and Rexnord in connection with the merger of a portion of Rexnord’s business with a Subsidiary of the Company.

Please note that: (1) the Grant Date below reflects the date that the Company issued this replacement Award and not the original grant date of the Prior Award, and (2) the number of Restricted Stock Units below is the number from the Prior Award that were determined based on achievement of the goals as determined by Rexnord prior to the closing of the transaction (as adjusted to reflect conversion to Company Shares).
                    
This Award is granted under and governed by the terms and conditions of the Plan. Additional provisions regarding your Award and definitions of capitalized terms used and not defined in this Award can be found in the Plan.

Grant Date:            __________, 20___

Number of Restricted
Stock Units:            __________________ (_______) Units

Vesting Schedule:        [Insert vesting schedule].

If your employment or service with the Company and its Affiliates terminates (voluntarily or involuntarily) before your Restricted Stock Units are 100% vested, then all nonvested Restricted Stock Units will be forfeited. For clarity, the foregoing provisions supersede Sections 13(a) through (e) of the Plan.

Issuance of Shares:    As soon as reasonably practicable after your Restricted Stock Units vest, the Company will issue to you a number of Shares equal to the number of Restricted Stock Units that have vested. In all events such settlement of any vested Restricted Stock Units shall occur no later than March 15 of the year following the year of vesting.

Change of Control:    Upon a Change of Control, this Award will be treated as provided in Appendix A to the Plan.

Transferability of Shares:    By accepting this Award, you agree not to sell any Shares acquired under this Award at a time when applicable laws, Company policies or an agreement between the Company and its underwriters prohibit a sale.

Rights as Shareholder;
Dividend Equivalent Units:    You will not be deemed for any purposes to be a shareholder of the Company with respect to any of the Restricted Stock Units unless and until Shares are issued therefor upon vesting of the units. Accordingly,
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prior to Shares being issued to you upon vesting of the Restricted Stock Units, you may not exercise any voting rights and you will not be entitled to receive any dividends, dividend equivalent payments and other distributions paid with respect to any such Shares underlying the Restricted Stock Units.

    If, however, after this Award is issued by the Company and prior to the settlement date, both a record date and payment date with respect to a cash dividend (other than a special or extraordinary dividend, including any dividend not paid as a regular quarterly dividend) on the Shares occurs, then on the date that such dividend is paid to Company shareholders you shall be credited with “dividend equivalents” in an amount equal to the dividends that would have been paid to you if you owned a number of Shares equal to the number of outstanding RSUs hereunder as of such record date. The dividend equivalents will be deemed to be reinvested in additional RSUs (determined by multiplying the cash dividends paid by the Fair Market Value of a Share on the dividend payment date) which will be subject to the same terms and conditions, and shall vest and be settled or be forfeited (if applicable) at the same time, as the RSUs to which they are attributable.

Transferability of Award:    Except as otherwise provided in the Plan, you may not assign, alienate, sell or transfer this Award for any reason, other than under your will or as required by the laws of descent and distribution. This Award also may not be pledged, attached, or otherwise encumbered. Any purported assignment, alienation, sale, transfer, pledge, attachment or encumbrance of this Award in violation of its terms shall be null and void and unenforceable against the Company or any Affiliate.

Tax Withholding:    To the extent that the vesting of the Restricted Stock Units results in income to you for Federal, state or local income tax purposes, or the Company is otherwise required to withhold amounts with respect to the Restricted Stock Units, you shall deliver to the Company at the time the Company is obligated to withhold amounts, such amount as the Company requires to meet the statutory withholding obligation under applicable tax laws or regulations, and if you fail to do so, the Company has the right and authority to deduct or withhold from payment under this Award or other compensation payable to you an amount sufficient to satisfy its withholding obligations. You may satisfy the withholding requirement, in connection with the earning of the Restricted Stock Units, in whole or in part, in cash or by electing to have the Company withhold for its own account that number of Shares otherwise deliverable to you upon vesting of the Restricted Stock Units having an aggregate Fair Market Value sufficient to satisfy the Company’s withholding obligation; provided that the amount to be withheld may not exceed the total maximum statutory tax withholding obligations associated with the transaction to the extent needed for the Company to avoid an accounting charge. Your election must be irrevocable, in writing, and submitted to the Secretary of the Company before the date on which the applicable withholding obligation arises.

Restrictive Covenants:    By accepting this Award, you agree to the restrictive covenants and other provisions contained in the Appendix hereto.

Miscellaneous:    As a condition of the granting of this Award, you agree, for yourself and your legal representatives or guardians, that this Award and the Plan shall be interpreted by the Administrator and that any interpretation by the Administrator of the terms of this Award or the Plan and any
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determination made by the Administrator pursuant to this Award or the Plan shall be final, binding and conclusive.

    As a condition of the granting of this Award, you agree, for yourself and your legal representatives or guardians, that this Award, and any Shares issued or cash paid pursuant to this Award, shall be subject to (A) any recoupment, clawback, equity holding, stock ownership or similar policies adopted by the Company from time to time (to the extent contemplated by such policies) and (B) any recoupment, clawback, equity holding, stock ownership or similar requirements made applicable by law, regulation or listing standards to the Company from time to time (to the extent contemplated by such requirements).

    In general, this Award may be amended only by written consent signed by both you and the Company, unless the amendment is not to your detriment. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Award may be amended or terminated by the Administrator or the Company without your consent in accordance with the provisions of the Plan.

    The failure of the Company to enforce any provision of this Award at any time shall in no way constitute a waiver of such provision or of any other provision hereof.

    This Award shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of you and your heirs and personal representatives and the Company and its successors and legal representatives.

    This Award may be executed in counterparts.


Prospectus Delivery/
Access:    By accepting this Award you acknowledge that a prospectus for the Plan, along with a copy of the Plan and the Company’s most recent Annual Report to Shareholders, has been made available to you electronically via the Company’s designated stock plan administrator’s web portal.

    A paper copy of the prospectus for the Plan is also available to participants upon request.

This Award is granted under and governed by the terms and conditions of the Plan. Additional provisions
regarding your Award and definitions of capitalized terms used and not defined in this Award can be found
in the Plan.


BY ACCEPTING THIS RESTRICTED STOCK UNIT AWARD THROUGH THE COMPANY’S ON-LINE GRANT PROCESS, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ AND AGREE TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS AWARD, INCLUDING THE RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS APPENDIX, AND THE PLAN.

REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION


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By: image_0b.jpg        
Name:     Louis V. Pinkham                
Title: Chairman/CEO

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APPENDIX
RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS

Reasonableness of Restrictions
You acknowledge that you have had and will continue to have access to Confidential Information (as defined in the section entitled “Non-Disclosure of Confidential Information” below), that such Confidential Information is of economic value to the Company and its Affiliates, that such Confidential Information would be of value to a competitor of the Company and/or one of its Affiliates in competing against the Company and/or one of its Affiliates, and that it would be unfair for you to exploit such Confidential Information for your personal benefit or for the benefit of a competitor. You further acknowledge that you have had and/or will have an opportunity to learn about, and develop relationships with, customers of the Company and/or its Affiliates and that the Company and its Affiliates have a legitimate interest in protecting relationships with such customers, and that it would be unfair for you to exploit information that you have learned about such customers and relationships which you have developed with such customers for your personal benefit or for the benefit of a competitor. You further acknowledge that the Company and its Affiliates currently market and sell products and services to customers throughout the United States and that your job duties have included and/or will include contact with products that are marketed throughout the entire United States and that the Confidential Information to which you have had and/or and will have access to, and your customer knowledge and contacts and relationships, would be of value to a competitor in competing against the Company and/or one of its Affiliates anywhere in the United States. Accordingly, you acknowledge that the protections provided to the Company and its Affiliates in this Appendix are reasonable and necessary to protect the legitimate interests of the Company and its Affiliates and that abiding by your obligations under this Appendix will not impose an undue hardship on you.

Restricted Services Obligation
Unless you are employed in, or reside in California during your employment with the Company and its Affiliates, for a period of two years following the end, for whatever reason, of your employment or service with the Company or any of its Affiliates, you agree not to directly or indirectly provide Restricted Services to any Competitor respecting its operations in the United States. “Restricted Services” means services of any kind or character comparable to those that you provided to the Company or any of its Affiliates during the one year period preceding the end of your employment or service with the Company or any of its Affiliates. “Competitor” means any business located in the United States which is engaged in the development and/or sale of any product line that is substantially similar to a product line sold by the Company or any of its Untied States Affiliates for which the you had direct managerial responsibility during the last year of the term of your employment or service with the Company or any of its United States Affiliates. For clarity, the foregoing paragraph does not apply if you reside in or are employed in California.

Customer Non-Solicitation
Unless you are employed in, or reside in, California during your employment with the Company and its Affiliates, for a period of two years following the end, for whatever reason, of your employment or service with the Company or any of its Affiliates, you agree not to directly or indirectly attempt to sell or otherwise provide to any Restricted Customer any goods, products or services of the type or substantially similar to the type sold or otherwise provided by the Company or any of its Affiliates for which you were employed during the twelve months prior to termination of your employment or service. “Restricted Customer” means any individual or entity (i) for whom/which the Company or any of its Affiliates provided goods, products or services, and (ii) with whom/which you were the primary contact on behalf of the Company during your last twelve months of employment or service or about whom/which you acquired non-public information during your last twelve months of employment or service that would be of benefit to you in selling or attempting to sell such goods, products or services in competition with the Company or any of its Affiliates. For clarity, the foregoing paragraph does not apply if you reside in or are employed in California.

Non-Solicitation of Employees
During the term of your employment or service with the Company or any of its Affiliates and for a period of one year thereafter, you shall not directly or indirectly encourage any employee of the Company or
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any of its United States Affiliates with whom you worked to terminate his or her employment with the Company or any such Affiliate or solicit such an individual for employment outside the Company or any of its Affiliates in a manner which would end or diminish that employee’s services to the Company or any of its Affiliates.

Non-Disparagement
During the term of your employment or service with the Company or any of its Affiliates and thereafter in perpetuity, you shall not knowingly disparage, criticize, or otherwise make derogatory statements regarding the Company or any of its Affiliates, successors, directors, officers, customers or suppliers.

Non-Disclosure of Confidential Information (Other than California)
Unless you are employed in, or reside in, California during your employment with the Company and its Affiliates, you shall maintain in confidence and shall not directly, indirectly or otherwise, use, disseminate, disclose or publish, or use for your benefit or the benefit of any other Person, or deliver to any Person any document, record, notebook, computer program or similar repository of or containing, any confidential or proprietary information or trade secrets of or relating to the Company or any of its Affiliates, including, without limitation, information with respect to the Company’s or any of its Affiliate’s operations, processes, products, inventions, business practices, finances, principals, vendors, suppliers, customers, potential customers, marketing methods, costs, prices, contractual relationships, regulatory status, compensation paid to employees or other terms of employment (the “Confidential Information”). Confidential Information shall be defined to exclude information which is or becomes public knowledge through no fault of you, or which was known to you before the start of your earliest relationship with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or which is otherwise not subject to protection under applicable law. Your obligations under this paragraph shall apply for so long as you continue to be employed by, or provide services to, the Company or any of its Affiliates. In addition, those obligations shall continue after your employment or service terminates with respect to each piece of Confidential Information for so long as that piece of Confidential Information continues to have economic value to the Company or any of its Affiliates and, accordingly, could be used by a competitor of the Company or one of its Affiliates to compete unfairly against the Company or one of its Affiliates.

Non-Disclosure of Confidential Information (California)
If you are employed in, or reside in, California during your employment with the Company and its Affiliates, you shall maintain in confidence and shall not directly, indirectly or otherwise, use, disseminate, disclose, publish or otherwise misappropriate, or use for your benefit or the benefit of any person, or deliver to any person any Confidential Information (as defined herein) or trade secrets of the Company. “Confidential Information” means any document, record, notebook, computer program or similar repository of or containing, any confidential or proprietary information of or relating to the Company or any of its Affiliates, including, without limitation, information with respect to the Company’s or any of its Affiliate’s operations, processes, products, inventions, business practices, finances, principals, vendors, suppliers, customers, potential customers, marketing methods, costs, prices, contractual relationships, regulatory status, compensation paid to employees or other terms of employment. Confidential Information shall be defined to exclude information which is or becomes public knowledge through no fault of your own, or which was known to you before the start of your earliest relationship with the Company or any of its Affiliates, or which is otherwise not subject to protection under applicable law. Your obligations under this paragraph shall apply for so long as you continue in the employment of the Company or any of its Affiliates and for two years following the termination of such employment, for whatever reason, as to any Confidential Information that does not constitute a trade secret under applicable law. As to any Confidential Information that does constitute a trade secret under applicable law, you agrees that your obligations under this paragraph shall apply for so long as the item qualifies as a trade secret.
Prohibition Against Use of Trade Secrets
You understand that in the course of your employment, you will have access to confidential information that constitutes a trade secret as defined by law, including but not limited to information: (i) not generally known to the public and (ii) not subject to discovery or replication by a third party without substantial expense and effort. You further understand that you can only use such trade secrets for the benefit of the Company, and not for any other purpose, and if you misappropriates such trade secrets
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during or after employment, the Company may pursue legal action against you under any applicable laws whether you are currently, or not currently, employed by the Company or any of its Affiliates.

Defend Trade Secrets Act Notice
Pursuant to the Defend Trade Secrets Act, you are advised that you may not be held criminally or civilly liable under any federal or state trade secret law for the disclosure of a trade secret that is made: (i) in confidence to a federal, state, or local government official, either directly or indirectly, or to an attorney, and provided that such disclosure is solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of the law, or (ii) in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding, provided that such filing is made under seal. Additionally, in the event you file a lawsuit against the Company for retaliation by the Company against you for reporting a suspected violation of law, you have the right to provide trade secret information to your attorney and use the trade secret information in the court proceeding, although you must file any document containing the trade secret under seal and may do not disclose the trade secret, except pursuant to court order.
Return of Company Property
All correspondence, drawings, manuals, letters, notes, notebooks, reports, programs, plans, proposals, financial documents, or any other documents concerning the Company’s or any of its Affiliates’ customers, business plans, marketing strategies, products or processes, whether confidential or not, is the property of the Company (the “Company Property”). Accordingly, upon your termination of employment for any reason, you shall promptly deliver to the Company all such Company Property, including any and all copies of any such Company Property, and shall not make any notes of or relating to any information contained in such Company Property. You may respond to a lawful and valid subpoena or other legal process but shall give the Company the earliest possible notice thereof, and shall, as much in advance of the return date as possible. Make available to the Company and its counsel the documents and other information sought and shall assist such counsel in resisting or otherwise responding to such process.


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Injunctive Relief
You hereby acknowledge that a breach of the covenants contained in this Appendix will cause irreparable damage to the Company and its goodwill, the exact amount of which will be difficult or impossible to ascertain, and that the remedies at law for any such breach will be inadequate. Accordingly, you hereby agree that, in the event of any actual or threatened breach of any of the covenants contained in this Appendix, in addition to any other remedy which may be available at law or in equity, the Company shall be entitled to specific performance and injunctive relief. In addition, should the Company prevail in obtaining legal relief against you as related to a breach of the covenants contained in this Appendix, you shall indemnify the Company for reasonable costs and expenses, including, but not limited, to court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees that the Company incurred pursuant to the enforcement of this Appendix.

Other Obligations
The obligations and restrictions set forth in this Appendix are in addition to and not in lieu of any obligations or restrictions imposed on you under any other agreement or any law or statute including, but not limited to, any obligations you may owe under any law governing trade sections, any common law duty of loyalty, or any fiduciary duty. No time or geographic restriction provided above shall affect the availability or scope of protection afforded to the Company’s trade secrets.


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International Version
REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION -- 2018 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN
RESTRICTED STOCK UNIT AWARD

Replacement to Rexnord RSU Award

[Name]
[Address]

Dear _____________________:

You have been granted this award of Restricted Stock Units (an “Award”) under the Regal Rexnord Corporation 2018 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”), having the following terms and conditions. This Award replaces your outstanding Rexnord Corporation (“Rexnord”) restricted stock unit award (the “Prior Award”) as required by the Employee Matters Agreement entered into by and between the Regal Beloit Corporation (currently, Regal Rexnord Corporation or the “Company”) and Rexnord in connection with the merger of a portion of Rexnord’s business with a Subsidiary of the Company.

