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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 10-Q

 

 

 

x Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

For the quarterly period ended December 28, 2012

OR

 

¨ Transition report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Commission File Number: 001-34775

 

 

FABRINET

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Cayman Islands   Not Applicable

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

c/o Intertrust Corporate Services (Cayman) Limited

190 Elgin Avenue

George Town

Grand Cayman

Cayman Islands

  KY1-9005
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)

+66 2-524-9600

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

 

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 (the “Exchange Act”) 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   x     No   ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted 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 and post such files).    Yes   x     No   ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Large accelerated filer   ¨    Accelerated filer    x
Non-accelerated filer   ¨ (Do not check if smaller reporting company)    Smaller reporting company    ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).      ¨   Yes     x   No

As of January 25, 2013, the registrant had 34,574,677 ordinary shares, $0.01 par value, outstanding.

 

 

 


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FABRINET

FORM 10-Q

QUARTER ENDED DECEMBER 28, 2012

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     Page No.  

PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION

     3   

Item 1. Financial Statements

     3   

Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 28, 2012 and June 29, 2012

     3   

Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations for the three and six months ended December  28, 2012 and December 30, 2011

     4   

Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the six months ended December  28, 2012 and December 30, 2011

     5   

Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

     6   

Item  2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

     21   

Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

     34   

Item 4. Controls and Procedures

     35   

PART II. OTHER INFORMATION

     36   

Item 1. Legal Proceedings

     36   

Item 1A. Risk Factors

     36   

Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds

     52   

Item 6. Exhibits

     52   

Signature

     53   

Exhibit Index

     54   

 

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PART I: FINANCIAL INFORMATION

ITEM 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FABRINET

UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

 

(in thousands of U.S. dollars, except share data)    December 28,
2012
     June 29,
2012
 

Assets

     

Current assets

     

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 128,098       $ 115,507   

Trade accounts receivable, net

     131,358         128,253   

Inventory, net

     99,681         103,223   

Deferred tax assets

     1,744         4,088   

Prepaid expenses

     1,334         3,571   

Other current assets

     6,934         6,029   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total current assets

     369,149         360,671   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Non-current assets

     

Property, plant and equipment, net

     98,248         97,923   

Intangibles, net

     239         380   

Deferred tax assets

     2,914         1,764   

Deposits and other non-current assets

     635         624   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total non-current assets

     102,036         100,691   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total assets

   $ 471,185       $ 461,362   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity

     

Current liabilities

     

Long-term loans from banks, current portion

   $ 9,668       $ 9,668   

Trade accounts payable

     73,744         86,000   

Construction-related payable

     9         2,222   

Income tax payable

     724         353   

Deferred tax liability

     1,654         1,405   

Accrued payroll, bonus and related expenses

     5,805         5,181   

Accrued expenses

     2,707         2,630   

Other payables

     5,598         6,601   

Liabilities to third parties due to flood losses

     54,401         61,198   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total current liabilities

     154,310         175,258   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Non-current liabilities

     

Long-term loans from banks, non-current portion

     24,077         28,911   

Severance liabilities

     5,017         4,420   

Other non-current liabilities

     1,582         2,064   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total non-current liabilities

     30,676         35,395   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total liabilities

     184,986         210,653   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Commitments and contingencies (Note 13)

     

Shareholders’ equity

     

Preferred shares (5,000,000 shares authorized, $0.01 par value; no shares issued and outstanding as of December 28, 2012 and June 29, 2012)

     —           —     

Ordinary shares (500,000,000 shares authorized, $0.01 par value; 34,535,980 shares and 34,470,829 shares issued and outstanding as of December 28, 2012 and June 29, 2012, respectively)

     345         345   

Additional paid-in capital

     68,251         65,462   

Retained earnings

     217,603         184,902   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total shareholders’ equity

     286,199         250,709   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total Liabilities and Shareholders’ equity

   $ 471,185       $ 461,362   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

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FABRINET

UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

 

     Three Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
(in thousands of U.S. dollars, except share data)    December 28,
2012
    December 30,
2011
    December 28,
2012
    December 30,
2011
 

Revenues

   $ 167,426      $ 96,609      $ 326,051      $ 282,956   

Cost of revenues

     (149,056     (87,680     (289,959     (251,143
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Gross profit

     18,370        8,929        36,092        31,813   

Selling, general and administrative expenses

     (5,787     (5,319     (11,646     (11,957

Income (expense) related to flooding

     4,825        (40,265     9,645        (40,265
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Operating income (loss)

     17,408        (36,655     34,091        (20,409

Interest income

     271        224        459        419   

Interest expense

     (263     (68     (549     (142

Foreign exchange (loss) gain, net

     (170     787        107        600   

Other income

     183        59        373        156   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Income (loss) before income taxes

     17,429        (35,653     34,481        (19,376

Income tax (expense) benefit

     (747     2,399        (1,780     1,777   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net income (loss)

   $ 16,682      $ (33,254   $ 32,701      $ (17,599
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Earnings (loss) per share

        

Basic

   $ 0.48      $ (0.97   $ 0.95      $ (0.51

Diluted

     0.48        (0.97     0.94        (0.51

Weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding (thousands of shares)

        

Basic

     34,517        34,396        34,501        34,309   

Diluted

     34,804        34,396        34,737        34,309   

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

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FABRINET

UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

 

     Six Months Ended  
(in thousands of U.S. dollars)    December 28,
2012
    December 30,
2011
 

Cash flows from operating activities

    

Net income (loss) for the period

   $ 32,701      $ (17,599

Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities

    

Depreciation

     5,002        4,937   

Amortization of intangibles

     142        199   

(Gain) loss on disposal of property, plant and equipment

     (1     9   

Income related to flooding

     (9,645     —     

Proceeds from insurers for business interruption losses related to flooding

     4,741        —     

Reversal of allowance for doubtful accounts

     (36     (24

Unrealized gain on exchange rate and fair value of derivative

     (722     (43

Share-based compensation

     2,632        2,591   

Deferred income tax

     1,443        (2,291

Other non-cash expenses

     115        374   

Inventory obsolescence

     (376     475   

Loss from written-off assets and liabilities to third parties due to flood losses

     —          33,263   

Changes in operating assets and liabilities

    

Trade accounts receivable

     (3,069     19,868   

Inventory

     3,918        (12,813

Other current assets and non-current assets

     1,342        (451

Trade accounts payable

     (12,256     (35,511

Income tax payable

     371        (812

Other current liabilities and non-current liabilities

     (1,573     (1,583

Liabilities to third parties due to flood losses

     (6,797     —     
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities

     17,932        (9,411
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash flows from investing activities

    

Purchase of property, plant and equipment

     (6,085     (18,337

Purchase of intangibles

     (1     (21

Purchase of assets for lease under direct financing leases

     —          (2,940

Proceeds from direct financing leases

     —          1,217   

Proceeds from disposal of property, plant and equipment

     2        5   

Proceeds from insurers in settlement of claims related to flood damage

     4,904        —     
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash used in investing activities

     (1,180     (20,076
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash flows from financing activities

    

Receipt of long-term loans from banks

     —          16,000   

Repayment of long-term loans from banks

     (4,834     (2,464

Proceeds from issuance of ordinary shares under employee share option plans

     167        639   

Withholding tax related to net share settlement of restricted share units

     (10     —     
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities

     (4,677     14,175   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents

     12,075        (15,312
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Movement in cash and cash equivalents

    

Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period

     115,507        127,282   

Increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents

     12,075        (15,312

Effect of exchange rate on cash and cash equivalents

     516        108   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents at end of period

   $ 128,098      $ 112,078   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

 

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FABRINET

NOTES TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

1. Business and organization

General

Fabrinet (“Fabrinet” or the “Company”) was incorporated on August 12, 1999, and commenced operations on January 1, 2000. The Company is an exempted company incorporated with limited liability, and is domiciled in the Cayman Islands, British West Indies. Fabrinet and its direct and indirect subsidiaries are referred to as the “Group”.

The Group provides advanced optical packaging and precision optical, electro-mechanical and electronic manufacturing services to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of complex products, such as optical communication components, modules and sub-systems, industrial lasers and sensors. The Group offers a broad range of advanced optical and electro-mechanical capabilities across the entire manufacturing process, including process design and engineering, supply chain management, manufacturing, advanced packaging, integration and full product assembly and test. The Group focuses primarily on the production of low-volume, high-mix products.

The Company has the following direct and indirect subsidiaries:

 

   

Fabrinet Co., Ltd., (“Fabrinet Thailand”) incorporated in Thailand on September 27, 1999;

 

   

Fabrinet USA, Inc., incorporated in the U.S. in the State of California on October 12, 1999;

 

   

FBN New Jersey Manufacturing, Inc., incorporated in the U.S. in the State of Delaware on May 11, 2005;

 

   

Fabrinet China Holdings, incorporated in Mauritius, and CASIX Inc., incorporated in the People’s Republic of China, which were both acquired on May 29, 2005;

 

   

Fabrinet Pte. Ltd., incorporated in Singapore on November 14, 2007; and

 

   

Fabrinet AB, incorporated in Sweden on September 29, 2010.

Asia Pacific Growth Fund III, L.P. held 26.0% and 26.2% of the Company’s share capital (fully diluted) as of December 28, 2012 and June 29, 2012, respectively.

 

2. Accounting policies

Basis of presentation

The condensed consolidated financial statements of Fabrinet included herein have been prepared on a basis consistent with the June 29, 2012 audited consolidated financial statements and include all material adjustments, consisting of normal recurring adjustments, necessary to fairly present the information set forth therein. These condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the June 29, 2012 audited consolidated financial statements and notes thereto. The year-end condensed balance sheet data was derived from audited financial statements but does not include all disclosures required by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”). Fabrinet’s results of operations for the three and six months ended December 28, 2012 and December 30, 2011 are not necessarily indicative of future operating results.

The preparation of the Group’s condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and the reported amount of total revenues and expense during the year. The Group bases estimates on historical experience and various assumptions about the future that are believed to be reasonable based on available information. The Group’s reported financial position or results of operations may be materially different under different conditions or when using different estimates and assumptions, particularly with respect to significant accounting policies, which are discussed below. Significant assumptions are used in

 

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accounting for share-based compensation, allowance for doubtful accounts, income taxes and inventory obsolescence, among others. In addition, as the Company continues to realize the extent of the impact on the Company’s operations of the flooding in Thailand that occurred during October and November 2011, the Company has made estimates and assumptions in the determination of losses and recoveries recognized in the condensed consolidated financial statements. Due to the inherent uncertainty involved in making estimates, actual results reported in future periods may be different from these estimates. In the event that estimates or assumptions prove to differ from actual results, adjustments will be made in subsequent periods to reflect more current information.

Fiscal years

The Company utilizes a 52-53 week fiscal year ending on the Friday in June closest to June 30. The three months ended December 28, 2012 and December 30, 2011 each consisted of 13 weeks. The six months ended December 28, 2012 and December 30, 2011 consisted of 26 weeks and 27 weeks, respectively. Fiscal year 2013 will be comprised of 52 weeks and will end on June 28, 2013.

Concentration of credit risk

Financial instruments that potentially subject the Group to concentrations of credit risk consist of cash and cash equivalents and accounts receivable.

As of December 28, 2012, the Group’s cash and cash equivalents were held in deposits and highly liquid investment products with maturities of three months or less with banks and other financial institutions having credit ratings of A minus or above. The Group had three customers that each contributed to 10% or more of its total accounts receivable as of December 28, 2012 and June 29, 2012.

Accounts receivable include amounts due from companies that are monitored by the Group for credit worthiness. Management has implemented a program to closely monitor near term cash collection and credit exposures and believes no material loss will be incurred.

Recent accounting pronouncements

In July 2012, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (the “FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2012-02 – Intangibles—Goodwill and Other (Topic 350) – Testing Indefinite-Lived Intangible Assets for Impairment. Under the amendments in ASU No. 2012-02, an entity has the option first to assess qualitative factors to determine whether the existence of events and circumstances indicates that it is more likely than not that the indefinite-lived intangible asset is impaired. If, after assessing the totality of events and circumstances, an entity concludes that it is not more likely than not that the indefinite-lived intangible asset is impaired, then the entity is not required to take further action. However, if an entity concludes otherwise, then it is required to determine the fair value of the indefinite-lived intangible asset and perform the quantitative impairment test by comparing the fair value with the carrying amount in accordance with Subtopic 350-30. This guidance is effective for fiscal years beginning after September 15, 2012. Early adoption is permitted. The Company does not expect that the adoption of this guidance will have an effect on its consolidated financial statements.

In December 2011, the FASB issued ASU No. 2011-12 – Comprehensive Income (Topic 220) – Deferral of the Effective Date for Amendments to the Presentation of Reclassifications of Items Out of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income in ASU No. 2011-05. Under the amendments in ASU No. 2011-05, entities are required to present reclassification adjustments and the effect of those reclassification adjustments on the face of the financial statements where net income is presented, by component of net income, and on the face of the financial statements where other comprehensive income is presented, by component of other comprehensive income for both annual and interim financial periods. The amendments in ASU No. 2011-12 supersede changes to those paragraphs in ASU No. 2011-05 that pertain to how, when, and where reclassification adjustments are presented. All other requirements in ASU No. 2011-05 are not affected by ASU No. 2011-12, including the requirement to report comprehensive income either in a single continuous financial statement or in two separate but consecutive financial statements. This guidance is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those years, beginning after December 15, 2011. Early adoption is permitted. The Company adopted this guidance in the first quarter of fiscal year 2013. This new guidance did not impact the Company’s presentation, financial position, and results of operations.

 

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In December 2011, the FASB issued ASU No. 2011-11 – Balance Sheet (Topic 210) – Disclosures about Offsetting Assets and Liabilities. The amendments in ASU No. 2011-11 will enhance disclosures required by U.S. GAAP by requiring improved information about financial instruments and derivative instruments that are either (1) offset in accordance with Section 210-20-45 or Section 815-10-45 or (2) subject to an enforceable master netting arrangement or similar agreement, irrespective of whether they are offset in accordance with Section 210-20-45 or Section 815-10-45. Information about offsetting and related arrangements will enable users of an entity’s financial statements to understand the effect of those arrangements on an entity’s financial position, including the effect or potential effect of rights of setoff associated with certain financial instruments and derivative instruments in the scope of ASU No. 2011-11. This guidance is effective for annual reporting periods beginning on or after January 1, 2013, and interim periods within those annual periods. The Company does not expect that the adoption of this guidance will have an effect on its consolidated financial statements.

 

3. Earnings (loss) per ordinary share

Basic earnings (loss) per ordinary share is computed by dividing reported net income (loss) by the weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding during each period.

 

     Three Months Ended  
     December 28,
2012
     December 30,
2011
 

Net income (loss) attributable to shareholders

   $ 16,682       $ (33,254

Weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding (thousands of shares)

     34,517         34,396   

Basic earnings (loss) per ordinary share

   $ 0.48       $ (0.97

 

     Six Months Ended  
     December 28,
2012
     December 30,
2011
 

Net income (loss) attributable to shareholders

   $ 32,701       $ (17,599

Weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding (thousands of shares)

     34,501         34,309   

Basic earnings (loss) per ordinary share

   $ 0.95       $ (0.51

Diluted earnings (loss) per ordinary share is computed by dividing reported net income (loss) by the weighted average number of ordinary shares and dilutive ordinary equivalent shares outstanding during each period. Dilutive ordinary equivalent shares consist of share options and restricted shares. Diluted earnings (loss) per ordinary share is calculated as follows:

 

     Three Months Ended  
     December 28,
2012
     December 30,
2011
 

Net income (loss) used to determine diluted earnings (loss) per ordinary share

   $ 16,682       $ (33,254

Weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding (thousands of shares)

     34,517         34,396   

Adjustment for incremental shares arising from the assumed exercise of share options and vesting of restricted share units (thousands of shares)

     287         —     
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Weighted average number of ordinary shares for diluted earnings (loss) per ordinary share (thousands of shares)

     34,804         34,396
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Diluted earnings (loss) per ordinary share

   $ 0.48       $ (0.97

 

* Loss per ordinary share for the three months ended December 30, 2011 was computed using the weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding during the period in accordance with the antidilutive provisions of ASC 260-10-45; therefore 147,719 shares were excluded.

 

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     Six Months Ended  
     December 28,
2012
     December 30,
2011
 

Net income (loss) used to determine diluted earnings (loss) per ordinary share

   $ 32,701       $ (17,599

Weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding (thousands of shares)

     34,501         34,309   

Adjustment for incremental shares arising from the assumed exercise of share options and vesting of restricted share units (thousands of shares)

     236         —     
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Weighted average number of ordinary shares for diluted earnings (loss) per ordinary share (thousands of shares)

     34,737         34,309
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Diluted earnings (loss) per ordinary share

   $ 0.94       $ (0.51

 

* Loss per ordinary share for the six months ended December 30, 2011 was computed using the weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding during the period in accordance with the antidilutive provisions of ASC 260-10-45; therefore 213,127 shares were excluded.

Options to purchase 1,217,684 shares were outstanding at December 28, 2012, but were not included in the computation of diluted earnings per ordinary share for the three and six months ended December 28, 2012, because the exercise price of the options was greater than the average market price of the underlying shares.

 

4. Fair value

Fair value is defined as the exchange price that would be received for an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market participants on the measurement date. A fair value hierarchy is established which requires an entity to maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair value. The standard describes three levels of inputs that may be used to measure fair value:

Level 1—Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

Level 2—Observable inputs other than Level 1 prices such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities, quoted prices in markets that are not active, or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.

Level 3—Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities.

The Company utilizes the market approach to measure fair value for its financial assets and liabilities. The market approach uses prices and other relevant information generated by market transactions involving identical or comparable assets or liabilities.

 

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The following table sets forth the Company’s applicable assets measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of December 28, 2012:

 

     Fair Value Measurements at Reporting Date Using         
     Quoted Prices
in Active
Markets for
Identical

Assets
(Level 1)
     Significant
Other
Observable
Inputs
(Level 2)
     Significant
Unobservable
Inputs
(Level 3)
     Total
Balance
 

Assets

           

Derivative assets

   $  —       $ 41       $  —       $ 41   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total assets measured at fair value

   $       $ 41       $       $ 41   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

The above derivative assets are classified in other current assets on the condensed consolidated balance sheet.

The following table sets forth the Company’s applicable liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of June 29, 2012:

 

     Fair Value Measurements at Reporting Date Using         
     Quoted Prices
in Active
Markets for
Identical

Assets
(Level 1)
     Significant
Other
Observable
Inputs
(Level 2)
     Significant
Unobservable
Inputs
(Level 3)
     Total
Balance
 

Liabilities

           

Derivative liabilities

   $  —       $ 162       $  —       $ 162   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total liabilities measured at fair value

   $       $ 162       $       $ 162   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

The above derivative liabilities are classified in accrued expenses on the consolidated balance sheet.

 

5. Allowance for doubtful accounts

The activities and balances for allowance for doubtful accounts for the six months ended December 28, 2012 and December 30, 2011 were as follows:

 

     Balance at
Beginning of
Period
     Charged to
Expense /
(Credited to
Income)
    Balance at
End of Period
 

Period ended December 28, 2012

   $ 203       $ (36   $ 167   

Period ended December 30, 2011

   $ 79       $ 13      $ 92   

 

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6. Inventory

 

     December 28,
2012
    June 29,
2012
 

Raw materials

   $ 42,670      $ 45,309   

Work in progress

     43,864        43,879   

Finished goods

     8,806        8,760   

Goods in transit

     6,666        7,976   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 
     102,006        105,924   

Less Inventory obsolescence

     (2,325     (2,701
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Inventory, net

   $ 99,681      $ 103,223   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

7. Investment in leases

Investment in direct financing leases primarily consists of manufacturing equipment. The following lists the components of the Company’s investment in direct financing leases as of December 28, 2012 and June 29, 2012:

 

     December 28,
2012
     June 29,
2012
 

Total minimum lease payments receivable

   $ —         $ 3,522   

Estimated residual values of leased equipment

     —           —     
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Investment in direct financing leases

     —           3,522   

Less: unearned income

     —           (186
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
   $ —         $ 3,336   

Less: written-off of investment in direct financing leases

     —           (3,336
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Net investment in direct financing leases

   $ —         $ —     
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

In the three months ended December 30, 2011, investment in leases of $3,336 was written-off because the underlying assets were damaged in the severe flooding that occurred in Thailand during October and November 2011.

 

8. Intangibles

The following tables present details of the Group’s intangibles:

 

     December 28, 2012  
     Gross Carrying
Amount
     Accumulated
Amortization
    Net  

Software

   $ 3,458       $ (3,219   $ 239   
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total intangibles

   $ 3,458       $ (3,219   $ 239   
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

     June 29, 2012  
     Gross Carrying
Amount
     Accumulated
Amortization
    Net  

Software

   $ 3,457       $ (3,077   $ 380   
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total intangibles

   $ 3,457       $ (3,077   $ 380   
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

The Group recorded amortization expense relating to intangibles of $67 and $97 for the three months ended December 28, 2012 and December 30, 2011, respectively, and $142 and $199 for the six months ended December 28, 2012 and December 30, 2011, respectively.

 

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Based on the carrying amount of intangibles as of December 28, 2012, and assuming no future impairment of the underlying assets, the estimated future amortization at the end of each fiscal year below is as follows:

 

2013

   $ 75   

2014

     93   

2015

     64   

2016

     5   

2017

     2   
  

 

 

 

Total amortization

   $ 239   
  

 

 

 

 

9. Borrowings

Bank borrowings and long-term debt was comprised of the following:

 

     December 28,
2012
     June 29,
2012
 

Long-term loans from banks

   $ 33,745       $ 38,579   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total borrowings

   $ 33,745       $ 38,579   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Long-term loans from banks consisted of:

     

Current portion

   $ 9,668       $ 9,668   

Non-current portion

     24,077         28,911   

At December 28, 2012 and June 29, 2012, the Group had outstanding borrowings under long-term loan agreements with banks totaling $33,745 and $38,579, respectively, which consisted of:

 

Contract
No.
   Amount     

Interest Rate Per Annum (%)

  

Conditions

   Repayment
Term
   December 28,
2012
     June 29,
2012
          
         LIBOR + 2.8% per    Repayable in quarterly    June 2012 to
1    $ 25,500       $ 28,500       annum    installments within 6 years    March 2017
         SIBOR + 1.5% per    Repayable in quarterly    May 2009 to
2      8,245         10,079       annum    installments within 8 years    February 2015
  

 

 

    

 

 

          
Total    $ 33,745       $ 38,579            
  

 

 

    

 

 

          

Certain of the long-term loans are secured by certain property, plant and equipment. The carrying amount of assets secured and pledged as collateral was $22,291 and $22,766 as of December 28, 2012 and June 29, 2012, respectively. The carrying amounts of borrowings approximate their fair value.

The long-term loans prescribe maximum ratios of debt to equity and minimum levels of debt service coverage ratios. As of December 28, 2012 and June 29, 2012, the Group was in compliance with its long-term loan agreements. In addition to financial ratios, certain of the Group’s packing credits and long-term loans include customary events of default.

 

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The movements of long-term loans were as follows for the six months ended December 28, 2012 and December 30, 2011:

 

     Six Months Ended  
     December 28,
2012
    December 30,
2011
 

Opening net book amount

   $ 38,579      $ 16,377   

Additional loans during the period

     —          16,000   

Repayment during the period

     (4,834     (2,464
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Closing net book amount

   $ 33,745      $ 29,913   
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

As of December 28, 2012, future maturities of long-term debt were as follows at the end of each fiscal year below:

 

2013

   $ 4,834   

2014

     9,668   

2015

     8,743   

2016

     6,000   

2017

     4,500   
  

 

 

 

Total

   $ 33,745   
  

 

 

 

Credit facilities:

Undrawn available credit facilities at December 28, 2012 and June 29, 2012 totaled:

 

     December 28,
2012
     June 29,
2012
 

Bank borrowings:

     

Short-term loans

   $ 5,550       $ 8,241   

 

10. Income taxes

As of December 28, 2012, the liability for uncertain tax positions including accrued interest and penalties decreased to $1,404 (June 29, 2012: $1,905). The Group expects the estimated amount of liability associated with its uncertain tax positions to decrease within the next 12 months due to the lapse of the applicable statute of limitations in foreign tax jurisdictions.

The Group files several income tax returns in the U.S. and foreign tax jurisdictions. The tax years from 2008 to 2012 remain open to examination by U.S. federal and state tax authorities, and foreign tax authorities. The Group’s income tax is recognized based on the best estimate of the expected annual effective tax rate for the full financial year of each entity in the Group, adjusted for discrete items arising in that quarter. If the Group’s estimated annual effective tax rate changes, the Group makes a cumulative adjustment in that quarter.

The effective tax rate for the Group for the three months ended December 28, 2012 and December 30, 2011 was 4.3% and (6.7)% of net income (loss), respectively. The increase in effective tax rate for the three months ended December 28, 2012 was due to the fact that the Group had net income from operations during that period, as compared to the three months ended December 30, 2011, when the Group experienced a net loss.

The effective tax rate for the Group for the six months ended December 28, 2012 and December 30, 2011 was 5.2% and (9.2)% of net income (loss), respectively. The increase in effective tax rate for the six months ended December 28, 2012 was due to the fact that the Group had net income from operations during that period, as compared to the six months ended December 30, 2011, when the Group experienced a net loss.

 

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As of December 28, 2012, the Group’s estimated annual effective tax rate for the fiscal year ending June 28, 2013, excluding discrete items, was 5.2%.

 

11. Share-based compensation

Share-based compensation

In determining the grant date fair value of equity awards, the Group is required to make estimates of the fair value of the Group’s ordinary shares, expected dividends to be issued, expected volatility of the Group’s shares, expected forfeitures of the awards, risk free interest rates for the expected term of the awards, expected terms of the awards, and the vesting period of the respective awards. Forfeitures are estimated at the time of grant and revised if necessary in subsequent periods if actual forfeitures differ from those estimates.

The effect of recording share-based compensation expense for the three and six months ended December 28, 2012 and December 30, 2011 was as follows:

 

     Three Months Ended      Six Months Ended  
     December 28,
2012
     December 30,
2011
     December 28,
2012
     December 30,
2011
 

Share-based compensation expense by type of award:

           

Share options

   $ 497       $ 1,200       $ 1,140       $ 2,070   

Restricted share units

     881         403         1,492         521   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total share-based compensation expense

     1,378         1,603         2,632         2,591   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Tax effect on share-based compensation expense

     —           —           —           —     
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Net effect on share-based compensation expense

   $ 1,378       $ 1,603       $ 2,632       $ 2,591   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Share-based compensation expense was recorded in the condensed consolidated statements of operations as follows: cost of revenues of $299 and $465 for the three months ended December 28, 2012 and December 30, 2011, respectively, and $644 and $911 for the six months ended December 28, 2012 and December 30, 2011, respectively; and SG&A expenses of $1,079 and $1,138 for the three months ended December 28, 2012 and December 30, 2011, respectively, and $1,988 and $1,680 for the six months ended December 28, 2012 and December 30, 2011, respectively. The Group did not capitalize any share-based compensation expense as part of any asset costs during the three and six months ended December 28, 2012 and December 30, 2011.

Share-based award activity

Share options have been granted to directors and employees. As of December 28, 2012, there were 153,403 share options outstanding under the Amended and Restated 1999 Share Option Plan (the “1999 Plan”). Additional option grants may not be made under the 1999 Plan.

On March 12, 2010, the Company’s shareholders adopted the 2010 Performance Incentive Plan (the “2010 Plan”). On December 20, 2010 and December 20, 2012, the Company’s shareholders adopted amendments to the 2010 Plan to increase the number of ordinary shares authorized for issuance under the 2010 Plan by 500,000 and 3,700,000 shares, respectively. A total of 5,700,000 ordinary shares are authorized for issuance under the 2010 Plan, plus any shares subject to share options under the 1999 Plan outstanding as of June 24, 2010, that expire, are canceled or terminate after such date. As of December 28, 2012, there were an aggregate of 1,220,984 share options outstanding, 582,055 restricted share units outstanding, and 3,817,313 ordinary shares available for future grant under the 2010 Plan.

 

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Share options

The Company’s board of directors has the authority to determine the type of option and the number of shares subject to an option. Options generally vest and become exercisable over four years and expire, if not exercised, within 7 years of the grant date. In the case of a grantee’s first grant, 25 percent of the underlying shares subject to an option vest 12 months after the vesting commencement date and 1/48 of the underlying shares vest monthly over each of the subsequent 36 months. In the case of any additional grants to a grantee, 1/48 of the underlying shares subject to an option vest monthly over four years, commencing one month after the vesting commencement date.

The following summarizes share option activity under the 1999 Plan:

 

     Number of Shares Underlying
Options
    Weighted-Average Exercise
Price Per Share
 
     Six Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
     December 28,
2012
    December 30,
2011
    December 28,
2012
     December 30,
2011
 

Shares underlying options outstanding at beginning of the period

     189,540        423,205      $ 5.18       $ 4.34   

Granted

     —          —          —           —     

Exercised

     (36,137     (188,773     4.64         3.39   

Forfeited

     —          (4,593     —           6.01   

Expired

     —          (1,100     —           5.75   
  

 

 

   

 

 

      

Shares underlying options outstanding at end of the period

     153,403        228,739      $ 5.31       $ 5.09   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Shares underlying options exercisable at end of the period

     119,244        140,939      $ 5.18       $ 4.69   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

The following summarizes information for share options outstanding as of December 28, 2012 under the 1999 Plan:

 

     Number of
Shares
Underlying
Options
     Exercise Price
Per Share
     Weighted Average
Remaining
Contractual Life
(years)
     Aggregate
Intrinsic Value
 
     525       $ 2.25         0.17      
     1,900         2.75         0.67      
     1,600         3.00         0.69      
     16,421         3.50         1.01      
     2,405         4.25         1.67      
     4,545         4.75         1.92      
     10,074         5.00         2.13      
     3,930         5.25         2.36      
     8,350         5.50         2.66      
     100,353         5.75         3.81      
     3,300         6.25         4.35      
  

 

 

       

 

 

    

Options outstanding

     153,403            3.14       $ 1,175   
  

 

 

       

 

 

    

 

 

 

Options exercisable

     119,244            2.91       $ 929   
  

 

 

       

 

 

    

 

 

 

As of December 28, 2012, $21 of estimated share-based compensation expense related to share options under the 1999 Plan remains to be recorded. That cost is expected to be recorded over an estimated amortization period of 0.93 years.

 

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The following summarizes share option activity under the 2010 Plan:

 

     Number of Shares Underlying
Options
    Weighted-Average Exercise
Price Per Share
 
     Six Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
     December 28,
2012
    December 30,
2011
    December 28,
2012
     December 30,
2011
 

Shares underlying options outstanding at beginning of the period

     1,280,750        925,921      $ 16.32       $ 17.37   

Granted

     —          548,127        —           14.54   

Exercised

     —          —          —           —     

Forfeited

     (19,135     (18,346     17.79         16.29   

Expired

     (40,631     (1,137     16.84         16.80   
  

 

 

   

 

 

      

Shares underlying options outstanding at end of the period

     1,220,984        1,454,565      $ 16.28       $ 16.32   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Shares underlying options exercisable at end of the period

     528,347        258,716      $ 16.48       $ 16.71   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

The following summarizes information for share options outstanding as of December 28, 2012 under the 2010 Plan:

 

     Number of
Shares
Underlying
Options
     Exercise
Price Per
Share
     Weighted
Average
Remaining
Contractual Life
(years)
     Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value
 
     40,000       $ 13.77         4.65      
     614,228         16.83         4.79      
     30,000         15.05         4.85      
     30,744         25.50         5.05      
     8,400         26.16         5.10      
     12,800         23.62         5.35      
     193,571         15.16         5.64      
     251,231         14.12         5.87      
     31,160         19.36         6.12      
     5,550         18.60         6.17      
     3,300         12.83         6.36      
  

 

 

       

 

 

    

Options outstanding

     1,220,984            5.20       $ 0   
  

 

 

       

 

 

    

 

 

 

Options exercisable

     528,347            5.05       $ 0   
  

 

 

       

 

 

    

 

 

 

As of December 28, 2012, $1,547 of estimated share-based compensation expense related to share options under the 2010 Plan remains to be recorded. That cost is expected to be recorded over an estimated amortization period of 2.35 years.