Please note that: (1) the Grant Date below reflects the date that the Company issued this replacement Award and not the original grant date of the Prior Award, and (2) the number of Restricted Stock Units below is the original number from the Prior Award (as adjusted to reflect conversion to Company Shares). Some of the Restricted Stock Units may have already been settled under the Prior Award. To see the current number of Restricted Stock Units that have not been settled, please review your on-line account provided by the Company’s designated stock plan administrator.

For purposes of this Award, “Employer” means the Company or any Affiliate that employs you on the applicable date.
Grant Date:        __________, 20___
Number of Restricted
Stock Units:        __________________ (_______) Units

Vesting Schedule:    [Insert vesting schedule].

If your employment or service with the Employer terminates (voluntarily or involuntarily) before your Restricted Stock Units are 100% vested, then all nonvested Restricted Stock Units will be forfeited. For clarity, the foregoing provisions supersede Sections 13(a) through (e) of the Plan.

Notwithstanding anything in this Award or the Plan to the contrary, and for purposes of clarity, unless otherwise determined by the Administrator in its sole discretion, any termination of employment shall be effective as of the date your active employment ceases and shall not be extended by any statutory or common law notice of termination period.

Issuance of
Shares:    As soon as reasonably practicable after your Restricted Stock Units vest, the Company will issue to you a number of Shares equal to the number of Restricted Stock Units that have vested. In all events such settlement of any vested Restricted Stock Units shall occur no later than March 15 of the year following the year of vesting.

Change of Control:    Upon a Change of Control, this Award will be treated as provided in Appendix A
            to the Plan.

Transferability of
Shares:    By accepting this Award, you agree not to sell any Shares acquired under this Award at a time when applicable laws, Company policies or an agreement between the Company and its underwriters prohibit a sale.
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Rights as Shareholder;
Dividend Equivalent
Units:    You will not be deemed for any purposes to be a shareholder of the Company with respect to any of the Restricted Stock Units unless and until Shares are issued therefor upon vesting of the units. Accordingly, prior to Shares being issued to you upon vesting of the Restricted Stock Units, you may not exercise any voting rights and you will not be entitled to receive any dividends, dividend equivalent payments and other distributions paid with respect to any such Shares underlying the Restricted Stock Units.

    If, however, after this Award is issued by the Company and prior to the settlement date, both a record date and payment date with respect to a cash dividend (other than a special or extraordinary dividend, including any dividend not paid as a regular quarterly dividend) on the Shares occurs, then on the date that such dividend is paid to Company shareholders you shall be credited with “dividend equivalents” in an amount equal to the dividends that would have been paid to you if you owned a number of Shares equal to the number of outstanding RSUs hereunder as of such record date. The dividend equivalents will be deemed to be reinvested in additional RSUs (determined by multiplying the cash dividends paid by the Fair Market Value of a Share on the dividend payment date) which will be subject to the same terms and conditions, and shall vest and be settled or be forfeited (if applicable) at the same time, as the RSUs to which they are attributable.

Transferability of
Award:    Except as otherwise provided in the Plan, you may not assign, alienate, sell or transfer this Award for any reason, other than under your will or as required by the laws of descent and distribution. This Award also may not be pledged, attached, or otherwise encumbered. Any purported assignment, alienation, sale, transfer, pledge, attachment or encumbrance of this Award in violation of its terms shall be null and void and unenforceable against the Company or any Affiliate.

Responsibility for
Taxes:    Regardless of any action the Company and/or the Employer takes with respect to any or all income tax (including U.S. federal, state and local taxes and/or non-U.S. taxes), social insurance, payroll tax, payment on account or other tax-related withholding (“Tax-Related Items”), you acknowledge that the ultimate liability for all Tax-Related Items legally due by you is and remains your responsibility and may exceed the amount actually withheld by the Company or the Employer, if any. Furthermore, the Company and the Employer (i) make no representations or undertakings regarding the treatment of any Tax-Related Items in connection with any aspect of the Restricted Stock Units, including the grant of the Restricted Stock Units, the vesting of the Restricted Stock Units, the subsequent sale of any Shares acquired pursuant to this Award and the receipt of any dividend equivalents; and (ii) do not commit to structure the terms of the grant or any aspect of the Restricted Stock Units to reduce or eliminate your liability for Tax-Related Items. Further, if you become subject to taxation in more than one country between the date the Restricted Stock Units are granted and the date of any relevant taxable or tax withholding event, as applicable, you acknowledge that the Company and/or the Employer (or former employer, as applicable) may be required to withhold or account for Tax-Related Items in more than one country.

Tax Withholding:    Prior to the delivery of Shares upon vesting of the Restricted Stock Units, if your country of residence, country of employment, or any other country requires the withholding of Tax-Related Items, then you authorize the Company and/or the
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Employer to withhold all applicable Tax-Related Items legally payable by you from any wages or other cash compensation paid to you by the Company and/or the Employer. Alternatively, or in addition, if permissible under local law, you authorize the Company and/or the Employer, pursuant to such procedures as it may specify from time to time, to satisfy the obligations with regard to all Tax-Related Items legally payable by you by one or a combination of the following: (a) withholding otherwise deliverable whole Shares having an aggregate Fair Market Value equal to the aggregate Tax-Related Items required to be withheld determined as of the date the obligation to withhold or pay taxes arises in connection with the Restricted Stock Units; (b) withholding from the proceeds of the sale of Shares received upon vesting of the Restricted Stock Units an amount equal to the aggregate Tax-Related Items required to be withheld; or (c) requiring you (or your personal representative or beneficiary, as the case may be) to pay the aggregate Tax-Related Items required to be withheld to the Company or the Employer in cash.

    If the obligation for Tax-Related Items is satisfied by withholding a whole number of Shares as described herein, you shall be deemed to have been issued the full number of Shares subject to the Restricted Stock Units, notwithstanding that a number of the Shares are held back solely for the purpose of paying the Tax-Related Items due as a result of any aspect of the Restricted Stock Units.

    In the event the withholding requirements are not satisfied, no Shares will be issued to you (or your personal representative or beneficiary, as the case may be) upon vesting of the Restricted Stock Units unless and until satisfactory arrangements (as determined by the Administrator) have been made by you with respect to the payment of any Tax-Related Items that the Company or the Employer determines, in its sole discretion, must be withheld or collected with respect to such Restricted Stock Units. By accepting these Restricted Stock Units, you expressly consent to the withholding of Shares and/or cash as provided for hereunder. All other Tax-Related Items related to the Restricted Stock Units and any Shares delivered in payment thereof are your sole responsibility.

Restricted Covenants:    By accepting this Award, you agree to the restrictive covenants and other provisions contained in the Appendix hereto.

Country-Specific
Addendum:    Notwithstanding any provision of this Award to the contrary, the Restricted Stock Units shall be subject to such special terms and conditions for your country or jurisdiction of residence (and country or jurisdiction of employment, if different), as the Administrator may determine in its sole discretion and which shall be set forth in an addendum to this Agreement (“Addendum”). Further, if you transfer your residence and/or employment to another country or jurisdiction reflected in an Addendum, any special terms and conditions for such country or jurisdiction will apply to you to the extent the Administrator determines, in its sole discretion, that the application of such terms and conditions is necessary or advisable in order to comply with local law, rules and/or regulations or to facilitate the operation and administration of the Restricted Stock Units and the Plan (or the Administrator may establish additional special terms and conditions as may be necessary or advisable to accommodate your transfer). In all circumstances, any applicable Addendum shall constitute part of this Award.

Nature of Grant;
Award Value:    In accepting the Restricted Stock Units, you acknowledge and agree that:

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the Plan is established voluntarily by the Company, is discretionary in nature and may be modified, amended, suspended or terminated by the Company, in its sole discretion, at any time (subject to any limitations set forth in the Plan);

any modification, amendment, suspension or termination of the Plan shall not constitute a change or impairment of the terms and conditions of employment with your Employer;

the grant of the Restricted Stock Units is a one-time benefit that is voluntary and occasional and does not create any contractual or other right to receive future grants of Restricted Stock Units, or benefits in lieu of Restricted Stock Units, even if Restricted Stock Units or other awards have been granted in the past;

your participation in the Plan is voluntary;

the Restricted Stock Units and your participation in the Plan shall not create a right to employment or be interpreted as forming an employment contract with the Company or the Employer and shall not interfere with or restrict in any way the rights of the Employer, which are hereby expressly reserved, to discharge you at any time for any reason whatsoever, with or without Cause (as permitted by law), except pursuant to an employment agreement, if any, between you and the Employer that is approved by the Board;

unless otherwise agreed with the Company, the Restricted Stock Units and any Shares acquired upon settlement of the Restricted Stock Units, and the income from and value of same, are not granted as consideration for, or in connection with, any service you may provide as a director of any Subsidiary or Affiliate:

the Restricted Stock Units and any Shares acquired under the Plan and the income and value of same, are not part of normal or expected compensation for purposes of calculating any severance, resignation, termination, redundancy, dismissal, end-of-service payments, bonuses, long-service awards, pension or retirement or welfare benefits or similar payments and in no event should be considered as compensation for, or relating in any way to, past services for the Company, the Employer or Affiliates thereof;

the future value of the Shares underlying the Restricted Stock Units is unknown, indeterminable, and cannot be predicted with certainty;

no claim or entitlement to compensation or damages shall arise from forfeiture of the Restricted Stock Units resulting from termination of your employment (for any reason whatsoever and whether or not in breach of local labor laws or later found invalid) and, in consideration of the Restricted Stock Units, you agree not to institute any claim against the Company or the Employer;

the Restricted Stock Units and the benefits evidenced by this Award do not create any entitlement not otherwise specifically provided for in the Plan or provided by the Company in its discretion, to have the Restricted Stock Units or any such benefits transferred to, or assumed by, another company, nor to be exchanged, cashed out or substituted for, in connection with any corporate transaction affecting the Shares;

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neither the Company nor any Subsidiary shall be liable for any foreign exchange rate fluctuation between your local currency and the U.S. dollar that may affect the value of the Restricted Stock Units or any amounts due to you pursuant to the settlement of the Restricted Stock Units or the subsequent sale of any Shares acquired upon settlement of the Restricted Stock Units; and

you will have no entitlement to compensation or damages from the loss or diminution in value of this Award or from your forfeiture of this Award (whether or not as a result of termination of employment and whether or not the termination is in breach of contract or otherwise), and by accepting this Award, you irrevocably release the Company and the Employer from any such claim that may arise.

Conformity to Securities
Laws:            You acknowledge that the Plan is intended to conform to the extent necessary
with all provisions of the U.S. Securities Act and the Exchange Act and any and all regulations and rules promulgated thereunder by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including without limitation, Rule 16b-3. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Plan shall be administered, and the Restricted Stock Units are granted, only in such a manner as to conform to such laws, rules and regulations. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Plan and this Award shall be deemed amended to the extent necessary to conform to such laws, rules and regulations.

Private Placement:    If you are resident or employed outside of the United States, the grant of the Restricted Stock Units is not intended to be a public offering of securities in your country of residence (or country of employment, if different). The Company has not submitted any registration statement, prospectus or other filings with the local securities authorities (unless otherwise required under local law), and the grant of the Restricted Stock Units is not subject to the supervision of the local securities authorities. You acknowledge that the Plan is intended to conform to the extent necessary with all provisions of the U.S. Securities Act and the Exchange Act and any and all regulations and rules promulgated thereunder by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including without limitation, Rule 16b-3. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Plan shall be administered, and the Restricted Stock Units are granted, only in such a manner as to conform to such laws, rules and regulations. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Plan and this Award shall be deemed amended to the extent necessary to conform to such laws, rules and regulations.

Electronic Delivery:    The Company may, in its sole discretion, decide to deliver any documents
related to the Restricted Stock Units or other awards granted to you under the Plan by electronic means. You hereby consent to receive such documents be electronic delivery and agree to participate in the Plan through an on-line or electronic system established and maintained by the Company or a third party-designated by the Company.

English Language:    If you are resident and/or employed outside of the United States, you
acknowledge and agree that it is your express intent that the Award (including any applicable Addendum), the Plan and all other documents, notices and legal proceedings entered into, given or instituted pursuant to the Restricted Stock Units, be drawn up in English. If you received the Award, the Plan or any other documents related to the Restricted Stock Units translated into a language other than English, and if the meaning of the translated version is different than the English version, the English version will control.

Consent to Collection,
Processing and Transfer of
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Personal Data:            
The Company and the Employer hereby notify you of the following in relation to your Personal Data (as defined below) and the collection, processing and transfer of such Personal Data in relation to the grant of the Restricted Stock Units and your participation in the Plan pursuant to applicable personal data protection laws. The collection, processing and transfer of your personal data is necessary for the Company’s administration of the Plan and your participation in the Plan, and your denial and/or objection to the collection, processing and transfer of personal data may affect your ability to participate in the Plan. As such, you voluntarily acknowledge, consent and agree (where required under applicable law) to the collection, use, processing and transfer of personal data as described herein.

The Company and the Employer collect, process, use, and hold certain personal information about you, including (but not limited to) your name, home address and telephone number, email address, date of birth, social security, passport or other identification number, salary, nationality, job title, any Shares or directorships held in the Company, details of all Restricted Stock Units or any other entitlement to Shares awarded, canceled, purchased, vested, unvested or outstanding in your favor for the purpose of managing and administering the Plan (for purposes of this Award, “Personal Data”). The Personal Data may be provided by you or collected, where lawful, from third parties, the Company or the Employer. The Company, 200 State Street, Beloit, Wisconsin USA 53511, and the Employer will each act as data controller/owner of this Personal Data and will process the Personal Data for the exclusive purpose of implementing, administering and managing your participation in the Plan. The data processing will take place through electronic and non-electronic means according to logics and procedures strictly correlated to the purposes for which the Personal Data is collected and with confidentiality and security provisions as set forth by applicable laws and regulations in your country of residence. Personal Data processing operations will be performed minimizing the use of personal and identification data when such operations are unnecessary for the processing purposes sought. The Personal Data will be accessible within the Company’s organization only by those persons requiring access for purposes of the implementation, administration and operation of the Plan and for your participation in the Plan.

The Company and Employer will transfer Personal Data as necessary for the purpose of implementation, administration and management of your participation in the Plan, and the Company and the Employer each may further transfer Personal Data to any third parties assisting the Company in the implementation, administration and management of the Plan. These recipients may be located in the European Economic Area, the United States or elsewhere throughout the world. You hereby authorize (where required under applicable law) the recipients to receive, possess, use, retain and transfer the Personal Data, in electronic or other form, for purposes of implementing, administering and managing your participation in the Plan, including any requisite transfer of such Personal Data as may be required for the administration of the Plan and/or the subsequent holding of Shares on your behalf to a broker or other third party with whom you may elect to deposit any Shares acquired pursuant to the Plan. When transferring Personal Data to these potential recipients, the Company and the Employer provide appropriate safeguards in accordance with the EU standard contractual clauses, the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, or another legally binding and permissible arrangement in the EU or the country where you reside.

To the extent provided by local law, you may, at any time, have the right to request: access to Personal Data, rectification of Personal Data, erasure of
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Personal Data, restriction of processing of Personal Data, and portability of Personal Data. You may also have the right to object, on grounds related to a particular situation, to the processing of Personal Data, as well as to refuse or withdraw the consents herein, in any case without cost, by contacting in writing your local human resources representative. You understand, however, that the only consequence of refusing or withdrawing your consent is that the Company would not be able to grant to you Restricted Stock Units or other equity awards or administer or maintain such awards. Therefore, you understand that refusing or withdrawing your consent may affect your ability to participate in the Plan. For more information on the consequences of your refusal to consent or withdrawal of consent, you understand that you may contact your local human resources representative.

Compliance with the
Law:            If you are resident or employed outside of the United States, you agree to
repatriate all payments attributable to the Shares and/or cash acquired under the Plan in accordance with local foreign exchange rules and regulations in your country of residence (and country of employment, if different). In addition, you agree to take any and all actions, and consents to any and all actions taken by the Company and the Company’s Subsidiaries and Affiliates, as may be required to allow the Company and the Company’s Subsidiaries and Affiliates to comply with local laws, rules and/or regulations in your country of residence (and country of employment, if different). Finally, you agree to take any and all actions as may be required to comply with your personal legal and tax obligations under local laws, rules and regulations in your country of residence (and country of employment, if different).

Insider Trading:        You acknowledge that, depending on your or the broker’s country of residence
or where the Shares are listed, you may be subject to insider trading restrictions and/or market abuse laws that may affect your ability to accept, acquire, sell or otherwise dispose of Shares , rights to Stock (e.g., Restricted Stock Units) or rights linked to the value of Shares during such times that you are considered to have “inside information” regarding the Company as defined in the laws or regulations in your country. Local insider trading laws and regulations may prohibit the cancellation or amendment of orders you placed before he or she possessed inside information. Furthermore, you could be prohibited from (i) disclosing the inside information to any third party (other than on a “need to know” basis) and (ii) ”tipping” third parties or causing them otherwise to buy or sell securities. You understand that third parties may include fellow employees. Any restrictions under these laws or regulations are separate from and in addition to any restrictions that may be imposed under any applicable Company insider trading policy. You acknowledge that it is your responsibility to comply with any restrictions and you are advised to speak to your personal legal advisor on this matter.

Miscellaneous:        The Company reserves the right to impose other requirements on the
Restricted Stock Units, any Shares issued pursuant to the Restricted Stock Units, and your participation in the Plan, to the extent the Company determines, in its sole discretion, that such other requirements are necessary or advisable in order to comply with local laws, rules and/or regulations or to facilitate the operation and administration of the Restricted Stock Units and the Plan. Such requirements may include (but are not limited to) requiring you to sign any agreements or undertakings that may be necessary to accomplish the foregoing.

As a condition of the granting of this Award, you agree, for yourself and your legal representatives or guardians, that this Award and the Plan shall be interpreted by the Administrator and that any interpretation by the Administrator of the terms of this Award or the Plan and any determination
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made by the Administrator pursuant to this Award or the Plan shall be final, binding and conclusive.

As a condition of the granting of this Award, you agree, for yourself and your legal representatives or guardians, that this Award, and any Shares issued or cash paid pursuant to this Award, shall be subject to (A) any recoupment, clawback, equity holding, stock ownership or similar policies adopted by the Company from time to time (to the extent contemplated by such policies) and (B) any recoupment, clawback, equity holding, stock ownership or similar requirements made applicable by law, regulation or listing standards to the Company from time to time (to the extent contemplated by such requirements).

In general, this Award may be amended only by written consent signed by both you and the Company, unless the amendment is not to your detriment. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Award may be amended or terminated by the Administrator or the Company without your consent in accordance with the provisions of the Plan.

The failure of the Company to enforce any provision of this Award at any time shall in no way constitute a waiver of such provision or of any other provision hereof.

This Award shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of you and your heirs and personal representatives and the Company and its successors and legal representatives.

This Award may be executed in counterparts.
Prospectus Delivery/
Access:    By accepting this Award you acknowledge that a prospectus for the Plan, along with a copy of the Plan and the Company’s most recent Annual Report to Shareholders, has been made available to you electronically via the Company’s designated stock plan administrator’s web portal.

A paper copy of the prospectus for the Plan is also available to participants upon
request.

This Award is granted under and governed by the terms and conditions of the Plan. Additional provisions regarding your Award and definitions of capitalized terms used and not defined in this Award can be found in the Plan. BY ACCEPTING THIS RESTRICTED STOCK UNIT AWARD THROUGH THE COMPANY’S ON-LINE GRANT PROCESS, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ AND AGREE TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS AWARD, INCLUDING THE RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS APPENDIX AND THE ADDENDUM, AND THE PLAN.

REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION


By: image_0a.jpg        
Name:     Louis V. Pinkham                
Title: Chairman/CEO

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APPENDIX
RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS

Reasonableness of Restrictions
You acknowledge that you have had and will continue to have access to Confidential Information (as defined in the section entitled “Non-Disclosure of Confidential Information” below), that such Confidential Information is of economic value to the Company and its Affiliates, that such Confidential Information would be of value to a competitor of the Company and/or one of its Affiliates in competing against the Company and/or one of its Affiliates, and that it would be unfair for you to exploit such Confidential Information for your personal benefit or for the benefit of a competitor. You further acknowledge that you have had and/or will have an opportunity to learn about, and develop relationships with, customers of the Company and/or its Affiliates and that the Company and its Affiliates have a legitimate interest in protecting relationships with such customers, and that it would be unfair for you to exploit information that you have learned about such customers and relationships which you have developed with such customers for your personal benefit or for the benefit of a competitor. You further acknowledge that the Company and its Affiliates currently market and sell products and services to customers throughout the world and that your job duties have included and/or will include contact with products that are marketed throughout the world and that the Confidential Information to which you have had and/or and will have access to, and your customer knowledge and contacts and relationships, would be of value to a competitor in competing against the Employer anywhere in the country in which you are employed. Accordingly, you acknowledge that the protections provided to the Company and its Affiliates in this Appendix are reasonable and necessary to protect the legitimate interests of the Company and its Affiliates and that abiding by your obligations under this Appendix will not impose an undue hardship on you.

Restricted Services Obligation
For a period of two years following the end, for whatever reason, of your employment or service with the Employer, you agree not to directly or indirectly provide Restricted Services to any Competitor respecting its operations in the country in which you are employed. “Restricted Services” means services of any kind or character comparable to those that you provided to the Employer during the one year period preceding the end of your employment or service with the Employer. “Competitor” means any business located in the country in which you are employed which is engaged in the development and/or sale of any product line that is substantially similar to a product line sold by the Company or any of its Affiliates in the country in which you are employed for which the you had direct managerial responsibility during the last year of the term of your employment or service with the Company or any of its Affiliates in the country in which you are employed.

Customer Non-Solicitation
For a period of two years following the end, for whatever reason, of your employment or service with the Employer, you agree not to directly or indirectly attempt to sell or otherwise provide to any Restricted Customer any goods, products or services of the type or substantially similar to the type sold or otherwise provided by the Employer for which you were employed during the twelve months prior to termination of your employment or service. “Restricted Customer” means any individual or entity (i) for whom/which the Employer provided goods, products or services, and (ii) with whom/which you were the primary contact on behalf of the Employer during your last twelve months of employment or service or about whom/which you acquired non-public information during your last twelve months of employment or service that would be of benefit to you in selling or attempting to sell such goods, products or services in competition with the Employer.

Non-Solicitation of Employees
During the term of your employment or service with the Employer and for a period of one year thereafter, you shall not directly or indirectly encourage any employee of the Company or any of its Affiliates in the country in which you are employed and with whom you worked to terminate his or her employment with the Company or any such Affiliate or solicit such an individual for employment outside the Employer in a manner which would end or diminish that employee’s services to the Employer.

Non-Disparagement
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During the term of your employment or service with the Employer and thereafter in perpetuity, you shall not knowingly disparage, criticize, or otherwise make derogatory statements regarding the Company or any of its Affiliates, successors, directors, officers, customers or suppliers. The restrictions of this paragraph shall not apply to any statements that are made truthfully in response to a subpoena or other compulsory legal process.

Non-Disclosure of Confidential Information
You shall maintain in confidence and shall not directly, indirectly or otherwise, use, disseminate, disclose, publish or otherwise misappropriate, or use for your benefit or the benefit of any Person, or deliver to any Person any Confidential Information (as defined herein) or trade secrets of the Company. “Confidential Information” means any document, record, notebook, computer program or similar repository of or containing, any confidential or proprietary information or trade secrets of or relating to the Employer, including, without limitation, information with respect to the Company’s or any of its Affiliate’s operations, processes, products, inventions, business practices, finances, principals, vendors, suppliers, customers, potential customers, marketing methods, costs, prices, contractual relationships, regulatory status, compensation paid to employees or other terms of employment. Confidential Information shall be defined to exclude information which is or becomes public knowledge through no fault of yours, or which was known to you before the start of your earliest relationship with the Employer, or which is otherwise not subject to protection under applicable law. Your obligations under this paragraph shall apply for so long as you continue in the employment of the Employer and for two years following the termination of such employment, for whatever reason, as to any Confidential Information that does not constitute a trade secret under applicable law. As to any Confidential Information that does constitute a trade secret under applicable law, you agree that your obligations under this paragraph shall apply for so long as the item qualifies as a trade secret.

You are advised that you may not be held criminally or civilly liable under any federal or state trade secret law for the disclosure of a trade secret that is made: (i) in confidence to a federal, state, or local government official, either directly or indirectly, or to an attorney, and provided that such disclosure is solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of the law, or (ii) in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding, provided that such filing is made under seal. Additionally, in the event you file a lawsuit against the Company for retaliation by the Company against you for reporting a suspected violation of law, you have the right to provide trade secret information to your attorney and use the trade secret information in the court proceeding, although you must file any document containing the trade secret under seal and may do not disclose the trade secret, except pursuant to court order.
Return of Company Property
All correspondence, drawings, manuals, letters, notes, notebooks, reports, programs, plans, proposals, financial documents, or any other documents concerning the Company’s or any of its Affiliates’ customers, business plans, marketing strategies, products or processes, whether confidential or not, is the property of the Company (the “Company Property”). Accordingly, upon your termination of employment for any reason, you shall promptly deliver to the Company all such Company Property, including any and all copies of any such Company Property, and shall not make any notes of or relating to any information contained in such Company Property. You may respond to a lawful and valid subpoena or other legal process but shall give the Company the earliest possible notice thereof, and shall, as much in advance of the return date as possible. Make available to the Company and its counsel the documents and other information sought and shall assist such counsel in resisting or otherwise responding to such process.

Injunctive Relief
You hereby acknowledge that a breach of the covenants contained in this Appendix will cause irreparable damage to the Company and its goodwill, the exact amount of which will be difficult or impossible to ascertain, and that the remedies at law for any such breach will be inadequate. Accordingly, you hereby agree that, in the event of any actual or threatened breach of any of the covenants contained in this Appendix, in addition to any other remedy which may be available at law or in equity, the Company shall be entitled to specific performance and injunctive relief. In addition, should the Company prevail in obtaining legal relief against you as related to a breach of the covenants contained in this Appendix, you shall indemnify the Company for reasonable costs and expenses,
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including, but not limited, to court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees that the Company incurred pursuant to the enforcement of this Appendix.

Other Obligations
The obligations and restrictions set forth in this Appendix are in addition to and not in lieu of any obligations or restrictions imposed on you under any other agreement or any law or statute including, but not limited to, any obligations you may owe under any law governing trade sections, any common law duty of loyalty, or any fiduciary duty. No time or geographic restriction provided above shall affect the availability or scope of protection afforded to the Company’s trade secrets.


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ADDENDUM
The Restricted Stock Units are subject to the following additional terms and conditions as set forth in this addendum (the “Addendum”). All defined terms contained in this Addendum shall have the same meaning as set forth in the Plan and the Award. Pursuant to the section of the Award entitled “Country-Specific Addendum”, if you relocate your residency or employment to another country or jurisdiction reflected in the Addendum, the additional terms and conditions for such country or jurisdiction (if any) shall also apply to the Restricted Stock Units to the extent the Administrator determines, in its sole discretion, that the application of such terms and conditions is necessary or advisable in order to comply with local laws, rules and/or regulations, or to facilitate the operation and administration of the Restricted Stock Units and the Plan (or the Administrator may establish additional special terms and conditions as may be necessary or advisable to accommodate your transfer).
EUROPEAN UNION (“EU”) / EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA (“EEA”) AND THE UNITED KINGDOM

Data Privacy. The following provision replaces the section of the Award entitled “Consent to Collection, Processing and Transfer of Personal Data for Grantees Located Outside of the United States” in its entirety:
The Company, with its registered address at 200 State Street, Beloit, Wisconsin USA 53511, is the controller responsible for the processing of your personal data by the Company and the third parties noted below.

(a)Data Collection and Usage. Pursuant to applicable data protection laws, you are hereby notified that the Company collects, processes and uses certain personally-identifiable information about you for the legitimate purpose of implementing, administering and managing the Plan and generally administering equity awards; specifically, including your name, home address, email address and telephone number, date of birth, social insurance number or other identification number, salary, citizenship, job title, any Shares or directorships held in the Company, and details of all Restricted Stock Units, any other entitlement to Shares awarded, canceled, exercised, vested, or outstanding in your favor, which the Company receives from you or the Employer (“Personal Data”). In granting the Restricted Stock Units under the Plan, the Company will collect, process, use, disclose and transfer (collectively, “Process”) Personal Data for purposes of allocating Shares and implementing, administering and managing the Plan. The Company’s legal basis for the Processing of Personal Data is the Company’s legitimate business interests of managing the Plan, administering equity awards and complying with its contractual and statutory obligations, as well as the necessity of the Processing for the Company to perform its contractual obligations under the Award and the Plan. Your refusal to provide Personal Data would make it impossible for the Company to perform its contractual obligations and may affect your ability to participate in the Plan. As such, by accepting the Restricted Stock Units, you voluntarily acknowledge the Processing of your Personal Data as described herein.

(b)Stock Plan Administration Service Provider. The Company transfers Personal Data to UBS and Certent, both of which are independent service providers based, in relevant part, in the United States, which assists the Company with the implementation, administration and management of the Plan. In the future, the Company may select a different service provider and share Personal Data with another company that serves in a similar manner. The Processing of Personal Data will take place through both electronic and non-electronic means. Personal Data will only be accessible by those individuals requiring access to it for purposes of implementing, administering and operating the Plan. When receiving your Personal Data, UBS and Certent provide appropriate safeguards in accordance with the EU Standard Contractual Clauses. By accepting the Restricted Stock Units, you understand that the service provider will Process your Personal Data for the purposes of implementing, administering and managing your participation in the Plan.

(c)International Data Transfers to the Company. The Company is based in the United States, which means it will be necessary for Personal Data to be transferred to, and Processed in the United States. When transferring your Personal Data to the United States, the
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Company provides appropriate safeguards in accordance with the EU Standard Contractual Clauses, and other appropriate cross-border transfer solutions. You may request a copy of the appropriate safeguards with UBS or Certent or the Company by contacting his or her local human resources department.

(d)Data Retention. The Company will use Personal Data only as long as is necessary to implement, administer and manage your participation in the Plan or as required to comply with legal or regulatory obligations, including tax and securities laws. When the Company no longer needs Personal Data, the Company will remove it from its systems. If the Company keeps Personal Data longer, it would be to satisfy legal or regulatory obligations and the Company’s legal basis would be for compliance with relevant laws or regulations.

(e)Data Subject Rights. To the extent provided by law, you have the right to (i) subject to certain exceptions, request access or copies of Personal Data the Company Processes, (ii) request rectification of incorrect Personal Data, (iii) request deletion of Personal Data, (iv) place restrictions on Processing of Personal Data, (v) lodge complaints with competent authorities in your country, and/or (vi) request a list with the names and addresses of any potential recipients of Personal Data. To receive clarification regarding your rights or to exercise your rights, you may contact your local human resources department. You also have the right to object, on grounds related to a particular situation, to the Processing of Personal Data, as well as opt-out of the Plan herein, in any case without cost, by contacting your local human resources department in writing. Your provision of Personal Data is a contractual requirement. You understand, however, that the only consequence of refusing to provide Personal Data is that the Company may not be able to grant or administer Restricted Stock Units under the Plan, or grant other equity awards or administer or maintain such awards. For more information on the consequences of the refusal to provide Personal Data, you may contact your local human resources department in writing. You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection supervisory authority.

BRAZIL
Labor Law Acknowledgment. You agree that (i) the benefits provided under the Agreement and the Plan are the result of commercial transactions unrelated to your employment; (ii) the Agreement and the Plan are not a part of the terms and conditions of your employment; and (iii) the income from the Restricted Stock Units, if any, is not part of your remuneration from employment.
CANADA
1.    Resale Restriction. You are permitted to sell Shares acquired upon settlement of the Restricted Stock Units through the designated broker appointed under the Plan, provided the resale of Shares acquired under the Plan takes place outside of Canada through the facilities of the stock exchange on which the shares are listed. The Shares are currently listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

2.    Use of English Language. You acknowledge and agree that it is your express wish that this Award, as well as all documents, notices and legal proceedings entered into, given or instituted pursuant hereto or relating directly or indirectly hereto, be drawn up in English. Vous reconnaissez et consentez que c’est votre souhait exprès qui cet accord, de meme que tous documents, toutes notifications et tous procédés légaux est entré dans, donné ou instituté conformément ci-annexé ou relatant directement ou indirectement ci-annexé, est formulé dans l’anglais.