Restricted share units

Restricted share units are one type of share-based award that may be granted under the 2010 Plan. Restricted share units granted to non-employee directors generally cliff vest 100% on the first of January, approximately 1 year from the date of grant. Restricted share units granted to employees generally vest as to 1/4th of the shares over 4 years on each anniversary of the vesting commencement date.

 

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The following summarizes restricted share unit activity under the 2010 Plan:

 

     Number of Shares Underlying
Restricted Share Units
    Weighted-Average Grant Date
Fair Value Per Share
 
     Six Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
     December 28,
2012
    December 30,
2011
    December 28,
2012
     December 30,
2011
 

Unvested balance at beginning of the period

     168,275        25,900      $ 14.44       $ 21.62   

Granted

     446,884        198,247        12.35         14.05   

Issued

     (30,100     (25,900     14.12         21.62   

Forfeited

     (3,004     —          13.12         —     
  

 

 

   

 

 

      

Unvested balance at end of the period

     582,055        198,247      $ 12.86       $ 14.05   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

As of December 28, 2012, $4,980 of estimated share-based compensation expense related to restricted share units under the 2010 Plan remains to be recorded. That cost is expected to be recorded over an estimated amortization period of 3.30 years.

For the three months ended December 28, 2012, the Company withheld an aggregate of 1,086 shares upon the vesting of restricted share units, based upon the closing share price on the vesting date to settle the employees’ minimum statutory obligation for the applicable income and other employment taxes. The Company then remitted cash of $10 to the appropriate taxing authorities, and presented it in a financing activity within the condensed consolidated statements of cash flows. The payment had the effect on shares issued by the Company as it reduced the number of shares that would have been issued on the vesting date and was recorded as a reduction of additional paid-in capital.

 

12. Shareholders’ equity

Share capital

The Company’s authorized share capital is 500,000,000 ordinary shares, par value of $0.01 per ordinary share, and 5,000,000 preferred shares, par value of $0.01 per preferred share.

For the six months ended December 28, 2012, the Company issued 36,137 ordinary shares upon the exercise of options, for cash consideration at a weighted average exercise price of $4.64 per share, and 29,014 ordinary shares upon the vesting of restricted share units, net of shares withheld.

For the six months ended December 30, 2011, the Company issued 188,773 ordinary shares upon the exercise of options, for cash consideration at a weighted average exercise price of $3.39 per share, and 25,900 ordinary shares upon the vesting of restricted share units.

All such issued shares are fully paid.

13. Commitments and contingencies

Bank guarantees

At December 28, 2012 and June 29, 2012, there were outstanding bank guarantees given by banks on behalf of Fabrinet Thailand for electricity usage and other normal business amounting to $686 and $660, respectively.

 

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Operating lease commitments

The Group leases a portion of its capital equipment, and certain land and buildings for its facilities in Thailand, China and New Jersey, under operating lease arrangements that expire in various calendar years through 2015. Rental expense under these operating leases amounted to $390 and $996 for the six months ended December 28, 2012 and December 30, 2011, respectively. On March 23, 2012, the Group notified its landlord of its intent to terminate the lease agreement for land and buildings at its Chokchai campus in Thailand, effective on April 30, 2012.

As of December 28, 2012, the future minimum lease payments due under non-cancelable leases were as follows at the end of each fiscal year below:

 

2013

     391   

2014

     181   

2015

     59   

2016

     15   
  

 

 

 

Total minimum operating lease payments

   $ 646   
  

 

 

 

Purchase obligations

Purchase obligations represent legally-binding commitments to purchase inventory and other commitments made in the normal course of business to meet operational requirements. Although open purchase orders are considered enforceable and legally binding, the terms generally give the Group the option to cancel, reschedule and/or adjust its requirements based on its business needs prior to the delivery of goods or performance of services. Obligations to purchase inventory and other commitments are generally expected to be fulfilled within one year.

As of December 28, 2012, there were no outstanding capital expenditure commitments.

Indemnification of directors and officers

Cayman Islands law does not limit the extent to which a company’s memorandum and articles of association may provide for indemnification of directors and officers, except to the extent any such provision may be held by the Cayman Islands courts to be contrary to public policy, such as to provide indemnification against civil fraud or the consequences of committing a crime. The Company’s amended and restated memorandum and articles of association provide for indemnification of directors and officers for actions, costs, charges, losses, damages and expenses incurred in their capacities as such, except that such indemnification does not extend to any matter in respect of any fraud or dishonesty that may attach to any of them.

In accordance with the Company’s form of indemnification agreement for its directors and officers, the Company has agreed to indemnify its directors and officers against certain liabilities and expenses incurred by such persons in connection with claims by reason of their being such a director or officer. The Company has a director and officer liability insurance policy that may enable it to recover a portion of any future amounts paid under the indemnification agreements.

 

14. Business segments and geographic information

Operating segments are defined as components of an enterprise for which separate financial information is available that is evaluated regularly by the chief operating decision maker, or decision making group, in deciding how to allocate resources and in assessing performance. The Group’s chief operating decision maker is Fabrinet’s board of directors. As of December 28, 2012, the Group operated and internally managed a single operating segment. Accordingly, the Group does not accumulate discrete information with respect to separate product lines and does not have separate reportable segments.

 

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The Group operates primarily in three geographic regions: North America, Asia-Pacific and Europe. The following tables present total revenues by geographic regions:

 

     Three Months Ended  
     December 28,
2012
     December 30,
2011
 

North America

   $ 81,661       $ 49,199   

Asia-Pacific

     55,399         32,060   

Europe

     30,366         15,350   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
   $ 167,426       $ 96,609   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

     Six Months Ended  
     December 28,
2012
     December 30,
2011
 

North America

   $ 152,751       $ 140,241   

Asia-Pacific

     110,744         91,364   

Europe

     62,556         51,351   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
   $ 326,051       $ 282,956   
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total revenues are attributed to a particular geographic area based on the bill-to location of the customer. As of December 28, 2012, the Group had approximately $228 of long-lived assets based in North America, with the substantial remainder of assets based in Asia-Pacific.

 

15. Income (expense) related to flooding

The Company suspended production at all of its manufacturing facilities in Thailand from October 17, 2011 through November 14, 2011 because of severe flooding in Thailand. The Company never resumed, and has permanently ceased, production at its Chokchai facility. We Company has completed its assessment of the extent of damage to property, inventory and equipment, including consigned assets held by the Company on behalf of its customers, as well as the impact of business interruption to the Company. For the year ended June 29, 2012, the Company recognized expenses related to flooding of $ 97.2 million. Although the Company has completed its assessment and submitted its claims for losses, the Company expects that it will take additional time to reach final settlement with its insurers. Despite the Company’s diligent efforts to file and settle its claims, there are many reasons the claims are still pending more than one year after the flooding, including the extent of the losses and number of claims filed in Thailand, and the complicated nature of the Company’s claim, which includes owned and consigned property. The Company will continue to aggressively pursue its claims to achieve a timely resolution.

As of December 28, 2012, the Company has submitted claims to its insurers for business interruption losses attributable to the effects of flooding through the first quarter of fiscal 2013, as well as claims for owned and consigned inventory losses, owned and consigned equipment losses, and damage to its buildings at Pinehurst, which it owns, and Chokchai, which it leased. In the three months ended December 28, 2012, the Company received an interim payment of $4,825 from its insurers against the Company’s claims for owned equipment losses. In the six months ended December 28, 2012, the Company received an interim payment of $4,825 from its insurers against the Company’s claims for owned equipment losses, an interim payment of $4,741 against its claims for business interruption losses and a payment of $79 as full and final settlement of its claim for damage to its buildings at Pinehurst. The Company will continue to recognize insurance recoveries if and when they become realizable and probable.

A number of exclusions and limitations in the Company’s policies (such as coinsurance, facilities location sub-limits and policy covenants) may reduce the aggregate amount that the Company will ultimately recover for its losses from its insurers. In addition, the Company’s insurers could reject the valuation methodologies the Company has used to estimate its losses, in whole or in part, and apply different valuation methodologies, which could also reduce the Company’s

 

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aggregate recovery amount. However, based on the information that the Company has at this time, the Company believes that it will ultimately recover a majority of its losses. The Company further believes that, although the difference between its aggregate claims and its insurance recoveries may ultimately be material, this will not have a material and adverse effect on the Company’s financial condition or results of operation.

The Company continues to have discussions with its customers regarding their assessments of the damage to, and valuation of, the consigned assets that were under the Company’s care, custody and control at its Chokchai facility. In some cases, there may be material differences between the Company’s assessments and its customers’ assessments. There may also be differences of opinions regarding who bears responsibility for certain losses as a result of the flooding. The Company continues to review these differences with its customers and, depending on the outcome of these discussions, the Company may incur additional costs and expenses in connection with its customers’ recovery efforts.

In the three months ended September 28, 2012, the Company entered into a settlement agreement with one of its customers regarding the Company’s liability for the customer’s losses as a result of the flooding. Under the terms of the settlement agreement, the Company made an initial payment to such customer of $4,000 during the three months ended September 28, 2012.

In the three months ended December 28, 2012, the Company entered into a settlement agreement with another customer regarding the Company’s liability for the customer’s losses as a result of the flooding. Under the terms of the settlement agreement, the Company made an initial payment to such customer of $2,797 during the three months ended December 28, 2012.

The Company’s liability under the terms of the settlement agreements is consistent with the Company’s original estimate, and no further provision has been made.

 

16. Subsequent events

On December 31, 2012, the Company amended one of the settlement agreements that it had entered into with a customer during the three months ended September 28, 2012, as discussed in Note 15 (Income (expense) related to flooding). Pursuant to the amended settlement agreement, the Company transferred equipment purchased on behalf of the customer to the customer in the amount of $2,200 and reduced net accounts receivable from the customer by $2,000, resulting in a $4,200 reduction in the Company’s outstanding obligation to the customer under the terms of settlement agreement.

On December 31, 2012, the Company entered into a settlement agreement with another customer regarding the Company’s liability for the customer’s losses as a result of the flooding. Under the terms of the settlement agreement, the Company is obligated to make an initial payment to such customer of $1,263 during the three months ended March 29, 2013.

 

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ITEM 2. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

In addition to historical information, this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements relate to future events or to our future financial performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our or our industry’s actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements about:

 

   

our goals and strategies;

 

   

our and our customers’ estimates regarding future revenues, operating results, expenses, capital requirements and liquidity;

 

   

our expectation that an increasing portion of our revenues will come from the bill-to location outside of North America in the future;

 

   

our expectation that we will incur significant incremental costs of revenue as a result of our continued diversification into the industrial lasers and sensors markets and other end-markets outside of the optical communications market or our further development of customized optics and glass manufacturing capabilities;

 

   

our expectation that our fiscal 2013 SG&A expenses will increase on an absolute dollar basis and decrease as a percentage of revenue compared to fiscal 2012;

 

   

our expectation that our employee costs will increase in Thailand and the PRC;

 

   

our future capital expenditures and our needs for additional financing;

 

   

expansion of our manufacturing capacity, including into new geographies;

 

   

our expectation that we will incur incremental costs of revenue as a result of our planned expansion into new geographic markets;

 

   

the growth rates of our existing markets and potential new markets;

 

   

our ability and our customers’ and suppliers’ ability to respond successfully to technological or industry developments;

 

   

our suppliers’ estimates regarding future costs;

 

   

our ability to increase our penetration of existing markets and penetrate new markets;

 

   

our plans to diversify our sources of revenues;

 

   

trends in the optical communications, industrial lasers and sensors markets, including trends to outsource the production of components used in those markets;

 

   

our ability to attract and retain a qualified management team and other qualified personnel and advisors;

 

   

the impact that the October and November 2011 flooding in Thailand may continue to have on the industry and our business, results of operations and liquidity, including the expected costs and expenses that we will incur in connection with our recovery efforts and our ability to recover amounts from our insurance carriers; and

 

   

competition in our existing and new markets.

 

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These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those reflected in the forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those discussed in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and, in particular, the risks discussed under the heading “Risk Factors” in Part II, Item 1A of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and those discussed in other documents we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We undertake no obligation to revise or publicly release the results of any revision to these forward-looking statements. Given these risks and uncertainties, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements.

Overview

We provide advanced optical packaging and precision optical, electro-mechanical and electronic manufacturing services to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of complex products such as optical communication components, modules and sub-systems, industrial lasers and sensors. We offer a broad range of advanced optical and electro-mechanical capabilities across the entire manufacturing process, including process design and engineering, supply chain management, manufacturing, advanced packaging, integration, final assembly and test. Although, we focus primarily on low-volume production of a wide variety of high complexity products, which we refer to as “low-volume, high-mix”, we also have the capability to accommodate high-volume production. Based on our experience with, and feedback from, customers, we believe we are a global leader in providing these services to the optical communications, industrial lasers and sensors markets.

Our customer base includes companies in complex industries that require advanced precision manufacturing capabilities, such as optical communications, industrial lasers and sensors. The products that we manufacture for our OEM customers include: selective switching products; tunable transponders and transceivers; active optical cables; solid state, diode-pumped, gas and fiber lasers; and sensors. In many cases, we are the sole outsourced manufacturing partner used by our customers for the products that we produce for them.

We also design and fabricate application-specific crystals, prisms, mirrors, laser components, substrates and other custom and standard borosilicate, clear fused quartz, and synthetic fused silica glass products. We incorporate our customized optics and glass into many of the products we manufacture for our OEM customers, and we also sell customized optics and glass in the merchant market.

Thailand Flooding

We suspended production at all of our manufacturing facilities in Thailand from October 17, 2011 through November 14, 2011 because of severe flooding in Thailand. We never resumed, and have permanently ceased, production at our Chokchai facility. We have completed our assessment of the extent of damage to property, inventory and equipment, including consigned assets held by us on behalf of our customers, as well as the impact of business interruption to us. For the year ended June 29, 2012, we recognized expenses related to flooding of $ 97.2 million. Although we have completed our assessment and submitted our claims for losses, we expect that it will take additional time to reach final settlement with our insurers. Despite our diligent efforts to file and settle our claims, there are many reasons the claims are still pending more than one year after the flooding, including the extent of the losses and number of claims filed in Thailand, and the complicated nature of our claim, which includes owned and consigned property. We will continue to aggressively pursue our claims to achieve a timely resolution.

As of December 28, 2012, we have submitted claims to our insurers for business interruption losses attributable to the effects of flooding through the first quarter of fiscal 2013, as well as claims for owned and consigned inventory losses, owned and consigned equipment losses, and damage to our buildings at Pinehurst, which we own, and Chokchai, which we leased. In the three months ended December 28, 2012, we received an interim payment of $4.8 million from our insurers against our claims for owned equipment losses. In the six months ended December 28, 2012, we received an interim payment of $4.8 million from our insurers against our claims for owned equipment losses, an interim payment of $4.7 million against our claims for business interruption losses and a payment of $0.1 million as full and final settlement of our claim for damage to our buildings at Pinehurst. We will continue to recognize insurance recoveries if and when they become realizable and probable.

A number of exclusions and limitations in our policies (such as coinsurance, facilities location sub-limits and policy covenants) may reduce the aggregate amount that we will ultimately recover for our losses from our insurers. In addition, our insurers could reject the valuation methodologies we have used to estimate our losses, in whole or in part, and apply different

 

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valuation methodologies, which could also reduce our aggregate recovery amount. However, based on the information that we have at this time, we believe that we will ultimately recover a majority of our losses. We further believe that, although the difference between our aggregate claims and our insurance recoveries may ultimately be material, this will not have a material and adverse effect on our financial condition or results of operation.

We continue to have discussions with our customers regarding their assessments of the damage to, and valuation of, the consigned assets that were under our care, custody and control at our Chokchai facility. In some cases, there may be material differences between our assessments and our customers’ assessments. There may also be differences of opinions regarding who bears responsibility for certain losses as a result of the flooding. We continue to review these differences with our customers and, depending on the outcome of these discussions, we may incur additional costs and expenses in connection with our customers’ recovery efforts.

In the three months ended September 28, 2012, we entered into a settlement agreement with one of our customers regarding our liability for the customer’s losses as a result of the flooding. Under the terms of the settlement agreement, we made an initial payment to such customer of $4.0 million during the six months ended December 28, 2012. On December 31, 2012, we amended the settlement agreement with such customer. Pursuant to the amended settlement agreement, we transferred equipment purchased on behalf of the customer to the customer in the amount of $2.2 million and reduced net accounts receivable from the customer by $2.0 million, resulting in a $4.2 million reduction in the Company’s outstanding obligation to the customer under the terms of the settlement agreement.

In the three months ended December 28, 2012, we entered into a settlement agreement with another customer regarding our liability for such customer’s losses as a result of the flooding. Under the terms of the settlement agreement, we made an initial payment to such customer of approximately $2.8 million during the three months ended December 28, 2012.

Our liability under the terms of the settlement agreements is consistent with our original estimate, and no further provision has been made.

Revenues

Our total revenues increased by $70.8 million, or 73.3%, to $167.4 million for the three months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to $96.6 million for the three months ended December 30, 2011. This increase was primarily due to an increase in sales volume resulting from restoration of our operations, which had been temporarily suspended during the three months ended December 30, 2011 due to the October and November 2011 flooding in Thailand. Our total revenues increased by $43.1 million, or 15.2%, to $326.1 million for the six months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to $283.0 million for the six months ended December 30, 2011. This increase was primarily due to an increase in sales volume resulting from restoration of our operations, which had been temporarily suspended during the three months ended December 30, 2011 due to the October and November 2011 flooding in Thailand. We generated substantially all of our total revenues during the three and six months ended December 28, 2012 from the optical communications, industrial lasers, sensors and other markets.

We believe our ability to expand our relationships with existing customers and attract new customers is due to a number of factors, including our broad range of complex engineering and manufacturing service offerings, flexible low-cost manufacturing platform, process optimization capabilities, advanced supply chain management, excellent customer service and experienced management team. We expect the prices we charge for the products we manufacture for our customers to decrease over time due in part to competitive market forces. However, we believe we will be able to maintain favorable pricing for our services due to our ability to reduce cycle time, adjust our product mix by focusing on more complicated products, improve product quality and yields, and reduce material costs for the products we manufacture. We believe these capabilities have enabled us to help our OEM customers reduce their manufacturing costs while maintaining or improving the design, quality, reliability and delivery times for their products.

Revenues by Geography

We generate revenues from three geographic regions: North America, Asia-Pacific and Europe. Revenues are attributed to a particular geographic area based on the bill-to location of our customers, notwithstanding that our customers may ultimately ship their products to end customers in a different geographic region. Virtually all of our revenues are derived from our manufacturing facilities in Asia-Pacific.

 

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The percentage of our revenues generated from the bill-to location outside of North America increased from 50.4% in the six months ended December 30, 2011 to 53.2% in the six months ended December 28, 2012, primarily as a result of an increase in sales volume attributable to our customers in regions outside of North America after recovering from the October and November 2011 flooding in Thailand. We expect that an increasing portion of our revenues will come from the bill-to location outside of North America in the future.

The following table presents total revenues, by percentage, by geographic regions:

 

     Three Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
     December 28,
2012
    December 30,
2011
    December 28,
2012
    December 30,
2011
 

North America

     48.8     50.9     46.8     49.6

Asia-Pacific

     33.1        33.2        34.0        32.3   

Europe

     18.1        15.9        19.2        18.1   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 
     100.0     100.0     100.0     100.0
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Our Contracts

We enter into supply agreements with our customers that generally have an initial term of up to three years, subject to automatic renewals for subsequent one-year terms unless expressly terminated. Although there are no minimum purchase requirements in our supply agreements, our customers do provide us with rolling forecasts of their demand requirements. Our supply agreements generally include provisions for pricing and periodic review of pricing, consignment of our customer’s unique production equipment to us and the sharing of benefits from cost-savings derived from our efforts. We are generally required to purchase materials, which may include long lead-time materials and materials that are subject to minimum order quantities and/or non-cancelable or non-returnable terms, to meet the stated demands of our customers. After procuring materials, we manufacture products for our customers based on purchase orders that contain terms regarding product quantities, delivery locations and delivery dates. Our customers generally are obligated to purchase finished goods that we have manufactured according to their demand requirements. Materials that are not consumed by our customers within a specified period of time, or are no longer required due to a product’s cancellation or end-of-life, are typically designated as excess or obsolete inventory under our contracts. Once materials are designated as either excess or obsolete inventory, our customers are typically required to purchase such inventory from us even if they have chosen to cancel production of the related products.

Cost of Revenues

The key components of our cost of revenues are material costs, employee costs, and infrastructure-related costs. Material costs generally represent the majority of our cost of revenues. Several of the materials we require to manufacture products for our customers are customized for their products and, in many instances, sourced from a single supplier, or in some cases our own subsidiaries. Shortages from sole-source suppliers due to yield loss, quality concerns and capacity constraints, among other factors, may increase our expenses and negatively impact our gross profit margin or total revenues in a given quarter. Material costs include scrap material. Historically, our rate of scrap diminishes during a product’s life cycle due to process, fixturing and test improvement and optimization.

A second significant element of our cost of revenues is employee costs, including: indirect employee costs related to design, configuration and optimization of manufacturing processes for our customers, quality testing, materials testing and other engineering services; and direct costs related to our manufacturing employees. Direct employee costs include employee salaries, insurance and benefits, merit-based bonuses, recruitment, training and retention. Historically, our employee costs have increased primarily due to increases in the number of employees necessary to support our growth and, to a lesser extent, costs to recruit, train and retain employees. Salary levels in Thailand and the PRC, the fluctuation of the Thai baht and RMB against our functional currency, the U.S. dollar, and our ability to retain our employees significantly impact our cost of revenues. We expect our employee costs to increase as wages continue to increase in Thailand and the PRC. For example, effective April 1, 2012, the Thai government increased minimum daily wages from 215 Thai baht to 300 Thai baht. Wage increases may impact our ability to sustain our competitive advantage and may reduce our profit margin. We seek to mitigate these cost increases through improvements in employee productivity, employee retention and asset utilization.

 

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Our infrastructure costs are comprised of depreciation, utilities, and facilities management and overhead costs. Most of our facility leases are long-term agreements. Our depreciation costs are comprised of buildings and fixed assets, primarily at our Pinehurst Campus in Thailand, and capital equipment located at each of our manufacturing locations.

Charges included in cost of revenues for bonus distributions to non-executive employees were $0.5 million and $0.6 million for the three months ended December 28, 2012 and December 30, 2011, respectively, and $1.0 million and $1.1 million for the six months ended December 28, 2012 and December 30, 2011, respectively.

Share-based compensation expense included in cost of revenues was $0.3 million and $0.5 million and for the three months ended December 28, 2012 and December 30, 2011, respectively, and $0.6 million and $0.9 million and for the six months ended December 28, 2012 and December 30, 2011, respectively.

We expect to incur significant incremental costs of revenue as a result of our continued diversification into the industrial lasers and sensors markets and other end-markets outside of the optical communications market or our further development of customized optics and glass manufacturing capabilities. We also expect to incur incremental costs of revenue as a result of our planned expansion into new geographic markets, though we are not able to determine the amount of these incremental expenses.

Selling, General and Administrative Expenses

Our selling, general and administrative expenses, or SG&A expenses, primarily consist of corporate employee costs for sales and marketing, general and administrative and other support personnel, including research and development expenses related to the design of customized optics and glass, travel expenses, legal and other professional fees, share-based compensation expense, and other general expenses not related to cost of revenues. In fiscal 2013, we expect our SG&A expenses to increase on an absolute dollar basis and decrease as a percentage of revenue compared to fiscal 2012.

The compensation committee of our board of directors has approved a fiscal 2013 executive incentive plan with quantitative objectives, based on achieving certain revenue and earnings per share milestones for our fiscal year ending June 28, 2013. Bonuses under our fiscal 2013 executive incentive plan are payable after the end of fiscal 2013. We did not maintain an executive incentive plan for fiscal 2012. However, discretionary merit-based bonus awards were available to our non-executive employees during the three and six months ended December 28, 2012 and December 30, 2011.

Charges included in SG&A expenses for bonus distributions to non-executive and executive employees were $0.1 million and $(0.5) million for the three months ended December 28, 2012 and December 30, 2011, respectively, and $0.6 million and $0.1 million for the six months ended December 28, 2012 and December 30, 2011, respectively. Charges included in SG&A expenses for bonus distributions to non-executive and executive employees during the three and six months ended December 30, 2011 were lower, as compared to the three and six months ended December 28, 2012, due to the reversal of accrued executive bonuses of $0.6 million during the three and six months ended December 30, 2011.

Share-based compensation expense included in SG&A expenses was $1.1 million and $1.1 million for the three months ended December 28, 2012 and December 30, 2011, respectively, and $2.0 million and $1.7 million for the six months ended December 28, 2012 and December 30, 2011, respectively.

Other than incremental costs associated with growing our business generally, we do not expect to incur material incremental SG&A expenses as a result of our planned expansion into new geographic markets, our continued diversification into the industrial lasers and sensors markets and other end-markets outside of the optical communications market or our further development of customized optics and glass manufacturing capabilities.

Additional Financial Disclosures

Foreign Exchange

As a result of our international operations, we are exposed to foreign exchange risk arising from various currency exposures primarily with respect to the Thai baht. Although a majority of our total revenues is denominated in U.S. dollars, a substantial portion of our payroll as well as certain other operating expenses are incurred and paid in Thai baht. The exchange rates between the Thai baht and the U.S. dollar have fluctuated substantially in recent years and may continue to fluctuate

 

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substantially in the future. We report our financial results in U.S. dollars and our results of operations have been and may continue to be negatively impacted due to Thai baht appreciation against the U.S. dollar. Smaller portions of our expenses are incurred in a variety of other currencies, including RMB, Canadian dollars, Euros and Japanese yen, the appreciation of which may also negatively impact our financial results.

In addition, we are exposed to foreign exchange risk in connection with the credit facility and cross currency swap arrangements we entered into with TMB Bank Public Company Limited (the “Bank”) in May 2011 for the construction of Pinehurst Building 6. The terms of the contract with the Bank provide the following facilities: (1) a term loan facility for up to Thai baht 960 million (equal to $30.0 million) with a fixed interest rate of 5.28% per annum, (2) a hedging facility for currency interest rate swaps with a notional amount of $30.0 million, and (3) a settlement limit of Thai baht 65 million, subject to certain terms and conditions as set forth therein. As of March 30, 2012, we had drawn down the entire $30.0 million available under the term loan facility. Borrowings and interest under the term loan are scheduled to be repaid on a quarterly basis between June 2012 and March 2017. As of December 28, 2012, we had outstanding borrowings under the term loan facility of $25.5 million. Under the terms of the cross currency swap arrangement, all amounts drawn down in Thai baht were converted to U.S. dollars for repayment by us on a quarterly basis at the floating rate of 3-month U.S. LIBOR plus 2.8% per annum.

In order to manage the risks arising from fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates, we use derivative financial instruments. We may enter into short-term forward foreign currency contracts to help manage currency exposures associated with certain assets and liabilities, primarily short-term obligations. The forward exchange contracts have generally ranged from one to six months in original maturity, and no forward exchange contract has had an original maturity greater than one year. All foreign currency exchange contracts are recognized on the balance sheet at fair value. As we do not apply hedge accounting to these instruments, the derivatives are recorded at fair value through earnings. The gains and losses on our forward contracts generally offset losses and gains on the assets, liabilities and transactions economically hedged and, accordingly, generally do not subject us to the risk of significant accounting losses.

As of December 28, 2012 and June 29, 2012, we had outstanding foreign currency assets and liabilities in Thai baht and RMB as follows:

 

     December 28, 2012      June 29, 2012  
     Currency      $      %      Currency      $      %  
     (in thousands, except percentages)  

Assets

                 

Thai baht

     610,952         19,946         50.3         526,487         16,541         50.4   

RMB

     124,047         19,723         49.7         103,014         16,287         49.6   
     

 

 

    

 

 

       

 

 

    

 

 

 
        39,669         100.0            32,828         100.0   
     

 

 

    

 

 

       

 

 

    

 

 

 

Liabilities

                 

Thai baht

     562,345         18,359         87.1         732,502         23,013         87.0   

RMB

     17,073         2,714         12.9         21,752         3,439         13.0   
     

 

 

    

 

 

       

 

 

    

 

 

 
        21,073         100.0            26,452         100.0   
     

 

 

    

 

 

       

 

 

    

 

 

 

The Thai baht assets represent cash and cash equivalents, trade accounts receivable, deposits and other current assets. The Thai baht liabilities represent trade accounts payable, accrued expenses and other payables. We manage our exposure to fluctuations in foreign exchange rates by the use of foreign currency contracts and offsetting assets and liabilities denominated in the same currency in accordance with management’s policy. As of December 28, 2012 and June 29, 2012, there was $30.0 million in selling forward contracts outstanding on the Thai baht payables.

The RMB assets represent cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable and other current assets. The RMB liabilities represent trade accounts payable, accrued expenses and other payables. As of December 28, 2012 and June 29, 2012, we did not have any selling RMB to U.S. dollar forward contracts.

As of December 28, 2012, unrealized gain from fair market value of derivatives amounted to $33,000. As of June 29, 2012 unrealized losses from fair market value of derivatives amounted to $162,000.

 

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Currency Regulation and Dividend Distribution

Foreign exchange regulation in the PRC is primarily governed by the following rules:

 

   

Foreign Currency Administration Rules, as amended on August 5, 2008, or the Exchange Rules;

 

   

Administration Rules of the Settlement, Sale and Payment of Foreign Exchange (1996), or the Administration Rules; and

 

   

Notice on Perfecting Practices Concerning Foreign Exchange Settlement Regarding the Capital Contribution by Foreign-invested Enterprises, as promulgated by the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, or SAFE, on August 29, 2008, or Circular 142.

Under the Exchange Rules, RMB is freely convertible into foreign currencies for current account items, including the distribution of dividends, interest payments, trade and service-related foreign exchange transactions. However, conversion of RMB for capital account items, such as direct investments, loans, security investments and repatriation of investments, is still subject to the approval of SAFE.

Under the Administration Rules, foreign-invested enterprises may only buy, sell or remit foreign currencies at banks authorized to conduct foreign exchange business after providing valid commercial documents and relevant supporting documents and, in the case of capital account item transactions, obtaining approval from SAFE. Capital investments by foreign-invested enterprises outside of the PRC are also subject to limitations, which include approvals by the Ministry of Commerce, SAFE and the State Development and Reform Commission.

Circular 142 regulates the conversion by a foreign-invested company of foreign currency into RMB by restricting how the converted RMB may be used. Circular 142 requires that the registered capital of a foreign-invested enterprise settled in RMB converted from foreign currencies may only be used for purposes within the business scope approved by the applicable governmental authority and may not be used for equity investments within the PRC. In addition, SAFE strengthened its oversight of the flow and use of the registered capital of foreign-invested enterprises settled in RMB converted from foreign currencies. The use of such RMB capital may not be changed without SAFE’s approval and may not be used to repay RMB loans if the proceeds of such loans have not been used.

On January 5, 2007, SAFE promulgated the Detailed Rules for Implementing the Measures for the Administration on Individual Foreign Exchange, or the Implementation Rules. Under the Implementation Rules, PRC citizens who are granted share options by an overseas publicly-listed company are required, through a PRC agent or PRC subsidiary of such overseas publicly-listed company, to register with SAFE and complete certain other procedures.

In addition, the General Administration of Taxation has issued circulars concerning employee share options. Under these circulars, our employees working in the PRC who exercise share options will be subject to PRC individual income tax. Our PRC subsidiary has obligations to file documents related to employee share options with relevant tax authorities and withhold individual income taxes of those employees who exercise their share options.

In addition, our transfer of funds to our subsidiaries in Thailand and the PRC are each subject to approval by governmental authorities in case of an increase in registered capital, or subject to registration with governmental authorities in case of a shareholder loan. These limitations on the flow of funds between us and our subsidiaries could restrict our ability to act in response to changing market conditions.

Income Tax

Our effective tax rate is a function of the mix of tax rates in the various jurisdictions in which we do business. We are domiciled in the Cayman Islands. Under the current laws of the Cayman Islands, we are not subject to tax in the Cayman Islands on income or capital gains. We have received this undertaking for a 20-year period ending August 24, 2019, and after the expiration date, we may request a renewal with the office of the Clerk of the Cabinet for another twenty years.