CHILE
Private Placement. The following provision shall replace the section of the Award entitled “ Private Placement”:
The grant of the Restricted Stock Units hereunder is not intended to be a public offering of securities in Chile but instead is intended to be a private placement.
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(a)The starting date of the offer will be the Grant Date (as defined in the Agreement), and this offer conforms to General Ruling no. 336 of the Chilean Commission for the Financial Market;
(b)The offer deals with securities not registered in the registry of securities or in the registry of foreign securities of the Chilean Commission for the Financial Market, and therefore such securities are not subject to its oversight;
(c)The issuer is not obligated to provide public information in Chile regarding the foreign securities, as such securities are not registered with the Chilean Commission for the Financial Market; and
(d)The foreign securities shall not be subject to public offering as long as they are not registered with the corresponding registry of securities in Chile.
(a)La fecha de inicio de la oferta será el de la fecha de otorgamiento (o “Grant Date”, según este término se define en el documento denominado “Award”) y esta oferta se acoge a la norma de Carácter General n° 336 de la Commission for the Financial Market Chilena;
(b)La oferta versa sobre valores no inscritos en el registro de valores o en el registro de valores extranjeros que lleva la Superintendencia de Valores y Seguros Chilena, por lo que tales valores no están sujetos a la fiscalización de ésta;
(c)Por tratar de valores no inscritos no existe la obligación por parte del emisor de entregar en chile información pública respecto de esos valores; y
(d)Esos valores no podrán ser objeto de oferta pública mientras no sean inscritos en el registro de valores correspondiente.
DENMARK

    Danish Stock Option Act. The Danish Act on the Use of Rights to Purchase or Subscribe for Shares etc. in Employment Relationships (the “Stock Option Act”) applies only to “Employees” as defined in the Stock Option Act and is not applicable to members of a Danish company’s registered management. If the Stock Option Act applies, you acknowledge receipt of an “employer information statement” in Danish, which is being provided to comply with the Stock Option Act.

INDIA

    Repatriation Requirements. You agree to repatriate all sales proceeds and dividends attributable to Shares acquired under the Plan in accordance with local foreign exchange rules and regulations. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall be liable for any fines or penalties resulting from your failure to comply with applicable laws, rules or regulations.
MEXICO

1.    Commercial Relationship. You expressly recognize that your participation in the Plan and the Company’s grant of the Restricted Stock Units does not constitute an employment relationship between you and the Company. You have been granted the Restricted Stock Units as a consequence of the commercial relationship between the Company and the Company’s Subsidiary in Mexico that employs you, and the Company’s Subsidiary in Mexico is your sole employer. Based on the foregoing, (a) you expressly recognize the Plan and the benefits you may derive from your participation in the Plan does not establish any rights between you and the Company’s Subsidiary in Mexico that employs you, (b) the Plan and the benefits you may derive from your participation in the Plan are not part of the employment conditions and/or benefits provided by the Company’s Subsidiary in Mexico that employs you, and (c) any modifications or amendments of the Plan by the Company, or a termination of the Plan by the Company, shall not constitute a change or impairment of the terms and conditions of your employment with the Company’s Subsidiary in Mexico that employs you.
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2.    Extraordinary Item of Compensation. You expressly recognize and acknowledge that your participation in the Plan is a result of the discretionary and unilateral decision of the Company, as well as your free and voluntary decision to participate in the Plan in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Plan, the Award and this Addendum. As such, you acknowledge and agree that the Company may, in its sole discretion, amend and/or discontinue your participation in the Plan at any time and without any liability. The value of the Restricted Stock Units is an extraordinary item of compensation outside the scope of your employment contract, if any. The Restricted Stock Units are not part of your regular or expected compensation for purposes of calculating any severance, resignation, redundancy, end of service payments, bonuses, long-service awards, pension or retirement benefits, or any similar payments, which are the exclusive obligations of the Company’s Subsidiary in Mexico that employs you.
NETHERLANDS
Waiver of Termination Rights. You waive any and all rights to compensation or damages as a result of any termination of employment for any reason whatsoever, insofar as those rights result or may result from (a) the loss or diminution in value of such rights or entitlements under the Plan, or (b) you ceasing to have rights under, or ceasing to be entitled to any awards under the Plan as a result of such termination.
SINGAPORE
Qualifying Person Exemption. The grant of Restricted Stock Units under the Plan is being made pursuant to the “Qualifying Person” exemption under section 273(1)(f) of the Securities and Futures Act (Chapter 289, 2006 Ed.) (the “SFA”). The Plan has not been and will not be lodged or registered as a prospectus with the Monetary Authority of Singapore and is not regulated by any financial supervisory authority pursuant to any legislation in Singapore. Accordingly, statutory liability under the SFA in relation to the content of prospectuses would not apply. You should note that, as a result, the Restricted Stock Units are subject to section 257 of the SFA and you will not be able to make: (a) any subsequent sale of the Shares underlying the Restricted Stock Units in Singapore; or (b) any offer of such subsequent sale of the Shares subject to the Restricted Stock Units in Singapore, unless such sale or offer is made pursuant to the exemptions under Part XIII Division 1 Subdivision (4) (other than section 280) of the SFA.
UNITED KINGDOM

1.    Income Tax and Social Insurance Contribution Withholding. Without limitation to the section of the Award entitled “Responsibility for Taxes”, you hereby agree that you are liable for all Tax-Related Items and hereby covenant to pay all such Tax-Related Items, as and when requested by the Company or (if different) the Employer or by Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (“HMRC”) (or any other tax authority or any other relevant authority). You also hereby agree to indemnify and keep indemnified the Company and (if different) the Employer against any Tax-Related Items that they are required to pay or withhold on your behalf or have paid or will pay to HMRC (or any other tax authority or any other relevant authority).
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if you are a director or executive officer (as within the meaning of Section 13(k) of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended), the terms of the immediately foregoing provision will not apply. In the event that you are a director or executive officer and income tax due is not collected from or paid by you within 90 days after the U.K. tax year in which an event giving rise to the indemnification described above occurs, the amount of any uncollected tax may constitute a benefit to you on which additional income tax and national insurance contributions may be payable. You acknowledge that you ultimately will be responsible for reporting and paying any income tax due on this additional benefit directly to HMRC under the self-assessment regime and for reimbursing the Company or the Employer (as applicable) for the value of any employee national insurance contributions due on this additional benefit, which the Company and/or the Employer may recover from you at any time thereafter by any of the means referred to in Article III of this Agreement.
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2.    Exclusion of Claim. You acknowledge and agree that you shall have no entitlement to compensation or damages insofar as such entitlement arises or may arise from your ceasing to have rights under or to be entitled to the Restricted Stock Units, whether or not as a result of a termination of employment (whether the termination is in breach of contract or otherwise), or from the loss or diminution in value of the Restricted Stock Units. Upon the grant of the Restricted Stock Units, you shall be deemed irrevocably to have waived any such entitlement.

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REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION -- 2018 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN
NON-QUALIFIED STOCK OPTION AWARD

Replacement to Rexnord Option Award


[Name]
[Address]

Dear ___________:

You have been granted options (the “Options”) to purchase shares of common stock of Regal Rexnord Corporation (f/k/a Regal Beloit Corporation) (the “Company”) under the Regal Rexnord Corporation 2018 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”), having the following terms and conditions. This Award replaces your outstanding Rexnord Corporation (“Rexnord”) stock option award (the “Prior Award”) as required by the Employee Matters Agreement entered into by and between the Company and Rexnord in connection with the merger of a portion of Rexnord’s business with a Subsidiary of the Company.

Please note that: (1) the Grant Date below reflects the date that the Company issued this replacement Award and not the original grant date of the Prior Award, and (2) the number of Options below is the original number from the Prior Award (as adjusted to reflect conversion to Company Shares). You may have already exercised some of the Options under the Prior Award. To see the current number of Options that are exercisable, please review your on-line account provided by the Company’s designated stock plan administrator.

Grant Date:__________, 20____
Expiration Date:mm/dd/yyyy
Number of Options:__________________
Exercise Price Per Share:U.S. $_____________
Vesting:
Your Options will vest and become exercisable as follows, provided that you are employed by the Company or an Affiliate on the applicable vesting date:

[insert vesting schedule]
Exercise:
You may exercise your Options only to the extent vested and only if they have not terminated. Options may not be exercised after the expiration date set forth above, or the earlier date that they terminate in connection with your termination of service, as set forth below. In addition, your ability to exercise your Options may be restricted by the Company if required by applicable law.

You may exercise your Options by completing your transaction on-line using the account provided by the Company’s designated stock plan administrator. However, Options will not be exercised until you have satisfied all applicable withholding taxes due as a result of the exercise.
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Termination of Service
Upon termination of your employment for any reason, any unvested Options will be forfeited.

Your vested Options will be treated according to the following rules upon termination:

Death or Disability. If your service with the Company and its Affiliates terminates due to your death or Disability, then you may exercise your Options, to the extent vested, for up to 12 months after your termination date. If someone else wants to exercise your Options after your death, that person must contact the Company and prove to the Company’s satisfaction that he or she is entitled to do so.

For Cause Termination. All of your Options will be terminated immediately if the Company or an Affiliate terminates your employment or service for Cause, or if your employment or service is terminated at a time when you could be terminated for Cause. In addition, if you are not terminated for Cause but the Administrator later determines that you could have been terminated for Cause if all facts had been known at that time, your Options will terminate immediately on the date of such determination. If you have submitted a notice of exercise while the Administrator is considering whether you should be (or could have been) terminated for Cause, your exercise will be suspended pending such determination. If it is determined that you are (or could have been) terminated for Cause, your Options will terminate and your notice of exercise will be rescinded.

All Other Terminations. If your service with the Company and its Affiliates terminates for any reason other than by the Company for Cause or due to your death or Disability, then you may exercise your Options, to the extent vested, for up to 90 days after your termination date.

Notwithstanding anything in this agreement or the Plan to the contrary, and for purposes of clarity, unless otherwise determined by the Administrator in its sole discretion, any termination of employment shall be effective as of the date your active employment ceases and shall not be extended by any statutory or common law notice of termination period.

For clarity, the foregoing provisions supersede Sections 13(a) through (e) of the Plan.
Change of Control:Upon a Change of Control, your Options will be treated as provided in Appendix A to the Plan.
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Restrictions on Resale:By accepting this award of Options, you agree not to sell any Shares acquired under this award at a time when applicable laws, Company policies or an agreement between the Company and its underwriters prohibit a sale.
Transferability of Award:Except as otherwise provided in the Plan, you may not assign, alienate, sell or transfer your Options for any reason, other than under your will or as required by the laws of descent and distribution. Your Options also may not be pledged, attached, or otherwise encumbered. Any purported assignment, alienation, sale, transfer, pledge, attachment or encumbrance of your Options in violation of its terms shall be null and void and unenforceable against the Company or any Affiliate.
Tax Withholding:To the extent that the vesting or exercise of the Options results in income to you for Federal, state or local income tax purposes, or the Company is otherwise required to withhold amounts with respect to the Options, you shall deliver to the Company at the time the Company is obligated to withhold amounts, such amount as the Company requires to meet its withholding obligation under applicable tax laws or regulations, and if you fail to do so, the Company has the right and authority to deduct or withhold from payment under this Award or other compensation payable to you an amount sufficient to satisfy its withholding obligations. You may satisfy the withholding requirement in connection with the exercise of your Options, in whole or in part, in cash or by electing to have the Company withhold for its own account that number of Shares otherwise deliverable to you upon the exercise of the Options having an aggregate Fair Market Value sufficient to satisfy the Company’s withholding obligation; provided that the amount to be withheld may not exceed the total maximum statutory tax withholding obligations associated with the transaction to the extent needed for the Company to avoid an accounting charge. Your election must be irrevocable, in writing, and submitted to the Secretary of the Company before the date on which the applicable withholding obligation arises.
Restrictive Covenants:By accepting this Award, you agree to the restrictive covenants and other provisions contained in the Appendix hereto.
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Miscellaneous:
As a condition of the granting of this Award, you agree, for yourself and your legal representatives or guardians, that this Award and the Plan shall be interpreted by the Administrator and that any interpretation by the Administrator of the terms of this Award or the Plan and any determination made by the Administrator pursuant to this Award or the Plan shall be final, binding and conclusive.
As a condition of the granting of this Award, you agree, for yourself and your legal representatives or guardians, that this Award, and any Shares issued or cash paid pursuant to this Award, shall be subject to (A) any recoupment, clawback, equity holding, stock ownership or similar policies adopted by the Company from time to time (to the extent contemplated by such policies) and (B) any recoupment, clawback, equity holding, stock ownership or similar requirements made applicable by law, regulation or listing standards to the Company from time to time (to the extent contemplated by such requirements).
In general, this Award may be amended only by written consent signed by both you and the Company, unless the amendment is not to your detriment. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Award may be amended or terminated by the Administrator or the Company without your consent in accordance with the provisions of the Plan.
The failure of the Company to enforce any provision of this Award at any time shall in no way constitute a waiver of such provision or of any other provision hereof.
This Award shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of you and your heirs and personal representatives and the Company and its successors and legal representatives.
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Prospectus Delivery/Access:
By accepting this Award you acknowledge that a prospectus for the Plan, along with a copy of the Plan and the Company’s most recent Annual Report to Shareholders, has been made available to you electronically via the Company’s designated stock plan administrator’s web portal.
A paper copy of the prospectus for the Plan is also available to participants upon request.
This Award is granted under and governed by the terms and conditions of the Plan. Additional provisions regarding your Award and definitions of capitalized terms used and not defined in this Award can be found in the Plan.

BY ACCEPTING THIS NON-QUALIFIED STOCK OPTION AWARD THROUGH THE COMPANY’S ON-LINE GRANT PROCESS, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ AND AGREE TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS AWARD, INCLUDING THE RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS APPENDIX, AND THE PLAN.






REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION

By: image_0a.jpg        
Name:     Louis V. Pinkham            
Title: Chief Executive Officer

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APPENDIX
RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS

Reasonableness of Restrictions
You acknowledge that you have had and will continue to have access to Confidential Information (as defined in the section entitled “Non-Disclosure of Confidential Information” below), that such Confidential Information is of economic value to the Company and its Affiliates, that such Confidential Information would be of value to a competitor of the Company and/or one of its Affiliates in competing against the Company and/or one of its Affiliates, and that it would be unfair for you to exploit such Confidential Information for your personal benefit or for the benefit of a competitor. You further acknowledge that you have had and/or will have an opportunity to learn about, and develop relationships with, customers of the Company and/or its Affiliates and that the Company and its Affiliates have a legitimate interest in protecting relationships with such customers, and that it would be unfair for you to exploit information that you have learned about such customers and relationships which you have developed with such customers for your personal benefit or for the benefit of a competitor. You further acknowledge that the Company and its Affiliates currently market and sell products and services to customers throughout the United States and that your job duties have included and/or will include contact with products that are marketed throughout the entire United States and that the Confidential Information to which you have had and/or and will have access to, and your customer knowledge and contacts and relationships, would be of value to a competitor in competing against the Company and/or one of its Affiliates anywhere in the United States. Accordingly, you acknowledge that the protections provided to the Company and its Affiliates in this Appendix are reasonable and necessary to protect the legitimate interests of the Company and its Affiliates and that abiding by your obligations under this Appendix will not impose an undue hardship on you.

Restricted Services Obligation
Unless you are employed in, or reside in California during your employment with the Company and its Affiliates, for a period of two years following the end, for whatever reason, of your employment or service with the Company or any of its Affiliates, you agree not to directly or indirectly provide Restricted Services to any Competitor respecting its operations in the United States. “Restricted Services” means services of any kind or character comparable to those that you provided to the Company or any of its Affiliates during the one year period preceding the end of your employment or service with the Company or any of its Affiliates. “Competitor” means any business located in the United States which is engaged in the development and/or sale of any product line that is substantially similar to a product line sold by the Company or any of its Untied States Affiliates for which the you had direct managerial responsibility during the last year of the term of your employment or service with the Company or any of its United States Affiliates. For clarity, the foregoing paragraph does not apply if you reside in or are employed in California.

Customer Non-Solicitation
Unless you are employed in, or reside in, California during your employment with the Company and its Affiliates, for a period of two years following the end, for whatever reason, of your employment or service with the Company or any of its Affiliates, you agree not to directly or indirectly attempt to sell or otherwise provide to any Restricted Customer any goods, products or services of the type or substantially similar to the type sold or otherwise provided by the Company or any of its Affiliates for which you were employed during the twelve months prior to termination of your employment or service. “Restricted Customer” means any individual or entity (i) for whom/which the Company or any of its Affiliates provided goods, products or services, and (ii) with whom/which you were the primary contact on behalf of the Company during your last twelve months of employment or service or about whom/which you acquired non-public information during your last twelve months of employment or service that would be of benefit to you in selling or attempting to sell such goods, products or services in competition with the Company or any of its Affiliates. For clarity, the foregoing paragraph does not apply if you reside in or are employed in California.

Non-Solicitation of Employees
During the term of your employment or service with the Company or any of its Affiliates and for a period of one year thereafter, you shall not directly or indirectly encourage any employee of the Company or
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any of its United States Affiliates with whom you worked to terminate his or her employment with the Company or any such Affiliate or solicit such an individual for employment outside the Company or any of its Affiliates in a manner which would end or diminish that employee’s services to the Company or any of its Affiliates.

Non-Disparagement
During the term of your employment or service with the Company or any of its Affiliates and thereafter in perpetuity, you shall not knowingly disparage, criticize, or otherwise make derogatory statements regarding the Company or any of its Affiliates, successors, directors, officers, customers or suppliers.

Non-Disclosure of Confidential Information (Other than California)
Unless you are employed in, or reside in, California during your employment with the Company and its Affiliates, you shall maintain in confidence and shall not directly, indirectly or otherwise, use, disseminate, disclose or publish, or use for your benefit or the benefit of any other Person, or deliver to any Person any document, record, notebook, computer program or similar repository of or containing, any confidential or proprietary information or trade secrets of or relating to the Company or any of its Affiliates, including, without limitation, information with respect to the Company’s or any of its Affiliate’s operations, processes, products, inventions, business practices, finances, principals, vendors, suppliers, customers, potential customers, marketing methods, costs, prices, contractual relationships, regulatory status, compensation paid to employees or other terms of employment (the “Confidential Information”). Confidential Information shall be defined to exclude information which is or becomes public knowledge through no fault of you, or which was known to you before the start of your earliest relationship with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or which is otherwise not subject to protection under applicable law. Your obligations under this paragraph shall apply for so long as you continue to be employed by, or provide services to, the Company or any of its Affiliates. In addition, those obligations shall continue after your employment or service terminates with respect to each piece of Confidential Information for so long as that piece of Confidential Information continues to have economic value to the Company or any of its Affiliates and, accordingly, could be used by a competitor of the Company or one of its Affiliates to compete unfairly against the Company or one of its Affiliates.

Non-Disclosure of Confidential Information (California)
If you are employed in, or reside in, California during your employment with the Company and its Affiliates, you shall maintain in confidence and shall not directly, indirectly or otherwise, use, disseminate, disclose, publish or otherwise misappropriate, or use for your benefit or the benefit of any person, or deliver to any person any Confidential Information (as defined herein) or trade secrets of the Company. “Confidential Information” means any document, record, notebook, computer program or similar repository of or containing, any confidential or proprietary information of or relating to the Company or any of its Affiliates, including, without limitation, information with respect to the Company’s or any of its Affiliate’s operations, processes, products, inventions, business practices, finances, principals, vendors, suppliers, customers, potential customers, marketing methods, costs, prices, contractual relationships, regulatory status, compensation paid to employees or other terms of employment. Confidential Information shall be defined to exclude information which is or becomes public knowledge through no fault of your own, or which was known to you before the start of your earliest relationship with the Company or any of its Affiliates, or which is otherwise not subject to protection under applicable law. Your obligations under this paragraph shall apply for so long as you continue in the employment of the Company or any of its Affiliates and for two years following the termination of such employment, for whatever reason, as to any Confidential Information that does not constitute a trade secret under applicable law. As to any Confidential Information that does constitute a trade secret under applicable law, you agrees that your obligations under this paragraph shall apply for so long as the item qualifies as a trade secret.
Prohibition Against Use of Trade Secrets
You understand that in the course of your employment, you will have access to confidential information that constitutes a trade secret as defined by law, including but not limited to information: (i) not generally known to the public and (ii) not subject to discovery or replication by a third party without substantial expense and effort. You further understand that you can only use such trade secrets for the benefit of the Company, and not for any other purpose, and if you misappropriates such trade secrets
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during or after employment, the Company may pursue legal action against you under any applicable laws whether you are currently, or not currently, employed by the Company or any of its Affiliates.

Defend Trade Secrets Act Notice
Pursuant to the Defend Trade Secrets Act, you are advised that you may not be held criminally or civilly liable under any federal or state trade secret law for the disclosure of a trade secret that is made: (i) in confidence to a federal, state, or local government official, either directly or indirectly, or to an attorney, and provided that such disclosure is solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of the law, or (ii) in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding, provided that such filing is made under seal. Additionally, in the event you file a lawsuit against the Company for retaliation by the Company against you for reporting a suspected violation of law, you have the right to provide trade secret information to your attorney and use the trade secret information in the court proceeding, although you must file any document containing the trade secret under seal and may do not disclose the trade secret, except pursuant to court order.
Return of Company Property
All correspondence, drawings, manuals, letters, notes, notebooks, reports, programs, plans, proposals, financial documents, or any other documents concerning the Company’s or any of its Affiliates’ customers, business plans, marketing strategies, products or processes, whether confidential or not, is the property of the Company (the “Company Property”). Accordingly, upon your termination of employment for any reason, you shall promptly deliver to the Company all such Company Property, including any and all copies of any such Company Property, and shall not make any notes of or relating to any information contained in such Company Property. You may respond to a lawful and valid subpoena or other legal process but shall give the Company the earliest possible notice thereof, and shall, as much in advance of the return date as possible. Make available to the Company and its counsel the documents and other information sought and shall assist such counsel in resisting or otherwise responding to such process.


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Injunctive Relief
You hereby acknowledge that a breach of the covenants contained in this Appendix will cause irreparable damage to the Company and its goodwill, the exact amount of which will be difficult or impossible to ascertain, and that the remedies at law for any such breach will be inadequate. Accordingly, you hereby agree that, in the event of any actual or threatened breach of any of the covenants contained in this Appendix, in addition to any other remedy which may be available at law or in equity, the Company shall be entitled to specific performance and injunctive relief. In addition, should the Company prevail in obtaining legal relief against you as related to a breach of the covenants contained in this Appendix, you shall indemnify the Company for reasonable costs and expenses, including, but not limited, to court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees that the Company incurred pursuant to the enforcement of this Appendix.

Other Obligations
The obligations and restrictions set forth in this Appendix are in addition to and not in lieu of any obligations or restrictions imposed on you under any other agreement or any law or statute including, but not limited to, any obligations you may owe under any law governing trade sections, any common law duty of loyalty, or any fiduciary duty. No time or geographic restriction provided above shall affect the availability or scope of protection afforded to the Company’s trade secrets.


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International Version

REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION -- 2018 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN
NON-QUALIFIED STOCK OPTION AWARD

Replacement to Rexnord Option Award


[Name]
[Address]

Dear ___________:

You have been granted options (the “Options”) to purchase shares of common stock of Regal Rexnord Corporation (f/k/a Regal Beloit Corporation) (the “Company”) under the Regal Rexnord Corporation 2018 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”), having the following terms and conditions. This Award replaces your outstanding Rexnord Corporation (“Rexnord”) stock option award (the “Prior Award”) as required by the Employee Matters Agreement entered into by and between the Company and Rexnord in connection with the merger of a portion of Rexnord’s business with a Subsidiary of the Company.

Please note that: (1) the Grant Date below reflects the date that the Company issued this replacement Award and not the original grant date of the Prior Award, and (2) the number of Options below is the original number from the Prior Award (as adjusted to reflect conversion to Company Shares). You may have already exercised some of the Options under the Prior Award. To see the current number of Options that are exercisable, please review your on-line account provided by the Company’s designated stock plan administrator.

For purposes of this Award, “Employer” means the Company or any Affiliate that employs you on the applicable date.

Grant Date:__________, 20____
Expiration Date:mm/dd/yyyy
Number of Options:__________________
Exercise Price Per Share:U.S. $_____________
Vesting:
Your Options will vest and become exercisable as follows, provided that you are employed by the Employer on the applicable vesting date:

[insert vesting schedule]
Exercise:
You may exercise your Options only to the extent vested and only if they have not terminated. Options may not be exercised after the expiration date set forth above, or the earlier date that they terminate in connection with your termination of service, as set forth below. In addition, your ability to exercise your Options may be restricted by the Company if required by applicable law.

You may exercise your Options by completing your transaction on-line using the account provided by the Company’s designated stock plan administrator. However, Options will not be exercised until you have satisfied all applicable withholding taxes due as a result of the exercise.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if you reside in a country where local foreign exchange rules and regulations either preclude the remittance of currency out of the country for purposes of paying the purchase price, or requires the Company, the Employer and/or you to secure any legal or regulatory approvals, complete any legal or regulatory filings, or undertake any additional steps for remitting currency outside of the country, then the Administrator may restrict the method of exercise to a form of cashless exercise or such other form(s) of exercise that it determines in its sole discretion. In addition, the Company may require you to sell any Shares acquired under the Plan at such times as may be required to comply with any local legal or regulatory requirements (in which case, this Award Agreement shall give the Administrator the authority to issue sales instructions on your behalf).
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Termination of Service:
Upon termination of your employment for any reason, any unvested Options will be forfeited.

Your vested Options will be treated according to the following rules upon termination:

Death or Disability. If your service with the Company terminates due to your death or Disability, then you may exercise your Options, to the extent vested, for up to 12 months after your termination date. If someone else wants to exercise your Options after your death, that person must contact the Company and prove to the Company’s satisfaction that he or she is entitled to do so.

For Cause Termination. All of your Options will be terminated immediately if the Company or an Affiliate terminates your employment or service for Cause, or if your employment or service is terminated at a time when you could be terminated for Cause. In addition, if you are not terminated for Cause but the Administrator later determines that you could have been terminated for Cause if all facts had been known at that time, your Options will terminate immediately on the date of such determination. If you have submitted a notice of exercise while the Administrator is considering whether you should be (or could have been) terminated for Cause, your exercise will be suspended pending such determination. If it is determined that you are (or could have been) terminated for Cause, your Options will terminate and your notice of exercise will be rescinded.

All Other Terminations. If your service with the Company and its Affiliates terminates for any reason other than by the Company for Cause or due to your death or Disability, then you may exercise your Options, to the extent vested, for up to 90 days after your termination date.

Notwithstanding anything in this agreement or the Plan to the contrary, and for purposes of clarity, unless otherwise determined by the Administrator in its sole discretion, any termination of employment shall be effective as of the date your active employment ceases and shall not be extended by any statutory or common law notice of termination period.

For clarity, the foregoing provisions supersede Sections 13(a) through (e) of the Plan.
Change of Control:Upon a Change of Control, this Award will be treated as provided in Appendix A to the Plan.
Transferability of Shares:By accepting this Award, you agree not to sell any Shares acquired under this Award at a time when applicable laws, Company policies or an agreement between the Company and its underwriters prohibit a sale.
Transferability of Award:Except as otherwise provided in the Plan, you may not assign, alienate, sell or transfer your Options for any reason, other than under your will or as required by the laws of descent and distribution. Your Options also may not be pledged, attached, or otherwise encumbered. Any purported assignment, alienation, sale, transfer, pledge, attachment or encumbrance of your Options in violation of its terms shall be null and void and unenforceable against the Company or any Affiliate.
Responsibility for Taxes:
Regardless of any action the Company and/or the Employer takes with respect to any or all income tax (including U.S. federal, state and local taxes and/or non-U.S. taxes), social insurance, payroll tax, payment on account or other tax-related withholding (“Tax-Related Items”), you acknowledge that the ultimate liability for all Tax-Related Items legally due by you is and remains your responsibility and may exceed the amount actually withheld by the Company or the Employer, if any. Furthermore, the Company and the Employer (i) make no representations or undertakings regarding the treatment of any Tax-Related Items in connection with any aspect of the Options, including the grant, vesting, and exercise of this Award and the subsequent sale of any Shares acquired pursuant to this Award; and (ii) do not commit to structure the terms of the grant or any aspect of this Award to reduce or eliminate your liability for Tax-Related Items. Further, if you become subject to taxation in more than one country between the date this Award is granted and the date of any relevant taxable or tax withholding event, as applicable, you acknowledge that the Company and/or the Employer (or former employer, as applicable) may be required to withhold or account for Tax-Related Items in more than one country.
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Tax Withholding:
Prior to the delivery of any Shares upon exercise of this Award, if your country of residence, country of employment, or any other country requires the withholding of Tax-Related Items, then you authorize the Company and/or the Employer to withhold all applicable Tax-Related Items legally payable by you from any wages or other cash compensation paid to you by the Company and/or the Employer. Alternatively, or in addition, if permissible under local law, you authorize the Company and/or the Employer, pursuant to such procedures as it may specify from time to time, to satisfy the obligations with regard to all Tax-Related Items legally payable by you by one or a combination of the following: (a) withholding otherwise deliverable whole Shares having an aggregate Fair Market Value equal to the aggregate Tax-Related Items required to be withheld, determined as of the date the obligation to withhold or pay taxes arises in connection with the Option; (b) withholding from the proceeds of the sale of Shares acquired upon exercise of the Option an amount equal to the aggregate Tax-Related items required to be withheld; or (c) requiring you (or your personal representative or beneficiary, as the case may be) to pay the aggregate Tax-Related items required to be withheld to the Company or the Employer in cash.

If the obligation for Tax-Related Items is satisfied by withholding a whole number of Shares as described herein, you shall be deemed to have been issued the full number of Shares subject to the exercised Options, notwithstanding that a number of the Shares are held back solely for the purpose of paying the Tax-Related Items due as a result of the exercise of the Options.