Throughout the period of our operations in Thailand, we have generally received income tax and other incentives from the Thailand Board of Investment. Preferential tax treatment from the Thai government in the form of a corporate tax exemption is currently available to us from July 2010 through June 2015 on income generated from the manufacture of products at Pinehurst Building 5, and from July 2012 through June 2020 on income generated from the manufacture of

 

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products at Pinehurst Building 6. Such preferential tax treatment is contingent on, among other things, the export of our customers’ products out of Thailand and our agreement not to move our manufacturing facilities out of our current province in Thailand for at least 15 years. In addition, in December 2011, the Thailand Revenue Department announced a reduction in corporate income tax rates for tax periods beginning on or after January 1, 2012. As a result of the announcement, corporate income tax rates for our Thai subsidiary will be reduced from 30% in fiscal 2012 to 23%, 20% and 20% in fiscal 2013, fiscal 2014 and fiscal 2015, respectively.

Our subsidiary in China has been granted a tax privilege to reduce its corporate income tax rate from 25% to 15%. This privilege is retroactive to January 1, 2011 and valid until December 31, 2013, subject to renewal at the end of each three-year period.

Critical Accounting Policies and Use of Estimates

We prepare our condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP, which requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, disclosure of contingent liabilities on the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the financial reporting period. We continually evaluate these estimates and assumptions based on the most recently available information, our own historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Because the use of estimates is an integral component of the financial reporting process, actual results could differ from those estimates. Some of our accounting policies require higher degrees of judgment than others in their application. We consider the policies discussed below to be critical to an understanding of our condensed consolidated financial statements as their application places the most significant demands on our management’s judgment.

Our critical accounting policies are disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 29, 2012. There were no material changes to our critical accounting policies during the three and six months ended December 28, 2012.

Results of Operations

The following table sets forth a summary of our unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations. We believe that period-to-period comparisons of operating results should not be relied upon as indicative of future performance.

 

     Three Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
     December 28,
2012
    December 30,
2011
    December 28,
2012
    December 30,
2011
 
     (in thousands)  

Revenues

   $ 167,426      $ 96,609      $ 326,051      $ 282,956   

Cost of revenues

     (149,056     (87,680     (289,959     (251,143
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Gross profit

     18,370        8,929        36,092        31,813   

Selling, general and administrative expenses

     (5,787     (5,319     (11,646     (11,957

Income (expense) related to flooding

     4,825        (40,265     9,645        (40,265
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Operating income (loss)

     17,408        (36,655     34,091        (20,409

Interest income

     271        224        459        419   

Interest expense

     (263     (68     (549     (142

Foreign exchange (loss) gain, net

     (170     787        107        600   

Other income

     183        59        373        156   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Income (loss) before income taxes

     17,429        (35,653     34,481        (19,376

Income tax (expense) benefit

     (747     2,399        (1,780     1,777   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net income (loss)

   $ 16,682      $ (33,254   $ 32,701      $ (17,599
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

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The following table sets forth a summary of our unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations as a percentage of total revenues for the periods indicated.

 

     Three Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
     December 28,
2012
    December 30,
2011
    December 28,
2012
    December 30,
2011
 
     (in thousands)  

Revenues

     100.0     100.0     100.0     100.0

Cost of revenues

     (89.0     (90.8     (88.9     (88.8
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Gross profit

     11.0        9.2        11.1        11.2   

Selling, general and administrative expenses

     (3.5     (5.5     (3.6     (4.2

Income (expense) related to flooding

     2.9        (41.6     3.0        (14.2
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Operating income (loss)

     10.4        (37.9     10.5        (7.2

Interest income

     0.2        0.2        0.1        0.2   

Interest expense

     (0.2     (0.1     (0.2     —     

Foreign exchange (loss) gain, net

     (0.1     0.8        —          0.2   

Other income

     0.1        0.1        0.1        —     
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Income (loss) before income taxes

     10.4        (36.9     10.6        (6.8

Income tax (expense) benefit

     (0.4     2.5        (0.5     0.6   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net income (loss)

     10.0     (34.4 )%      10.0     (6.2 )% 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

The following table sets forth our revenues by end market for the periods indicated.

 

     Three Months Ended      Six Months Ended  
     December 28,
2012
     December 30,
2011
     December 28,
2012
     December 30,
2011
 
     (in thousands)  

Optical communications

   $ 119,912       $ 68,352       $ 229,501       $ 205,843   

Lasers, sensors and other

     47,514         28,257         96,550         77,113   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

   $ 167,426       $ 96,609       $ 326,051       $ 282,956   
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

We operate and internally manage a single operating segment. As such, discrete information with respect to separate product lines and segments is not accumulated.

Comparison of Three and Six Months Ended December 28, 2012 to Three and Six Months Ended December 30, 2011

Total revenues

Our total revenues increased by $70.8 million, or 73.3%, to $167.4 million for the three months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to $96.6 million for the three months ended December 30, 2011. This increase was primarily due to an increase in sales volume resulting from restoration of our operations, which had been temporarily suspended during the three months ended December 30, 2011 due to the October and November 2011 flooding in Thailand. Revenues from optical communications products represented 71.6% of our total revenues for the three months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to 66.7% for the three months ended December 30, 2011.

Our total revenues increased by $43.1 million, or 15.2%, to $326.1 million for the six months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to $283.0 million for the six months ended December 30, 2011. This increase was primarily due to an increase in sales volume resulting from restoration of our operations, which had been temporarily suspended during the three months ended December 30, 2011 due to the October and November 2011 flooding in Thailand. Revenues from optical communications products represented 70.4% of our total revenues for the six months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to 70.0% for the six months ended December 30, 2011.

 

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Cost of revenues

Our cost of revenues increased by $61.4 million, or 70.0%, to $149.1 million, or 89.0% of total revenues, for the three months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to $87.7 million, or 90.8% of total revenues, for the three months ended December 30, 2011. The increase in absolute dollars was primarily due to an increase in revenues. Cost of revenues also included share-based compensation expense of $0.3 million for the three months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to $0.5 million for the three months ended December 30, 2011.

Our cost of revenues increased by $38.8 million, or 15.5%, to $290.0 million, or 88.9% of total revenues, for the six months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to $251.1 million, or 88.8% of total revenues, for the six months ended December 30, 2011. The increase in absolute dollars was primarily in connection with an increase in revenues resulting from restoration of our operations after the October and November 2011 flooding in Thailand. Cost of revenues also included share-based compensation expense of $0.6 million for the six months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to $0.9 million for the six months ended December 30, 2011.

Gross profit

Our gross profit increased by $9.4 million, or 105.7%, to $18.4 million, or 11.0% of total revenues, for the three months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to $8.9 million, or 9.2% of total revenues, for the three months ended December 30, 2011. Our gross profit increased by $4.3 million, or 13.5%, to $36.1 million, or 11.1% of total revenues, for the six months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to $31.8 million, or 11.2% of total revenues, for the six months ended December 30, 2011.

The increase in gross profit margin during the three and six months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to the three and six months ended December 30, 2011, was primarily related to an increase in revenues resulting from restoration of our operations, which had been temporarily suspended during the three months ended December 30, 2011 due to the October and November 2011 flooding in Thailand, during which time our revenues decreased significantly while we continued to incur fixed costs.

SG&A expenses

Our SG&A expenses increased by $0.5 million, or 8.8%, to $5.8 million, or 3.5% of total revenues, for the three months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to $5.3 million, or 5.5% of total revenues, for the three months ended December 30, 2011. Our SG&A expenses increased in absolute dollars during the three months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to the three months ended December 30, 2011, due primarily to the recognition of accrued executive bonuses of approximately $0.1 million during the three months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to the reversal of accrued executive bonuses of approximately $0.6 million during the three months ended December 30, 2011. We also recorded share-based compensation charges of $1.1 million for the three months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to $1.1 million for the three months ended December 30, 2011.

Our SG&A expenses decreased by $0.3 million, or 2.6%, to $11.6 million, or 3.6% of total revenues, for the six months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to $12.0 million, or 4.2% of total revenues, for the six months ended December 30, 2011. Our SG&A expenses decreased in absolute dollars during the six months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to the six months ended December 30, 2011, due primarily to a decrease in business development and research and development expenditures during the six months ended December 28, 2012. We also recorded share-based compensation charges of $2.0 million for the six months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to $1.7 million for the six months ended December 30, 2011.

Income (expense) related to flooding

In the three months ended December 28, 2012, we recognized $4.8 million of income related to flooding, which consisted of an interim payment from our insurers of $4.8 million against our claims for owned equipment losses due to the October and November 2011 flooding in Thailand. In the six months ended December 28, 2012, we recognized $9.6 million of income related to flooding, which consisted of an interim payment from our insurers of $4.8 million against our claims for owned equipment losses, an interim payment of $4.7 million against our claims for business interruption losses and a payment of $0.1 million in full and final settlement of our claim for damage to our buildings at Pinehurst.

 

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In the three and six months ended December 30, 2011, we recognized $40.3 million in expenses related to flooding, which mainly consisted of owned and consigned inventory losses of $26.2 million, owned equipment losses of $4.6 million, damage to our leased building at Chokchai of $2.4 million, and other flood-related expenses of $7.1 million.

Operating income (loss)

Our operating income increased by $54.1 million to $17.4 million, or 10.4% of total revenues, for the three months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to an operating loss of $(36.7) million, or (37.9)% of total revenues, for the three months ended December 30, 2011.

Our operating income increased by $54.5 million to $34.1 million, or 10.5% of total revenues, for the six months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to an operating loss of $(20.4) million, or (7.2)% of total revenues, for the six months ended December 30, 2011.

Interest income

Our interest income increased by $47,000 to $271,000 for the three months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to $224,000 for the three months ended December 30, 2011. Our interest income increased by $40,000 to $459,000 for the six months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to $419,000 for the six months ended December 30, 2011. These increases were due to increases in cash and cash equivalent balances and an increase in interest rates.

Interest expense

Our interest expense increased by $195,000 to $263,000 for the three months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to $68,000 for the three months ended December 30, 2011. Our interest expense increased by $407,000 to $549,000 for the six months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to $142,000 for the six months ended December 30, 2011. These increases were due to increases in interest rates as well as increases in our long-term loan balances and the cessation of capitalizing interest on Building 6 costs after completing construction in April 2012.

Income (loss) before income taxes

We recorded income before income taxes of $17.4 million and $34.5 million for the three and six months ended December 28, 2012, respectively, as compared to loss before income taxes of $(35.7) million and $(19.4) million for the three and six months ended December 30, 2011, respectively.

Income tax (expense) benefit

Our provision for income tax reflects an effective tax rate of 4.3% for the three months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to an effective tax rate of (6.7)% (tax benefit) for the three months ended December 30, 2011. The increase in effective tax rate for the three months ended December 28, 2012 was due to the fact that the Group had net income from operations during that period, as compared to the three months ended December 30, 2011, when the Group experienced a net loss.

Our provision for income tax reflects an effective tax rate of 5.2% for the six months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to an effective tax rate of (9.2)% (tax benefit) for the six months ended December 30, 2011. The increase in effective tax rate for the six months ended December 28, 2012 was due to the fact that the Group had net income from operations during that period, as compared to the six months ended December 30, 2011, when the Group experienced a net loss.

Net income (loss)

We recorded net income of $16.7 million, or 10.0% of total revenues, for the three months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to a net loss of $(33.3) million, or (34.4)% of total revenues, for the three months ended December 30, 2011.

 

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We recorded net income of $32.7 million, or 10.0% of total revenues, for the six months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to a net loss of $(17.6) million, or (6.2)% of total revenues, for the six months ended December 30, 2011.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Cash Flows and Working Capital

To date, we have primarily financed our operations through cash flow from operations, drawdowns under our commercial loans, and the sale of ordinary shares in our initial public offering in June 2010. As of December 28, 2012, we had approximately $128.1 million in cash and cash equivalents and approximately $33.7 million of outstanding debt. As of December 30, 2011, we had approximately $112.1 million in cash and cash equivalents and approximately $29.9 million of outstanding debt.

Our cash and cash equivalents primarily consist of cash on hand, demand deposits and liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less which are placed with banks and other financial institutions. The weighted average interest rate on our cash and cash equivalents was 1.0% and 0.9%, respectively, for the three and six months ended December 28, 2012, respectively, and 0.7% and 0.6% for the three and six months ended December 30, 2011, respectively.

We expect that our cash position will continue to be impacted by expenditures related to recovery from the flooding of our facilities in Thailand and lost revenue. We have incurred, and expect to continue to incur, certain charges and expenses related to the flooding, some of which will be cash charges and expenses, such as those described in Note 15 to the Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements. We also have to pay significantly more for our current property and casualty insurance for our operations in Thailand (See Note 15 to the Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements). We have submitted claims to our insurers for business interruption losses attributable to the effects of flooding through the first quarter of fiscal 2013, as well as claims for owned and consigned inventory losses, owned and consigned equipment losses, and damage to our buildings at Pinehurst, which we own, and Chokchai, which we leased. In the six months ended December 28, 2012, we recognized $9.6 million of income related to flooding, which consisted of an interim payment from our insurers of $4.8 million against our claims for owned equipment losses, an interim payment of $4.7 million against our claims for business interruption losses, and a payment of $0.1 million in full and final settlement of our claim for damage to our buildings at Pinehurst. We will continue to recognize insurance recoveries if and when they become realizable and probable.

A number of exclusions and limitations in our policies (such as coinsurance, facilities location sub-limits and policy covenants) may reduce the aggregate amount that we will ultimately recover for our losses from our insurers. In addition, our insurers could reject the valuation methodologies we have used to estimate our losses, in whole or in part, and apply different valuation methodologies, which could also reduce our aggregate recovery amount. However, based on the information that we have at this time, we believe that we will ultimately recover a majority of our losses. We further believe that, although the difference between our aggregate claims and our insurance recoveries may ultimately be material, this will not have a material and adverse effect on our financial condition or results of operation.

We continue to have discussions with our customers regarding their assessments of the damage to, and valuation of, consigned inventory and assets that were under our care, custody and control at our Chokchai facility. In some cases, there may be material differences between our assessments and our customers’ assessments. There may also be differences of opinion regarding who bears responsibility for certain losses as a result of the flooding. We continue to review these differences with our customers and, depending on the outcome of these discussions, we may incur additional costs and expenses in connection with our customers’ recovery efforts.

In the three months ended September 28, 2012, we entered into a settlement agreement with one of our customers regarding our liability for the customer’s losses as a result of the flooding. Under the terms of the settlement agreement, we made an initial payment to such customer of $4.0 million during the six months ended December 28, 2012. On December 31, 2012, we amended the settlement agreement with such customer. Pursuant to the amended settlement agreement, we transferred equipment purchased on behalf of the customer to the customer in the amount of $2.2 million and reduced net accounts receivable from the customer by $2.0 million, resulting in a $4.2 million reduction in the Company’s outstanding obligation to the customer under the terms of the settlement agreement.

 

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In the three months ended December 28, 2012, we entered into a settlement agreement with another customer regarding our liability for such customer’s losses as a result of the flooding. Under the terms of the settlement agreement, we made an initial payment to such customer of approximately $2.8 million during the three months ended December 28, 2012.

Our liability under the terms of the settlement agreements is consistent with our original estimate, and no further provision has been made.

In addition, the impact of the flooding may continue to affect some of our customers’ ability to pay us amounts that they owe us, which could materially impact the timing of the realization of our receivables. Therefore, because of the uncertainty of the timing of these recoveries, the potential impact to our receivables and the fact that we could be required to use significant amounts of our cash to pay for flood-related expenses and losses before we receive any proceeds from our insurers, our liquidity and capital resources could be materially and adversely affected by such cash outlays unless and until we are able to collect on these recoveries from our insurers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we believe that our current cash and cash equivalents, and cash flow from operations will be sufficient to meet our working capital and capital expenditure needs for the next 12 months. Our ability to sustain our working capital position is subject to a number of risks that we discuss in Part II, Item 1A of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

In June 2010, we entered into an agreement to purchase land in Thailand for the construction of Pinehurst Building 6. The land purchase was completed in August 2010 and construction of Building 6 was completed in April 2012. We believe that our current manufacturing capacity is sufficient to meet anticipated production requirements for the next few years. We maintain a long-term credit facility associated with construction of production facilities at our Pinehurst campus in Thailand that will come due within the next 51 months. We anticipate that our internally generated working capital, along with our cash and cash equivalents will be adequate to repay this obligation.

The following table shows our net cash provided by (used in) operating activities, net cash used in investing activities and net cash (used in) provided by financing activities for the periods indicated:

 

     Six Months Ended  
     December 28,
2012
    December 30,
2011
 
     (in thousands)  

Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities

   $ 17,932      $ (9,411

Net cash used in investing activities

     (1,180     (20,076

Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities

     (4,677     14,175   

Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents

     12,075        (15,312

Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period

     115,507        127,282   

Cash and cash equivalents, end of period

     128,098        112,078   

Operating Activities

Net cash provided by operating activities increased by $27.3 million, or 290.5%, to $17.9 million for the six months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to net cash used in operating activities of $(9.4) million for the six months ended December 30, 2011. This increase was primarily due to an increase in net income from operations, offset by a decrease of $6.8 million in liabilities to third parties due to flood losses.

Investing Activities

Net cash used in investing activities decreased by $18.9 million, or 94.1%, to $1.2 million for the six months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to $20.1 million for the six months ended December 30, 2011. The decrease in net cash used in investing activities was primarily due to a decrease in payments for construction of Pinehurst Building 6, which was completed in April 2012, and the receipt of $4.9 million of proceeds from insurers against claims related to flood damage to owned equipment and our buildings at Pinehurst.

 

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Financing Activities

Net cash used in financing activities increased by $18.9 million, or 133.0%, to $4.7 million for the six months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to net cash provided by financing activities of $14.2 million for the six months ended December 30, 2011. This increase in net cash used in financing activities was primarily due to scheduled repayments of long-term loans for Pinehurst Building 5 and Building 6 and no new draw downs during the six months ended December 28, 2012, as compared to a draw down of $16.0 million in the six months ended December 30, 2011 for construction of Pinehurst Building 6.

Off-Balance Sheet Commitments and Arrangements

We have not entered into any financial guarantees or other commitments to guarantee the payment obligations of any third parties. In addition, we have not entered into any derivative contracts that are not reflected in our condensed consolidated financial statements. Furthermore, we do not have any retained or contingent interest in assets transferred to an unconsolidated entity that serves as credit, liquidity or market risk support to such entity. We also do not have any variable interest in any unconsolidated entity that provides financing, liquidity, market risk or credit support to us or engages in leasing, hedging or research and development services with us.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

See Note 2 of Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for recent accounting pronouncements that could have an effect on us.

ITEM 3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK

Interest Rate Risk

We had cash and cash equivalents totaling $128.1 million and $115.5 million as of December 28, 2012 and June 29, 2012, respectively. Our exposure to interest rate risk primarily relates to the interest income generated by excess cash invested in highly liquid investments with maturities of three months or less from the original dates of purchase. The cash and cash equivalents are held for working capital purposes. We have not used derivative financial instruments in our investment portfolio. We have not been exposed nor do we anticipate being exposed to material risks due to changes in market interest rates. Declines in interest rates, however, will reduce future investment income. If overall interest rates had declined by 10 basis points during the six months ended December 28, 2012 and December 30, 2011, our interest income would have decreased by approximately $0.06 million and $0.05 million, respectively, assuming consistent investment levels.

Interest rate risk also refers to our exposure to movements in interest rates associated with our interest bearing liabilities. The interest bearing liabilities are denominated in U.S. dollars and the interest expense is based on the Singapore Inter-Bank Offered Rate, or SIBOR, and the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate, or LIBOR, plus an additional margin, depending on the lending institution. If the SIBOR and the LIBOR had increased by 100 basis points during the six months ended December 28, 2012 and December 30, 2011, our interest expense would have increased by approximately $0.17 million and $0.15 million, respectively, assuming consistent borrowing levels.

Foreign Currency Risk

As a result of our foreign operations, we have significant expenses, assets and liabilities that are denominated in foreign currencies. Substantially all of our employees and most of our facilities are located in Thailand and the PRC. Therefore, a substantial portion of our payroll as well as certain other operating expenses are paid in Thai baht or RMB. The significant majority of our revenues are denominated in U.S. dollars because our customer contracts generally provide that our customers will pay us in U.S. dollars.

As a consequence, our gross profit margins, operating results, profitability and cash flows are adversely impacted when the dollar depreciates relative to the Thai baht or the RMB. We have a particularly significant currency rate exposure to changes in the exchange rate between the Thai baht and the U.S. dollar. We must translate foreign currency-denominated results of operations, assets and liabilities for our foreign subsidiaries to U.S. dollars in our consolidated financial statements. Consequently, increases and decreases in the value of the U.S. dollar compared to such foreign currencies will affect our

 

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reported results of operations and the value of our assets and liabilities on our consolidated balance sheets, even if our results of operations or the value of those assets and liabilities has not changed in its original currency. These transactions could significantly affect the comparability of our results between financial periods or result in significant changes to the carrying value of our assets, liabilities and shareholders’ equity.

In addition, we are exposed to foreign exchange risk in connection with the credit facility and cross currency swap arrangements we entered into with TMB Bank Public Company Limited (the “Bank”) in May 2011 for the construction of Pinehurst Building 6. The terms of the contract with the Bank provide the following facilities: (1) a term loan facility for up to Thai baht 960 million (equal to $30.0 million) with a fixed interest rate of 5.28% per annum, (2) a hedging facility for currency swaps with a notional amount of $30.0 million, and (3) a settlement limit of Thai baht 65 million, subject to certain terms and conditions as set forth therein. As of March 30, 2012, we had drawn down the entire $30.0 million available under the credit facility. Borrowings and interest under the term loan are scheduled to be repaid on a quarterly basis between June 2012 and March 2017. As of December 28, 2012, we had outstanding borrowings under the term loan facility of $25.5 million. Under the terms of the cross currency interest rate swap arrangement, all amounts drawn down in Thai baht were converted to U.S. dollars for repayment by us on a quarterly basis at the floating rate of 3-month U.S. LIBOR plus 2.8% per annum.

We attempt to hedge against these exchange rate risks by entering into hedging contracts that are typically one to six months in duration, leaving us exposed to longer term changes in exchange rates. We realized foreign currency losses of $0.2 million and foreign currency gains of $0.1 million during the three and six months ended December 28, 2012, respectively, and foreign currency gains of $0.8 million and $0.6 million during the three and six months ended December 30, 2011. As foreign currency exchange rates fluctuate relative to the U.S. dollar, we expect to incur foreign currency translation adjustments and may incur foreign currency exchange losses. For example, a 10% weakening in the U.S. dollar against the Thai baht and the RMB as of December 28, 2012 and June 29, 2012 would have resulted in an increase in our net dollar position of approximately $2.1 million and $0.7 million, respectively. We cannot give any assurance as to the effect that future changes in foreign currency rates will have on our condensed consolidated financial position, operating results or cash flows.

Credit Risk

Credit risk refers to our exposures to financial institutions, suppliers and customers that have in the past and may in the future experience financial difficulty, particularly in light of recent conditions in the credit markets and the global economy. As of December 28, 2012, our cash and cash equivalents were held in deposits and highly liquid investment products with maturities of three months or less with banks and other financial institutions having credit ratings of A minus or above. We generally monitor the financial performance of our suppliers and customers, as well as other factors that may affect their access to capital and liquidity. Presently, we believe that we will not incur material losses due to our exposures to such credit risk.

ITEM 4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES

Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Our management, with the participation of our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures pursuant to Rule 13a-15 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as of the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Based on that evaluation, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer concluded that as of the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q our disclosure controls and procedures were effective to provide reasonable assurance that information we are required to disclose in reports that we file or submit under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in Securities and Exchange Commission rules and forms, and include controls and procedures designed to ensure that the information required to be disclosed by us in such reports is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures. Management’s assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting is expressed at the level of reasonable assurance because a control system, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable, but not absolute, assurance that the control system’s objectives will be met.

 

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Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting

There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the three months ended December 28, 2012 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

PART II: OTHER INFORMATION

ITEM 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

From time to time, we may be involved in litigation relating to claims arising in the ordinary course of our business. There are currently no material claims or actions pending or threatened against us.

ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS

Investing in our ordinary shares involves a high degree of risk. You should carefully consider the following risks and all other information contained in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, including our consolidated financial statements and the related notes, before investing in our ordinary shares. The risks and uncertainties described below are not the only ones we face. Additional risks and uncertainties that we are unaware of, or that we currently believe are not material, also may become important factors that affect us. If any of the following risks materialize, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be materially harmed. In that case, the trading price of our ordinary shares could decline, and you may lose some or all of your investment.

Risks Related to Our Business

Severe flooding in Thailand during October and November 2011, which resulted in the temporary suspension of production at our Pinehurst facilities and the permanent cessation of production at our Chokchai facility, has had and will continue to have a material and adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations in the near-term and potentially beyond.

The consequences of the October and November 2011 flooding in Thailand, including the temporary suspension of production at our Pinehurst facilities and permanent cessation of production at our Chokchai facility, have adversely affected and will continue to adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition in the near-term and potentially beyond. Material risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the following:

Insurance . Prior to January 1, 2012, we maintained insurance coverage that provided for reimbursement of losses resulting from flood damage. Under the terms of our policies that were in effect during the flooding, our property and casualty insurance covered loss or damage to our property and third-party property over which we have custody and control (the latter of which we refer to as consigned property), as well as losses associated with business interruption and building damage, subject to a number of exclusions and limitations (such as coinsurance, facilities location sub-limits and policy covenants). We have completed our assessment of losses with respect to business interruption through the first quarter of fiscal 2013, customer-owned inventory, consigned equipment from our customers, and our own inventory, equipment and facilities. We have recorded known losses in our consolidated statements of operations. As of December 28, 2012, we have submitted claims to our insurers for business interruption losses attributable to the effects of flooding through the first quarter of fiscal 2013, as well as claims for inventory losses, owned and consigned equipment losses, and damage to our buildings at Pinehurst, which we own, and Chokchai, which we leased. In the three months ended December 28, 2012, we received an interim payment of $4.8 million from our insurers against our claims for owned equipment losses. In the six months ended December 28, 2012, we received an interim payment of $4.8 million from our insurers against our claims for owned equipment losses, an interim payment of $4.7 million against our claims for business interruption losses and a payment of $0.1 million as full and final settlement of our claim for damage to our buildings at Pinehurst.

A number of exclusions and limitations in our policies (such as coinsurance, facilities location sub-limits and policy covenants) may reduce the aggregate amount that we will ultimately collect for our losses. In addition, our insurers could reject the valuation methodologies we have used to estimate our losses, in whole or in part, and apply different valuation methodologies, which could also reduce our aggregate recovery amount. Even if we ultimately recover material amounts from our insurers, there may be a substantial delay between when we pay for flood-related expenses and when we receive proceeds from our insurers as reimbursement for these expenses, which could adversely affect our cash flows and liquidity. The insurance claims process has required a significant amount of time from management, and we expect this to continue until the claims process has been resolved. Further, as a result of the flooding in Thailand, our property and casualty insurance premiums have risen dramatically, as compared to premiums paid in periods prior to the flooding.

 

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Customers . We continue to have discussions with our customers regarding the valuation of the consigned property that were damaged as a result of the flooding and who bears the responsibility for such losses In some cases, there may be material differences between our assessments and our customers’ assessments on the matters of valuation and responsibility. Some customers may choose to manufacture products internally or relocate their production to manufacturers outside of Thailand because of the fear of future flooding in Thailand. Other customers may be so reliant on us for their manufacturing capabilities that the suspension of our operations may have materially and adversely affected their own businesses, which could potentially lead to customer bankruptcies or liquidations. Customer bankruptcies or liquidations would mean less revenue for us and could also require us to write off any accounts receivable and inventory associated with those customers. Other customers may simply walk away from their obligations to pay us for equipment, inventory and finished goods for which we feel that they have a contractual obligation to us or may delay payment of amounts that they owe us for prior services rendered. The flooding may also make it more difficult for us to win business from new customers. These consequences would materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Recovery and Related Charges and Expenses . We expect to continue to incur certain charges and expenses related to the recovery from the flooding of our Thailand facilities and its impact on our operations, including items such as fixed asset impairments, inventory write-downs, charges related to cancellation of purchase orders for excess materials and charges for restoration and recovery work. We incurred a significant amount of these various flood-related charges and expenses during the fiscal year ended June 29, 2012. However, we expect that we will also incur expenses and charges in future periods, and the ultimate timing of these future charges and expenses is uncertain.

Our sales depend on and may continue to depend on a small number of customers that have substantial purchasing power and leverage in negotiating contracts with us. A reduction in orders from any of these customers, the loss of any of these customers, or a customer exerting significant pricing and margin pressures on us could harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

We have depended, and expect to continue to depend, upon a relatively small number of customers for a significant percentage of our total revenues. During the three months ended December 28, 2012 and December 30, 2011, we had two customers that each contributed 10% or more of our total revenues. These customers together accounted for 48% and 39% of our total revenues, respectively, during the periods. During the six months ended December 28, 2012 and December 30, 2011, we had two and three customers, respectively, that each contributed 10% or more of our total revenues. These customers together accounted for 48% and 47% of our total revenues, respectively, during the periods. Dependence on a small number of customers means that a reduction in orders from, a loss of, or other adverse actions by any one of these customers could have an adverse effect on our business, operating results and share price.

Further, our customer concentration increases the concentration of our accounts receivable and our exposure to payment default by any of our key customers. Many of our existing and potential customers have substantial debt burdens, have experienced financial distress or have static or declining revenues, all of which may have been exacerbated by the impact of the flooding in Thailand. Certain of our customers have gone out of business, been acquired, or announced their withdrawal from segments of the optics market. We generate significant accounts payable and inventory for the services that we provide to our customers, which could expose us to substantial and potentially unrecoverable costs if we do not receive payment from our customers.

Reliance on a small number of customers gives those customers substantial purchasing power and leverage in negotiating contracts with us. In addition, although we enter into master supply agreements with our customers, the level of business to be transacted under those agreements is not guaranteed. Instead, we are awarded business under those agreements on a project-by-project basis. Some of our customers have at times significantly reduced or delayed the volume of manufacturing services that they order from us. If we are unable to maintain our relationships with our existing significant customers, our business, financial condition and operating results could be harmed.

Natural disasters, including the recent flooding in Thailand, epidemics, acts of terrorism and other political and economic developments could harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

 

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Natural disasters, such as the October and November 2011 flooding in Thailand, where most of our manufacturing operations are located, the May 2008 earthquake in Sichuan, China, and the March 2011 tsunami in Japan, could severely disrupt our manufacturing operations and increase our supply chain costs. These events, over which we have little or no control, could cause a decrease in demand for our services, make it difficult or impossible for us to manufacture and deliver products and for our suppliers to deliver components allowing us to manufacture those products, require large expenditures to repair or replace our facilities, or create delays and inefficiencies in our supply chain. For example, the October and November 2011 flooding in Thailand forced us to temporarily shut down all of our manufacturing facilities in Thailand and cease production permanently at our Chokchai facility in Thailand, which adversely affected our ability to meet our customers’ demands during fiscal 2012. In some countries in which we operate, including the PRC and Thailand, potential outbreaks of infectious diseases such as the H1N1 influenza virus, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) or bird flu could disrupt our manufacturing operations, reduce demand for our customers’ products and increase our supply chain costs. In addition, increased international political instability, evidenced by the threat or occurrence of terrorist attacks, enhanced national security measures, conflicts in the Middle East and Asia, strained international relations arising from these conflicts and the related decline in consumer confidence and economic weakness, may hinder our ability to do business. Any escalation in these events or similar future events may disrupt our operations and the operations of our customers and suppliers, and may affect the availability of materials needed for our manufacturing services. Such events may also disrupt the transportation of materials to our manufacturing facilities and finished products to our customers. These events have had, and may continue to have, an adverse impact on the U.S. and world economy in general, and customer confidence and spending in particular, which in turn could adversely affect our total revenues and operating results. The impact of these events on the volatility of the U.S. and world financial markets also could increase the volatility of the market price of our ordinary shares and may limit the capital resources available to us, our customers and our suppliers.

We are not fully insured against all potential losses. Natural disasters or other catastrophes could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

The occurrence of one or more natural disasters, such as tropical storms and floods, in Thailand, where most of our manufacturing operations are located, could adversely affect our operations and financial performance. Any losses that we would incur could have a material adverse effect on our business for an indeterminate period of time.