In the event the withholding requirements are not satisfied, no Shares will be issued to you (or your personal representative or beneficiary, as the case may be) upon exercise unless and until satisfactory arrangements (as determined by the Administrator) have been made by you with respect to the payment of any Tax-Related Items that the Company or the Employer determines, in its sole discretion, must be withheld or collected with respect to this Award. By accepting this Award, you expressly consent to the withholding of Shares and/or cash as provided for hereunder. All other Tax-Related Items related to this Award and the Shares received hereunder are your sole responsibility.
Restrictive Covenants:By accepting this Award, you agree to the restrictive covenants and other provisions contained in the Appendix hereto.
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Country-Specific Addendum:Notwithstanding any provision of this Award to the contrary, your Options shall be subject to such special terms and conditions for your country or jurisdiction of residence (and country or jurisdiction of employment, if different), as the Administrator may determine in its sole discretion and which shall be set forth in an addendum to this Agreement (“Addendum”). Further, if you transfer your residence and/or employment to another country or jurisdiction reflected in an Addendum, any special terms and conditions for such country or jurisdiction will apply to you to the extent the Administrator determines, in its sole discretion, that the application of such terms and conditions is necessary or advisable in order to comply with local law, rules and/or regulations or to facilitate the operation and administration of this Award and the Plan (or the Administrator may establish additional special terms and conditions as may be necessary or advisable to accommodate your transfer). In all circumstances, any applicable Addendum shall constitute part of this Award.
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Nature of Grant; Award Value:
By accepting this Award, you acknowledge and agree that:

the Plan is established voluntarily by the Company, is discretionary in nature and may be modified, amended, suspended or terminated by the Company, in its sole discretion, at any time (subject to any limitations set forth in the Plan);

any modification, amendment, suspension or termination of the Plan shall not constitute a change or impairment of the terms and conditions of employment with the Employer;

the grant of this Award is a one-time benefit that is voluntary and occasional and does not create any contractual or other right to receive future grants of options, or benefits in lieu of options, even if options or other awards have been granted in the past;

all decisions with respect to future awards, if any, will be at the sole discretion of the Company, including, but not limited to, the form and timing of any grant, the number of awards granted and the vesting conditions;

your participation in the Plan is voluntary;

the grant of this Award does not create a right to employment and shall not be interpreted as forming an employment contract with the Employer and shall not interfere with, or restrict in any way, the rights of the Employer, which are hereby expressly reserved, to discharge you at any time for any reason whatsoever, with or without Cause (as permitted by law), unless otherwise provided an employment agreement, if any, between you and the Employer that is approved by the Board;

unless otherwise agreed with the Company, the Option and any Shares acquired upon exercise of the Option, and the income from and value of same, are not granted as consideration for, or in connection with, any service you may provide as a director of any Subsidiary or Affiliate;

the Option and any Shares acquired under the Plan and the income and value of same, are not part of normal or expected compensation for purposes of calculating any severance, resignation, termination, redundancy, dismissal, end-of-service payments, bonuses, long-service awards, pension or retirement or welfare benefits or similar payments and in no event should be considered as compensation for, or relating in any way to, past services for the Company, the Employer, or any Affiliates thereof;

the future value of the Shares is unknown, indeterminable, and cannot be predicted with certainty, and if the underlying Shares do not increase in value, then the Option will have no value;

no claim or entitlement to compensation or damages shall arise from forfeiture of the Option resulting from termination of your employment (for any reason whatsoever and whether or not in breach of local labor laws or later found invalid) and, in consideration of the Option, you agree not to institute any claim against the Company or the Employer;

this Award does not create any entitlement not otherwise specifically provided for herein, in the Plan or provided by the Company in its discretion, to have the Option or any such benefits transferred to, or assumed by, another company, nor to be exchanged, cashed out or substituted for, in connection with any corporate transaction affecting the Shares;

neither the Company nor any Affiliate shall be liable for any foreign exchange rate fluctuation between your local currency and the U.S. dollar that may affect the value of the Option and the Shares issued thereunder; and

you will have no entitlement to compensation or damages from the loss or diminution in value of your Options or from your forfeiture of any Options (whether or not as a result of termination of employment and whether or not the termination is in breach of contract or otherwise), and by accepting this Award, you irrevocably release the Company and the Employer from any such claim that may arise.
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Conformity to Securities Laws:You acknowledge that the Plan is intended to conform to the extent necessary with all provisions of the U.S. Securities Act and the Exchange Act and any and all regulations and rules promulgated thereunder by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including without limitation, Rule 16b-3. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Plan shall be administered, and the Options are granted, only in such a manner as to conform to such laws, rules and regulations. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Plan and this Award shall be deemed amended to the extent necessary to conform to such laws, rules and regulations.
Private Placement:If you reside or are employed outside of the United States, then the grant of this Award is not intended to be a public offering of securities in your country of residence or employment. The Company has not submitted any registration statement, prospectus or other filings with the local securities authorities (unless otherwise required under local law), and the grant of this Award is not subject to the supervision of the local securities authorities. No employee of the Company or any Affiliate is permitted to advise you on whether you should acquire Shares under this Award. Before deciding to exercise this Award, you should carefully consider all risk factors relevant to the acquisition of the Shares and carefully review all of the materials related to this Award and the Plan and consult with your personal advisor for professional investment advice.
Insider Trading:You acknowledge that, based on your or the broker’s country of residence or where the Shares are listed, you may be subject to insider trading restrictions and/or market abuse laws that may affect your ability to accept, acquire, sell or otherwise dispose of Shares (or rights related to such Shares) during such times that you are considered to have “inside information” regarding the Company as defined in the laws or regulations in the applicable country. Local insider trading laws and regulations may prohibit the cancellation or amendment of orders placed before you possessed inside information. Furthermore, you could be prohibited from (i) disclosing the inside information to any third party (other than on a “need to know” basis) and (ii) ”tipping” third parties (which may include fellow employees) or causing them otherwise to buy or sell securities. Any restrictions under these laws or regulations are separate from and in addition to any restrictions that may be imposed under the Company’s insider trading policy. You acknowledge that it is your responsibility to comply with any restrictions and are advised to speak to your personal legal advisor on this matter.
Electronic Delivery:The Company may, in its sole discretion, decide to deliver any documents related to this Award or other awards granted to you under the Plan by electronic means, By accepting this Award, you consent to receive any such documents by electronic delivery and agree to participate in the Plan through an online or electronic system established and maintained by the Company or a third party designated by the Company.
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English Language:If you are resident and/or employed outside of the United States, you acknowledge and agree that it is your express intent that the Award (including any applicable Addendum), the Plan and all other documents, notices and legal proceedings entered into, given or instituted pursuant to this Award, be drawn up in English. If you received the Award, the Plan or any other documents related to this Award translated into a language other than English, and if the meaning of the translated version is different than the English version, the English version will control.
Consent to Collection, Processing and Transfer of Personal Data:
The Company and Employer hereby notify you of the following in relation to your Personal Data (as defined below) and the collection, processing and transfer of such Personal Data in relation to the grant of the Options and your participation in the Plan pursuant to applicable personal data protection laws. The collection, processing and transfer of your Personal Data (as defined below) is necessary for the Company’s administration of the Plan and this Award, and your denial and/or objection to the collection, processing and transfer of Personal Data may affect your ability to participate in the Plan. As such, by accepting this Award, you voluntarily acknowledge, consent and agree (where required under applicable law) to the collection, use, processing and transfer of Personal Data as described herein.

The Company and the Employer collect, process, use and hold certain personal information, including, but not limited to, your name, home address, telephone number, email address, date of birth, social security, passport, or other identification number, salary, nationality, job title, any Shares or directorships held in the Company, details of all Awards or other entitlements to Shares (including cancelled Awards) for purposes of managing and administering the Plan (“Personal Data”). The Personal Data may be provided by you or collected, where lawful, from third parties, the Company and the Employer. The Company, 200 State Street, Beloit, Wisconsin USA 53511, and the Employer will act as data controller/owner of the Personal Data and will process the Personal Data for the exclusive purpose of implementing, administering and managing your participation in the Plan. The data processing will take place through electric and non-electronic means according to logics and procedures strictly correlated to the purposes for which the Personal Data is collected and with confidentiality and security provisions as set forth by applicable laws and regulations in your country of residence. Personal Data processing operations will be performed minimizing the use of personal and identification data when such operations are unnecessary for the processing purposes sought. The Personal Data will be accessible within the Company’s organization only by those persons requiring access for purposes of the implementation, administration and operation of the Plan and your participation in the Plan.

The Company and the Employer will transfer Personal Data as necessary for the purpose of implementation, administration and management of your participation in the Plan, and the Company and the Employer each may further transfer Personal Data to any third parties assisting the Company in the implementation, administration and management of the Plan. These recipients may be located in the European Economic Area, the United States or elsewhere throughout the world. By accepting this Award, you authorize (where required under applicable law) the recipients to receive, possess, use, retain and transfer the Personal Data, in electronic or other form, for purposes of implementing, administering and managing your participation in the Plan, including any requisite transfer of such Personal Data as may be required for the administration of the Plan and/or the subsequent holding of Shares on your behalf to a broker or other third party with whom you may elect to deposit any Shares acquired pursuant to the Plan. When transferring Personal Data to these potential recipients, the Company and the Employer will provide appropriate safeguards in accordance with the EU standard contractual clauses, the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, or another legally binding and permissible arrangement in the EU or the country where you reside.

To the extent provided by local law, you may, at any time, have the right to request: access to Personal Data, rectification of Personal Data, erasure of Personal Data, restriction of processing of Personal Data, and portability of Personal Data. You may have the right to object, on grounds related to a particular situation, to the processing of Personal Data, as well as to refuse or withdraw the consents herein, in any case without cost, by contacting in writing your local human resources representative. You understand, however, that the only consequence of refusing or withdrawing your consent is that the Company would not be able to grant to you Awards or administer or maintain outstanding Awards. Therefore, you understand that refusing or withdrawing your consent may affect your ability to participate in the Plan. For more information on the consequences of your refusal to consent or withdrawal of consent, you should contact your local human resources representative.
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Compliance with the Law:If you are resident or employed outside of the United States, you agree to repatriate all payments attributable to the Shares and/or cash acquired under the Plan in accordance with local foreign exchange rules and regulations in your country of residence (and country of employment, if different). In addition, you agree to take any and all actions, and consents to any and all actions taken by the Company and the Company’s Subsidiaries and Affiliates, as may be required to allow the Company and the Company’s Subsidiaries and Affiliates to comply with local laws, rules and/or regulations in your country of residence (and country of employment, if different). Finally, you agree to take any and all actions as may be required to comply with your personal legal and tax obligations under local laws, rules and regulations in your country of residence (and country of employment, if different).
Miscellaneous:
The Company reserves the right to impose other requirements on this Award, any Shares issued pursuant to the exercise of this Award, and your participation in the Plan, to the extent the Company determines, in its sole discretion, that such other requirements are necessary or advisable in order to comply with local laws, rules and/or regulations or to facilitate the operation and administration of this Award and the Plan. Such requirements may include (but are not limited to) requiring you to sign any agreements or undertakings that may be necessary to accomplish the foregoing.
As a condition of the granting of this Award, you agree, for yourself and your legal representatives or guardians, that this Award and the Plan shall be interpreted by the Administrator and that any interpretation by the Administrator of the terms of this Award or the Plan and any determination made by the Administrator pursuant to this Award or the Plan shall be final, binding and conclusive.
As a condition of the granting of this Award, you agree, for yourself and your legal representatives or guardians, that this Award, and any Shares issued or cash paid pursuant to this Award, shall be subject to (A) any recoupment, clawback, equity holding, stock ownership or similar policies adopted by the Company from time to time (to the extent contemplated by such policies) and (B) any recoupment, clawback, equity holding, stock ownership or similar requirements made applicable by law, regulation or listing standards to the Company from time to time (to the extent contemplated by such requirements).
In general, this Award may be amended only by written consent signed by both you and the Company, unless the amendment is not to your detriment. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Award may be amended or terminated by the Administrator or the Company without your consent in accordance with the provisions of the Plan.
The failure of the Company to enforce any provision of this Award at any time shall in no way constitute a waiver of such provision or of any other provision hereof.
This Award shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of you and your heirs and personal representatives and the Company and its successors and legal representatives.
This Award may be executed in counterparts.
Prospectus Delivery/Access:
By accepting this Award you acknowledge that a prospectus for the Plan, along with a copy of the Plan and the Company’s most recent Annual Report to Shareholders, has been made available to you electronically via the Company’s designated stock plan administrator’s web portal.
A paper copy of the prospectus for the Plan is also available to participants upon request.
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This Award is granted under and governed by the terms and conditions of the Plan. Additional provisions regarding your Award and definitions of capitalized terms used and not defined in this Award can be found in the Plan.

BY ACCEPTING THIS NON-QUALIFIED STOCK OPTION AWARD THROUGH THE COMPANY’S ON-LINE GRANT PROCESS, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ AND AGREE TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS AWARD, INCLUDING THE RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS APPENDIX, AND THE PLAN.

REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION


By: image_0a.jpg        
Name:     Louis V. Pinkham            
Title: Chief Executive Officer

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APPENDIX
RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS

Reasonableness of Restrictions
You acknowledge that you have had and will continue to have access to Confidential Information (as defined in the section entitled “Non-Disclosure of Confidential Information” below), that such Confidential Information is of economic value to the Company and its Affiliates, that such Confidential Information would be of value to a competitor of the Company and/or one of its Affiliates in competing against the Company and/or one of its Affiliates, and that it would be unfair for you to exploit such Confidential Information for your personal benefit or for the benefit of a competitor. You further acknowledge that you have had and/or will have an opportunity to learn about, and develop relationships with, customers of the Company and/or its Affiliates and that the Company and its Affiliates have a legitimate interest in protecting relationships with such customers, and that it would be unfair for you to exploit information that you have learned about such customers and relationships which you have developed with such customers for your personal benefit or for the benefit of a competitor. You further acknowledge that the Company and its Affiliates currently market and sell products and services to customers throughout the world and that your job duties have included and/or will include contact with products that are marketed throughout the world and that the Confidential Information to which you have had and/or and will have access to, and your customer knowledge and contacts and relationships, would be of value to a competitor in competing against the Employer anywhere in the country in which you are employed. Accordingly, you acknowledge that the protections provided to the Company and its Affiliates in this Appendix are reasonable and necessary to protect the legitimate interests of the Company and its Affiliates and that abiding by your obligations under this Appendix will not impose an undue hardship on you.

Restricted Services Obligation
For a period of two years following the end, for whatever reason, of your employment or service with the Employer, you agree not to directly or indirectly provide Restricted Services to any Competitor respecting its operations in the country in which you are employed. “Restricted Services” means services of any kind or character comparable to those that you provided to the Employer during the one year period preceding the end of your employment or service with the Employer. “Competitor” means any business located in the country in which you are employed which is engaged in the development and/or sale of any product line that is substantially similar to a product line sold by the Company or any of its Affiliates in the country in which you are employed for which the you had direct managerial responsibility during the last year of the term of your employment or service with the Company or any of its Affiliates in the country in which you are employed.

Customer Non-Solicitation
For a period of two years following the end, for whatever reason, of your employment or service with the Employer, you agree not to directly or indirectly attempt to sell or otherwise provide to any Restricted Customer any goods, products or services of the type or substantially similar to the type sold or otherwise provided by the Employer for which you were employed during the twelve months prior to termination of your employment or service. “Restricted Customer” means any individual or entity (i) for whom/which the Employer provided goods, products or services, and (ii) with whom/which you were the primary contact on behalf of the Employer during your last twelve months of employment or service or about whom/which you acquired non-public information during your last twelve months of employment or service that would be of benefit to you in selling or attempting to sell such goods, products or services in competition with the Employer.

Non-Solicitation of Employees
During the term of your employment or service with the Employer and for a period of one year thereafter, you shall not directly or indirectly encourage any employee of the Company or any of its Affiliates in the country in which you are employed and with whom you worked to terminate his or her employment with the Company or any such Affiliate or solicit such an individual for employment outside the Employer in a manner which would end or diminish that employee’s services to the Employer.

Non-Disparagement
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During the term of your employment or service with the Employer and thereafter in perpetuity, you shall not knowingly disparage, criticize, or otherwise make derogatory statements regarding the Company or any of its Affiliates, successors, directors, officers, customers or suppliers. The restrictions of this paragraph shall not apply to any statements that are made truthfully in response to a subpoena or other compulsory legal process.

Non-Disclosure of Confidential Information
You shall maintain in confidence and shall not directly, indirectly or otherwise, use, disseminate, disclose, publish or otherwise misappropriate, or use for your benefit or the benefit of any Person, or deliver to any Person any Confidential Information (as defined herein) or trade secrets of the Company. “Confidential Information” means any document, record, notebook, computer program or similar repository of or containing, any confidential or proprietary information or trade secrets of or relating to the Employer, including, without limitation, information with respect to the Company’s or any of its Affiliate’s operations, processes, products, inventions, business practices, finances, principals, vendors, suppliers, customers, potential customers, marketing methods, costs, prices, contractual relationships, regulatory status, compensation paid to employees or other terms of employment. Confidential Information shall be defined to exclude information which is or becomes public knowledge through no fault of yours, or which was known to you before the start of your earliest relationship with the Employer, or which is otherwise not subject to protection under applicable law. Your obligations under this paragraph shall apply for so long as you continue in the employment of the Employer and for two years following the termination of such employment, for whatever reason, as to any Confidential Information that does not constitute a trade secret under applicable law. As to any Confidential Information that does constitute a trade secret under applicable law, you agree that your obligations under this paragraph shall apply for so long as the item qualifies as a trade secret.
You are advised that you may not be held criminally or civilly liable under any federal or state trade secret law for the disclosure of a trade secret that is made: (i) in confidence to a federal, state, or local government official, either directly or indirectly, or to an attorney, and provided that such disclosure is solely for the purpose of reporting or investigating a suspected violation of the law, or (ii) in a complaint or other document filed in a lawsuit or other proceeding, provided that such filing is made under seal. Additionally, in the event you file a lawsuit against the Company for retaliation by the Company against you for reporting a suspected violation of law, you have the right to provide trade secret information to your attorney and use the trade secret information in the court proceeding, although you must file any document containing the trade secret under seal and may do not disclose the trade secret, except pursuant to court order.