Our current property and casualty insurance covers loss or damage to our property and third-party property over which we have custody and control, as well as losses associated with business interruption, subject to specified exclusions and limitations such as coinsurance, facilities location sub-limits and other policy limitations and covenants. This includes flood insurance for property and business interruption with an aggregate limit of approximately $25 million. Even with insurance coverage, natural disasters or other catastrophic events, including acts of war, could cause us to suffer substantial losses in our operational capacity and could also lead to a loss of opportunity and to a potential adverse impact on our relationships with our existing customers resulting from our inability to produce products for them, for which we would not be compensated by existing insurance. This in turn could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.

If the optical communications market does not expand as we expect, our business may not grow as fast as we expect, which could adversely impact our business, financial condition and operating results.

Our future success as a provider of precision optical, electro-mechanical and electronic manufacturing services for the optical communications market depends on the continued growth of the optics industry and, in particular, the continued expansion of global information networks, particularly those directly or indirectly dependent upon a fiber optics infrastructure. As part of that growth, we anticipate that demand for voice, video, text and other data services delivered over high-speed connections (both wired and wireless) will continue to increase. Without network and bandwidth growth, the need for enhanced communications products would be jeopardized. Currently, demand for network services and for broadband access, in particular, is increasing but growth may be limited by several factors, including, among others: (i) relative strength or weakness of the global economy or certain countries or regions, (ii) an uncertain regulatory environment, and (iii) uncertainty regarding long-term sustainable business models as multiple industries, such as the cable, traditional telecommunications, wireless and satellite industries, offer competing content delivery solutions. The optical communications market also has experienced periods of overcapacity, some of which have occurred even during periods of relatively high network usage and bandwidth demands. If the factors described above were to slow, stop or reverse the expansion in the optical communications market, our business, financial condition and operating results would be negatively affected.

 

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If we are unable to continue diversifying our precision optical and electro-mechanical manufacturing services across other markets within the optics industry, such as the semiconductor processing, biotechnology, metrology and material processing markets, our business may not grow as fast as we expect.

We intend to continue diversifying across other markets within the optics industry, such as the semiconductor processing, biotechnology, metrology and material processing markets, to reduce our dependence on the optical communications market and to grow our business. Currently, the optical communications market contributes the majority of our revenues. There can be no assurance that our efforts to further expand and diversify into other markets within the optics industry will prove successful. In the event that the opportunities presented by these markets prove to be less than anticipated, if we are less successful than expected in diversifying into these markets, or if our margins in these markets prove to be less than expected, our growth may slow or stall, and we may incur costs that are not offset by revenues in these markets, all of which could harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

We face significant competition in our business. If we are unable to compete successfully against our current and future competitors, our business, financial condition and operating results could be harmed.

Our current and prospective customers tend to evaluate our capabilities against the merits of their internal manufacturing as well as the capabilities of third-party manufacturers. We believe the internal manufacturing capabilities of current and prospective customers are our primary competition. This competition is particularly strong when our customers have excess manufacturing capacity, as was the case when the markets that we serve experienced a downturn from 2001 through 2004 and again in 2008 and 2009, that resulted in underutilized capacity. Many of our potential customers continue to have excess manufacturing capacity at their facilities. In addition, as a result of the October and November 2011 flooding in Thailand, some of our customers began manufacturing products internally or using other third-party manufacturers that were not affected by the flooding. If our customers choose to manufacture products internally rather than to outsource production to us, or choose to outsource to a third-party manufacturer, our business, financial condition and operating results could be harmed.

Competitors in the market for optical manufacturing services include Sanmina-SCI Corporation, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd. (Foxconn Technology Group), Celestica Inc., Venture Corporation Limited and Oplink Communications, Inc. Our customized optics and glass operations face competition from companies such as Alps Electric Co., Ltd., Browave Corporation, Fujian Castech Crystals, Inc., Research Electro-Optic, Inc. and Photop Technologies, Inc. Other existing contract manufacturing companies, original design manufacturers or outsourced semiconductor assembly and test companies could also enter our target markets. In addition, we may face more competitors as we attempt to penetrate new markets.

Many of our customers and potential competitors have longer operating histories, greater name recognition, larger customer bases and significantly greater resources than we have. These advantages may allow them to devote greater resources than we can to the development and promotion of service offerings that are similar or superior to our service offerings. These competitors may also engage in more extensive research and development, undertake more far-reaching marketing campaigns, adopt more aggressive pricing policies or offer services that achieve greater market acceptance than ours. These competitors may also compete with us by making more attractive offers to our existing and potential employees, suppliers and strategic partners. Further, consolidation in the optics industry could lead to larger and more geographically diverse competitors. New and increased competition could result in price reductions for our services, reduced gross profit margins or loss of market share. We may not be able to compete successfully against our current and future competitors, and the competitive pressures we face may harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

Cancellations, delays or reductions of customer orders and the relatively short-term nature of the commitments of our customers could harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

We do not typically obtain firm purchase orders or commitments from our customers that extend beyond 13 weeks. While we work closely with our customers to develop forecasts for periods of up to one year, these forecasts are not fully binding and may be unreliable. Customers may cancel their orders, change production quantities from forecasted volumes or delay production for a number of reasons beyond our control. Any material delay, cancellation or reduction of orders could cause our revenues to decline significantly and could cause us to hold excess materials. Many of our costs and operating expenses are fixed. As a result, a reduction in customer demand could decrease our gross profit and harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

 

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In addition, we make significant decisions, including production schedules, component procurement commitments, personnel needs and other resource requirements, based on our estimate of our customers’ requirements. The short-term nature of our customers’ commitments and the possibility of rapid changes in demand for their products reduce our ability to accurately estimate the future requirements of our customers. Inability to forecast the level of customer orders with certainty makes it difficult to allocate resources to specific customers, order appropriate levels of materials and maximize the use of our manufacturing capacity. This could also lead to an inability to meet a spike in production demand, all of which could harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

Our quarterly revenues, gross profit margins and operating results have fluctuated significantly and may continue to do so in the future, which may cause the market price of our ordinary shares to decline or be volatile.

Our quarterly revenues, gross profit margins, and operating results have fluctuated significantly and may continue to fluctuate significantly in the future. Therefore, we believe that quarter-to-quarter comparisons of our operating results may not be useful in predicting our future operating results. You should not rely on our results for one quarter as any indication of our future performance. Quarterly variations in our operations could result in significant volatility in the market price of our ordinary shares.

Our exposure to financially troubled customers or suppliers could harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

We provide manufacturing services to companies, and rely on suppliers, that have in the past and may in the future experience financial difficulty, particularly in light of recent conditions in the credit markets and the overall economy that affected access to capital and liquidity. As a result, we devote significant resources to monitor receivables and inventory balances with certain of our customers. If our customers experience financial difficulty, we could have difficulty recovering amounts owed to us from these customers, or demand for our services from these customers could decline. If our suppliers experience financial difficulty, we could have trouble sourcing materials necessary to fulfill production requirements and meet scheduled shipments. Any such financial difficulty could adversely affect our operating results and financial condition by resulting in a reduction in our revenues, a charge for inventory write-offs, a provision for doubtful accounts, and an increase in working capital requirements due to increases in days in inventory and in days in accounts receivable.

Fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates and changes in governmental policies regarding foreign currencies could increase our operating costs, which would adversely affect our operating results.

Volatility in the functional and non-functional currencies of our entities and the U.S. dollar could seriously harm our business, financial condition and operating results. The primary impact of currency exchange fluctuations is on our cash, receivables and payables of our operating entities. We may experience significant unexpected expenses from fluctuations in exchange rates.

Our customer contracts generally require that our customers pay us in U.S. dollars. However, the majority of our payroll and other operating expenses are paid in Thai baht. As a result of these arrangements, we have significant exposure to changes in the exchange rate between the Thai baht and the U.S. dollar, and our operating results are adversely impacted when the U.S. dollar depreciates relative to the Thai baht and other currencies. We have experienced such depreciation in the U.S. dollar as compared to the Thai baht, and our results have been adversely impacted by this fluctuation in exchange rates. Further, while we attempt to hedge against certain exchange rate risks, we typically enter into hedging contracts with durations of one to six months, leaving us exposed to longer term changes in exchange rates.

Also, we have significant exposure to changes in the exchange rate between the RMB and the U.S. dollar. The expenses of our PRC subsidiary are denominated in RMB. Currently, RMB are convertible in connection with trade—and service-related foreign exchange transactions, foreign debt service and payment of dividends. The PRC government may at its discretion restrict access in the future to foreign currencies for current account transactions. If this occurs, our PRC subsidiary may not be able to pay us dividends in U.S. dollars without prior approval from the PRC State Administration of Foreign Exchange. In addition, conversion of RMB for most capital account items, including direct investments, is still subject to government approval in the PRC. This restriction may limit our ability to invest the earnings of our PRC subsidiary. As of December 28, 2012, the U.S. dollar had depreciated approximately 4.9% against the RMB since December 24, 2010. There remains significant international pressure on the PRC government to adopt a substantially more liberalized currency policy. Any further and more significant appreciation in the value of the RMB against the U.S. dollar could negatively impact our operating results.

 

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We purchase some of the critical materials used in certain of our products from a single source or a limited number of suppliers. Supply shortages have in the past, and could in the future, impair the quality, reduce the availability or increase the cost of materials, which could harm our revenues, profitability and customer relations.

We rely on a single source or a limited number of suppliers for critical materials used in a significant number of the products we manufacture. We generally purchase these single or limited source materials through standard purchase orders and do not maintain long-term supply agreements with our suppliers. We generally use a rolling 12 month forecast based on anticipated product orders, customer forecasts, product order history, backlog, and warranty and service demand to determine our materials requirements. Lead times for the parts and components that we order vary significantly and depend on factors such as manufacturing cycle times, manufacturing yields and the availability of raw materials used to produce the parts or components. Historically, we have experienced supply shortages resulting from various causes, including reduced yields by our suppliers, which prevented us from manufacturing products for our customers in a timely manner. Our revenues, profitability and customer relations could be harmed by a stoppage or delay of supply, a substitution of more expensive or less reliable parts, the receipt of defective parts or contaminated materials, an increase in the price of supplies, or an inability to obtain pricing reduction in price from our suppliers in response to competitive pressures.

We continue to undertake programs to strengthen our supply chain. Nevertheless, we are experiencing, and expect for the foreseeable future to continue to experience, strain on our supply chain and periodic supplier problems. We have incurred, and expect to continue to incur for the foreseeable future, costs to address these problems.

Managing our inventory is complex and may require write-downs due to excess or obsolete inventory, which could cause our operating results to decrease significantly in a given fiscal period.

Managing our inventory is complex. We are generally required to procure material based upon the anticipated demand of our customers. The inaccuracy of these forecasts or estimates could result in excess supply or shortages of certain materials. Inventory that is not used or expected to be used as and when planned may become excess or obsolete. Generally, we are unable to use most of the materials purchased for one of our customers to manufacture products for any of our other customers. Additionally, we could experience reduced or delayed product shipments or incur additional inventory write-downs and cancellation charges or penalties, which would increase costs and could harm our business, financial condition and operating results. While our agreements with customers are structured to mitigate our risks related to excess or obsolete inventory, enforcement of these provisions may result in material expense and delay in payment for inventory. If any of our significant customers becomes unable or unwilling to purchase inventory or does not agree to such contractual provisions in the future, our business, financial condition and operating results may be harmed.

We conduct operations in a number of countries, which creates logistical and communications challenges for us and exposes us to other risks that could harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

The vast majority of our operations, including manufacturing and customer support, are located primarily in the Asia-Pacific region. The distances between Thailand, the PRC and our customers and suppliers globally, create a number of logistical and communications challenges for us, including managing operations across multiple time zones, directing the manufacture and delivery of products across significant distances, coordinating the procurement of raw materials and their delivery to multiple locations and coordinating the activities and decisions of our management team, the members of which are based in different countries.

Our customers are located throughout the world. Total revenues from the bill to location of customers outside of North America accounted for 51.2% and 49.1% of our total revenues for the three months ended December 28, 2012 and December 30, 2011, respectively, and 53.2% and 50.4% of our total revenues for the six months ended December 28, 2012 and December 30, 2011, respectively. We expect that total revenues from the bill to location of customers outside of North America will continue to account for a significant portion of our total revenues. Our customers also depend on international sales, which further exposes us to the risks associated with international operations. In addition, our international operations and sales subject us to a variety of domestic and foreign trade regulatory requirements.

Political unrest and demonstrations, as well as changes in the political, social, business or economic conditions in Thailand, could harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

 

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The majority of our assets and manufacturing operations are located in Thailand. Therefore, political, social, business and economic conditions in Thailand have a significant effect on our business. As of April 24, 2012, Thailand was assessed as a high political risk by AON Political Risk, a risk management, insurance and consulting firm. Any changes to tax regimes, laws, exchange controls or political action in Thailand may harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

In September 2006, Thailand experienced a military coup that overturned the existing government, and in 2008, political unrest and demonstrations in Bangkok sparked a series of violent incidents that resulted in several deaths and numerous injuries. In April 2009, anti-government demonstrations in Bangkok caused severe traffic congestion and numerous injuries, and in March 2010, protestors again held demonstrations calling for new elections. These demonstrations in recent years in Bangkok and other parts of Thailand, which escalated in violence through May 2010, resulted in the country’s worst political violence in nearly two decades with numerous deaths and injuries, as well as destruction of property. Certain hotels and businesses in Bangkok were closed for weeks as the protestors occupied Bangkok’s commercial center, and governments around the world issued travel advisories urging their citizens to avoid non-essential travel to Bangkok.

Any succession crisis in the Kingdom of Thailand could cause new or increased instability and unrest. In the event that a violent coup were to occur or the current political unrest were to worsen, such activity could prevent shipments from entering or leaving the country and disrupt our ability to manufacture products in Thailand, and we could be forced to transfer our manufacturing activities to more stable, and potentially more costly, regions. Further, the Thai government recently raised the minimum wage standards for labor and could repeal certain promotional certificates that we have received or tax holidays for certain export and value added taxes that we enjoy, either preventing us from engaging in our current or anticipated activities or subjecting us to higher tax rates. A new regime could nationalize our business or otherwise seize our assets. Future political instability such as the coup that occurred in September 2006 or the demonstrations that occurred during 2008, 2009 and 2010 could harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

We expect to continue to invest in our manufacturing operations in the PRC, which will continue to expose us to risks inherent in doing business in the PRC, any of which risks could harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

We anticipate that we will continue to invest in our customized optics manufacturing facilities located in Fuzhou, China. Because these operations are located in the PRC, they are subject to greater political, legal and economic risks than the geographies in which the facilities of many of our competitors and customers are located. In particular, the political and economic climate in the PRC (both at national and regional levels) is fluid and unpredictable. As of April 24, 2012, the PRC was assessed as a medium political risk by AON Political Risk. A large part of the PRC’s economy is still being operated under varying degrees of control by the PRC government. By imposing industrial policies and other economic measures, such as control of foreign exchange, taxation, import and export tariffs, environmental regulations, land use rights, intellectual property and restrictions on foreign participation in the domestic market of various industries, the PRC government exerts considerable direct and indirect influence on the development of the PRC economy. Many of the economic reforms carried out by the PRC government are unprecedented or experimental and are expected to change further. Any changes to the political, legal or economic climate in the PRC could harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

Our PRC subsidiary is a “wholly foreign-owned enterprise” and is therefore subject to laws and regulations applicable to foreign investment in the PRC, in general, and laws and regulations applicable to wholly foreign-owned enterprises, in particular. The PRC has made significant progress in the promulgation of laws and regulations pertaining to economic matters such as corporate organization and governance, foreign investment, commerce, taxation and trade. However, the promulgation of new laws, changes in existing laws and abrogation of local regulations by national laws may have a negative impact on our business and prospects. In addition, these laws and regulations are relatively new, and published cases are limited in volume and non-binding. Therefore, the interpretation and enforcement of these laws and regulations involve significant uncertainties. Laws may be changed with little or no prior notice, for political or other reasons. These uncertainties could limit the legal protections available to foreign investors. Furthermore, any litigation in the PRC may be protracted and result in substantial costs and diversion of resources and management’s attention.

Our business and operations would be adversely impacted in the event of a failure of our information technology infrastructure.

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our operations and, in many instances, enable our customers to remotely access certain areas of our databases to monitor yields, inventory positions, work-in-progress status and vendor quality data. We are constantly expanding and updating our information technology infrastructure in response to our changing needs. Any failure to manage, expand and update our information technology infrastructure or any failure in the operation of this infrastructure could harm our business.

Despite our implementation of security measures, our systems are vulnerable to damages from computer viruses, natural disasters, unauthorized access and other similar disruptions. Any system failure, accident or security breach could result in disruptions to our operations. To the extent that any disruptions or security breach results in a loss or damage to our data, or inappropriate disclosure of confidential information, it could harm our business. In addition, we may be required to incur significant costs to protect against damage caused by these disruptions or security breaches in the future.

Consolidation in the markets we serve could harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

Consolidation in the markets we serve has resulted in a reduction in the number of potential customers for our services. Most recently, in July 2012, Oclaro and Opnext, Inc., both of which were our customers at the time, merged. In some cases, consolidation among our customers has led to a reduction in demand for our services as customers acquired the capacity to manufacture products in-house.

Consolidation among our customers and their customers may continue and may adversely affect our business, financial condition and operating results in several ways. Consolidation among our customers and their customers may result in a smaller number of large customers whose size and purchasing power give them increased leverage that may result in, among other things, decreases in our average selling prices. In addition to pricing pressures, this consolidation may also reduce overall demand for our manufacturing services if customers obtain new capacity to manufacture products in-house or discontinue duplicate or competing product lines in order to streamline operations. If demand for our manufacturing services decreases, our business, financial condition and operating results could be harmed.

General economic and financial market conditions may negatively affect our business, operating results and financial condition.

Volatility and disruption in the capital and credit markets, depressed consumer confidence, and negative global economic conditions have affected levels of business and consumer spending. As the current global economic conditions remain uncertain and challenging, we continue to face risks related to the slow economic recovery. In addition, concerns about the potential default of various national bonds and debt backed by individual countries as well as the politics impacting these, could negatively impact the U.S. and global economies and adversely affect our financial results.

Uncertainty about economic conditions poses a risk as businesses may further reduce or postpone spending in response to reduced budgets, tight credit, negative financial news and declines in income or asset values, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations and increase the volatility of our share price. In addition, our ability to access capital markets may be restricted, which could have an impact on our ability to react to changing economic and business conditions and could also adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition.

If we fail to adequately expand our manufacturing capacity, we will not be able to grow our business, which would harm our business, financial condition and operating results. Conversely, if we expand too much or too rapidly, we may experience excess capacity, which would harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

We may not be able to pursue many large customer orders or sustain our historical growth rates if we do not have sufficient manufacturing capacity to enable us to commit to provide customers with specified quantities of products. If our customers do not believe that we have sufficient manufacturing capacity, they may: (i) outsource all of their production to another source that they believe can fulfill all of their production requirements; (ii) look to a second source for the manufacture of additional quantities of the products that we currently manufacture for them; (iii) manufacture the products themselves; or (iv) otherwise decide against using our services for their new products.

We most recently expanded our manufacturing capacity at our Thailand facilities in April 2012 with the completion of Pinehurst Building 6. However, we also recently determined that we would not resume manufacturing operations at our Chokchai campus, which we leased. We may continue to devote significant resources to the expansion of our manufacturing capacity, and any such expansion will be expensive, will require management’s time and may disrupt our operations. In the event we are unsuccessful in our attempts to expand our manufacturing capacity, our business, financial condition and operating results could be harmed.

 

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However, if we expand our manufacturing capacity and are unable to promptly utilize the additional space due to reduced demand for our services, an inability to win new projects, new customers or penetrate new markets, or if the optics industry does not grow as we expect, we may experience periods of excess capacity, which could harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

We may experience manufacturing yields that are lower than expected, potentially resulting in increased costs, which could harm our business, operating results and customer relations.

Manufacturing yields depend on a number of factors, including the following:

 

   

the quality of input, materials and equipment;

 

   

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the repeatability and complexity of the manufacturing process;

 

   

the experience and quality of training of our manufacturing and engineering teams; and

 

   

the monitoring of the manufacturing environment.

Lower volume production due to continually changing designs generally results in lower yields. Manufacturing yields and margins can also be lower if we receive or inadvertently use defective or contaminated materials from our suppliers. In addition, our customer contracts typically provide that we will supply products at a fixed price each quarter, which assumes specific production yields and quality metrics. If we do not meet the yield assumptions and quality metrics used in calculating the price of a product, we may not be able to recover the costs associated with our failure to do so. Consequently, our operating results and profitability may be harmed.

If the products that we manufacture contain defects, we could incur significant correction costs, demand for our services may decline and we may be exposed to product liability and product warranty claims, which could harm our business, financial condition, operating results and customer relations.

We manufacture products to our customers’ specifications, and our manufacturing processes and facilities must comply with applicable statutory and regulatory requirements. In addition, our customers’ products and the manufacturing processes that we use to produce them are often complex. As a result, products that we manufacture may at times contain manufacturing or design defects, and our manufacturing processes may be subject to errors or fail to be in compliance with applicable statutory or regulatory requirements. Additionally, not all defects are immediately detectible. The testing procedures of our customers are generally limited to the evaluation of the products that we manufacture under likely and foreseeable failure scenarios. For various reasons (including, among others, the occurrence of performance problems that are unforeseeable at the time of testing or that are detected only when products are fully deployed and operated under peak stress conditions), these products may fail to perform as expected after their initial acceptance by a customer.

We generally provide a warranty of between one to two years on the products that we manufacture for our customers. This warranty typically guarantees that products will conform to our customers’ specifications and be free from defects in workmanship. Defects in the products we manufacture, whether caused by a design, engineering, manufacturing or component failure or by deficiencies in our manufacturing processes and whether during or after the warranty period, could result in product or component failures, which may damage our business reputation, whether or not we are indemnified for such failures. We could also incur significant costs to repair or replace defective products under warranty, particularly when such failures occur in installed systems. In some instances, we may also be required to incur costs to repair or replace defective products outside of the warranty period in the event that a recurring defect is discovered in a certain percentage of a customer’s products delivered over an agreed upon period of time. We have experienced product or component failures in the past and remain exposed to such failures, as the products that we manufacture are widely deployed throughout the world in multiple environments and applications. Further, due to the difficulty in determining whether a given defect resulted from our customer’s design of the product or our manufacturing process, we may be exposed to product liability or product warranty

 

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claims arising from defects that are not our fault. In addition, if the number or type of defects exceeds certain percentage limitations contained in our contractual arrangements, we may be required to conduct extensive failure analysis, re-qualify for production or cease production of the specified products.

Product liability claims may include liability for personal injury or property damage. Product warranty claims may include liability to pay for a recall, repair or replacement of a product or component. Although liability for these claims is generally assigned to our customers in our contracts, even where they have assumed liability, our customers may not, or may not have the resources to, satisfy claims for costs or liabilities arising from a defective product. Additionally, under one of our contracts, in the event the products we manufacture do not meet the end-customer’s testing requirements or otherwise fail, we may be required to pay penalties to our customer, including a fee during the time period that the customer or end-customer’s production line is not operational as a result of the failure of the products that we manufacture, all of which could harm our business, operating results and customer relations. If we engineer or manufacture a product that is found to cause any personal injury or property damage or is otherwise found to be defective, we could incur significant costs to resolve the claim. While we maintain insurance for certain product liability claims, we do not maintain insurance for any recalls and, therefore, would be required to pay any associated costs that are determined to be our responsibility. A successful product liability or product warranty claim in excess of our insurance coverage or any material claim for which insurance coverage is denied, limited, is not available or has not been obtained could harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

If we are unable to meet regulatory quality standards applicable to our manufacturing and quality processes for the products we manufacture, our business, financial condition or operating results could be harmed.

As a manufacturer of products for the optics industry, we are required to meet certain certification standards, including the following: ISO9001 for Manufacturing Quality Management Systems; ISO14001 for Environmental Management Systems; TL9000 for Telecommunications Industry Quality Certification; ISO/TS16949 for Automotive Industry Quality Certification; ISO13485 for Medical Devices Industry Quality Certification; AS9100 for Aerospace Industry Quality Certification; and OHSAS18001 for Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems. We also maintain compliance with various additional standards imposed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, with respect to the manufacture of medical devices.

Additionally, we are required to register with the FDA and other regulatory bodies and are subject to continual review and periodic inspection for compliance with these requirements, which require manufacturers to adhere to certain regulations, including testing, quality control and documentation procedures. We hold the following additional certifications: SONY Green Partner for Environmental Management Systems and CSR-DIW for Corporate Social Responsibility in Thailand. In the European Union, we are required to maintain certain ISO certifications in order to sell our precision optical, electro-mechanical and electronic manufacturing services and we must undergo periodic inspections by regulatory bodies to obtain and maintain these certifications. If any regulatory inspection reveals that we are not in compliance with applicable standards, regulators may take action against us, including issuing a warning letter, imposing fines on us, requiring a recall of the products we manufactured for our customers, or closing our manufacturing facilities. If any of these actions were to occur, it could harm our reputation as well as our business, financial condition and operating results.

If we fail to attract additional skilled employees or retain key personnel, our business, financial condition and operating results could suffer.

Our future success depends, in part, upon our ability to attract additional skilled employees and retain our current key personnel. We have identified several areas where we intend to expand our hiring, including human resources, supply chain management, business development and finance. We may not be able to hire and retain such personnel at compensation levels consistent with our existing compensation and salary structure. Our future also depends on the continued contributions of our executive management team, including Mr. Mitchell, and other key management and technical personnel, each of whom would be difficult to replace. We do not have key person life insurance or long-term employment contracts with any of our key personnel. The loss of any of our executive officers or key personnel or the inability to continue to attract qualified personnel could harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

 

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Failure to comply with applicable environmental laws and regulations could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

The sale and manufacturing of products in certain states and countries may subject us to environmental laws and regulations. In addition, rules adopted by the SEC implementing the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act impose diligence and disclosure requirements regarding the use of “conflict” minerals mined from the Democratic Republic of Congo and adjoining countries in the products we manufacture. Compliance with these rules is likely to result in additional cost and expense, including for due diligence to determine and verify the sources of any conflict minerals used in the products we manufacture, in addition to the cost of remediation and other changes to products, processes, or sources of supply as a consequence of such verification activities. These rules may also affect the sourcing and availability of minerals used in the products we manufacture, as there may be only a limited number of suppliers offering “conflict free” metals that can be used in the products we manufacture.

Although we do not anticipate any material adverse effects based on the nature of our operations and these laws and regulations, we will need to ensure that we and our suppliers comply with such laws and regulations as they are enacted. If we fail to timely comply with such laws and regulations, our customers may cease doing business with us, which would have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. In addition, if we were found to be in violation of these laws, we could be subject to governmental fines, liability to our customers and damage to our reputation, which would also have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

We have incurred and will continue to incur significant increased costs as a result of operating as a public company, and our management will be required to continue to devote substantial time to various compliance initiatives.

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, as well as other rules implemented by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), impose various requirements on public companies, including requiring changes in corporate governance practices. These and proposed corporate governance laws and regulations under consideration may further increase our compliance costs. If compliance with these various legal and regulatory requirements diverts our management’s attention from other business concerns, it could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires, among other things, that we assess the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting annually and disclosure controls and procedures quarterly. While we were able to assert in our Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 29, 2012, that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of June 29, 2012, we cannot predict the outcome of our testing in future periods. If we are unable to assert in any future reporting periods that our internal control over financial reporting is effective (or if our independent registered public accounting firm is unable to express an opinion on the effectiveness of our internal controls), we could lose investor confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports, which would have an adverse effect on our share price.

Given the nature and complexity of our business and the fact that some members of our management team are located in Thailand while others are located in the U.S., control deficiencies may periodically occur. While we have ongoing measures and procedures to prevent and remedy such deficiencies, if they occur there can be no assurance that we will be successful or that we will be able to prevent material weaknesses or significant deficiencies in our internal control over financial reporting in the future. Moreover, if we or our independent registered public accounting firm identify deficiencies in our internal control over financial reporting that are deemed to be material weaknesses in future periods, the market price of our ordinary shares could decline and we could be subject to potential delisting by the NYSE and review by the NYSE, the SEC, or other regulatory authorities, which would require the expenditure by us of additional financial and management resources. As a result, our shareholders could lose confidence in our financial reporting, which would harm our business and the market price of our ordinary shares.

We are subject to the risk of increased income taxes, which could harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

We base our tax position upon the anticipated nature and conduct of our business and upon our understanding of the tax laws of the various countries in which we have assets or conduct activities. However, our tax position is subject to review and possible challenge by tax authorities and to possible changes in law, which may have retroactive effect. We were formed in the Cayman Islands and we maintain manufacturing operations in Thailand, the PRC and the U.S. Any of these jurisdictions could assert tax claims against us. We cannot determine in advance the extent to which some jurisdictions may require us to pay taxes

 

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or make payments in lieu of taxes. Preferential tax treatment from the Thai government in the form of a corporate tax exemption is currently available to us from July 2010 through June 2015 on income generated from the manufacture of products at Pinehurst Building 5 and from July 2012 through June 2020 on income generated from the manufacture of products at Pinehurst Building 6. Such preferential tax treatment is contingent on, among other things, the export of our customers’ products out of Thailand and our agreement not to move our manufacturing facilities out of our current province in Thailand for at least 15 years. We will lose this favorable tax treatment in Thailand unless we comply with these restrictions, and as a result we may delay or forego certain strategic business decisions due to these tax considerations. In addition, we benefit from recent reductions in corporate tax rates in Thailand for fiscal years 2013 to 2015. Effective October 21, 2011, our subsidiary in China was granted a tax privilege to reduce its corporate income tax rate from 25% to 15%. This privilege is retroactive to January 1, 2011 and valid until December 31, 2013, subject to renewal at the end of each three-year period.

There is also a risk that Thailand or another jurisdiction in which we operate may treat our Cayman Islands parent as having a permanent establishment in such jurisdiction and subject its income to tax. If we become subject to additional taxes in any jurisdiction or if any jurisdiction begins to treat our Cayman Islands parent as having a permanent establishment, such tax treatment could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and operating results.

Certain of our subsidiaries provide products and services to, and may from time to time undertake certain significant transactions with, us and our other subsidiaries in different jurisdictions. For instance, we have intercompany agreements in place that provide for our California and Singapore subsidiaries to provide administrative services for our Cayman Islands parent, and our Cayman Islands parent has entered into manufacturing agreements with our Thai subsidiary. In general, related party transactions and, in particular, related party financing transactions, are subject to close review by tax authorities. Moreover, several jurisdictions in which we operate have tax laws with detailed transfer pricing rules that require all transactions with non-resident related parties to be priced using arm’s length pricing principles and require the existence of contemporaneous documentation to support such pricing. International tax authorities could challenge the validity of our related party transfer pricing policies. Such a challenge generally involves a complex area of taxation and a significant degree of judgment by management. If any taxation authorities are successful in challenging our financing or transfer pricing policies, our income tax expense may be adversely affected and we could become subject to interest and penalty charges, which may harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

We may encounter difficulties completing or integrating acquisitions, asset purchases and other types of transactions that we may pursue in the future, which could disrupt our business, cause dilution to our shareholders and harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

We have grown and may continue to grow our business through acquisitions, asset purchases and other types of transactions, including the transfer of products from our customers and their suppliers. Acquisitions and other strategic transactions typically involve many risks, including the following:

 

   

the integration of the acquired assets and facilities into our business may be difficult, time-consuming and costly, and may adversely impact our profitability;

 

   

we may lose key employees of the acquired companies or divisions;

 

   

we may issue additional ordinary shares, which would dilute our current shareholders’ percentage ownership in us;

 

   

we may incur indebtedness to pay for the transactions;

 

   

we may assume liabilities, some of which may be unknown at the time of the transactions;

 

   

we may record goodwill and non-amortizable intangible assets that will be subject to impairment testing and potential periodic impairment charges;

 

   

we may incur amortization expenses related to certain intangible assets;

 

   

we may devote significant resources to transactions that may not ultimately yield anticipated benefits;

 

   

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we may assume obligations with respect to regulatory requirements, including environmental regulations, which may prove more burdensome than expected; or

 

   

we may become subject to litigation.