Return of Company Property
All correspondence, drawings, manuals, letters, notes, notebooks, reports, programs, plans, proposals, financial documents, or any other documents concerning the Company’s or any of its Affiliates’ customers, business plans, marketing strategies, products or processes, whether confidential or not, is the property of the Company (the “Company Property”). Accordingly, upon your termination of employment for any reason, you shall promptly deliver to the Company all such Company Property, including any and all copies of any such Company Property, and shall not make any notes of or relating to any information contained in such Company Property. You may respond to a lawful and valid subpoena or other legal process but shall give the Company the earliest possible notice thereof, and shall, as much in advance of the return date as possible. Make available to the Company and its counsel the documents and other information sought and shall assist such counsel in resisting or otherwise responding to such process.

Injunctive Relief
You hereby acknowledge that a breach of the covenants contained in this Appendix will cause irreparable damage to the Company and its goodwill, the exact amount of which will be difficult or impossible to ascertain, and that the remedies at law for any such breach will be inadequate. Accordingly, you hereby agree that, in the event of any actual or threatened breach of any of the covenants contained in this Appendix, in addition to any other remedy which may be available at law or in equity, the Company shall be entitled to specific performance and injunctive relief. In addition, should the Company prevail in obtaining legal relief against you as related to a breach of the covenants
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contained in this Appendix, you shall indemnify the Company for reasonable costs and expenses, including, but not limited, to court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees that the Company incurred pursuant to the enforcement of this Appendix.

Other Obligations
The obligations and restrictions set forth in this Appendix are in addition to and not in lieu of any obligations or restrictions imposed on you under any other agreement or any law or statute including, but not limited to, any obligations you may owe under any law governing trade sections, any common law duty of loyalty, or any fiduciary duty. No time or geographic restriction provided above shall affect the availability or scope of protection afforded to the Company’s trade secrets.

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ADDENDUM
The Options are subject to the following additional terms and conditions as set forth in this addendum (the “Addendum”). All defined terms contained in this Addendum shall have the same meaning as set forth in the Plan and the Award. Pursuant to the section of the Award entitled “Country-Specific Addendum”, if you relocate your residency or employment to another country or jurisdiction reflected in the Addendum, the additional terms and conditions for such country or jurisdiction (if any) shall also apply to the Options to the extent the Administrator determines, in its sole discretion, that the application of such terms and conditions is necessary or advisable in order to comply with local laws, rules and/or regulations, or to facilitate the operation and administration of the Options and the Plan (or the Administrator may establish additional special terms and conditions as may be necessary or advisable to accommodate your transfer).
EUROPEAN UNION (“EU”) / EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA (“EEA”) AND THE UNITED KINGDOM

Data Privacy. The following provision replaces the section of the Award entitled “Consent to Collection, Processing and Transfer of Personal Data for Grantees Located Outside of the United States” in its entirety:
The Company, with its registered address at 200 State Street, Beloit, Wisconsin USA 53511, is the controller responsible for the processing of your personal data by the Company and the third parties noted below.

(a)Data Collection and Usage. Pursuant to applicable data protection laws, you are hereby notified that the Company collects, processes and uses certain personally-identifiable information about you for the legitimate purpose of implementing, administering and managing the Plan and generally administering equity awards; specifically, including your name, home address, email address and telephone number, date of birth, social insurance number or other identification number, salary, citizenship, job title, any Shares or directorships held in the Company, and details of all Options, any other entitlement to Shares awarded, canceled, exercised, vested, or outstanding in your favor, which the Company receives from you or the Employer (“Personal Data”). In granting the Options under the Plan, the Company will collect, process, use, disclose and transfer (collectively, “Process”) Personal Data for purposes of allocating Shares and implementing, administering and managing the Plan. The Company’s legal basis for the Processing of Personal Data is the Company’s legitimate business interests of managing the Plan, administering equity awards and complying with its contractual and statutory obligations, as well as the necessity of the Processing for the Company to perform its contractual obligations under the Award and the Plan. Your refusal to provide Personal Data would make it impossible for the Company to perform its contractual obligations and may affect your ability to participate in the Plan. As such, by accepting the Options, you voluntarily acknowledge the Processing of your Personal Data as described herein.

(b)Stock Plan Administration Service Provider. The Company transfers Personal Data to UBS and Certent, both of which are independent service providers based, in relevant part, in the United States, which assists the Company with the implementation, administration and management of the Plan. In the future, the Company may select a different service provider and share Personal Data with another company that serves in a similar manner. The Processing of Personal Data will take place through both electronic and non-electronic means. Personal Data will only be accessible by those individuals requiring access to it for purposes of implementing, administering and operating the Plan. When receiving your Personal Data, UBS and Certent provide appropriate safeguards in accordance with the EU Standard Contractual Clauses. By accepting the Options, you understand that the service provider will Process your Personal Data for the purposes of implementing, administering and managing your participation in the Plan.

(c)International Data Transfers to the Company. The Company is based in the United States, which means it will be necessary for Personal Data to be transferred to, and Processed in the United States. When transferring your Personal Data to the United States, the
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Company provides appropriate safeguards in accordance with the EU Standard Contractual Clauses, and other appropriate cross-border transfer solutions. You may request a copy of the appropriate safeguards with UBS or Certent or the Company by contacting his or her local human resources department.

(d)Data Retention. The Company will use Personal Data only as long as is necessary to implement, administer and manage your participation in the Plan or as required to comply with legal or regulatory obligations, including tax and securities laws. When the Company no longer needs Personal Data, the Company will remove it from its systems. If the Company keeps Personal Data longer, it would be to satisfy legal or regulatory obligations and the Company’s legal basis would be for compliance with relevant laws or regulations.

(e)Data Subject Rights. To the extent provided by law, you have the right to (i) subject to certain exceptions, request access or copies of Personal Data the Company Processes, (ii) request rectification of incorrect Personal Data, (iii) request deletion of Personal Data, (iv) place restrictions on Processing of Personal Data, (v) lodge complaints with competent authorities in your country, and/or (vi) request a list with the names and addresses of any potential recipients of Personal Data. To receive clarification regarding your rights or to exercise your rights, you may contact your local human resources department. You also have the right to object, on grounds related to a particular situation, to the Processing of Personal Data, as well as opt-out of the Plan herein, in any case without cost, by contacting your local human resources department in writing. Your provision of Personal Data is a contractual requirement. You understand, however, that the only consequence of refusing to provide Personal Data is that the Company may not be able to grant or administer Options under the Plan, or grant other equity awards or administer or maintain such awards. For more information on the consequences of the refusal to provide Personal Data, you may contact your local human resources department in writing. You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection supervisory authority.

AUSTRALIA
1.    Breach of Law. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Agreement or the Plan, you will not be entitled to, and shall not claim any benefit (including without limitation a legal right) under the Plan if the provision of such benefit would give rise to a breach of Part 2D.2 of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), any other provision of that Act, or any other applicable statute, rule or regulation which limits or restricts the giving of such benefits.
2.    Tax Information. The Plan is a program to which Subdivision 83A-C of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 (Cth) (the “Act”) applies (subject to the conditions in that Act).
BRAZIL
Labor Law Acknowledgment. You agree that (i) the benefits provided under the Agreement and the Plan are the result of commercial transactions unrelated to your employment; (ii) the Agreement and the Plan are not a part of the terms and conditions of your employment; and (iii) the income from the Options, if any, is not part of your remuneration from employment.
CANADA
1.Option Exercise Procedures. No Payment with Shares of Common Stock. Notwithstanding any provision in the Agreement or the Plan, if the Optionee is resident in Canada, the Optionee may not pay the purchase price for the shares of Common Stock for which the Option is being exercised or any Tax-Related Items by tendering shares of Common Stock already owned by the Optionee.

2.Resale Restriction. You are permitted to sell Shares acquired upon exercise of the Options through the designated broker appointed under the Plan, provided the resale of Shares
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acquired under the Plan takes place outside of Canada through the facilities of the stock exchange on which the shares are listed. The Shares are currently listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

3.Use of English Language. You acknowledge and agree that it is your express wish that this Award, as well as all documents, notices and legal proceedings entered into, given or instituted pursuant hereto or relating directly or indirectly hereto, be drawn up in English. Vous reconnaissez et consentez que c’est votre souhait exprès qui cet accord, de meme que tous documents, toutes notifications et tous procédés légaux est entré dans, donné ou instituté conformément ci-annexé ou relatant directement ou indirectement ci-annexé, est formulé dans l’anglais.

DENMARK

    Danish Stock Option Act. The Danish Act on the Use of Rights to Purchase or Subscribe for Shares etc. in Employment Relationships (the “Stock Option Act”) applies only to “Employees” as defined in the Stock Option Act and is not applicable to members of a Danish company’s registered management. If the Stock Option Act applies, you acknowledge receipt of an “employer information statement” in Danish, which is being provided to comply with the Stock Option Act.

INDIA

1.Mandatory Cashless Sell-All Exercise. Unless and until the Administrator determines otherwise, the method of exercise of the Option shall be limited to mandatory cashless, sell-all exercise.
2.Repatriation Requirements. You agree to repatriate all sales proceeds and dividends attributable to Shares acquired under the Plan in accordance with local foreign exchange rules and regulations. Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall be liable for any fines or penalties resulting from your failure to comply with applicable laws, rules or regulations.
ITALY

    Mandatory Cashless Sell-All Exercise. Unless and until the Administrator determines otherwise, the method of exercise of the Option shall be limited to mandatory cashless, sell-all exercise.
MEXICO

1.    Commercial Relationship. You expressly recognize that your participation in the Plan and the Company’s grant of Options does not constitute an employment relationship between you and the Company. You have been granted the Options as a consequence of the commercial relationship between the Company and the Company’s Subsidiary in Mexico that employs you, and the Company’s Subsidiary in Mexico is your sole employer. Based on the foregoing, (a) you expressly recognize the Plan and the benefits you may derive from your participation in the Plan does not establish any rights between you and the Company’s Subsidiary in Mexico that employs you, (b) the Plan and the benefits you may derive from your participation in the Plan are not part of the employment conditions and/or benefits provided by the Company’s Subsidiary in Mexico that employs you, and (c) any modifications or amendments of the Plan by the Company, or a termination of the Plan by the Company, shall not constitute a change or impairment of the terms and conditions of your employment with the Company’s Subsidiary in Mexico that employs you.
2.    Extraordinary Item of Compensation. You expressly recognize and acknowledge that your participation in the Plan is a result of the discretionary and unilateral decision of the Company, as well as your free and voluntary decision to participate in the Plan in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Plan, the Award and this Addendum. As such, you acknowledge and agree that the Company may, in its sole discretion, amend and/or discontinue your participation in the Plan at any time and without any liability. The value of the Options is an extraordinary item of compensation outside the scope of your employment contract, if any. The Options are not part of your regular or expected compensation for purposes of calculating any severance, resignation, redundancy, end of service payments, bonuses, long-service awards, pension or retirement benefits, or any similar payments, which are the exclusive obligations of the Company’s Subsidiary in Mexico that employs you.
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NETHERLANDS
Waiver of Termination Rights. You waive any and all rights to compensation or damages as a result of any termination of employment for any reason whatsoever, insofar as those rights result or may result from (a) the loss or diminution in value of such rights or entitlements under the Plan, or (b) you ceasing to have rights under, or ceasing to be entitled to any awards under the Plan as a result of such termination.
SINGAPORE
Qualifying Person Exemption. The grant of Options under the Plan is being made pursuant to the “Qualifying Person” exemption under section 273(1)(f) of the Securities and Futures Act (Chapter 289, 2006 Ed.) (the “SFA”). The Plan has not been and will not be lodged or registered as a prospectus with the Monetary Authority of Singapore and is not regulated by any financial supervisory authority pursuant to any legislation in Singapore. Accordingly, statutory liability under the SFA in relation to the content of prospectuses would not apply. You should note that, as a result, the Options are subject to section 257 of the SFA and you will not be able to make: (a) any subsequent sale of the Shares underlying the Options in Singapore; or (b) any offer of such subsequent sale of the Shares subject to the Options in Singapore, unless such sale or offer is made pursuant to the exemptions under Part XIII Division 1 Subdivision (4) (other than section 280) of the SFA.
SPAIN
Acknowledgement of Discretionary Nature of the Plan; No Vested Rights. By accepting this Award, you consent to participation in the Plan and receipt of a copy of the Plan.

You understand that the Company has unilaterally, gratuitously and in its sole discretion granted Options under the Plan to individuals who may be employees of the Company or its Affiliates throughout the world. The decision is a limited decision that is entered into upon the express assumption and condition that any grant will not economically or otherwise bind the Corporation or any of its Subsidiaries on an ongoing basis. Consequently, you understand that the Options are granted on the assumption and condition that the Options and the Shares acquired upon exercise of the Options shall not become a part of any employment contract (either with the Company or any Affiliate) and shall not be considered a mandatory benefit, salary for any purposes (including severance compensation) or any other right whatsoever. In addition, you understand that this grant would not be made but for the assumptions and conditions referenced above; thus, you acknowledge and freely accept that should any or all of the assumptions be mistaken or should any of the conditions not be met for any reason the award shall be null and void.

You understand and agree that, as a condition of the grant of the Award, any Options that are unvested as of the date you cease active employment, and any vested Options not exercised within the post-termination exercise period, will be forfeited without entitlement to the underlying Shares or to any amount of indemnification in the event of termination. You acknowledge that you have read and specifically accept the conditions referred to in the Agreement regarding the impact of a termination on your Options.
UNITED KINGDOM

1.    Income Tax and Social Insurance Contribution Withholding. Without limitation to the section of the Award entitled “Responsibility for Taxes”, you hereby agree that you are liable for all Tax-Related Items and hereby covenant to pay all such Tax-Related Items, as and when requested by the Company or (if different) the Employer or by Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (“HMRC”) (or any other tax authority or any other relevant authority). You also hereby agree to indemnify and keep indemnified the Company and (if different) the Employer against any Tax-Related Items that they are required to pay or withhold on your behalf or have paid or will pay to HMRC (or any other tax authority or any other relevant authority).
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, if you are a director or executive officer (as within the meaning of Section 13(k) of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended), the terms of the immediately foregoing provision will not apply. In the event that you are a director or executive officer and income tax due is not collected from or paid by you within 90 days after the U.K. tax year in which an event giving rise to the indemnification described above occurs, the amount of any uncollected tax may constitute a benefit to you on which additional income tax and national insurance contributions may be payable. You acknowledge that you ultimately will be responsible for reporting and paying any income tax due on this additional benefit directly to HMRC under the self-assessment regime and for reimbursing the Company or the Employer (as applicable) for the value of any employee national insurance contributions due on this additional benefit, which the Company and/or the Employer may recover from you at any time thereafter by any of the means referred to in Article III of this Agreement.
2.    Exclusion of Claim. You acknowledge and agree that you shall have no entitlement to compensation or damages insofar as such entitlement arises or may arise from your ceasing to have rights under or to be entitled to the Options, whether or not as a result of a termination of employment (whether the termination is in breach of contract or otherwise), or from the loss or diminution in value of the Options. Upon the grant of the Options, you shall be deemed irrevocably to have waived any such entitlement.


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REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION -- 2018 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN
CHINA PHANTOM STOCK OPTION AWARD

Replacement to Rexnord Phantom Stock Option Award


[Name]
[Address]

Dear ___________:

You have been granted an award (the “Award”) of phantom stock options (“Phantom Options”) under the Regal Rexnord Corporation 2018 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”), having the following terms and conditions. This Award replaces your outstanding Rexnord Corporation (“Rexnord”) phantom stock option award (the “Prior Award”) as required by the Employee Matters Agreement entered into by and between the Regal Beloit Corporation (currently, the Regal Rexnord Corporation or the “Company”) and Rexnord in connection with the merger of a portion of Rexnord’s business with a Subsidiary of the Company. This Award provides you with an opportunity to earn a cash bonus, but does not entitle to you to receive actual equity of the Company.

Please note that: (1) the Grant Date below reflects the date that the Company issued this replacement Award and not the original grant date of the Prior Award, and (2) the number of Phantom Options below is the original number from the Prior Award (as adjusted to reflect conversion to Company Shares). You may have already exercised some of the Phantom Options under the Prior Award. To see the current number of Phantom Options that are exercisable, please review your on-line account provided by the Company’s designated stock plan administrator.