Acquisitions are inherently risky, and we can provide no assurance that our previous or future acquisitions will be successful or will not harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

We may not be able to obtain capital when desired on favorable terms, if at all, or without dilution to our shareholders.

We anticipate that our current cash and cash equivalents, together with cash provided by operating activities and funds available through our working capital and credit facilities, will be sufficient to meet our current and anticipated needs for general corporate purposes for at least the next 12 months. We operate in a market, however, that makes our prospects difficult to evaluate. It is possible that we may not generate sufficient cash flow from operations or otherwise have the capital resources to meet our future capital needs. If this occurs, we may need additional financing to execute on our current or future business strategies.

Furthermore, if we raise additional funds through the issuance of equity or convertible debt securities, the percentage ownership of our shareholders could be significantly diluted, and these newly-issued securities may have rights, preferences or privileges senior to those of existing shareholders. If adequate additional funds are not available or are not available on acceptable terms, if and when needed, our ability to fund our operations, take advantage of unanticipated opportunities, develop or enhance our manufacturing services, hire additional technical and other personnel, or otherwise respond to competitive pressures could be significantly limited.

Intellectual property infringement claims against our customers or us could harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

Our services involve the creation and use of intellectual property rights, which subject us to the risk of intellectual property infringement claims from third parties and claims arising from the allocation of intellectual property rights among us and our customers.

Our customers may require that we indemnify them against the risk of intellectual property infringement arising out of our manufacturing processes. If any claims are brought against us or our customers for such infringement, whether or not these claims have merit, we could be required to expend significant resources in defense of such claims. In the event of an infringement claim, we may be required to spend a significant amount of money to develop non-infringing alternatives or obtain licenses. We may not be successful in developing such alternatives or obtaining such licenses on reasonable terms or at all, which could harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

Any failure to protect our customers’ intellectual property that we use in the products we manufacture for them could harm our customer relationships and subject us to liability.

We focus on manufacturing complex optical products for our customers. These products often contain our customers’ intellectual property, including trade secrets and know-how. Our success depends, in part, on our ability to protect our customers’ intellectual property. We may maintain separate and secure areas for customer proprietary manufacturing processes and materials and dedicate floor space, equipment, engineers and supply chain management to protect our customers’ proprietary drawings, materials and products. The steps we take to protect our customers’ intellectual property may not adequately prevent its disclosure or misappropriation. If we fail to protect our customers’ intellectual property, our customer relationships could be harmed and we may experience difficulty in establishing new customer relationships. In addition, our customers might pursue legal claims against us for any failure to protect their intellectual property, possibly resulting in harm to our reputation and our business, financial condition and operating results.

 

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There are inherent uncertainties involved in estimates, judgments and assumptions used in the preparation of financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Any changes in estimates, judgments and assumptions could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and operating results.

The preparation of financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP involves making estimates, judgments and assumptions that affect reported amounts of assets (including intangible assets), liabilities and related reserves, revenues, expenses and income. Estimates, judgments and assumptions are inherently subject to change in the future, and any such changes could result in corresponding changes to the amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues, expenses and income. Any such changes could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and operating results.

We are subject to governmental export and import controls in several jurisdictions that could subject us to liability or impair our ability to compete in international markets.

We are subject to governmental export and import controls in Thailand, the PRC and the U.S. that may limit our business opportunities. Various countries regulate the import of certain technologies and have enacted laws that could limit our ability to export or sell the products we manufacture. The export of certain technologies from the U.S. and other nations to the PRC is barred by applicable export controls, and similar prohibitions could be extended to Thailand, thereby limiting our ability to manufacture certain products. Any change in export or import regulations or related legislation, shift in approach to the enforcement of existing regulations, or change in the countries, persons or technologies targeted by such regulations, could limit our ability to offer our manufacturing services to existing or potential customers, which could harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

The loan agreements for our long-term debt obligations contain financial ratio covenants that may impair our ability to conduct our business.

We have loan agreements for our long-term debt obligations, which contain financial ratio covenants that may limit management’s discretion with respect to certain business matters. These covenants require us to maintain a specified debt-to-equity ratio and debt service coverage ratio (earnings before interest and depreciation and amortization plus cash on hand minus short-term debt), which may restrict our ability to incur additional indebtedness and limit our ability to use our cash. In the event of our default on these loans or a breach of a covenant, the lenders may immediately cancel the loan agreement, deem the full amount of the outstanding indebtedness immediately due and payable, charge us interest on a monthly basis on the full amount of the outstanding indebtedness and, if we cannot repay all of our outstanding obligations, sell the assets pledged as collateral for the loan in order to fulfill our obligation. We may also be held responsible for any damages and related expenses incurred by the lender as a result of any default. Any failure by us or our subsidiaries to comply with these agreements could harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

Energy price increases may negatively impact our results of operations.

We, along with our suppliers and customers, rely on various energy sources in our manufacturing and transportation activities. Energy prices have been subject to increases and volatility caused by market fluctuations, supply and demand, currency fluctuation, production and transportation disruption, world events and government regulations. While significant uncertainty currently exists about the future levels of energy prices, a significant increase is possible. Increased energy prices could increase our raw material and transportation costs. In addition, increased transportation costs of our suppliers and customers could be passed along to us. We may not be able to increase our prices enough to offset these increased costs. In addition, any increase in our prices may reduce our future customer orders which could harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

Risks Related to Ownership of Our Ordinary Shares

Our share price may be volatile due to fluctuations in our operating results and other factors, including the activities and operating results of our customers or competitors, any of which could cause our share price to decline.

Our revenues, expenses and results of operations have fluctuated in the past and are likely to do so in the future from quarter to quarter and year to year due to the risk factors described in this section and elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. In addition to market and industry factors, the price and trading volume of our ordinary shares may fluctuate in response to a number of events and factors relating to us, our competitors, our customers and the markets we serve, many of

 

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which are beyond our control. Factors such as variations in our total revenues, earnings and cash flow, announcements of new investments or acquisitions, changes in our pricing practices or those of our competitors, commencement or outcome of litigation, sales of ordinary shares by us or our principal shareholders, fluctuations in market prices for our services and general market conditions could cause the market price of our ordinary shares to change substantially. Any of these factors may result in large and sudden changes in the volume and price at which our ordinary shares trade. For example, during October 2011, when some of the worst flooding in Thailand occurred, our share price fell from $20.03 per share on October 10, 2011 to $11.95 per share on October 26, 2011, a 40% decrease. Among other things, volatility and weakness in our share price could mean that investors may not be able to sell their shares at or above the prices they paid. Volatility and weakness could also impair our ability in the future to offer our ordinary shares or convertible securities as a source of additional capital and/or as consideration in the acquisition of other businesses.

Furthermore, the stock markets have experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that have affected and continue to affect the market prices of equity securities of many companies. These fluctuations often have been unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of those companies. These broad market and industry fluctuations, as well as general economic, political and market conditions such as recessions, interest rate changes or international currency fluctuations, may cause the market price of our ordinary shares to decline. In the past, companies that have experienced volatility in the market price of their stock have been subject to securities class action litigation. We may be the target of this type of litigation in the future. Securities litigation against us could result in substantial costs and divert our management’s attention from other business concerns, which could seriously harm our business.

If securities or industry analysts do not publish research or if they publish misleading or unfavorable research about our business, the market price and trading volume of our ordinary shares could decline.

The trading market for our ordinary shares depends in part on the research and reports that securities or industry analysts publish about us or our business. If securities or industry analysts stop covering us, or if too few analysts cover us, the market price of our ordinary shares would be adversely impacted. If one or more of the analysts who covers us downgrades our ordinary shares or publishes misleading or unfavorable research about our business, our market price would likely decline. If one or more of these analysts ceases coverage of us or fails to publish reports on us regularly, demand for our ordinary shares could decrease, which could cause the market price or trading volume of our ordinary shares to decline.

We may become a passive foreign investment company, which could result in adverse U.S. tax consequences to U.S. investors.

Based upon the value of our assets, which is determined in part on the trading price of our ordinary shares, we do not expect to be a passive foreign investment company, or PFIC, for U.S. federal income tax purposes for the taxable year 2012 or for the foreseeable future. However, despite our expectations, we cannot assure you that we will not be a PFIC for the taxable year 2012 or any future year because our PFIC status is determined at the end of each year and depends on the composition of our income and assets during such year. If we are a PFIC, our U.S. investors will be subject to increased tax liabilities under U.S. tax laws and regulations and to burdensome reporting requirements.

We are controlled by a small group of existing shareholders, whose interests may differ from the interests of our other shareholders.

As of December 28, 2012, our existing shareholders Asia Pacific Growth Fund III, L.P., an affiliate of H&Q Asia Pacific, and Mr. Mitchell, our chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors, beneficially owned approximately 26.5% and 8.4%, respectively, of our outstanding ordinary shares. In addition, Mr. Mitchell serves on our board of directors and, until March 2012, a representative of H&Q Asia Pacific served on our board of directors. Accordingly, they have had, and will continue to have, significant influence in determining the outcome of any corporate transaction or other matter submitted to our shareholders for approval, including mergers, consolidations and the sale of all or substantially all of our assets, election of directors and other significant corporate actions. They will also have the power to prevent or cause a change in control. The interests of these shareholders may differ from the interests of our other shareholders.

 

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Certain provisions in our constitutional documents may discourage our acquisition by a third party, which could limit your opportunity to sell shares at a premium.

Our constitutional documents include provisions that could limit the ability of others to acquire control of us, modify our structure or cause us to engage in change-of-control transactions, including, among other things, provisions that:

 

   

establish a classified board of directors;

 

   

prohibit our shareholders from calling meetings or acting by written consent in lieu of a meeting;

 

   

limit the ability of our shareholders to propose actions at duly convened meetings; and

 

   

authorize our board of directors, without action by our shareholders, to issue preferred shares and additional ordinary shares.

These provisions could have the effect of depriving you of an opportunity to sell your ordinary shares at a premium over prevailing market prices by discouraging third parties from seeking to acquire control of us in a tender offer or similar transaction.

Our shareholders may face difficulties in protecting their interests because we are organized under Cayman Islands law.

Our corporate affairs are governed by our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, by the Companies Law (as amended) of the Cayman Islands and the common law of the Cayman Islands. The rights of our shareholders and the fiduciary responsibilities of our directors under the laws of the Cayman Islands are not as clearly established as under statutes or judicial precedent in existence in jurisdictions in the U.S. Therefore, you may have more difficulty in protecting your interests than would shareholders of a corporation incorporated in a jurisdiction in the U.S., due to the comparatively less developed nature of Cayman Islands law in this area.

While Cayman Islands law allows a dissenting shareholder to express the shareholder’s view that a court sanctioned reorganization of a Cayman Islands company would not provide fair value for the shareholder’s shares, Cayman Islands statutory law does not specifically provide for shareholder appraisal rights on a merger or consolidation of a company. This may make it more difficult for you to assess the value of any consideration you may receive in a merger or consolidation or to require that the offeror give you additional consideration if you believe the consideration offered is insufficient.

Shareholders of Cayman Islands exempted companies such as our company have no general rights under Cayman Islands law to inspect corporate records and accounts or to obtain copies of lists of shareholders. Our directors have discretion under our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association to determine whether or not, and under what conditions, our corporate records may be inspected by our shareholders, but are not obliged to make them available to our shareholders. This may make it more difficult for you to obtain the information needed to establish any facts necessary for a shareholder motion or to solicit proxies from other shareholders in connection with a proxy contest.

Subject to limited exceptions, under Cayman Islands law, a minority shareholder may not bring a derivative action against the board of directors. Our Cayman Islands counsel has advised us that they are not aware of any reported class action or derivative action having been brought in a Cayman Islands court.

Certain judgments obtained against us by our shareholders may not be enforceable.

We are a Cayman Islands company and substantially all of our assets are located outside of the United States. In addition, many of our directors and officers are nationals and residents of countries other than the United States. A substantial portion of the assets of these persons is located outside of the United States. As a result, it may be difficult to effect service of process within the United States upon these persons. It may also be difficult to enforce in U.S. courts judgments obtained in U.S. courts based on the civil liability provisions of the U.S. federal securities laws against us and our officers and directors who are not resident in the United States and the substantial majority of whose assets are located outside of the United States. In addition, there is uncertainty as to whether the courts of the Cayman Islands, Thailand or the PRC would recognize or enforce judgments of U.S. courts against us or such persons predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the securities laws of the United States

 

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or any state. In particular, a judgment in a U.S. court would not be recognized and accepted by Thai courts without a re-trial or examination of the merits of the case. In addition, there is uncertainty as to whether such Cayman Islands, Thai or PRC courts would be competent to hear original actions brought in the Cayman Islands, Thailand or the PRC against us or such persons predicated upon the securities laws of the United States or any state.

ITEM 2. UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS

Sales of Unregistered Securities

None.

Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers

None.

ITEM 6. EXHIBITS

The exhibits listed in the accompanying Exhibit Index are filed or incorporated by reference as part of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

 

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SIGNATURE

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 February 5, 2013.

 

  FABRINET
By:  

/s/ T OH -S ENG N G

Name:   Toh-Seng Ng
Title:   Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit
Number

  

Description

   Incorporated by reference herein
      Form    Exhibit
No.
   Filing Date    File No.
10.1+    Fabrinet 2010 Performance Incentive Plan, as amended            
10.2+    Form of Share Option Agreement under the Fabrinet 2010 Performance Incentive Plan            
10.3+    Form of Restricted Share Agreement under the Fabrinet 2010 Performance Incentive Plan            
10.4+    Form of Restricted Share Unit Agreement under the Fabrinet 2010 Performance Incentive Plan            
10.5+    Amended and Restated Employment Offer Letter, dated November 2, 2012, between John Marchetti and Fabrinet USA, Inc.    8-K    10.1    November 5,
2012
   001-34775
10.6+    Description of Fiscal 2013 Executive Incentive Plan    Item 5.02 of
Form 8-K
   N/A    November 5,
2012
   001-34775
31.1    Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Exchange Act Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a), as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002            
31.2    Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Exchange Act Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a), as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002            
32.1    Certifications of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002            
101.INS*    XBRL Instance.            
101.SCH*    XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema.            
101.CAL*    XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase.            
101.DEF*    XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase.            
101.LAB*    XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase.            
101.PRE*    XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase.            

 

+ Indicates management contract or compensatory plan.
* XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) information is furnished and not filed or a part of a registration statement or prospectus for purposes of sections 11 or 12 of the Securities Act of 1933, is deemed not filed for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and is otherwise not subject to liability under these sections.

 

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Exhibit 10.1

FABRINET

2010 PERFORMANCE INCENTIVE PLAN

(As amended December 20, 2010 and December 20, 2012)

1.    PURPOSE OF PLAN

The purpose of this Fabrinet 2010 Performance Incentive Plan (this “ Plan ”) of Fabrinet, an exempted company formed under the laws of the Cayman Islands (the “ Company ”), is to promote the success of the Company and to increase shareholder value by providing an additional means through the grant of awards to attract, motivate, retain and reward selected employees and other eligible persons.

2.    ELIGIBILITY

The Administrator (as such term is defined in Section 3.1) may grant awards under this Plan only to those persons that the Administrator determines to be Eligible Persons. An “ Eligible Person ” is any person who is either: (a) an officer (whether or not a director) or employee of the Company or one of its Subsidiaries; (b) a director of the Company or one of its Subsidiaries; or (c) an individual consultant or advisor who renders or has rendered bona fide services (other than services in connection with the offering or sale of securities of the Company or one of its Subsidiaries in a capital-raising transaction or as a market maker or promoter of securities of the Company or one of its Subsidiaries) to the Company or one of its Subsidiaries and who is selected to participate in this Plan by the Administrator; provided, however, that a person who is otherwise an Eligible Person under clause (c) above may participate in this Plan only if such participation would not adversely affect either the Company’s eligibility to use Form S-8 to register under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Securities Act ”), the offering and sale of shares issuable under this Plan by the Company or the Company’s compliance with any other applicable laws. An Eligible Person who has been granted an award (a “participant”) may, if otherwise eligible, be granted additional awards if the Administrator shall so determine. As used herein, “ Subsidiary ” means any corporation or other entity a majority of whose outstanding voting shares or voting power is beneficially owned directly or indirectly by the Company; and “ Board ” means the Board of Directors of the Company.

3.    PLAN ADMINISTRATION

 

  3.1 The Administrator . This Plan shall be administered by and all awards under this Plan shall be authorized by the Administrator. The “ Administrator ” means the Board or one or more committees appointed by the Board, including the compensation committee, or another committee (within its delegated authority) to administer all or certain aspects of this Plan. Any such committee shall be comprised solely of one or more directors or such number of directors as may be required under applicable law. A committee may delegate some or all of its authority to another committee so constituted. The Board or a committee comprised solely of directors may also delegate, to the extent permitted by the Companies Law (2004 Revision) of the Cayman Islands and any other applicable law, to one or more officers of the Company, its powers under this Plan (a) to designate the officers and employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries who will receive grants of awards under this Plan, and (b) to determine the number of shares subject to, and the other terms and conditions of, such awards. The Board may delegate different levels of authority to different committees with administrative and grant authority under this Plan. Unless otherwise provided in the Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company or the applicable charter of any Administrator: (a) a majority of the members of the acting Administrator shall constitute a quorum, and (b) the vote of a majority of the members present assuming the presence of a quorum or the unanimous written consent of the members of the Administrator shall constitute action by the acting Administrator.

With respect to awards intended to satisfy the requirements for performance-based compensation under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “ Code ”), this Plan shall be

 

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administered by a committee consisting solely of two or more outside directors (as this requirement is applied under Section 162(m) of the Code); provided, however, that the failure to satisfy such requirement shall not affect the validity of the action of any committee otherwise duly authorized and acting in the matter. Award grants, and transactions in or involving awards, intended to be exempt under Rule 16b-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “ Exchange Act ”), must be duly and timely authorized by the Board or a committee consisting solely of two or more non-employee directors (as this requirement is applied under Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act). To the extent required by any applicable securities exchange, this Plan shall be administered by a committee composed entirely of independent directors (within the meaning of the applicable listing agency).

 

  3.2 Powers of the Administrator . Subject to the express provisions of this Plan, the Administrator is authorized and empowered to do all things necessary or desirable in connection with the authorization of awards and the administration of this Plan (in the case of a committee or delegation to one or more officers, within the authority delegated to that committee or person(s)), including, without limitation, the authority to:

 

  (a) determine eligibility and, from among those persons determined to be eligible, the particular Eligible Persons who will receive an award under this Plan;

 

  (b) grant awards to Eligible Persons, determine the price at which securities will be offered or awarded and the number of securities to be offered or awarded to any of such persons, determine the other specific terms and conditions of such awards consistent with the express limits of this Plan, establish the installments (if any) in which such awards shall become exercisable or shall vest (which may include, without limitation, performance and/or time-based schedules), or determine that no delayed exercisability or vesting is required, establish any applicable performance targets, and establish the events of termination or reversion of such awards;

 

  (c) approve the forms of award agreements (which need not be identical either as to type of award or among participants);

 

  (d) construe and interpret this Plan and any agreements defining the rights and obligations of the Company, its Subsidiaries, and participants under this Plan, further define the terms used in this Plan, and prescribe, amend and rescind rules and regulations relating to the administration of this Plan or the awards granted under this Plan;

 

  (e) cancel, modify, or waive the Company’s rights with respect to, or modify, discontinue, suspend, or terminate any or all outstanding awards, subject to any required consent under Section 8.7.5;

 

  (f) accelerate or extend the vesting or exercisability or extend the term of any or all such outstanding awards (in the case of options or share appreciation rights, within the maximum ten-year term of such awards) in such circumstances as the Administrator may deem appropriate (including, without limitation, in connection with a termination of employment or services or other events of a personal nature) subject to any required consent under Section 8.7.5;

 

  (g) adjust the number of Ordinary Shares (as defined in Section 4.1 below) subject to any award, adjust the price of any or all outstanding awards or otherwise change previously imposed terms and conditions, in such circumstances as the Administrator may deem appropriate, in each case subject to Sections 4 and 8.7, and provided that in no case (except due to an adjustment contemplated by Section 7 or any repricing that may be approved by shareholders) shall such an adjustment constitute a repricing (i.e. a reduction by amendment, cancellation and regrant, exchange or other means including an exchange for cash or another award) of the per share exercise or base price of any option or share appreciation right;

 

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  (h) determine the date of grant of an award, which may be a designated date after but not before the date of the Administrator’s action (unless otherwise designated by the Administrator, the date of grant of an award shall be the date upon which the Administrator took the action granting an award);

 

  (i) determine whether, and the extent to which, adjustments are required pursuant to Section 7 hereof and authorize the termination, conversion, substitution or succession of awards upon the occurrence of an event of the type described in Section 7;

 

  (j) acquire or settle (subject to Sections 7 and 8.7) rights under awards in cash, shares of equivalent value, or other consideration, provided, however, that in no case without shareholder approval shall the Corporation effect a “repricing” of a share option or share appreciation right granted under this Plan by purchasing the option or share appreciation right at a time when the exercise or base price of the award is greater than the fair market value of an Ordinary Share; and

 

  (k) determine the fair market value of the Ordinary Shares or awards under this Plan from time to time and/or the manner in which such value will be determined.

 

  3.3 Binding Determinations . Any action taken by, or inaction of, the Company, any Subsidiary, or the Administrator relating or pursuant to this Plan and within its authority hereunder or under applicable law shall be within the absolute discretion of that entity or body and shall be conclusive and binding upon all persons. Neither the Board nor any Board committee, nor any member thereof or person acting at the direction thereof, shall be liable for any act, omission, interpretation, construction or determination made in good faith in connection with this Plan (or any award made under this Plan), and all such persons shall be entitled to indemnification and reimbursement by the Company in respect of any claim, loss, damage or expense (including, without limitation, attorneys’ fees) arising or resulting therefrom to the fullest extent permitted by law and/or under any directors and officers liability insurance coverage that may be in effect from time to time.

 

  3.4 Reliance on Experts . In making any determination or in taking or not taking any action under this Plan, the Board or a committee, as the case may be, may obtain and may rely upon the advice of experts, including employees and professional advisors to the Company. No director, officer or agent of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall be liable for any such action or determination taken or made or omitted in good faith.

 

  3.5 Delegation . The Administrator may delegate ministerial, non-discretionary functions to individuals who are officers or employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or to third parties.

4.    ORDINARY SHARES SUBJECT TO THE PLAN; SHARE LIMITS

 

  4.1 Shares Available . Subject to the provisions of Section 7.1, the shares that may be delivered under this Plan shall be the Company’s authorized but unissued Ordinary Shares. For purposes of this Plan, “ Ordinary Shares ” shall mean the ordinary shares of the Company and such other securities or property as may become the subject of awards under this Plan, or may become subject to such awards, pursuant to an adjustment made under Section 7.1.

 

  4.2

Share Limits . The maximum number of Ordinary Shares that may be delivered pursuant to awards granted to Eligible Persons under this Plan (the “ Share Limit ”) is equal to the sum of (1) five million seven hundred thousand (5,700,000) shares, plus (2) the number of any shares subject to options granted under the Fabrinet 1999 Share Option Plan and outstanding on the effective date of the first registration statement that is filed by the Company and declared effective pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “ Registration Date ”), which expire, or for any

 

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  reason are cancelled or terminated, on or after the Registration Date without being exercised. The maximum number of Ordinary Shares that may be delivered pursuant to options qualified as incentive stock options (within the meaning of Code Section 422) granted under this Plan is five million seven hundred thousand (5,700,000) shares. Each of the foregoing numerical limits is subject to adjustment as contemplated by Section 4.3, Section 7.1, and Section 8.11.

 

  4.3 Awards Settled in Cash, Reissue of Awards and Shares . To the extent that an award granted under this Plan is settled in cash or a form other than Ordinary Shares, the shares that would have been delivered had there been no such cash or other settlement shall not be counted against the shares available for issuance under this Plan. In the event that Ordinary Shares are delivered in respect of a dividend equivalent right granted under this Plan, only the actual number of shares delivered with respect to the award shall be counted against the share limits of this Plan. To the extent that Ordinary Shares are delivered pursuant to the exercise of a share appreciation right or share option granted under this Plan, only Shares actually issued pursuant to a share appreciation right or share option will cease to be available under the Plan; all remaining shares under share appreciation rights or share option will remain available for future grant or sale under the Plan (unless the Plan has terminated). Shares that are subject to or underlie awards granted under this Plan which expire or for any reason are cancelled or terminated, are forfeited, fail to vest, or for any other reason are not paid or delivered under this Plan shall again be available for subsequent awards under this Plan. Shares that are exchanged by a participant or withheld by the Company as full or partial payment in connection with any award under this Plan, as well as any shares exchanged by a participant or withheld by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries to satisfy the tax withholding obligations related to any award under this Plan, shall be available for subsequent awards under this Plan. Refer to Section 8.11 for application of the foregoing share limits with respect to assumed awards.

 

  4.4 Reservation of Shares; No Fractional Shares; Minimum Issue . The Company shall at all times reserve a number of Ordinary Shares sufficient to cover the Company’s obligations and contingent obligations to deliver shares with respect to awards then outstanding under this Plan (exclusive of any dividend equivalent obligations to the extent the Company has the right to settle such rights in cash). No fractional shares shall be delivered under this Plan. The Administrator may pay cash in lieu of any fractional shares in settlements of awards under this Plan. No fewer than 100 shares may be purchased on exercise of any award (or, in the case of share appreciation or purchase rights, no fewer than 100 rights may be exercised at any one time) unless the total number purchased or exercised is the total number at the time available for purchase or exercise under the award.

5.    AWARDS

 

  5.1 Type and Form of Awards . The Administrator shall determine the type or types of award(s) to be made to each selected Eligible Person. Awards may be granted singly, in combination or in tandem. Awards also may be made in combination or in tandem with, in replacement of, as alternatives to, or as the payment form for grants or rights under any other employee or compensation plan of the Company or one of its Subsidiaries. The types of awards that may be granted under this Plan are:

5.1.1 Share Options . A share option is the grant of a right to purchase a specified number of Ordinary Shares during a specified period as determined by the Administrator. An option may be intended as an incentive stock option within the meaning of Section 422 of the Code (an “ ISO ”) or a nonqualified share option (an option not intended to be an ISO). The award agreement for an option will indicate if the option is intended as an ISO; otherwise it will be deemed to be a nonqualified share option. The maximum term of each option (ISO or nonqualified) shall be ten (10) years. The per share exercise price for each option shall be not less than 100% of the fair market value of an Ordinary Share on the date of grant of the option. When an option is exercised, the exercise price for the shares to be purchased shall be paid in full in cash or such other method permitted by the Administrator consistent with Section 5.4.

 

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5.1.2 Additional Rules Applicable to ISOs . To the extent that the aggregate fair market value (determined at the time of grant of the applicable option) of shares with respect to which ISOs first become exercisable by a participant in any calendar year exceeds $100,000, taking into account both Ordinary Shares subject to ISOs under this Plan and shares subject to ISOs under all other plans of the Company or one of its Subsidiaries (or any parent or predecessor corporation to the extent required by and within the meaning of Section 422 of the Code and the regulations promulgated thereunder), such options shall be treated as nonqualified share options. In reducing the number of options treated as ISOs to meet the $100,000 limit, the most recently granted options shall be reduced first. To the extent a reduction of simultaneously granted options is necessary to meet the $100,000 limit, the Administrator may, in the manner and to the extent permitted by law, designate which Ordinary Shares are to be treated as shares acquired pursuant to the exercise of an ISO. ISOs may only be granted to employees of the Company or one of its subsidiaries (for this purpose, the term “ subsidiary ” is used as defined in Section 424(f) of the Code, which generally requires an unbroken chain of ownership of at least 50% of the total combined voting power of all classes of shares of each subsidiary in the chain beginning with the Company and ending with the subsidiary in question). There shall be imposed in any award agreement relating to ISOs such other terms and conditions as from time to time are required in order that the option be an “incentive stock option” as that term is defined in Section 422 of the Code. No ISO may be granted to any person who, at the time the option is granted, owns (or is deemed to own under Section 424(d) of the Code) outstanding Ordinary Shares possessing more than 10% of the total combined voting power of all classes of shares of the Company, unless the exercise price of such option is at least 110% of the fair market value of the shares subject to the option and such option by its terms is not exercisable after the expiration of five (5) years from the date such option is granted.

5.1.3 Share Appreciation Rights . A share appreciation right or “ SAR ” is a right to receive a payment, in cash and/or Ordinary Shares, equal to the excess of the fair market value of a specified number of Ordinary Shares on the date the SAR is exercised over the “base price” of the SAR, which base price shall be set forth in the applicable award agreement and shall be not less than 100% of the fair market value of an Ordinary Share on the date of grant of the SAR. The maximum term of an SAR shall be ten (10) years.

5.1.4 Other Awards . The other types of awards that may be granted under this Plan include: (a) share bonuses, restricted shares, performance shares, share units, phantom shares, dividend equivalents, or similar rights to purchase or acquire shares, whether at a fixed or variable price or ratio related to the Ordinary Shares, upon the passage of time, the occurrence of one or more events, or the satisfaction of performance criteria or other conditions, or any combination thereof; or (b) any similar securities with a value derived from the value of or related to the Ordinary Shares and/or returns thereon.

 

  5.2 Award Agreements . Each award shall be evidenced by either (1) a written award agreement in a form approved by the Administrator and executed by the Company by an officer duly authorized to act on its behalf, or (2) an electronic notice of award grant in a form approved by the Administrator and recorded by the Company (or its designee) in an electronic recordkeeping system used for the purpose of tracking award grants under this Plan generally (in each case, an “award agreement”), as the Administrator may provide and, in each case and if required by the Administrator, executed or otherwise electronically accepted by the recipient of the award in such form and manner as the Administrator may require. The Administrator may authorize any officer of the Company (other than the particular award recipient) to execute any or all award agreements on behalf of the Company. The award agreement shall set forth the material terms and conditions of the award as established by the Administrator consistent with the express limitations of this Plan.

 

  5.3

Deferrals and Settlements . Payment of awards may be in the form of cash, Ordinary Shares, other awards or combinations thereof as the Administrator shall determine, and with such restrictions as it

 

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  may impose. The Administrator may also require or permit participants to elect to defer the issuance of shares or the settlement of awards in cash under such rules and procedures as it may establish under this Plan. The Administrator may also provide that deferred settlements include the payment or crediting of interest or other earnings on the deferral amounts, or the payment or crediting of dividend equivalents where the deferred amounts are denominated in shares.

 

  5.4 Consideration for Ordinary Shares or Awards . The purchase price for any award granted under this Plan or the Ordinary Shares to be delivered pursuant to an award, as applicable, may be paid by means of any lawful consideration as determined by the Administrator, including, without limitation, one or a combination of the following methods:

 

   

services rendered by the recipient of such award;

 

   

cash, check payable to the order of the Company, or electronic funds transfer;

 

   

notice and third party payment in such manner as may be authorized by the Administrator;

 

   

if approved by the Administrator, the delivery of previously owned Ordinary Shares;

 

   

if approved by the Administrator, by a reduction in the number of shares otherwise deliverable pursuant to the award; or

 

   

if approved by the Administrator, subject to such procedures as the Administrator may adopt, pursuant to a “cashless exercise” with a third party who provides financing for the purposes of (or who otherwise facilitates) the purchase or exercise of awards.

In no event shall any shares newly-issued by the Company be issued for less than the minimum lawful consideration for such shares or for consideration other than consideration permitted by applicable state law. Ordinary Shares used to satisfy the exercise price of an option shall be valued at their fair market value on the date of exercise. The Company will not be obligated to deliver any shares unless and until it receives full payment of the exercise or purchase price therefor and any related withholding obligations under Section 8.5 and any other conditions to exercise or purchase have been satisfied. Unless otherwise expressly provided in the applicable award agreement, the Administrator may at any time eliminate or limit a participant’s ability to pay the purchase or exercise price of any award or shares by any method other than cash payment to the Company.

 

  5.5

Definition of Fair Market Value . For purposes of this Plan, “fair market value” shall mean, unless otherwise determined or provided by the Administrator in the circumstances, the last price (in regular trading) for an Ordinary Share as furnished by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (the “FINRA”) through any established stock exchange or a national market system, including without limitation the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq Global Select Market, the Nasdaq Global Market or the Nasdaq Capital Market of The Nasdaq Stock Market, or another applicable listing agency (the “Stock Market”) for the date in question or, if no sales of Ordinary Shares were reported on the Stock Market on that date, the last price (in regular trading) for an Ordinary Share as furnished through the Stock Market for the next preceding day on which sales of Ordinary Shares were reported by the FINRA. The Administrator may, however, provide with respect to one or more awards that the fair market value shall equal the last price for an Ordinary Share as furnished by the FINRA through the Stock Market on the last trading day preceding the date in question or the average of the high and low trading prices of an Ordinary Share as furnished by the FINRA through the Stock Market for the date in question or the most recent trading day. If the Ordinary Shares are no longer listed or is no longer actively traded on the Stock Market as of the applicable date, the fair market value of the Ordinary Shares shall be the value as reasonably determined by the Administrator for purposes of the award in

 

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  the circumstances. The Administrator also may adopt a different methodology for determining fair market value with respect to one or more awards if a different methodology is necessary or advisable to secure any intended favorable tax, legal or other treatment for the particular award(s) (for example, and without limitation, the Administrator may provide that fair market value for purposes of one or more awards will be based on an average of closing prices (or the average of high and low daily trading prices) for a specified period preceding the relevant date).

 

  5.6 Transfer Restrictions .

5.6.1 Limitations on Exercise and Transfer . Unless otherwise expressly provided in (or pursuant to) this Section 5.6 or required by applicable law, (a) all awards are non-transferable and shall not be subject in any manner to sale, transfer, anticipation, alienation, assignment, pledge, encumbrance or charge; (b) awards shall be exercised only by the participant; and (c) amounts payable or shares issuable pursuant to any award shall be delivered only to (or for the account of) the participant.

5.6.2 Exceptions . The Administrator may permit awards to be exercised by and paid to, or otherwise transferred to, family members (or trusts or other entities on their behalf) or charitable organizations or entities pursuant to such conditions and procedures, including limitations on subsequent transfers, as the Administrator may, in its sole discretion, establish in writing. Any permitted transfer shall be subject to compliance with applicable federal and state securities laws and shall not be for value (other than nominal consideration, settlement of marital property rights, or for interests in an entity in which more than 50% of the voting interests are held by the Eligible Person or by the Eligible Person’s family members).

5.6.3 Further Exceptions to Limits on Transfer . The exercise and transfer restrictions in Section 5.6.1 shall not apply to:

 

  (a) transfers to the Company (for example, in connection with the expiration or termination of the award);

 

  (b) the designation of a beneficiary to receive benefits in the event of the participant’s death or, if the participant has died, transfers to or exercise by the participant’s beneficiary, or, in the absence of a validly designated beneficiary, transfers by will or the laws of descent and distribution;

 

  (c) subject to any applicable limitations on ISOs, transfers to a family member (or former family member) pursuant to a domestic relations order if approved or ratified by the Administrator;

 

  (d) if the participant has suffered a disability, permitted transfers or exercises on behalf of the participant by his or her legal representative; or

 

  (e) the authorization by the Administrator of “cashless exercise” procedures with third parties who provide financing for the purpose of (or who otherwise facilitate) the exercise of awards consistent with applicable laws and the express authorization of the Administrator.

 

  5.7 International Awards . One or more awards may be granted to Eligible Persons who provide services to the Company or one of its Subsidiaries outside of the United States. Any awards granted to such persons may be granted pursuant to the terms and conditions of any applicable sub-plans, that may be different than the terms and conditions of the Plan, if any, appended to this Plan and approved by the Administrator.

 

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6.    EFFECT OF TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT OR SERVICE ON AWARDS

 

  6.1 General . The Administrator shall establish the effect of a termination of employment or service on the rights and benefits under each award under this Plan and in so doing may make distinctions based upon, inter alia, the cause of termination and type of award. If the participant is not an employee of the Company or one of its Subsidiaries and provides other services to the Company or one of its Subsidiaries, the Administrator shall be the sole judge for purposes of this Plan (unless a contract or the award otherwise provides) of whether the participant continues to render services to the Company or one of its Subsidiaries and the date, if any, upon which such services shall be deemed to have terminated.

 

  6.2 Events Not Deemed Terminations of Service . Unless the express policy of the Company or one of its Subsidiaries, or the Administrator, otherwise provides, the employment relationship shall not be considered terminated in the case of (a) sick leave, (b) military leave, or (c) any other leave of absence authorized by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries, or the Administrator; provided that unless reemployment upon the expiration of such leave is guaranteed by contract or law or the Administrator otherwise provides, such leave is for a period of not more than three months. Further, for purposes of ISOs, no such leave may exceed three months, unless reemployment upon expiration of such leave is guaranteed by contract or law. If reemployment, upon expiration of a leave of absence approved by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries or the Administrator, is not so guaranteed, then six months following the first day of such leave, any ISO held by such participant will cease to be treated as an ISO and will be treated for U.S. tax purposes as a nonstatutory stock option. In the case of any employee of the Company or one of its Subsidiaries on an approved leave of absence, continued vesting of the award while on leave from the employ of the Company or one of its Subsidiaries may be suspended until the employee returns to service, unless the Administrator otherwise provides or applicable law otherwise requires. In no event shall an award be exercised after the expiration of the term set forth in the applicable award agreement.

 

  6.3 Effect of Change of Subsidiary Status . Except as otherwise permitted by the Administrator, for purposes of this Plan and any award, if an entity ceases to be a Subsidiary of the Company a termination of employment or service shall be deemed to have occurred with respect to each Eligible Person in respect of such Subsidiary who does not continue as an Eligible Person in respect of the Company or another Subsidiary that continues as such after giving effect to the transaction or other event giving rise to the change in status.

7.    ADJUSTMENTS; ACCELERATION

 

  7.1 Adjustments . Subject to Section 7.2, upon (or, as may be necessary to effect the adjustment, immediately prior to): any reclassification, recapitalization, stock split (including a stock split in the form of a stock dividend) or reverse stock split; any merger, combination, consolidation, or other reorganization; any spin-off, split-up, or similar extraordinary dividend distribution in respect of the Ordinary Shares; or any exchange of Ordinary Shares or other securities of the Company, or any similar, unusual or extraordinary corporate transaction in respect of the Ordinary Shares; then the Administrator shall equitably and proportionately adjust (1) the number and type of Ordinary Shares (or other securities) that thereafter may be made the subject of awards (including the specific share limits, maximums and numbers of shares set forth elsewhere in this Plan), (2) the number, amount and type of Ordinary Shares (or other securities or property) subject to any outstanding awards, (3) the grant, purchase, or exercise price (which term includes the base price of any SAR or similar right) of any outstanding awards, and/or (4) the securities, cash or other property deliverable upon exercise or payment of any outstanding awards, in each case to the extent necessary to preserve (but not increase) the level of incentives intended by this Plan and the then-outstanding awards.

 

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Unless otherwise expressly provided in the applicable award agreement, upon (or, as may be necessary to effect the adjustment, immediately prior to) any event or transaction described in the preceding paragraph or a sale of all or substantially all of the business or assets of the Company as an entirety, the Administrator shall equitably and proportionately adjust the performance standards applicable to any then-outstanding performance-based awards to the extent necessary to preserve the level of incentives intended by this Plan and the then-outstanding performance-based awards.

It is intended that, if possible, any adjustments contemplated by the preceding two paragraphs be made in a manner that satisfies applicable U.S. legal, tax (including, without limitation and as applicable in the circumstances, Section 424 of the Code and Section 409A of the Code) and accounting (so as to not trigger any charge to earnings with respect to such adjustment) requirements.

Without limiting the generality of Section 3.3, any good faith determination by the Administrator as to whether an adjustment is required in the circumstances pursuant to this Section 7.1, and the extent and nature of any such adjustment, shall be conclusive and binding on all persons.

 

  7.2 Corporate Transactions—Assumption and Termination of Awards . Upon the occurrence of any of the following: any merger, combination, consolidation, or other reorganization; any exchange of Ordinary Shares or other securities of the Company; a sale of all or substantially all the business, stock or assets of the Company; a dissolution of the Company; or any other event in which the Company does not survive (or does not survive as a public company in respect of its Ordinary Shares); then the Administrator may make provision for a cash payment in settlement of, or for the assumption, substitution or exchange of any or all outstanding share-based awards or the cash, securities or property deliverable to the holder of any or all outstanding share-based awards, based upon, to the extent relevant under the circumstances, the distribution or consideration payable to holders of the Ordinary Shares upon or in respect of such event. Upon the occurrence of any event described in the preceding sentence, then, unless the Administrator has made a provision for the substitution, assumption, exchange or other continuation or settlement of the award or the award would otherwise continue in accordance with its terms in the circumstances: (1) subject to Section 7.4 and unless otherwise provided in the applicable award agreement, each then-outstanding option and SAR shall become fully vested, all restricted shares then outstanding shall fully vest free of restrictions, and each other award granted under this Plan that is then outstanding shall become payable to the holder of such award; and (2) each award shall terminate upon the related event; provided that the holder of an option or SAR shall be given reasonable advance notice of the impending termination and a reasonable opportunity to exercise his or her outstanding vested options and SARs (after giving effect to any accelerated vesting required in the circumstances) in accordance with their terms before the termination of such awards (except that in no case shall more than ten days’ notice of the impending termination be required and any acceleration of vesting and any exercise of any portion of an award that is so accelerated may be made contingent upon the actual occurrence of the event).

Without limiting the preceding paragraph, in connection with any event referred to in the preceding paragraph or any change in control event defined in any applicable award agreement, the Administrator may, in its discretion, provide for the accelerated vesting of any award or awards as and to the extent determined by the Administrator in the circumstances.

The Administrator may adopt such valuation methodologies for outstanding awards as it deems reasonable in the event of a cash or property settlement and, in the case of options, SARs or similar rights, but without limitation on other methodologies, may base such settlement solely upon the excess if any of the per share amount payable upon or in respect of such event over the exercise or base price of the award.

In any of the events referred to in this Section 7.2, the Administrator may take such action contemplated by this Section 7.2 prior to such event (as opposed to on the occurrence of such event) to

 

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the extent that the Administrator deems the action necessary to permit the participant to realize the benefits intended to be conveyed with respect to the underlying shares. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Administrator may deem an acceleration to occur immediately prior to the applicable event and/or reinstate the original terms of the award if an event giving rise to an acceleration does not occur.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent a participant is subject to U.S. income taxation, a transaction will not be deemed to occur under this Section 7.2 unless the transaction qualifies as a change in control event within the meaning of Section 409A of the Code (“ Section 409A ”), as it has been and may be amended from time to time, and any proposed or final Treasury Regulations and Internal Revenue Service guidance that has been promulgated or may be promulgated thereunder from time to time.

Without limiting the generality of Section 3.3, any good faith determination by the Administrator pursuant to its authority under this Section 7.2 shall be conclusive and binding on all persons.

 

  7.3 Other Acceleration Rules . The Administrator may override the provisions of Section 7.2 and/or 7.4 by express provision in the award agreement and may accord any Eligible Person a right to refuse any acceleration, whether pursuant to the award agreement or otherwise, in such circumstances as the Administrator may approve. The portion of any ISO accelerated in connection with an event referred to in Section 7.2 (or such other circumstances as may trigger accelerated vesting of the award) shall remain exercisable as an ISO only to the extent the applicable $100,000 limitation on ISOs is not exceeded. To the extent exceeded, the accelerated portion of the option shall be exercisable as a nonqualified stock option under the Code.

 

  7.4

Golden Parachute Limitation . Notwithstanding anything else contained in this Section 7 to the contrary, in no event shall any award or payment be granted or accelerated under this Plan to an extent or in a manner so that such award or payment, 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 Subsidiaries, would not be fully deductible by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries 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 the reduction will occur in the following order: (a) reduction of cash payments; (b) cancellation of awards granted “contingent on a change in ownership or control,” within the meaning of Section 280G of the Code; (c) cancellation of accelerated vesting of equity awards; and (d) reduction of other employee benefits. In the event that awards are cancelled pursuant to clause (b) above, or the acceleration of vesting of any awards is cancelled under clause (c) above, such cancellation in each case will occur in the reverse order of the date of grant of the participant’s awards. If two or more awards are granted on the same date, the cancellation of each award, with respect to clause (b), or the cancellation of the accelerated vesting of each award, with respect to clause (c), will occur on a pro-rata basis across all awards with the same grant date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if a participant is a party to an employment or other agreement with the Company or one of its Subsidiaries, or is a participant in a severance program sponsored by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries, that contains express provisions regarding Section 280G and/or Section 4999 of the Code (or any similar successor provision), or the applicable award agreement includes such provisions, the Section 280G and/or Section 4999 provisions of such employment or other agreement or plan, as applicable, shall control as to the awards held by that participant (for example, and without limitation, a participant may be a party to an employment agreement with the Company or one of its Subsidiaries that provides for a “gross-up” as opposed to a “cut-back” in the event that the Section 280G thresholds are reached or exceeded in connection with a change in control and, in such event, the Section 280G and/or Section 4999 provisions of such employment agreement shall control as to any awards held by that participant). Provided, however, that if a reduction of

 

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  “parachute payments” within the meaning of Section 280G of the Code occurs pursuant to the terms of this Plan, or such other employment or other agreement or severance program, in no event will a participant have any discretion with respect to the ordering of such payment reductions.

8.    OTHER PROVISIONS

 

  8.1 Compliance with Laws . This Plan, the granting and vesting of awards under this Plan, the offer, issuance and delivery of Ordinary Shares and/or the payment of money under this Plan or under awards are subject to compliance with all applicable federal and state laws, rules and regulations (including but not limited to state and federal securities law, federal margin requirements) and to such approvals by any listing, regulatory or governmental authority as may, in the opinion of counsel for the Company, be necessary or advisable in connection therewith. The person acquiring any securities under this Plan will, if requested by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries, provide such assurances and representations to the Company or one of its Subsidiaries as the Administrator may deem necessary or desirable to assure compliance with all applicable legal and accounting requirements.

 

  8.2 No Rights to Award . No person shall have any claim or rights to be granted an award (or additional awards, as the case may be) under this Plan, subject to any express contractual rights (set forth in a document other than this Plan) to the contrary.

 

  8.3 No Employment/Service Contract . Nothing contained in this Plan (or in any other documents under this Plan or in any award) shall confer upon any Eligible Person or other participant any right to continue in the employ or other service of the Company or one of its Subsidiaries, constitute any contract or agreement of employment or other service or affect an employee’s status as an employee at will, nor shall interfere in any way with the right of the Company or one of its Subsidiaries to change a person’s compensation or other benefits, or to terminate his or her employment or other service, with or without cause. Nothing in this Section 8.3, however, is intended to adversely affect any express independent right of such person under a separate employment or service contract other than an award agreement.

 

  8.4 Plan Not Funded . Awards payable under this Plan shall be payable in shares or from the general assets of the Company, and no special or separate reserve, fund or deposit shall be made to assure payment of such awards. No participant, beneficiary or other person shall have any right, title or interest in any fund or in any specific asset (including Ordinary Shares, except as expressly otherwise provided) of the Company or one of its Subsidiaries by reason of any award hereunder. Neither the provisions of this Plan (or of any related documents), nor the creation or adoption of this Plan, nor any action taken pursuant to the provisions of this Plan shall create, or be construed to create, a trust of any kind or a fiduciary relationship between the Company or one of its Subsidiaries and any participant, beneficiary or other person. To the extent that a participant, beneficiary or other person acquires a right to receive payment pursuant to any award hereunder, such right shall be no greater than the right of any unsecured general creditor of the Company.

 

  8.5 Tax Withholding . Upon any exercise, vesting, or payment of any award or upon the disposition of Ordinary Shares acquired pursuant to the exercise of an ISO prior to satisfaction of the holding period requirements of Section 422 of the Code, the Company or one of its Subsidiaries shall have the right at its option to:

 

  (a) require the participant (or the participant’s personal representative or beneficiary, as the case may be) to pay or provide for payment of at least the minimum amount of any taxes which the Company or one of its Subsidiaries may be required to withhold with respect to such award event or payment; or

 

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  (b) deduct from any amount otherwise payable in cash to the participant (or the participant’s personal representative or beneficiary, as the case may be) the minimum amount of any taxes which the Company or one of its Subsidiaries may be required to withhold with respect to such cash payment.

In any case where a tax is required to be withheld in connection with the delivery of Ordinary Shares under this Plan, the Administrator may in its sole discretion (subject to Section 8.1) require or grant (either at the time of the award or thereafter) to the participant the right to elect, pursuant to such rules and subject to such conditions as the Administrator may establish, that the Company reduce the number of shares to be delivered by (or otherwise reacquire) the appropriate number of shares, valued in a consistent manner at their fair market value or at the sales price in accordance with authorized procedures for cashless exercises, necessary to satisfy the minimum applicable withholding obligation on exercise, vesting or payment. In no event shall the shares withheld exceed the minimum whole number of shares required for tax withholding under applicable law.

 

  8.6 Compliance With Section 409A . Awards will be designed and operated in such a manner that they are either exempt from the application of, or comply with, the requirements of Section 409A such that the grant, payment, settlement or deferral will not be subject to the additional tax or interest applicable under Section 409A, except as otherwise determined in the sole discretion of the Administrator. The Plan and each award agreement under the Plan is intended to meet the requirements of Section 409A and will be construed and interpreted in accordance with such intent, except as otherwise determined in the sole discretion of the Administrator. To the extent that an award or payment, or the settlement or deferral thereof, is subject to Section 409A the award will be granted, paid, settled or deferred in a manner that will meet the requirements of Section 409A, such that the grant, payment, settlement or deferral will not be subject to the additional tax or interest applicable under Section 409A.

 

  8.7 Effective Date, Termination and Suspension, Amendments .

8.7.1 Effective Date . This Plan is effective as of the Registration Date. This Plan shall be submitted for and subject to shareholder approval no later than twelve months after the adoption of the Plan by the Board. Unless earlier terminated by the Board, this Plan shall terminate at the close of business on the day before the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Plan by the Board. After the termination of this Plan either upon such stated expiration date or its earlier termination by the Board, no additional awards may be granted under this Plan, but previously granted awards (and the authority of the Administrator with respect thereto, including the authority to amend such awards) shall remain outstanding in accordance with their applicable terms and conditions and the terms and conditions of this Plan.

8.7.2 Board Authorization . The Board may, at any time, terminate or, from time to time, amend, modify or suspend this Plan, in whole or in part. No awards may be granted during any period that the Board suspends this Plan.

8.7.3 Shareholder Approval . To the extent then required by applicable law or any applicable listing agency or required under Sections 422 or 424 of the Code to preserve the intended tax consequences of this Plan, or pursuant to any repricing under Sections 3.2(g) and 3.2(j), or deemed necessary or advisable by the Board, any amendment to this Plan shall be subject to shareholder approval.

8.7.4 Amendments to Awards . Without limiting any other express authority of the Administrator under (but subject to) the express limits of this Plan, the Administrator by agreement or resolution may waive conditions of or limitations on awards to participants that the Administrator in the prior exercise of its discretion has imposed, without the consent of a participant, and (subject to the requirements of

 

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Sections 3.2 and 8.7.5) may make other changes to the terms and conditions of awards. Any amendment or other action that would constitute a repricing of an award is subject to the limitations set forth in Section 3.2(g).

8.7.5 Limitations on Amendments to Plan and Awards . No amendment, suspension or termination of this Plan or amendment of any outstanding award agreement shall, without written consent of the participant, affect in any manner materially adverse to the participant any rights or benefits of the participant or obligations of the Company under any award granted under this Plan prior to the effective date of such change. Changes, settlements and other actions contemplated by Section 7 shall not be deemed to constitute changes or amendments for purposes of this Section 8.7.

 

  8.8 Privileges of Share Ownership . Except as otherwise expressly authorized by the Administrator or this Plan, a participant shall not be entitled to any privilege of share ownership as to any Ordinary Shares not actually delivered to and held of record by the participant. Except as expressly required by Section 7.1 or otherwise expressly provided by the Administrator, no adjustment will be made for dividends or other rights as a shareholder for which a record date is prior to such date of delivery.

 

  8.9 Governing Law; Construction; Severability .

8.9.1 Choice of Law . This Plan, the awards, all documents evidencing awards and all other related documents shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California.

8.9.2 Severability . If a court of competent jurisdiction holds any provision invalid and unenforceable, the remaining provisions of this Plan shall continue in effect.

8.9.3 Plan Construction . It is the intent of the Company that the awards and transactions permitted by awards be interpreted in a manner that, in the case of participants who are or may be subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act, qualify, to the maximum extent compatible with the express terms of the award, for exemption from matching liability under Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall have no liability to any participant for Section 16 consequences of awards or events under awards if an award or event does not so qualify.

 

  8.10 Captions . Captions and headings are given to the sections and subsections of this Plan solely as a convenience to facilitate reference. Such headings shall not be deemed in any way material or relevant to the construction or interpretation of this Plan or any provision thereof.

 

  8.11 Share-Based Awards in Substitution for Share Options or Awards Granted by Other Corporation . Awards may be granted to Eligible Persons in substitution for or in connection with an assumption of employee share options, SARs, restricted shares or other share-based awards granted by other entities to persons who are or who will become Eligible Persons in respect of the Company or one of its Subsidiaries, in connection with a distribution, merger or other reorganization by or with the granting entity or an affiliated entity, or the acquisition by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries, directly or indirectly, of all or a substantial part of the shares or assets of the employing entity. The awards so granted need not comply with other specific terms of this Plan, provided the awards reflect only adjustments giving effect to the assumption or substitution consistent with the conversion applicable to the Ordinary Shares in the transaction and any change in the issuer of the security. Any shares that are delivered and any awards that are granted by, or become obligations of, the Company, as a result of the assumption by the Company of, or in substitution for, outstanding awards previously granted by an acquired company (or previously granted by a predecessor employer (or direct or indirect parent thereof) in the case of persons that become employed by the Company or one of its Subsidiaries in connection with a business or asset acquisition or similar transaction) shall not be counted against the Share Limit or other limits on the number of shares available for issuance under this Plan.

 

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  8.12 Non-Exclusivity of Plan . Nothing in this Plan shall limit or be deemed to limit the authority of the Board or the Administrator to grant awards or authorize any other compensation, with or without reference to the Ordinary Shares, under any other plan or authority.

 

  8.13 No Corporate Action Restriction . The existence of this Plan, the award agreements and the awards granted hereunder shall not limit, affect or restrict in any way the right or power of the Board or the shareholders of the Company to make or authorize: (a) any adjustment, recapitalization, reorganization or other change in the capital structure or business of the Company or any Subsidiary, (b) any merger, amalgamation, consolidation or change in the ownership of the Company or any Subsidiary, (c) any issue of bonds, debentures, capital, preferred or prior preference shares ahead of or affecting the shares (or the rights thereof) of the Company or any Subsidiary, (d) any dissolution or liquidation of the Company or any Subsidiary, (e) any sale or transfer of all or any part of the assets or business of the Company or any Subsidiary, or (f) any other corporate act or proceeding by the Company or any Subsidiary. No participant, beneficiary or any other person shall have any claim under any award or award agreement against any member of the Board or the Administrator, or the Company or any employees, officers or agents of the Company or any Subsidiary, as a result of any such action.

 

  8.14 Other Company Benefit and Compensation Programs . Payments and other benefits received by a participant under an award made pursuant to this Plan shall not be deemed a part of a participant’s compensation for purposes of the determination of benefits under any other employee welfare or benefit plans or arrangements, if any, provided by the Company or any Subsidiary, except where the Administrator expressly otherwise provides or authorizes in writing. Awards under this Plan may be made in addition to, in combination with, as alternatives to or in payment of grants, awards or commitments under any other plans or arrangements of the Company or its Subsidiaries.

 

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Exhibit 10.2

FABRINET 2010 PERFORMANCE INCENTIVE PLAN

SHARE OPTION AWARD AGREEMENT

Unless otherwise defined herein, the terms defined in the Fabrinet 2010 Performance Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) will have the same defined meanings in this Notice of Share Option Grant (the “Notice of Grant”) and Terms and Conditions of Share Option Grant, attached hereto as Exhibit A (together, the “Award Agreement”).

 

I. NOTICE OF SHARE OPTION GRANT

Participant Name:

Address:

You have been granted an option (“Option”) to purchase Ordinary Shares (“Shares”) of Fabrinet (the “Company”), subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan and this Award Agreement, as follows:

 

Grant Number  

 

 
Date of Grant  

 

 
Vesting Commencement Date  

 

 
Exercise Price per Share   $  

 

 
Total Number of Shares Granted  

 

 
Total Exercise Price   $  

 

 
Type of Option:  

     

  Incentive Stock Option  
 

     

  Nonstatutory Stock Option  
Term/Expiration Date:  

 

 

Vesting Schedule :

Subject to any acceleration provisions contained in the Plan or set forth below, this Option may be exercised, in whole or in part, in accordance with the following schedule:

[INSERT VESTING SCHEDULE]

Termination Period :

This Option will be exercisable for three (3) months after Participant ceases to be a Service Provider, unless such termination is due to Participant’s death or Disability, in which case this Option will be exercisable for twelve (12) months after Participant ceases to be Service Provider.


Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event may this Option be exercised after the Term/Expiration Date as provided above and may be subject to earlier termination as provided in Section 7 of the Plan.

By Participant’s signature and the signature of the Company’s representative below, Participant and the Company agree that this Option is granted under and governed by the terms and conditions of the Plan and this Award Agreement, including the Terms and Conditions of Share Option Grant, attached hereto as Exhibit A , all of which are made a part of this document. Participant has reviewed the Plan and this Award Agreement in their entirety, has had an opportunity to obtain the advice of counsel prior to executing this Award Agreement and fully understands all provisions of the Plan and Award Agreement. Participant hereby agrees to accept as binding, conclusive and final all decisions or interpretations of the Administrator upon any questions relating to the Plan and Award Agreement. Participant further agrees to notify the Company upon any change in the residence address indicated below.

 

PARTICIPANT:      FABRINET

 

    

 

Signature      By

 

    

 

Print Name      Title
Residence Address :     

 

    

 

    

 

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EXHIBIT A

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SHARE OPTION GRANT

1. Grant of Option . The Company hereby grants to the Participant named in the Notice of Grant attached as Part I of this Award Agreement (the “Participant”) an option (the “Option”) to purchase the number of Shares, as set forth in the Notice of Grant, at the exercise price per Share set forth in the Notice of Grant (the “Exercise Price”), subject to all of the terms and conditions in this Award Agreement and the Plan, which is incorporated herein by reference. Subject to Sections 8.7.4 and 8.7.5 of the Plan, in the event of a conflict between the terms and conditions of the Plan and the terms and conditions of this Award Agreement, the terms and conditions of the Plan will prevail.

If designated in the Notice of Grant as an Incentive Stock Option (“ISO”), this Option is intended to qualify as an ISO under Section 422 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). However, if this Option is intended to be an ISO, to the extent that it exceeds the $100,000 rule of Code Section 422(d) it will be treated as a Nonstatutory Stock Option (“NSO”). Further, if for any reason this Option (or portion thereof) will not qualify as an ISO, then, to the extent of such nonqualification, such Option (or portion thereof) shall be regarded as a NSO granted under the Plan. In no event will the Administrator, the Company or any Subsidiary or any of their respective employees or directors have any liability to Participant (or any other person) due to the failure of the Option to qualify for any reason as an ISO.

2. Vesting Schedule . Except as provided in Section 3, the Option awarded by this Award Agreement will vest in accordance with the vesting provisions set forth in the Notice of Grant. Shares scheduled to vest on a certain date or upon the occurrence of a certain condition will not vest in Participant in accordance with any of the provisions of this Award Agreement, unless Participant will have been continuously an employee or other service provider to the Company or one of its Subsidiaries from the Date of Grant until the date such vesting occurs.

3. Administrator Discretion . The Administrator, in its discretion, may accelerate the vesting of the balance, or some lesser portion of the balance, of the unvested Option at any time, subject to the terms of the Plan. If so accelerated, such Option will be considered as having vested as of the date specified by the Administrator.

4. Exercise of Option .

(a) Right to Exercise . This Option may be exercised only within the term set out in the Notice of Grant, and may be exercised during such term only in accordance with the Plan and the terms of this Award Agreement.

(b) Method of Exercise . This Option is exercisable by delivery of an exercise notice, in the form attached as Exhibit B (the “Exercise Notice”) or in a manner and pursuant to such procedures as the Administrator may determine, which will state the election to exercise the Option, the number of Shares in respect of which the Option is being exercised (the “Exercised Shares”), and such other representations and agreements as may be required by the Company pursuant to the provisions of the Plan. The Exercise Notice will be completed by Participant and delivered to the Company. The Exercise Notice will be accompanied by payment of the aggregate Exercise Price as to all Exercised Shares together with any applicable tax withholding. This Option will be deemed to

 

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be exercised upon receipt by the Company of such fully executed Exercise Notice accompanied by such aggregate Exercise Price.

5. Method of Payment . Payment of the aggregate Exercise Price will be by any of the following, or a combination thereof, at the election of Participant.

(a) cash;

(b) check;

(c) consideration received by the Company under a formal cashless exercise program adopted by the Company in connection with the Plan; or

(d) surrender of other Shares which have a fair market value on the date of surrender equal to the aggregate Exercise Price of the Exercised Shares, provided that accepting such Shares, in the sole discretion of the Administrator, will not result in any adverse accounting consequences to the Company.

6. Tax Obligations .

(a) Withholding of Taxes . Notwithstanding any contrary provision of this Award Agreement, no certificate representing the Shares will be issued to Participant, unless and until satisfactory arrangements (as determined by the Administrator) will have been made by Participant with respect to the payment of income, employment, social insurance, payroll tax, fringe benefit tax, payment on account or other tax-related items related to Participant’s participation in the Plan and legally applicable to Participant (“Tax-Related Items”) which the Company determines must be withheld with respect to such Shares. Prior to exercise of the Option, Participant will pay or make adequate arrangements satisfactory to the Company and/or the Participant’s employer (the “Employer”) to satisfy all withholding and payment obligations of Tax-Related Items of the Company and/or Employer. In this regard, Participant authorizes the Company and/or the Employer to withhold any Tax-Related Items legally payable by Participant from his or her wages or other cash compensation paid to Participant by the Company and/or the Employer or from proceeds of the sale of Shares. Alternatively, or in addition, if permissible under applicable local law, the Administrator, in its sole discretion and pursuant to such procedures as it may specify from time to time, may permit or require Participant to satisfy such tax withholding obligation, in whole or in part (without limitation) by (a) paying cash, (b) electing to have the Company withhold otherwise deliverable Ordinary Shares having a fair market value equal to the minimum amount required to be withheld, (c) selling a sufficient number of such Ordinary Shares otherwise deliverable to Participant through such means as the Company may determine in its sole discretion (whether through a broker or otherwise) equal to the amount required to be withheld, or (d) if Participant is a U.S. employee, delivering to the Company already vested and owned Ordinary Shares having a fair market value equal to the amount required to be withheld. To the extent determined appropriate by the Company in its discretion, it will have the right (but not the obligation) to satisfy any obligations for Tax-Related Items by reducing the number of Shares otherwise deliverable to Participant. Further, if Participant is subject to tax in more than one jurisdiction between the Date of Grant and a date of any relevant taxable or tax withholding event, as applicable, Participant acknowledges and agrees that the Company and/or the Employer (or former employer, as applicable) may be required to withhold or account for tax in more than one jurisdiction. Finally, Participant will pay to the Company or the Employer any amount of Tax-Related Items that the Company or the Employer may

 

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be required to withhold as a result of Participant’s participation in the Plan or Participant’s purchase of Shares that cannot be satisfied by the means previously described. If Participant fails to make satisfactory arrangements for the payment of any Tax-Related Items hereunder at the time of the Option exercise or Tax-Related Items related to the Shares otherwise are due, Participant acknowledges and agrees that the Company may refuse to honor the exercise and/or refuse to deliver Shares if such withholding amounts are not delivered at the time of exercise.

(b) Notice of Disqualifying Disposition of ISO Shares . If the Option granted to Participant herein is an ISO, and if Participant sells or otherwise disposes of any of the Shares acquired pursuant to the ISO on or before the later of (i) the date two (2) years after the Grant Date, or (ii) the date one (1) year after the date of exercise, Participant will immediately notify the Company in writing of such disposition. Participant agrees that Participant may be subject to income tax withholding by the Company on the compensation income recognized by Participant.