Grant Date:__________, 20____
Expiration Date:mm/dd/yyyy
Number of Phantom Options:__________________. Each Phantom Option provides you with the opportunity to receive a cash bonus upon exercise equal to the difference between the Fair Market Value of a Share on the date of exercise and the exercise price stated below.
Exercise Price:U.S. $_____________
Vesting:
Your Phantom Options will vest and become exercisable as follows, provided that you are employed by the Company or an Affiliate on the applicable vesting date:

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Exercise & Payment of Cash Bonus:
You may exercise your Phantom Options only to the extent vested and only if they have not terminated. Phantom Options may not be exercised after the expiration date set forth above, or the earlier date that they terminate in connection with your termination of service, as set forth below. In addition, your ability to exercise your Phantom Options may be restricted by the Company if required by applicable law.

You may exercise your Phantom Options by completing your transaction on-line using the account provided by the Company’s designated stock plan administrator.

As soon as administratively practicable following completion of your on-line exercise, the Company will make a cash payment in local currency to you equal to result of the following formula, less any applicable tax withholding and/or any other required withholdings:

# of Phantom Options Exercised x (Fair Market Value of Share on Exercise Date – Exercise Price)

For purposes of the foregoing, the amount of the cash payment in local currency shall be determined using the US$/RMB currency conversion rate (as determined by the Company) on the date the Phantom Options are exercised.
Termination of Service:
Upon termination of your employment for any reason, any unvested Phantom Options will be forfeited.

Your vested Phantom Options will be treated according to the following rules upon termination:

Death or Disability. If your service with the Company and its Affiliates terminates due to your death or disability (as determined pursuant to local law), then you may exercise your Phantom Options to the extent vested for up to 12 months after your termination date. If someone else wants to exercise your Phantom Options after your death, that person must contact the Company and prove to the Company’s satisfaction that he or she is entitled to do so.

For Cause Termination. All of your Phantom Options will be terminated immediately if the Company or an Affiliate terminates your employment or service for Cause, or if your employment or service is terminated at a time when you could be terminated for Cause. In addition, if you are not terminated for Cause but the Administrator later determines that you could have been terminated for Cause if all facts had been known at that time, your Options will terminate immediately on the date of such determination. If you have submitted a notice of exercise while the Administrator is considering whether you should be (or could have been) terminated for Cause, your exercise will be suspended pending such determination. If it is determined that you are (or could have been) terminated for Cause, your Phantom Options will terminate and your notice of exercise will be rescinded.

For purposes of this award, “Cause” means any of the circumstances listed in Article 39 or Article 40(2) of the Employment Contract Law of the People’s Republic of China (“ECL”), or equivalent circumstances if the ECL is amended or superseded following the date of execution of this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, any termination of employment by the Company based on the circumstances covered in this clause shall be considered for Cause for the purposes of this Award, regardless of whether or not such termination is ultimately deemed lawful under the employment laws of the applicable jurisdiction where you are employed.

The following circumstances are meant to be an illustrative and not exhaustive list of examples of “serious violations of company rules” that may lead to termination of employment for Cause:

The Company determines that you failed to carry out, or comply with, in each case in any material respect, any lawful and reasonable directive of the Company, the Board, or any of their respective designees consistent with the terms of your employment which is not remedied within 30 days after the receipt of written notice from the Company or any of its Affiliates specifying such failure.
your unlawful use (including being under the influence) or possession of illegal drugs;
your commission of an act of fraud, embezzlement, misappropriation, willful misconduct, or breach of fiduciary duty against the Company or any of its Affiliates.
Your breach of any of the restrictive covenants contained in Appendix or any similar provisions contained in any other agreement with the Company or an Affiliate.

All Other Terminations. If your service with the Company terminates for any reason other than by the Company for Cause or due to your death or disability, then you may exercise your Phantom Options to the extent vested as of the last day of your service for up to 90 days after your termination date.

Notwithstanding anything in this agreement or the Plan to the contrary, and for purposes of clarity, unless otherwise determined by the Administrator in its sole discretion, any termination of employment shall be effective as of the date your active employment ceases and shall not be extended by any statutory or common law notice of termination period.

For clarity, the foregoing provisions supersede Sections 13(a) through (e) of the Plan.
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Change of Control:Upon a Change of Control, your Phantom Options will be treated as provided in Appendix A to the Plan.
Transferability of Award:Except as otherwise provided in the Plan, you may not assign, alienate, sell or transfer this Award for any reason, other than under your will or as required by the laws of descent and distribution. Your Award also may not be pledged, attached, or otherwise encumbered. Any purported assignment, alienation, sale, transfer, pledge, attachment or encumbrance of your Award in violation of its terms shall be null and void and unenforceable against the Company or any Affiliate.
Tax Withholding:To the extent that the grant, vesting or exercise of the Phantom Options requires the Company or an Affiliate to withhold taxes or any other amounts, then the Company will withhold any amount necessary to satisfy such withholding obligations from the gross amount of the cash payment in settlement of the Phantom Options or from your salary or other amounts payable to you. In the event the withholding requirements are not satisfied through the foregoing methods, then the Company will not issue any cash payment with respect to the Phantom Options unless and until you make satisfactory arrangements (as determined by the Company) with respect to any withholding obligations. By accepting this Award, you expressly consent to the withholding provisions provided herein. Any other taxes that may be due as a result of the Phantom Options shall be your sole responsibility.
Restrictive Covenants:By accepting this Award, you agree to the restrictive covenants and other provisions contained in the Appendix hereto.
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Miscellaneous:
As a condition of the granting of this Award, you agree, for yourself and your legal representatives or guardians, that this Award and the Plan shall be interpreted by the Administrator and that any interpretation by the Administrator of the terms of this Award or the Plan and any determination made by the Administrator pursuant to this Award or the Plan shall be final, binding and conclusive.
As a condition of the granting of this Award, you agree, for yourself and your legal representatives or guardians, that this Award, and any Shares issued or cash paid pursuant to this Award, shall be subject to (A) any recoupment, clawback, equity holding, stock ownership or similar policies adopted by the Company from time to time (to the extent contemplated by such policies) and (B) any recoupment, clawback, equity holding, stock ownership or similar requirements made applicable by law, regulation or listing standards to the Company from time to time (to the extent contemplated by such requirements).
In general, this Award may be amended only by written consent signed by both you and the Company, unless the amendment is not to your detriment. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Award may be amended or terminated by the Administrator or the Company without your consent in accordance with the provisions of the Plan.
The failure of the Company to enforce any provision of this Award at any time shall in no way constitute a waiver of such provision or of any other provision hereof.
This Award shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of you and your heirs and personal representatives and the Company and its successors and legal representatives.
If you transfer residence and/or employment to another country, then the Company may establish additional special terms and conditions as may be necessary or advisable to accommodate your transfer and/or administration of the Phantom Options. Such terms and conditions shall be reflected in an addendum to this agreement (the “Addendum”), and in all circumstances, such Addendum shall constitute part of this agreement and the Award.
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Prospectus Delivery/Access:
By accepting this Award you acknowledge that a prospectus for the Plan, along with a copy of the Plan and the Company’s most recent Annual Report to Shareholders, has been made available to you electronically via the Company’s designated stock plan administrator’s web portal.
A paper copy of the prospectus for the Plan is also available to participants upon request.
This Award is granted under and governed by the terms and conditions of the Plan. Additional provisions regarding your Award and definitions of capitalized terms used and not defined in this Award can be found in the Plan.

BY ACCEPTING THIS PHANTOM STOCK OPTION AWARD THROUGH THE COMPANY’S ON-LINE GRANT PROCESS, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ AND AGREE TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS AWARD, INCLUDING THE RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS APPENDIX, AND THE PLAN.






REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION
By:image_0a.jpg        
Name:     Louis V. Pinkham            
Title: Chief Executive Officer

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APPENDIX

RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS

Reasonableness of Restrictions
You acknowledge that you have had and will continue to have access to Confidential Information (as defined in the section entitled “Non-Disclosure of Confidential Information” below), that such Confidential Information is of economic value to the Company and its Affiliates, that such Confidential Information would be of value to a competitor of the Company and/or one of its Affiliates in competing against the Company and/or one of its Affiliates, and that it would be unfair for you to exploit such Confidential Information for your personal benefit or for the benefit of a competitor. You further acknowledge that you have had and/or will have an opportunity to learn about, and develop relationships with, customers of the Company and/or its Affiliates and that the Company and its Affiliates have a legitimate interest in protecting relationships with such customers, and that it would be unfair for you to exploit information that you have learned about such customers and relationships which you have developed with such customers for your personal benefit or for the benefit of a competitor. You further acknowledge that the Company and its Affiliates currently market and sell products and services to customers throughout the world and that your job duties have included and/or will include contact with products that are marketed throughout the world and that the Confidential Information to which you have had and/or and will have access to, and your customer knowledge and contacts and relationships, would be of value to a competitor in competing against the Company and/or one of its Affiliates anywhere in China. Accordingly, you acknowledge that the protections provided to the Company and its Affiliates in this Appendix are reasonable and necessary to protect the legitimate interests of the Company and its Affiliates and that abiding by your obligations under this Appendix will not impose an undue hardship on you.

Customer Non-Solicitation
During the term of the your employment with the Company or Affiliate and for a period of two years thereafter, you agree not to, and will not, directly or indirectly, induce or attempt to induce any customer, supplier, licensee or other business relation of the Company or any Affiliate to cease doing business with the Company or Affiliate, or in any way interfere with the relationship between any such customer, supplier, licensee or business relation, on the one hand, and the Company or Affiliate, on the other hand.

Non-Solicitation of Employees
During the term of your employment with the Company or Affiliate and for a period of two years thereafter, you agree not to, and will not, directly or indirectly, (i) recruit or otherwise solicit or induce (or attempt to recruit or otherwise solicit or induce) any employee of the Company or Affiliate to leave the employ of the Company or Affiliate, or in any way interfere with the relationship between the Company or Affiliate, on the one hand, and any employee thereof, on the other hand, or (ii) hire any person who is or at any time was an employee of the Company or Affiliate until six (6) months after such person’s employment relationship with the Company or Affiliate has ended.

Non-Disparagement
During the term of your employment or service with the Company or any of its Affiliates and thereafter in perpetuity, you shall not knowingly disparage, criticize, or otherwise make derogatory statements regarding the Company or any of its Affiliates, successors, directors, officers, customers or suppliers.


Non-Disclosure of Confidential Information
During the term of your employment with the Company or any Affiliate and thereafter in perpetuity, you shall maintain in confidence and shall not directly, indirectly or otherwise, use, disseminate, disclose or publish, or use for your benefit or the benefit of any person, any confidential or proprietary information or trade secrets of or relating to the Company or any Affiliate, including, without limitation, information with respect to the Company or Affiliate’s operations, processes, products, inventions, business practices, finances, principals, vendors, suppliers, customers, potential customers, marketing methods, costs, prices, contractual relationships, regulatory status, compensation paid to employees or other terms of employment, or deliver to any person any document, record, notebook, computer program or
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similar repository of or containing any such confidential or proprietary information or trade secrets.  Upon your termination of employment for any reason, you shall promptly deliver to the Company all correspondence, drawings, manuals, letters, notes, notebooks, reports, programs, plans, proposals, financial documents, or any other documents concerning the Company’s or an Affiliate’s customers, business plans, marketing strategies, products or processes.  You may respond to a lawful and valid subpoena or other legal process but shall give the Company the earliest possible notice thereof, shall, as much in advance of the return date as possible, make available to the Company and its counsel the documents and other information sought and shall assist such counsel in resisting or otherwise responding to such process. 
Return of Company Property
All correspondence, drawings, manuals, letters, notes, notebooks, reports, programs, plans, proposals, financial documents, or any other documents concerning the Company’s or any of its Affiliate’s customers, business plans, marketing strategies, products or processes, whether confidential or not, is the property of the Company (the “Company Property”). Accordingly, upon your termination of employment for any reason, you shall promptly deliver to the Company all such Company Property, including any and all copies of any such Company Property, and shall not make any notes of or relating to any information contained in any such Company Property. You may respond to a lawful and valid subpoena or other legal process but shall give the Company the earliest possible notice thereof, shall, as much in advance of the return date as possible, make available to the Company and its counsel the documents and other information sought and shall assist such counsel in resisting or otherwise responding to such process.

Injunctive Relief; Attorneys’ Fees
You hereby acknowledge that a breach of the covenants contained in this Appendix will cause irreparable damage to the Company and its goodwill, the exact amount of which will be difficult or impossible to ascertain, and that the remedies at law for any such breach will be inadequate.  Accordingly, in the event of a breach of any of the covenants contained in this Appendix, in addition to any other remedy which may be available at law or in equity, the Company shall be entitled to specific performance and injunctive relief. In addition, should the Company prevail in obtaining legal relief against you as related to a breach of the covenants contained in this Appendix, you shall indemnify the Company for reasonable costs and expenses, including, but not limited, to court costs and reasonable attorneys’ fees that the Company incurred pursuant to the enforcement of this Appendix. 

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REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION
SIGNIFICANT SUBSIDIARIES
AS OF
JANUARY 1, 2022

Significant SubsidiaryState/Country of Incorporation
Arrowhead Systems, LLCWisconsin
Cambridge International, Inc.Delaware
Centa MP Shanghai Co LtdChina
EuroFlex Transmissions (India) Private LimitedIndia
Land Newco, Inc.Delaware
RBC Foreign Manufacturing BVThe Netherlands
Regal Beloit America, Inc.Wisconsin
Regal Beloit (Changzhou) Co., Ltd.China
Regal Beloit Italy SPAItaly
Regal Beloit (Wuxi) Co., Ltd.China
Regal Switzerland Manufacturing GmbHSwitzerland
Rexnord Canada LtdCanada
Rexnord FlatTop Europe SrlItaly
Rexnord Industries LLCDelaware
Rexnord Kette GmbHGermany
Rexnord Tollok SrlItaly




CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
We consent to the incorporation by reference in Registration Statement Nos. 333‑142743, 333-193414, 333-204645 and 333-224831 on Form S-8 of our reports dated March 2, 2022, relating to the financial statements and financial statement schedule of Regal Rexnord Corporation and the effectiveness of Regal Rexnord Corporation's internal control over financial reporting appearing in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended January 1, 2022.

/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP

Milwaukee, Wisconsin
March 2, 2022







Exhibit 31.1

Certification of Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to Section 302 of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Rule 13a-14(a) or 15d-14(a)
Under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934

I, Louis V. Pinkham, certify that:

1.I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended January 1, 2022 of Regal Rexnord Corporation;

2.    Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

3.    Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

4.    The registrant's other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f))for the registrant and have:

(a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

(b) Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

(c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

(d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant's most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant's fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant's internal control over financial reporting; and

5.     The registrant's other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant's auditors and the audit committee of registrant's board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

(a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant's ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

(b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant's internal controls.
REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION
Date: March 2, 2022By:/s/ Louis V. Pinkham
Louis V. Pinkham
Director and Chief Executive Officer



Exhibit 31.2

Certification of Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to Section 302 of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Rule 13a-14(a) or 15d-14(a)
Under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934

I, Robert J. Rehard, certify that:

1.I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended January 1, 2022 of Regal Rexnord Corporation;

2.    Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

3.    Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

4.    The registrant's other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f))for the registrant and have:

(a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;

(b) Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

(c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

(d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant's most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant's fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant's internal control over financial reporting; and

5.     The registrant's other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant's auditors and the audit committee of registrant's board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

(a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant's ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

(b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant's internal controls.
REGAL REXNORD CORPORATION
Date: March 2, 2022By:/s/ Robert J. Rehard
Robert J. Rehard
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer




EXHIBIT 32.1
CERTIFICATIONS of the
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer
Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350
Solely for the purposes of complying with 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, we, the undersigned Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Regal Rexnord Corporation (the “Company”), hereby certify, based on our knowledge, that the Annual Report on Form 10-K of the Company for the year ended January 1, 2022 (the “Report”) fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and that information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.
 
/s/ Louis V. Pinkham
Louis V. Pinkham
Chief Executive Officer
 
/s/ Robert J. Rehard
Robert J. Rehard
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Date: March 2, 2022