(c) Code Section 409A . Under Code Section 409A, an option that vests after December 31, 2004 (or that vested on or prior to such date but which was materially modified after October 3, 2004) that was granted with a per Share exercise price that is determined by the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) to be less than the fair market value of a Share on the date of grant (a “Discount Option”) may be considered “deferred compensation.” For a Participant who is or becomes subject to U.S. Federal income taxation, a Discount Option may result in (i) income recognition by Participant prior to the exercise of the option, (ii) an additional twenty percent (20%) federal income tax, and (iii) potential penalty and interest charges. The Discount Option may also result in additional state income, penalty and interest charges to the Participant. Participant acknowledges that the Company cannot and has not guaranteed that the IRS will agree that the per Share exercise price of this Option equals or exceeds the fair market value of a Share on the Date of Grant in a later examination. Participant agrees that if the IRS determines that the Option was granted with a per Share exercise price that was less than the fair market value of a Share on the date of grant, Participant will be solely responsible for Participant’s costs related to such a determination, if any.

(d) No Advice Regarding Grant . The Company is not providing any tax, legal or financial advice, nor is the Company making any recommendations regarding Participant’s participation in the Plan, or Participant’s acquisition or sale of the underlying Shares. Participant is hereby advised to consult with his or her own personal tax, legal and financial advisors regarding his or her participation in the Plan before taking any action related to the Plan.

7. Data Privacy . Participant hereby explicitly and unambiguously consents to the collection, use and transfer, in electronic or other form, of Participant’s personal data as described in this Award Agreement and any other Option grant materials by and among, as applicable, the Employer, the Company and any parent or Subsidiary of the Company for the exclusive purpose of implementing, administering and managing Participant’s participation in the Plan.

Participant understands that the Company and the Employer may hold certain personal information about Participant, including, but not limited to, Participant’s name, home address and telephone number, date of birth, social insurance number or other identification number, salary, nationality, job title, any ordinary shares or directorships held in the Company, details of all options or any other entitlement to Shares awarded, canceled, exercised, vested, unvested or

 

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outstanding in Participant’s favor (“Data”), for the exclusive purpose of implementing, administering and managing the Plan.

Participant understands that Data may be transferred to a share plan service provider as may be selected by the Company in the future, which may assist the Company with the implementation, administration and management of the Plan. Participant understands that the recipients of the Data may be located in the United States or elsewhere, and that the recipients’ country (e.g., the United States) may have different data privacy laws and protections than Participant’s country. Participant understands that if he or she resides outside the United States, he or she may request a list with the names and addresses of any potential recipients of the Data by contacting his or her local human resources representative. Participant authorizes the Company, any share plan service provider selected by the Company and any other possible recipients which may assist the Company (presently or in the future) with implementing, administering and managing the Plan to receive, possess, use, retain and transfer the Data, in electronic or other form, for the sole purpose of implementing, administering and managing his or her participation in the Plan. Participant understands that Data will be held only as long as is necessary to implement, administer and manage Participant’s participation in the Plan, including any requisite transfer of such Data as may be required to a broker or other third party with whom Participant may elect to deposit any Shares acquired upon exercise of the Option. Participant understands if he or she resides outside the United States, he or she may, at any time, view Data, request additional information about the storage and processing of Data, require any necessary amendments to Data or refuse or withdraw the consents herein, in any case without cost, by contacting in writing his or her local human resources representative. Further, Participant understands that he or she is providing the consents herein on a purely voluntary basis. If Participant does not consent, or if Participant later seeks to revoke his or her consent, his or her status as an employee or other service provider of the Company or its Subsidiaries and career with the Employer will not be adversely affected; the only adverse consequence of refusing or withdrawing Participant’s consent is that the Company would not be able to grant Participant options or other equity awards or administer or maintain such awards. Therefore, Participant understands that refusing or withdrawing his or her consent may affect Participant’s ability to participate in the Plan. For more information on the consequences of Participant’s refusal to consent or withdrawal of consent, Participant understands that he or she may contact his or her local human resources representative.

8. Rights as Shareholder . Neither Participant nor any person claiming under or through Participant will have any of the rights or privileges of a shareholder of the Company in respect of any Shares deliverable hereunder unless and until certificates representing such Shares will have been issued, recorded on the records of the Company or its transfer agents or registrars, and delivered to Participant. After such issuance, recordation and delivery, Participant will have all the rights of a shareholder of the Company with respect to voting such Shares and receipt of dividends and distributions on such Shares.

9. No Guarantee of Continued Service . PARTICIPANT ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT THE VESTING OF SHARES PURSUANT TO THE VESTING SCHEDULE HEREOF IS EARNED ONLY BY CONTINUING AS AN EMPLOYEE OR OTHER SERVICE PROVIDER AT THE WILL OF THE COMPANY (OR THE SUBSIDIARY EMPLOYING OR RETAINING PARTICIPANT) AND NOT THROUGH THE ACT OF BEING HIRED, BEING GRANTED THE OPTION OR ACQUIRING SHARES HEREUNDER. PARTICIPANT

 

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FURTHER ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT THIS AWARD AGREEMENT, THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREUNDER AND THE VESTING SCHEDULE SET FORTH HEREIN DO NOT CONSTITUTE AN EXPRESS OR IMPLIED PROMISE OF CONTINUED ENGAGEMENT AS AN EMPLOYEE OR OTHER SERVICE PROVIDER FOR THE VESTING PERIOD, FOR ANY PERIOD, OR AT ALL, AND WILL NOT INTERFERE IN ANY WAY WITH PARTICIPANT’S RIGHT OR THE RIGHT OF THE COMPANY (OR THE SUBSIDIARY EMPLOYING OR RETAINING PARTICIPANT) TO TERMINATE PARTICIPANT’S RELATIONSHIP AS AN EMPLOYEE OR OTHER SERVICE PROVIDER AT ANY TIME, WITH OR WITHOUT CAUSE.

10. Nature of Grant . In accepting the grant, Participant acknowledges, understands and agrees that:

(a) the Plan is established voluntarily by the Company, it is discretionary in nature and it may be modified, amended, suspended or terminated by the Company at any time, to the extent permitted by the Plan;

(b) the grant of the Option 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 have been granted in the past;

(c) all decisions with respect to future options or other grants, if any, will be at the sole discretion of the Company;

(d) Participant is voluntarily participating in the Plan;

(e) the Option and the Shares acquired under the Option are not intended to replace any pension rights or compensation;

(f) the Option and the Shares subject to the Option, 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;

(g) the future value of the Shares underlying the Option is unknown, indeterminable and cannot be predicted with certainty;

(h) if the Shares underlying the Option do not increase in value, this Option will have no value;

(i) if Participant exercises this Option and acquires Shares, the value of each such Share may increase or decrease in value, even below the Exercise Price per Share;

(j) for purposes of the Option, Participant’s status as an employee or other service provider will be considered terminated as of the date Participant is no longer actively providing services to the Company or any parent or Subsidiary of the Company (regardless of the reason for such termination and whether or not later to be found invalid or in breach of employment laws in the jurisdiction where Participant is a service provider or the terms of Participant’s service agreement, if any), and unless otherwise expressly provided in this Award Agreement or determined by the Administrator, Participant’s right to vest in the Shares subject to the Option under the Plan, if

 

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any, will terminate as of such date and will not be extended by any notice period ( e.g. , Participant’s period of service would not include any contractual notice period or any period of “garden leave” or similar period mandated under employment laws in the jurisdiction where Participant is a service provider or the terms of Participant’s service agreement, if any, unless Participant is providing bona fide services during such time); the Administrator shall have the exclusive discretion to determine when Participant is no longer actively providing services for purposes of the Option grant (including whether Participant may still be considered to be providing services while on a leave of absence);

(k) unless otherwise provided in the Plan or by the Company in its discretion, the Option and the benefits evidenced by this Award Agreement do not create any entitlement to have the Option or any such benefits transferred to, or assumed by, another company nor be exchanged, cashed out or substituted for, in connection with any corporate transaction affecting the Shares; and

(l) the following provisions apply only if Participant is providing services outside the United States:

i. the Option and the Shares subject to the Option are not part of normal or expected compensation or salary for any purpose;

ii. Participant acknowledges and agrees that none of the Company, the Employer, or any parent or Subsidiary of the Company shall be liable for any foreign exchange rate fluctuation between Participant’s local currency and the United States Dollar that may affect the value of the Option or of any amounts due to Participant pursuant to the exercise of the Option or the subsequent sale of any Shares acquired upon settlement; and

iii. no claim or entitlement to compensation or damages shall arise from forfeiture of the Option resulting from the termination of Participant’s employment or other service with the Company or its Subsidiaries (for any reason whatsoever whether or not later found to be invalid or in breach of employment laws in the jurisdiction where Participant is an employee or other service provider or the terms of Participant’s service agreement, if any), and in consideration of the grant of the Option to which Participant is otherwise not entitled, Participant irrevocably agrees never to institute any claim against the Company, any Subsidiary or the Employer, waives his or her ability, if any, to bring any such claim, and releases the Company, any parent of the Company, any Subsidiary and the Employer from any such claim; if, notwithstanding the foregoing, any such claim is allowed by a court of competent jurisdiction, then, by participating in the Plan, Participant shall be deemed irrevocably to have agreed not to pursue such claim and agrees to execute any and all documents necessary to request dismissal or withdrawal of such claim.

11. Address for Notices . Any notice to be given to the Company under the terms of this Award Agreement will be addressed to the Company, at Fabrinet, 5/6 Moo 6, Soi Khunpra, Phaholyothin Rd., Klongnueng, Klongluang, Patumthanee 12120 Thailand, or at such other address as the Company may hereafter designate in writing.

12. Non-Transferability of Option . This Option may not be transferred in any manner otherwise than by will or by the laws of descent or distribution and may be exercised during the lifetime of Participant only by Participant and to the extent permitted under Section 5.6 under the Plan, as determined by the Administrator.

 

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13. Binding Agreement . Subject to the limitation on the transferability of this grant contained herein, this Award Agreement will be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the heirs, legatees, legal representatives, successors and assigns of the parties hereto.

14. Additional Conditions to Issuance of Shares . If at any time the Company will determine, in its discretion, that the listing, registration, qualification or rule compliance of the Shares upon any securities exchange or under any state, federal or non-U.S. law, the tax code and related regulations or the consent or approval of any governmental regulatory authority is necessary or desirable as a condition to the issuance of Shares to Participant (or his or her estate), such issuance will not occur unless and until such listing, registration, qualification, rule compliance, consent or approval will have been completed, effected or obtained free of any conditions not acceptable to the Company. Where the Company determines that the delivery of the payment of any Shares will violate federal securities laws or other applicable laws, the Company will defer delivery until the earliest date at which the Company reasonably anticipates that the delivery of Shares will no longer cause such violation. The Company will make all reasonable efforts to meet the requirements of any such state, federal or non-U.S. law or securities exchange and to obtain any such consent or approval of any such governmental authority or securities exchange. Assuming such compliance, for income tax purposes the Exercised Shares will be considered transferred to Participant on the date the Option is exercised with respect to such Exercised Shares.

15. Plan Governs . This Award Agreement is subject to all terms and provisions of the Plan. In the event of a conflict between one or more provisions of this Award Agreement and one or more provisions of the Plan, the provisions of the Plan will govern. Capitalized terms used and not defined in this Award Agreement will have the meaning set forth in the Plan.

16. Administrator Authority . The Administrator will have the power to interpret the Plan and this Award Agreement and to adopt such rules for the administration, interpretation and application of the Plan as are consistent therewith and to interpret or revoke any such rules (including, but not limited to, the determination of whether or not any Shares subject to the Option have vested). All actions taken and all interpretations and determinations made by the Administrator in good faith will be final and binding upon Participant, the Company and all other interested persons. No member of the Administrator will be personally liable for any action, determination or interpretation made in good faith with respect to the Plan or this Award Agreement.

17. Electronic Delivery . The Company may, in its sole discretion, decide to deliver any documents related to Options awarded under the Plan or future options that may be awarded under the Plan by electronic means or request Participant’s consent to participate in the Plan by electronic means. Participant hereby consents to receive such documents by electronic delivery and agrees to participate in the Plan through any on-line or electronic system established and maintained by the Company or another third party designated by the Company.

18. Language . Participant has received the terms and conditions of this Award Agreement and any other related communications, and Participant consents to having received these documents in English. If Participant has received this Award Agreement or any other document related to the Plan 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.

19. Captions . Captions provided herein are for convenience only and are not to serve as a basis for interpretation or construction of this Award Agreement.

 

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20. Agreement Severable . In the event that any provision in this Award Agreement will be held invalid or unenforceable, such provision will be severable from, and such invalidity or unenforceability will not be construed to have any effect on, the remaining provisions of this Award Agreement.

21. Modifications to the Agreement . This Award Agreement constitutes the entire understanding of the parties on the subjects covered. Participant expressly warrants that he or she is not accepting this Award Agreement in reliance on any promises, representations, or inducements other than those contained herein. Modifications to this Award Agreement or the Plan can be made only in an express written contract executed by a duly authorized officer of the Company. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Plan or this Award Agreement, the Company reserves the right to revise this Award Agreement as it deems necessary or advisable, in its sole discretion and without the consent of Participant, to comply with Code Section 409A or to otherwise avoid imposition of any additional tax or income recognition under Section 409A of the Code in connection to this Option.

22. Amendment, Suspension or Termination of the Plan . By accepting this Award, Participant expressly warrants that he or she has received an Option under the Plan, and has received, read and understood a description of the Plan. Participant understands that the Plan is discretionary in nature and may be amended, suspended or terminated by the Company at any time.

23. Governing Law . This Award Agreement will be governed by the laws of the State of California, without giving effect to the conflict of law principles thereof. For purposes of litigating any dispute that arises under this Option or this Award Agreement, the parties hereby submit to and consent to the jurisdiction of the State of California, and agree that such litigation will be conducted in the courts of Santa Clara County, California, or the federal courts for the United States for the Northern District of California, and no other courts, where this Option is made and/or to be performed.

24. Waiver . Participant acknowledges that a waiver by the Company of breach of any provision of this Award Agreement shall not operate or be construed as a waiver of any other provision of this Award Agreement, or of any subsequent breach by Participant or any other Participant.

 

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EXHIBIT B

FABRINET 2010 PERFORMANCE INCENTIVE PLAN

EXERCISE NOTICE

Fabrinet

5/6 Moo 6, Soi Khunpra, Phaholyothin Rd.

Klongnueng, Klongluang

Patumthanee 12120

Thailand

Attention: [            ]

1. Exercise of Option . Effective as of today,                     ,             , the undersigned (“Purchaser”) hereby elects to purchase             ordinary shares (the “Shares”) of Fabrinet (the “Company”) under and pursuant to the 2010 Performance Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) and the Share Option Award Agreement dated             (the “Award Agreement”). The purchase price for the Shares will be $            , as required by the Award Agreement.

2. Delivery of Payment . Purchaser herewith delivers to the Company the full purchase price of the Shares and any required tax withholding to be paid in connection with the exercise of the Option.

3. Representations of Purchaser . Purchaser acknowledges that Purchaser has received, read and understood the Plan and the Award Agreement and agrees to abide by and be bound by their terms and conditions.

4. Rights as Shareholder . Until the issuance (as evidenced by the appropriate entry on the books of the Company or of a duly authorized transfer agent of the Company) of the Shares, no right to vote or receive dividends or any other rights as a shareholder will exist with respect to the Shares subject to the Option, notwithstanding the exercise of the Option. The Shares so acquired will be issued to Purchaser as soon as practicable after exercise of the Option. No adjustment will be made for a dividend or other right for which the record date is prior to the date of issuance, except as provided in Section 7 of the Plan.

5. Tax Consultation . Purchaser understands that Purchaser may suffer adverse tax consequences as a result of Purchaser’s purchase or disposition of the Shares. Purchaser represents that Purchaser has consulted with any tax consultants Purchaser deems advisable in connection with the purchase or disposition of the Shares and that Purchaser is not relying on the Company for any tax advice.

6. Entire Agreement; Governing Law . The Plan and Award Agreement are incorporated herein by reference. This Exercise Notice, the Plan and the Award Agreement constitute the entire agreement of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersede in their entirety all


prior undertakings and agreements of the Company and Purchaser with respect to the subject matter hereof, and may not be modified adversely to the Purchaser’s interest except by means of a writing signed by the Company and Purchaser. This agreement is governed by the internal substantive laws, but not the choice of law rules, of the State of California.

 

Submitted by:      Accepted by:
PURCHASER:      FABRINET

 

    

 

Signature      By

 

    

 

Print Name      Title
Address :     

 

    

 

    
    

 

     Date Received

 

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Exhibit 10.3

FABRINET 2010 PERFORMANCE INCENTIVE PLAN

NOTICE OF GRANT OF RESTRICTED SHARES

Unless otherwise defined herein, the terms defined in the Fabrinet 2010 Performance Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) will have the same defined meanings in this Notice of Grant of Restricted Shares (the “Notice of Grant”) and Terms and Conditions of Restricted Share Grant, attached hereto as Exhibit A (together, the “Award Agreement”).

 

Participant Name:  

 

  
Address:  

 

  
 

 

  

Participant has been granted the right to receive an Award of restricted shares (“Restricted Shares”), subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan and this Award Agreement, as follows:

 

Grant Number

 

 

  

Date of Grant

 

 

  

Vesting Commencement Date

 

 

  
Number of Restricted Shares  

 

  

Vesting Schedule :

Subject to any acceleration provisions contained in the Plan or set forth below, the Restricted Shares will vest and the Company’s right to reacquire the Restricted Shares will lapse in accordance with the following schedule:

[INSERT VESTING SCHEDULE]

By Participant’s signature and the signature of the Company’s representative below, Participant and the Company agree that this Award of Restricted Shares is granted under and governed by the terms and conditions of the Plan and this Award Agreement. Participant has reviewed the Plan and this Award Agreement in their entirety, has had an opportunity to obtain the advice of counsel prior to executing this Award Agreement and fully understands all provisions of the Plan and Award Agreement. Participant hereby agrees to accept as binding, conclusive and final all decisions or interpretations of the Administrator upon any questions relating to the Plan and Award Agreement. Participant further agrees to notify the Company upon any change in the residence address indicated below.

 

PARTICIPANT      FABRINET

 

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Signature     

 

    

 

Print Name     
Address :     

 

    

 

    

 

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EXHIBIT A

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF RESTRICTED SHARES GRANT

1. Grant . The Company hereby grants to the Participant named in the Notice of Grant (“Participant”) under the Plan for past services and as a separate incentive in connection with his or her services and not in lieu of any salary or other compensation for his or her services, an Award of Restricted Shares, subject to all of the terms and conditions in this Award Agreement and the Plan, which is incorporated herein by reference. Subject to Sections 8.7.4 and 8.7.5 of the Plan, in the event of a conflict between the terms and conditions of the Plan and the terms and conditions of this Award Agreement, the terms and conditions of the Plan will prevail.

2. Escrow of Shares .

(a) All Restricted Shares will, upon execution of this Award Agreement, be delivered and deposited with an escrow holder designated by the Company (the “Escrow Holder”). The Restricted Shares will be held by the Escrow Holder until such time as the Restricted Shares vest or the date Participant ceases to be an employee or other service provider of the Company or one of its Subsidiaries.

(b) The Escrow Holder will not be liable for any act it may do or omit to do with respect to holding the Restricted Shares in escrow while acting in good faith and in the exercise of its judgment.

(c) Upon Participant’s termination as an employee or other service provider of the Company or one of its subsidiaries for any reason, the Escrow Holder, upon receipt of written notice of such termination, will take all steps necessary to accomplish the transfer of the unvested Restricted Shares to the Company. Participant hereby appoints the Escrow Holder with full power of substitution, as Participant’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact with irrevocable power and authority in the name and on behalf of Participant to take any action and execute all documents and instruments, including, without limitation, stock powers which may be necessary to transfer the certificate or certificates evidencing such unvested Restricted Shares to the Company upon such termination.

(d) The Escrow Holder will take all steps necessary to accomplish the transfer of Restricted Shares to Participant after they vest following Participant’s request that the Escrow Holder do so.

(e) Subject to the terms hereof, Participant will have all the rights of a shareholder with respect to the Ordinary Shares while they are held in escrow, including without limitation, the right to vote the Ordinary Shares and to receive any cash dividends declared thereon.

(f) In the event of any reclassification, recapitalization, stock split (including a stock split in the form of a stock dividend) or reverse stock split; any merger, combination, consolidation, or other reorganization; any spin-off, split-up, or similar, unusual or extraordinary corporate transaction in respect of the Ordinary Shares, the Restricted Shares will be increased, reduced or otherwise changed, and by virtue of any such change Participant will in his or her

 

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capacity as owner of unvested Restricted Shares be entitled to new or additional or different shares of stock, cash or securities (other than rights or warrants to purchase securities); such new or additional or different shares, cash or securities will thereupon be considered to be unvested Restricted Shares and will be subject to all of the conditions and restrictions which were applicable to the unvested Restricted Shares pursuant to this Award Agreement. If Participant receives rights or warrants with respect to any unvested Restricted Shares, such rights or warrants may be held or exercised by Participant, provided that until such exercise any such rights or warrants and after such exercise any shares or other securities acquired by the exercise of such rights or warrants will be considered to be unvested Restricted Shares and will be subject to all of the conditions and restrictions which were applicable to the unvested Restricted Shares pursuant to this Award Agreement. The Administrator in its absolute discretion at any time may accelerate the vesting of all or any portion of such new or additional shares of stock, cash or securities, rights or warrants to purchase securities or shares or other securities acquired by the exercise of such rights or warrants.

(g) The Company may instruct the transfer agent for its Ordinary Shares to place a legend on the certificates representing the Restricted Shares or otherwise note its records as to the restrictions on transfer set forth in this Award Agreement.

3. Vesting Schedule . Except as provided in Section 4, and subject to Section 5, the Restricted Shares awarded by this Award Agreement will vest in accordance with the vesting provisions set forth in the Notice of Grant. Restricted Shares scheduled to vest on a certain date or upon the occurrence of a certain condition will not vest in Participant in accordance with any of the provisions of this Award Agreement, unless Participant will have been continuously an employee or other service provider of the Company or one of its Subsidiaries from the Date of Grant until the date such vesting occurs.

4. Administrator Discretion . The Administrator, in its discretion, may accelerate the vesting of the balance, or some lesser portion of the balance, of the unvested Restricted Shares at any time, subject to the terms of the Plan. If so accelerated, such Restricted Shares will be considered as having vested as of the date specified by the Administrator.

5. Forfeiture upon Termination of Status as an Employee or Other Service Provider . Notwithstanding any contrary provision of this Award Agreement, the balance of the Restricted Shares that have not vested at the time of Participant’s termination as an employee or other service provider of the Company or one of its Subsidiaries for any reason will be forfeited and automatically transferred to and reacquired by the Company at no cost to the Company upon the date of such termination and Participant will have no further rights thereunder. Participant will not be entitled to a refund of the price paid for the Restricted Shares, if any, returned to the Company pursuant to this Section 5. Participant hereby appoints the Escrow Agent with full power of substitution, as Participant’s true and lawful attorney-in-fact with irrevocable power and authority in the name and on behalf of Participant to take any action and execute all documents and instruments, including, without limitation, stock powers which may be necessary to transfer the certificate or certificates evidencing such unvested Ordinary Shares to the Company upon such termination of service.

 

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6. Death of Participant . Any distribution or delivery to be made to Participant under this Award Agreement will, if Participant is then deceased, be made to Participant’s designated beneficiary, or if no beneficiary survives Participant, the administrator or executor of Participant’s estate. Any such transferee must furnish the Company with (a) written notice of his or her status as transferee, and (b) evidence satisfactory to the Company to establish the validity of the transfer and compliance with any laws or regulations pertaining to said transfer.

7. Withholding of Taxes . Notwithstanding any contrary provision of this Award Agreement, no certificate representing the Restricted Shares may be released from the escrow established pursuant to Section 2, unless and until satisfactory arrangements (as determined by the Administrator) will have been made by Participant with respect to the payment of income, employment, social insurance, payroll tax, fringe benefit tax, payment on account or other tax-related items related to Participant’s participation in the Plan and legally applicable to Participant (“Tax-Related Items”) which the Company determines must be withheld with respect to such Ordinary Shares. Prior to vesting of the Restricted Shares, Participant will pay or make adequate arrangements satisfactory to the Company and/or the Participant’s employer (the “Employer”) to satisfy all withholding obligations of Tax-Related Items of the Company and/or Employer. In this regard, Participant authorizes the Company and/or the Employer to withhold any Tax-Related Items legally payable by Participant from his or her wages or other cash compensation paid to Participant by the Company and/or the Employer or from proceeds of the sale of Ordinary Shares. Alternatively, or in addition, if permissible under applicable local law, the Administrator, in its sole discretion and pursuant to such procedures as it may specify from time to time, may permit or require Participant to satisfy such tax withholding obligation, in whole or in part (without limitation) by (a) paying cash, (b) electing to have the Company withhold otherwise deliverable Ordinary Shares having a fair market value equal to the minimum amount required to be withheld, (c) selling a sufficient number of such Ordinary Shares otherwise deliverable to Participant through such means as the Company may determine in its sole discretion (whether through a broker or otherwise) equal to the amount required to be withheld, or (d) if Participant is a U.S. employee, delivering to the Company already vested and owned Ordinary Shares having a fair market value equal to the amount required to be withheld. To the extent determined appropriate by the Company in its discretion, it will have the right (but not the obligation) to satisfy any obligations for Tax-Related Items by reducing the number of Ordinary Shares otherwise deliverable to Participant. Further, if Participant is subject to tax in more than one jurisdiction between the Date of Grant and a date of any relevant taxable or tax withholding event, as applicable, Participant acknowledges and agrees that the Company and/or the Employer (or former employer, as applicable) may be required to withhold or account for tax in more than one jurisdiction. If Participant fails to make satisfactory arrangements for the payment of any Tax-Related Items hereunder at the time any applicable Restricted Shares otherwise are scheduled to vest pursuant to Sections 3 or 4 or Tax-Related Items related to the Restricted Shares otherwise are due, Participant will permanently forfeit such Restricted Shares and the Restricted Shares will be returned to the Company at no cost to the Company.

8. No Advice Regarding Grant . The Company is not providing any tax, legal or financial advice, nor is the Company making any recommendations regarding Participant’s participation in the Plan, or Participant’s acquisition or sale of the underlying Ordinary Shares. Participant is hereby advised to consult with his or her own personal tax, legal and financial advisors regarding his or her participation in the Plan before taking any action related to the Plan.

 

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9. Data Privacy . Participant hereby explicitly and unambiguously consents to the collection, use and transfer, in electronic or other form, of Participant’s personal data as described in this Award Agreement and any other Restricted Share grant materials by and among, as applicable, the Employer, the Company and any parent or Subsidiary of the Company for the exclusive purpose of implementing, administering and managing Participant’s participation in the Plan.

Participant understands that the Company and the Employer may hold certain personal information about Participant, including, but not limited to, Participant’s name, home address and telephone number, date of birth, social insurance number or other identification number, salary, nationality, job title, any ordinary shares or directorships held in the Company, details of all Restricted Shares or any other entitlement to Ordinary Shares awarded, canceled, exercised, vested, unvested or outstanding in Participant’s favor (“Data”), for the exclusive purpose of implementing, administering and managing the Plan.

Participant understands that Data may be transferred to a share plan service provider as may be selected by the Company in the future, which may assist the Company with the implementation, administration and management of the Plan. Participant understands that the recipients of the Data may be located in the United States or elsewhere, and that the recipients’ country (e.g., the United States) may have different data privacy laws and protections than Participant’s country. Participant understands that if he or she resides outside the United States, he or she may request a list with the names and addresses of any potential recipients of the Data by contacting his or her local human resources representative. Participant authorizes the Company, any share plan service provider selected by the Company and any other possible recipients which may assist the Company (presently or in the future) with implementing, administering and managing the Plan to receive, possess, use, retain and transfer the Data, in electronic or other form, for the sole purpose of implementing, administering and managing his or her participation in the Plan. Participant understands that Data will be held only as long as is necessary to implement, administer and manage Participant’s participation in the Plan. Participant understands if he or she resides outside the United States, he or she may, at any time, view Data, request additional information about the storage and processing of Data, require any necessary amendments to Data or refuse or withdraw the consents herein, in any case without cost, by contacting in writing his or her local human resources representative. Further, Participant understands that he or she is providing the consents herein on a purely voluntary basis. If Participant does not consent, or if Participant later seeks to revoke his or her consent, his or her status as an employee or other service provider of the Company or its Subsidiaries and career with the Employer will not be adversely affected; the only adverse consequence of refusing or withdrawing Participant’s consent is that the Company would not be able to grant Participant Restricted Shares or other equity awards or administer or maintain such awards. Therefore, Participant understands that refusing or withdrawing his or her consent may affect Participant’s ability to participate in the Plan. For more information on the consequences of Participant’s refusal to consent or withdrawal of consent, Participant understands that he or she may contact his or her local human resources representative.

10. Rights as Shareholder . Neither Participant nor any person claiming under or through Participant will have any of the rights or privileges of a shareholder of the Company in

 

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respect of any Ordinary Shares deliverable hereunder unless and until certificates representing such Ordinary Shares will have been issued, recorded on the records of the Company or its transfer agents or registrars, and delivered to Participant or the Escrow Agent. Except as provided in Section 2, after such issuance, recordation and delivery, Participant will have all the rights of a shareholder of the Company with respect to voting such Ordinary Shares and receipt of dividends and distributions on such Ordinary Shares.

11. No Guarantee of Continued Service . PARTICIPANT ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT THE VESTING OF THE RESTRICTED SHARES PURSUANT TO THE VESTING SCHEDULE HEREOF IS EARNED ONLY BY CONTINUING AS AN EMPLOYEE OR OTHER SERVICE PROVIDER AT THE WILL OF THE COMPANY (OR THE SUBSIDIARY EMPLOYING OR RETAINING PARTICIPANT) AND NOT THROUGH THE ACT OF BEING HIRED, BEING GRANTED THESE RESTRICTED SHARES OR ACQUIRING ORDINARY SHARES HEREUNDER. PARTICIPANT FURTHER ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT THIS AGREEMENT, THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREUNDER AND THE VESTING SCHEDULE SET FORTH HEREIN DO NOT CONSTITUTE AN EXPRESS OR IMPLIED PROMISE OF CONTINUED ENGAGEMENT AS AN EMPLOYEE OR OTHER SERVICE PROVIDER FOR THE VESTING PERIOD, FOR ANY PERIOD, OR AT ALL, AND WILL NOT INTERFERE IN ANY WAY WITH PARTICIPANT’S RIGHT OR THE RIGHT OF THE COMPANY (OR THE SUBSIDIARY EMPLOYING OR RETAINING PARTICIPANT) TO TERMINATE PARTICIPANT’S RELATIONSHIP AS AN EMPLOYEE OR OTHER SERVICE PROVIDER AT ANY TIME, WITH OR WITHOUT CAUSE.

12. Nature of Grant . In accepting the grant, Participant acknowledges, understands and agrees that:

(a) the Plan is established voluntarily by the Company, it is discretionary in nature and it may be modified, amended, suspended or terminated by the Company at any time, to the extent permitted by the Plan;

(b) the grant of the Restricted Shares is voluntary and occasional and does not create any contractual or other right to receive future grants of Restricted Shares, or benefits in lieu of Restricted Shares, even if Restricted Shares have been granted in the past;

(c) all decisions with respect to future Restricted Shares or other grants, if any, will be at the sole discretion of the Company;

(d) Participant is voluntarily participating in the Plan;

(e) the Restricted Shares are not intended to replace any pension rights or compensation;

(f) the Restricted Shares, 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;

 

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(g) the future value of the underlying Ordinary Shares is unknown, indeterminable and cannot be predicted with certainty;

(h) for purposes of the Restricted Shares, Participant’s status as an employee or other service provider will be considered terminated as of the date Participant is no longer actively providing services to the Company or any parent or Subsidiary of the Company (regardless of the reason for such termination and whether or not later to be found invalid or in breach of employment laws in the jurisdiction where Participant is a service provider or the terms of Participant’s service agreement, if any), and unless otherwise expressly provided in this Award Agreement or determined by the Administrator, Participant’s right to vest in the Restricted Shares under the Plan, if any, will terminate as of such date and will not be extended by any notice period ( e.g. , Participant’s period of service would not include any contractual notice period or any period of “garden leave” or similar period mandated under employment laws in the jurisdiction where Participant is a service provider or the terms of Participant’s service agreement, if any, unless Participant is providing bona fide services during such time); the Administrator shall have the exclusive discretion to determine when Participant is no longer actively providing services for purposes of the Restricted Shares grant (including whether Participant may still be considered to be providing services while on a leave of absence);

(i) unless otherwise provided in the Plan or by the Company in its discretion, the Restricted Shares and the benefits evidenced by this Award Agreement do not create any entitlement to have the Restricted Shares or any such benefits transferred to, or assumed by, another company nor be exchanged, cashed out or substituted for, in connection with any corporate transaction affecting the Ordinary Shares; and

(j) the following provisions apply only if Participant is providing services outside the United States:

i. the Restricted Shares are not part of normal or expected compensation or salary for any purpose;

ii. Participant acknowledges and agrees that none of the Company, the Employer, or any parent or Subsidiary of the Company shall be liable for any foreign exchange rate fluctuation between Participant’s local currency and the United States Dollar that may affect the value of the Restricted Shares or the subsequent sale of any Ordinary Shares underlying the Award; and

iii. no claim or entitlement to compensation or damages shall arise from forfeiture of the Restricted Shares resulting from the termination of Participant’s employment or other service with the Company or its Subsidiaries (for any reason whatsoever whether or not later found to be invalid or in breach of employment laws in the jurisdiction where Participant is an employee or other service provider or the terms of Participant’s service agreement, if any), and in consideration of the grant of the Restricted Shares to which Participant is otherwise not entitled, Participant irrevocably agrees never to institute any claim against the Company, any Subsidiary or the Employer, waives his or her ability, if any, to bring any such claim, and releases the Company, any parent of the Company, any Subsidiary and the Employer from any such claim; if, notwithstanding the foregoing, any such claim is allowed by a court of

 

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competent jurisdiction, then, by participating in the Plan, Participant shall be deemed irrevocably to have agreed not to pursue such claim and agrees to execute any and all documents necessary to request dismissal or withdrawal of such claim.

13. Address for Notices . Any notice to be given to the Company under the terms of this Award Agreement will be addressed to the Company at Fabrinet, 5/6 Moo 6, Soi Khunpra, Phaholyothin Rd., Klongnueng, Klongluang, Patumthanee 12120 Thailand, or at such other address as the Company may hereafter designate in writing or electronically.

14. Grant is Not Transferable . Except to the limited extent provided in Section 6, the unvested Ordinary Shares subject to this grant and the rights and privileges conferred hereby will not be transferred, assigned, pledged or hypothecated in any way (whether by operation of law or otherwise) and will not be subject to sale under execution, attachment or similar process. Upon any attempt to transfer, assign, pledge, hypothecate or otherwise dispose of any unvested Restricted Shares subject to this grant, or any right or privilege conferred hereby, or upon any attempted sale under any execution, attachment or similar process, this grant and the rights and privileges conferred hereby immediately will become null and void.

15. Binding Agreement . Subject to the limitation on the transferability of this grant contained herein, this Award Agreement will be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the heirs, legatees, legal representatives, successors and assigns of the parties hereto.

16. Additional Conditions to Release from Escrow . The Company will not be required to issue any certificate or certificates for Ordinary Shares hereunder or release such Ordinary Shares from the escrow established pursuant to Section 2 prior to fulfillment of all the following conditions: (a) the admission of such Ordinary Shares to listing on all stock exchanges on which such class of stock is then listed; (b) the completion of any registration or other qualification of such Ordinary Shares under, and/or compliance with rules of, any state, federal or non-U.S. law or under the rulings or regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission or any other governmental regulatory body or the securities exchange on which the Ordinary Shares are then registered, which the Administrator will, in its absolute discretion, deem necessary or advisable; (c) the obtaining of any approval or other clearance from any state, federal or non-U.S. governmental agency, which the Administrator will, in its absolute discretion, determine to be necessary or advisable; and (d) the lapse of such reasonable period of time following the date of grant of the Restricted Shares as the Administrator may establish from time to time for reasons of administrative convenience.

17. Plan Governs . This Award Agreement is subject to all terms and provisions of the Plan. In the event of a conflict between one or more provisions of this Award Agreement and one or more provisions of the Plan, the provisions of the Plan will govern. Capitalized terms used and not defined in this Award Agreement will have the meaning set forth in the Plan.

18. Administrator Authority . The Administrator will have the power to interpret the Plan and this Award Agreement and to adopt such rules for the administration, interpretation and application of the Plan as are consistent therewith and to interpret or revoke any such rules (including, but not limited to, the determination of whether or not any Restricted Shares have vested). All actions taken and all interpretations and determinations made by the Administrator

 

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in good faith will be final and binding upon Participant, the Company and all other interested persons. No member of the Administrator will be personally liable for any action, determination or interpretation made in good faith with respect to the Plan or this Award Agreement.

19. Electronic Delivery . The Company may, in its sole discretion, decide to deliver any documents related to the Restricted Shares awarded under the Plan or future Restricted Shares that may be awarded under the Plan by electronic means or request Participant’s consent to participate in the Plan by electronic means. Participant hereby consents to receive such documents by electronic delivery and agrees to participate in the Plan through any on-line or electronic system established and maintained by the Company or another third party designated by the Company.

20. Language . Participant has received the terms and conditions of this Award Agreement and any other related communications, and Participant consents to having received these documents in English. If Participant has received this Award Agreement or any other document related to the Plan 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.

21. Captions . Captions provided herein are for convenience only and are not to serve as a basis for interpretation or construction of this Award Agreement.

22. Agreement Severable . In the event that any provision in this Award Agreement will be held invalid or unenforceable, such provision will be severable from, and such invalidity or unenforceability will not be construed to have any effect on, the remaining provisions of this Award Agreement.

23. Modifications to the Agreement . This Award Agreement constitutes the entire understanding of the parties on the subjects covered. Participant expressly warrants that he or she is not accepting this Award Agreement in reliance on any promises, representations, or inducements other than those contained herein. Modifications to this Award Agreement or the Plan can be made only in an express written contract executed by a duly authorized officer of the Company. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Plan or this Award Agreement, the Company reserves the right to revise this Award Agreement as it deems necessary or advisable, in its sole discretion and without the consent of Participant, to comply with Code Section 409A or to otherwise avoid imposition of any additional tax or income recognition under Code Section 409A in connection to this Award of Restricted Shares.

24. Amendment, Suspension or Termination of the Plan . By accepting this Award, Participant expressly warrants that he or she has received an Award of Restricted Shares under the Plan, and has received, read and understood a description of the Plan. Participant understands that the Plan is discretionary in nature and may be amended, suspended or terminated by the Company at any time.

25. Governing Law . This Award Agreement will be governed by the laws of the State of California, without giving effect to the conflict of law principles thereof. For purposes of litigating any dispute that arises under this Award of Restricted Shares or this Award Agreement, the parties hereby submit to and consent to the jurisdiction of the State of California, and agree

 

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that such litigation will be conducted in the courts of Santa Clara County, California, or the federal courts for the United States for the Northern District of California, and no other courts, where this Award of Restricted Shares is made and/or to be performed.

26. Waiver . Participant acknowledges that a waiver by the Company of breach of any provision of this Award Agreement shall not operate or be construed as a waiver of any other provision of this Award Agreement, or of any subsequent breach by Participant or any other Participant.

 

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Exhibit 10.4

FABRINET

2010 PERFORMANCE INCENTIVE PLAN

RESTRICTED SHARE UNIT AGREEMENT

Unless otherwise defined herein, the terms defined in the Fabrinet 2010 Performance Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) will have the same defined meanings in this Restricted Share Unit Agreement, including the Notice of Restricted Share Unit Grant (the “Notice of Grant”) and the Terms and Conditions of Restricted Share Unit Grant, attached hereto as Exhibit A (all together, the “Award Agreement”).

NOTICE OF RESTRICTED SHARE UNIT GRANT

Participant Name:

Address:

The Eligible Person named above (the “Participant”) has been granted the right to receive an Award of restricted share units (“Restricted Share Units”), subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan and this Award Agreement, as follows:

 

Grant Number  

 

 
Date of Grant  

 

 
Vesting Commencement Date  

 

 
Number of Restricted Share Units  

 

 

Vesting Schedule :

Subject to any acceleration provisions contained in the Plan or set forth below, the Restricted Share Units will vest in accordance with the following schedule:

[INSERT VESTING SCHEDULE]

In the event Participant ceases his or her employment or other service with the Company (or its Subsidiaries, as applicable) for any or no reason before Participant vests in the Restricted Share Units, the Restricted Share Units and Participant’s right to acquire any Ordinary Shares hereunder will immediately terminate.

By Participant’s signature and the signature of the representative of Fabrinet (the “Company”) below, Participant and the Company agree that this Award of Restricted Share Units is granted under and governed by the terms and conditions of the Plan and this Award Agreement, which are made a part of this document. Participant has reviewed the Plan and this Award Agreement in their entirety, has had an opportunity to obtain the advice of counsel prior to executing this Award Agreement and fully understands all provisions of the Plan and Award Agreement. Participant hereby agrees to accept as binding, conclusive and final all decisions or interpretations of the Administrator upon any questions relating to the Plan and Award


Agreement. Participant further agrees to notify the Company upon any change in the residence address indicated below.

 

PARTICIPANT:      FABRINET:

 

    

 

Signature      By

 

    

 

Print Name      Title
Residence Address :     

 

    

 

    

 

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EXHIBIT A

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF RESTRICTED SHARE UNIT GRANT

1. Grant . The Company hereby grants to the individual named in the Notice of Grant (the “Participant”) under the Plan an Award of Restricted Share Units, subject to all of the terms and conditions in this Award Agreement and the Plan, which is incorporated herein by reference. Subject to Section 8.7.5. of the Plan, in the event of a conflict between the terms and conditions of the Plan and the terms and conditions of this Award Agreement, the terms and conditions of the Plan will prevail.

2. Company’s Obligation to Pay . Each Restricted Share Unit represents the right to receive an Ordinary Share on the date it vests. Unless and until the Restricted Share Units will have vested in the manner set forth in Sections 3 or 4, Participant will have no right to payment of any such Restricted Share Units. Prior to actual payment of any vested Restricted Share Units, such Restricted Share Units will represent an unsecured obligation of the Company, payable (if at all) only from the general assets of the Company. Any Restricted Share Units that vest in accordance with Sections 3 or 4 will be paid to Participant (or in the event of Participant’s death, to his or her estate) in whole Ordinary Shares, subject to Participant satisfying any obligations for Tax-Related Items (as defined in Section 7). Subject to the provisions of Section 4, such vested Restricted Share Units shall be paid in whole Ordinary Shares as soon as practicable after vesting, but in each such case within the period sixty (60) days following the vesting date. In no event will Participant be permitted, directly or indirectly, to specify the taxable year of the payment of any Restricted Share Units payable under this Award Agreement.

3. Vesting Schedule . Except as provided in Section 4, and subject to Section 5, the Restricted Share Units awarded by this Award Agreement will vest in accordance with the vesting provisions set forth in the Notice of Grant. Restricted Share Units scheduled to vest on a certain date or upon the occurrence of a certain condition will not vest in Participant in accordance with any of the provisions of this Award Agreement, unless Participant will have been continuously in the employment of or other service with the Company (or its Subsidiaries, as applicable) from the Date of Grant until the date such vesting occurs.

4. Administrator Discretion . The Administrator, in its discretion, may accelerate the vesting of the balance, or some lesser portion of the balance, of the unvested Restricted Share Units at any time, subject to the terms of the Plan. If so accelerated, such Restricted Share Units will be considered as having vested as of the date specified by the Administrator. The payment of Ordinary Shares vesting pursuant to this Section 4 shall in all cases be paid at a time or in a manner that is exempt from, or complies with, Section 409A.

Notwithstanding anything in the Plan or this Award Agreement to the contrary, if the vesting of the balance, or some lesser portion of the balance, of the Restricted Share Units is accelerated in connection with Participant’s termination of employment or other service with the Company or its Subsidiaries (provided that such termination is a “separation from service” within the meaning of Section 409A, as determined by the Company), other than due to death , and if (x) Participant is a “specified employee” within the meaning of Section 409A at the time of such termination as a Service Provider and (y) the payment of such accelerated Restricted

 

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Share Units will result in the imposition of additional tax under Section 409A if paid to Participant on or within the six (6) month period following Participant’s termination as a Service Provider, then the payment of such accelerated Restricted Share Units will not be made until the date six (6) months and one (1) day following the date of Participant’s termination of employment or other service with the Company or its Subsidiaries, unless Participant dies following his or her termination of employment or other service with the Company or its Subsidiaries, in which case, the Restricted Share Units will be paid in Ordinary Shares to Participant’s estate as soon as practicable following his or her death. It is the intent of this Award Agreement that it and all payments and benefits hereunder be exempt from, or comply with, the requirements of Section 409A so that none of the Restricted Share Units provided under this Award Agreement or Ordinary Shares issuable thereunder will be subject to the additional tax imposed under Section 409A, and any ambiguities herein will be interpreted to be so exempt or so comply. Each payment payable under this Award Agreement is intended to constitute a separate payment for purposes of Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-2(b)(2). For purposes of this Award Agreement, “Section 409A” means Section 409A of the Code, and any final Treasury Regulations and Internal Revenue Service guidance thereunder, as each may be amended from time to time.

5. Forfeiture upon Termination of Employment or Other Service . Notwithstanding any contrary provision of this Award Agreement, the balance of the Restricted Share Units that have not vested as of the time of Participant’s termination of employment or other service with the Company or its Subsidiaries for any or no reason and Participant’s right to acquire any Ordinary Shares hereunder will immediately terminate. The date of Participant’s termination of employment or other service with the Company or its Subsidiaries is detailed in Section 10(h).

6. Death of Participant . Any distribution or delivery to be made to Participant under this Award Agreement will, if Participant is then deceased, be made to Participant’s designated beneficiary, or if no beneficiary survives Participant, the administrator or executor of Participant’s estate. Any such transferee must furnish the Company with (a) written notice of his or her status as transferee, and (b) evidence satisfactory to the Company to establish the validity of the transfer and compliance with any laws or regulations pertaining to said transfer.

7. Withholding of Taxes . Notwithstanding any contrary provision of this Award Agreement, no certificate representing the Ordinary Shares will be issued to Participant, unless and until satisfactory arrangements (as determined by the Administrator) will have been made by Participant with respect to the payment of income, employment, social insurance, payroll tax, fringe benefit tax, payment on account or other tax-related items related to Participant’s participation in the Plan and legally applicable to Participant (“Tax-Related Items”) which the Company determines must be withheld with respect to such Ordinary Shares. Prior to vesting and/or settlement of the Restricted Share Units, Participant will pay or make adequate arrangements satisfactory to the Company and/or Participant’s employer (the “Employer”) to satisfy all withholding and payment obligations of Tax-Related Items of the Company and/or the Employer. In this regard, Participant authorizes the Company and/or the Employer to withhold any Tax-Related Items legally payable by Participant from his or her wages or other cash compensation paid to Participant by the Company and/or the Employer or from proceeds of the sale of Ordinary Shares. Alternatively, or in addition, if permissible under applicable local law, the Administrator, in its sole discretion and pursuant to such procedures as it may specify from

 

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time to time, may permit or require Participant to satisfy such tax withholding obligation, in whole or in part (without limitation) by (a) paying cash, (b) electing to have the Company withhold otherwise deliverable Ordinary Shares having a fair market value equal to the minimum amount required to be withheld, (c) selling a sufficient number of such Ordinary Shares otherwise deliverable to Participant through such means as the Company may determine in its sole discretion (whether through a broker or otherwise) equal to the amount required to be withheld, or (d) if Participant is a U.S. employee, delivering to the Company already vested and owned Ordinary Shares having a fair market value equal to the amount required to be withheld. To the extent determined appropriate by the Company in its discretion, it will have the right (but not the obligation) to satisfy any obligations for Tax-Related Items by reducing the number of Ordinary Shares otherwise deliverable to Participant. Further, if Participant is subject to tax in more than one jurisdiction between the Date of Grant and a date of any relevant taxable or tax withholding event, as applicable, Participant acknowledges and agrees that the Company and/or the Employer (or former employer, as applicable) may be required to withhold or account for tax in more than one jurisdiction. If Participant fails to make satisfactory arrangements for the payment of any Tax-Related Items hereunder at the time any applicable Restricted Share Units otherwise are scheduled to vest pursuant to Sections 3 or 4 or Tax-Related Items related to Restricted Share Units otherwise are due, Participant will permanently forfeit such Restricted Share Units and any right to receive Ordinary Shares thereunder and the Restricted Share Units will be returned to the Company at no cost to the Company.

8. Rights as Shareholder . Neither Participant nor any person claiming under or through Participant will have any of the rights or privileges of a shareholder of the Company in respect of any Ordinary Shares deliverable hereunder unless and until certificates representing such Ordinary Shares will have been issued, recorded on the records of the Company or its transfer agents or registrars, and delivered to Participant. After such issuance, recordation and delivery, Participant will have all the rights of a shareholder of the Company with respect to voting such Ordinary Shares and receipt of dividends and distributions on such Ordinary Shares.

9. No Guarantee of Continued Service . PARTICIPANT ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT THE VESTING OF THE RESTRICTED SHARE UNITS PURSUANT TO THE VESTING SCHEDULE HEREOF IS EARNED ONLY BY CONTINUING AS AN EMPLOYEE OR OTHER SERVICE PROVIDER AT THE WILL OF THE COMPANY (OR THE PARENT OR SUBSIDIARY OF THE COMPANY EMPLOYING OR RETAINING PARTICIPANT) AND NOT THROUGH THE ACT OF BEING HIRED, BEING GRANTED THIS AWARD OF RESTRICTED SHARE UNITS OR ACQUIRING ORDINARY SHARES HEREUNDER. PARTICIPANT FURTHER ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT THIS AWARD AGREEMENT, THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREUNDER AND THE VESTING SCHEDULE SET FORTH HEREIN DO NOT CONSTITUTE AN EXPRESS OR IMPLIED PROMISE OF CONTINUED ENGAGEMENT AS AN EMPLOYEE OR OTHER SERVICE PROVIDER FOR THE VESTING PERIOD, FOR ANY PERIOD, OR AT ALL, AND WILL NOT INTERFERE IN ANY WAY WITH PARTICIPANT’S RIGHT OR THE RIGHT OF THE COMPANY (OR THE PARENT OR SUBSIDIARY OF THE COMPANY EMPLOYING OR RETAINING PARTICIPANT) TO TERMINATE PARTICIPANT’S RELATIONSHIP AS AN EMPLOYEE OR OTHER SERVICE PROVIDER AT ANY TIME, WITH OR WITHOUT CAUSE.

 

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10. Nature of Grant . In accepting the grant, Participant acknowledges, understands and agrees that:

 

  (a) the Plan is established voluntarily by the Company, it is discretionary in nature and it may be modified, amended, suspended or terminated by the Company at any time, to the extent permitted by the Plan;

 

  (b) the grant of the Restricted Share Units is voluntary and occasional and does not create any contractual or other right to receive future grants of Restricted Share Units, or benefits in lieu of Restricted Share Units, even if Restricted Share Units have been granted in the past;

 

  (c) all decisions with respect to future Restricted Share Units or other grants, if any, will be at the sole discretion of the Company;

 

  (d) Participant is voluntarily participating in the Plan;

 

  (e) the Restricted Share Units and the Ordinary Shares subject to the Restricted Share Units are not intended to replace any pension rights or compensation;

 

  (f) the Restricted Share Units and the Ordinary Shares subject to the Restricted Share Units, 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;

 

  (g) the future value of the underlying Ordinary Shares is unknown, indeterminable and cannot be predicted with certainty;

 

  (h) for purposes of the Restricted Share Units, Participant’s status as an employee or other service provider will be considered terminated as of the date Participant is no longer actively providing services to the Company or any parent or Subsidiary of the Company (regardless of the reason for such termination and whether or not later to be found invalid or in breach of employment laws in the jurisdiction where Participant is a service provider or the terms of Participant’s service agreement, if any), and unless otherwise expressly provided in this Award Agreement or determined by the Administrator, Participant’s right to vest in the Restricted Share Units under the Plan, if any, will terminate as of such date and will not be extended by any notice period ( e.g. , Participant’s period of service would not include any contractual notice period or any period of “garden leave” or similar period mandated under employment laws in the jurisdiction where Participant is a service provider or the terms of Participant’s service agreement, if any, unless Participant is providing bona fide services during such time); the Administrator shall have the exclusive discretion to determine when Participant is no longer actively providing services for purposes of the Restricted Share Units grant (including whether Participant may still be considered to be providing services while on a leave of absence);

 

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  (i) unless otherwise provided in the Plan or by the Company in its discretion, the Restricted Share Units and the benefits evidenced by this Award Agreement do not create any entitlement to have the Restricted Share Units or any such benefits transferred to, or assumed by, another company nor be exchanged, cashed out or substituted for, in connection with any corporate transaction affecting the Ordinary Shares; and

 

  (j) the following provisions apply only if Participant is providing services outside the United States:

 

  i. the Restricted Share Units and the Ordinary Shares subject to the Restricted Share Units are not part of normal or expected compensation or salary for any purpose;

 

  ii. Participant acknowledges and agrees that none of the Company, the Employer, or any parent or Subsidiary of the Company shall be liable for any foreign exchange rate fluctuation between Participant’s local currency and the United States Dollar that may affect the value of the Restricted Share Units or of any amounts due to Participant pursuant to the settlement of the Restricted Share Units or the subsequent sale of any Ordinary Shares acquired upon settlement; and

 

  iii. no claim or entitlement to compensation or damages shall arise from forfeiture of the Restricted Share Units resulting from the termination of Participant’s employment or other service with the Company or its Subsidiaries (for any reason whatsoever whether or not later found to be invalid or in breach of employment laws in the jurisdiction where Participant is an employee or other service provider or the terms of Participant’s service agreement, if any), and in consideration of the grant of the Restricted Share Units to which Participant is otherwise not entitled, Participant irrevocably agrees never to institute any claim against the Company, any Subsidiary or the Employer, waives his or her ability, if any, to bring any such claim, and releases the Company, any parent of the Company, any Subsidiary and the Employer from any such claim; if, notwithstanding the foregoing, any such claim is allowed by a court of competent jurisdiction, then, by participating in the Plan, Participant shall be deemed irrevocably to have agreed not to pursue such claim and agrees to execute any and all documents necessary to request dismissal or withdrawal of such claim.

11. No Advice Regarding Grant . The Company is not providing any tax, legal or financial advice, nor is the Company making any recommendations regarding Participant’s participation in the Plan, or Participant’s acquisition or sale of the underlying Ordinary Shares. Participant is hereby advised to consult with his or her own personal tax, legal and financial advisors regarding his or her participation in the Plan before taking any action related to the Plan.

12. Data Privacy . Participant hereby explicitly and unambiguously consents to the

 

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collection, use and transfer, in electronic or other form, of Participant’s personal data as described in this Award Agreement and any other Restricted Share Unit grant materials by and among, as applicable, the Employer, the Company and any parent or Subsidiary of the Company for the exclusive purpose of implementing, administering and managing Participant’s participation in the Plan.

Participant understands that the Company and the Employer may hold certain personal information about Participant, including, but not limited to, Participant’s name, home address and telephone number, date of birth, social insurance number or other identification number, salary, nationality, job title, any ordinary shares or directorships held in the Company, details of all Restricted Share Units or any other entitlement to ordinary shares awarded, canceled, exercised, vested, unvested or outstanding in Participant’s favor (“Data”), for the exclusive purpose of implementing, administering and managing the Plan.

Participant understands that Data will be transferred to a share plan service provider as may be selected by the Company in the future, which is assisting the Company with the implementation, administration and management of the Plan. Participant understands that the recipients of the Data may be located in the United States or elsewhere, and that the recipients’ country (e.g., the United States) may have different data privacy laws and protections than Participant’s country. Participant understands that if he or she resides outside the United States, he or she may request a list with the names and addresses of any potential recipients of the Data by contacting his or her local human resources representative. Participant authorizes the Company, any share plan service provider selected by the Company and any other possible recipients which may assist the Company (presently or in the future) with implementing, administering and managing the Plan to receive, possess, use, retain and transfer the Data, in electronic or other form, for the sole purpose of implementing, administering and managing his or her participation in the Plan. Participant understands that Data will be held only as long as is necessary to implement, administer and manage Participant’s participation in the Plan. Participant understands if he or she resides outside the United States, he or she may, at any time, view Data, request additional information about the storage and processing of Data, require any necessary amendments to Data or refuse or withdraw the consents herein, in any case without cost, by contacting in writing his or her local human resources representative. Further, Participant understands that he or she is providing the consents herein on a purely voluntary basis. If Participant does not consent, or if Participant later seeks to revoke his or her consent, his or her status as an employee or other service provider of the Company or its Subsidiaries and career with the Employer will not be adversely affected; the only adverse consequence of refusing or withdrawing Participant’s consent is that the Company would not be able to grant Participant Restricted Share Units or other equity awards or administer or maintain such awards. Therefore, Participant understands that refusing or withdrawing his or her consent may affect Participant’s ability to participate in the Plan. For more information on the consequences of Participant’s refusal to consent or withdrawal of consent, Participant understands that he or she may contact his or her local human resources representative.

13. Address for Notices . Any notice to be given to the Company under the terms of this Award Agreement will be addressed to the Company at Fabrinet, 5/6 Moo 6, Soi Khunpra, Phaholyothin Rd., Klongnueng, Klongluang, Patumthanee 12120 Thailand, or at such other

 

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address as the Company may hereafter designate in writing or electronically.

14. Grant is Not Transferable . Except to the limited extent provided in Section 6 or as permitted by the Administrator, in its sole discretion, pursuant to Section 5.6 of the Plan, this grant and the rights and privileges conferred hereby will not be transferred, assigned, pledged or hypothecated in any way (whether by operation of law or otherwise) and will not be subject to sale under execution, attachment or similar process. Upon any attempt to transfer, assign, pledge, hypothecate or otherwise dispose of this grant, or any right or privilege conferred hereby, or upon any attempted sale under any execution, attachment or similar process, this grant and the rights and privileges conferred hereby immediately will become null and void.

15. Binding Agreement . Subject to the limitation on the transferability of this grant contained herein, this Award Agreement will be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the heirs, legatees, legal representatives, successors and assigns of the parties hereto.

16. Additional Conditions to Issuance of Ordinary Shares . If at any time the Company will determine, in its discretion, that the listing, registration, qualification or rule compliance of the Ordinary Shares upon any securities exchange or under any state, federal or foreign law, the tax code and related regulations or the consent or approval of any governmental regulatory authority is necessary or desirable as a condition to the issuance of Ordinary Shares to Participant (or his or her estate) hereunder, such issuance will not occur unless and until such listing, registration, qualification, rule compliance, consent or approval will have been completed, effected or obtained free of any conditions not acceptable to the Company. Where the Company determines that the delivery of the payment of any Ordinary Shares will violate federal securities laws or other applicable laws, the Company will defer delivery until the earliest date at which the Company reasonably anticipates that the delivery of Ordinary Shares will no longer cause such violation. The Company will make all reasonable efforts to meet the requirements of any such state, federal or foreign law or securities exchange and to obtain any such consent or approval of any such governmental authority or securities exchange.

17. Plan Governs . This Award Agreement is subject to all terms and provisions of the Plan. In the event of a conflict between one or more provisions of this Award Agreement and one or more provisions of the Plan, the provisions of the Plan will govern. Capitalized terms used and not defined in this Award Agreement will have the meaning set forth in the Plan.

18. Administrator Authority . The Administrator will have the power to interpret the Plan and this Award Agreement and to adopt such rules for the administration, interpretation and application of the Plan as are consistent therewith and to interpret or revoke any such rules (including, but not limited to, the determination of whether or not any Restricted Share Units have vested). All actions taken and all interpretations and determinations made by the Administrator in good faith will be final and binding upon Participant, the Company and all other interested persons. No member of the Administrator will be personally liable for any action, determination or interpretation made in good faith with respect to the Plan or this Award Agreement.

19. Electronic Delivery and Acceptance . The Company may, in its sole discretion, decide to deliver any documents related to Restricted Share Units awarded under the Plan or

 

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future Restricted Share Units that may be awarded under the Plan by electronic means or request Participant’s consent to participate in the Plan by electronic means. Participant hereby consents to receive such documents by electronic delivery and agrees to participate in the Plan through any on-line or electronic system established and maintained by the Company or a third party designated by the Company.

20. Language . Participant has received the terms and conditions of this Award Agreement and any other related communications, and Participant consents to having received these documents in English. If Participant has received this Award Agreement or any other document related to the Plan 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.

21. Captions . Captions provided herein are for convenience only and are not to serve as a basis for interpretation or construction of this Award Agreement.

22. Agreement Severable . In the event that any provision in this Award Agreement will be held invalid or unenforceable, such provision will be severable from, and such invalidity or unenforceability will not be construed to have any effect on, the remaining provisions of this Award Agreement.

23. Amendment, Suspension or Termination of the Plan . By accepting this Award, Participant expressly warrants that he or she has received an Award of Restricted Share Units under the Plan, and has received, read and understood a description of the Plan. Participant understands that the Plan is discretionary in nature and may be amended, suspended or terminated by the Company at any time.

24. Governing Law and Venue . This Award Agreement will be governed by the laws of the State of California without giving effect to the conflict of law principles thereof. For purposes of litigating any dispute that arises under this Award of Restricted Share Units or this Award Agreement, the parties hereby submit to and consent to the jurisdiction of the State of California, and agree that such litigation will be conducted in the courts of Santa Clara County, California, or the federal courts for the United States for the Northern District of California, and no other courts, where this Award of Restricted Share Units is made and/or to be performed.

25. Modifications to the Award Agreement . This Award Agreement constitutes the entire understanding of the parties on the subjects covered. Participant expressly warrants that he or she is not accepting this Award Agreement in reliance on any promises, representations, or inducements other than those contained herein. Modifications to this Award Agreement or the Plan can be made only in an express written contract executed by a duly authorized officer of the Company. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Plan or this Award Agreement, the Company reserves the right to revise the Award Agreement as it deems necessary or advisable, in its sole discretion and without the consent of Participant, to comply with Section 409A or to otherwise avoid imposition of any additional tax or income recognition under Section 409A in connection to this Award of Restricted Share Units.

26. Waiver . Participant acknowledges that a waiver by the Company of breach of any provision of this Award Agreement shall not operate or be construed as a waiver of any other

 

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provision of this Award Agreement, or of any subsequent breach by Participant or any other Participant.

 

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Exhibit 31.1

CERTIFICATION

I, David T. Mitchell, certify that:

 

  1. I have reviewed this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of Fabrinet;

 

  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)) 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 the 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 control over financial reporting.

Date: February 5, 2013

 

/s/ D AVID T. M ITCHELL

David T. Mitchell
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors (Principal Executive Officer)

Exhibit 31.2

CERTIFICATION

I, Toh-Seng Ng, certify that:

 

  1. I have reviewed this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of Fabrinet;

 

  2. Based on my knowledge, this quarterly 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)) 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 the 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 control over financial reporting.

Date: February 5, 2013

 

/s/ T OH -S ENG N G

Toh-Seng Ng
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer)

Exhibit 32.1

CERTIFICATIONS OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

PURSUANT TO

18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,

AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO

SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

I, David T. Mitchell, certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of Fabrinet for the fiscal quarter ended December 28, 2012 fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and that information contained in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q fairly presents in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of Fabrinet.

 

Date: February 5, 2013   By:  

/s/ D AVID T. M ITCHELL

  Name:   David T. Mitchell
  Title:   Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors (Principal Executive Officer)

I, Toh-Seng Ng, certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of Fabrinet for the fiscal quarter ended December 28, 2012 fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and that information contained in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q fairly presents in all material respects the financial condition and results of operations of Fabrinet.

 

Date: February 5, 2013   By:  

/s/ T OH -S ENG N G

  Name:   Toh-Seng Ng
  Title:   Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer)