UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20549

 

 

Form 8-K

 

 

Current Report

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

of The Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (date of earliest event reported): January 18, 2017

 

 

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   1-7463   95-4081636
(State of incorporation)   (SEC File No.)  

(IRS Employer

identification number)

 

1999 Bryan Street, Suite 1200, Dallas, Texas   75201
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip code)

Registrant’s telephone number (including area code): (214) 583-8500

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

  Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

  Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

  Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

  Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

 

 


Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

Election of New Director

On January 19, 2017, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (the “Company”) elected Robert McNamara to serve as a director of the Company until the annual meeting of shareholders in 2018. Mr. McNamara has been appointed to serve on the Audit Committee of the Board. The Board, after consideration of all facts and circumstances, affirmatively determined that Mr. McNamara is an independent director under the independence standards of the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”) and the Company’s guidelines for determining independence. The Board also determined that Mr. McNamara is “financially literate” as required by the NYSE listed company manual, as such qualification is interpreted by the Board in its business judgment.

In connection with his election, Mr. McNamara will receive the standard, annual compensation for the Company’s non-management directors. This annual compensation includes (i) a cash retainer in the amount of $100,000 per year through April 2017 and $110,000 per year thereafter, and (ii) pursuant to the Company’s 1999 Outside Director Plan, as amended and restated, an award of restricted stock units with an aggregate value of $135,000.

There were no understandings or other agreements or arrangements between Mr. McNamara and any other person pursuant to which Mr. McNamara was appointed as a director of the Company.

On January 19, 2017, the Company issued a press release announcing the appointment of Mr. McNamara to the Board. A copy of the press release is attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this report.

Amendment and Restatement of the Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. 1989 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

At the Annual Meeting, the Company’s shareholders approved the amendment and restatement of the Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. 1989 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “ESPP”). The amendment and restatement of the ESPP was approved by the Board on November 17, 2016, subject to shareholder approval. As a result of such shareholder approval, the ESPP was amended to, among other things, increase the maximum number of shares of common stock authorized for issuance over the term of the ESPP by 4,350,000 shares and extend the term of the plan to January 19, 2027.

A more complete description of the terms of the ESPP and the material amendments and modifications thereto can be found in “Proposal No. 2 – Approval of Amendment to and Restatement of the 1989 Employee Stock Purchase Plan” (pages 7 through 10) in the Company’s definitive proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 9, 2016 (the “Proxy Statement”), which description is incorporated by reference herein. The foregoing descriptions and the description incorporated by reference from the Proxy Statement are qualified in their entirety by reference to the amended and restated ESPP, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this report.

Amendment and Restatement of the Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. Global Employee Stock Purchase Plan

At the Annual Meeting, the Company’s shareholders also approved the amendment and restatement of the Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. Global Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “GESPP”). The amendment and restatement of the GESPP was approved by the Board on November 17, 2016, subject to shareholder approval. As a result of such shareholder approval, the GESPP was amended to, among other things, increase the maximum number of shares of common stock authorized for issuance over the term of the GESPP by 150,000 shares and extend the term of the plan to January 19, 2020.

A more complete description of the terms of the GESPP and the material amendments and modifications thereto can be found in “Proposal No. 3 – Approval of Amendment to and Restatement of the Global Employee Stock Purchase Plan” (pages 11 through 14) in the Proxy Statement, which description is incorporated by reference herein. The foregoing descriptions and the description incorporated by reference from the Proxy Statement are qualified in their entirety by reference to the amended and restated GESPP, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.2 to this report.

Amendment to Outstanding Restricted Stock Unit Awards

On January 18, 2017, the Human Resource and Compensation Committee (the “Compensation Committee”) approved an amendment to all outstanding restricted stock unit awards that vest solely based on the passage of time (“RSUs”) issued to employees (including the Company’s chief executive officer, chief financial officer, and other named executive officers) under the Company’s 1999 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended and restated. Pursuant to the amendment, if the Company pays an ordinary cash dividend on its outstanding common stock, each holder of RSUs will be

 

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credited with a dollar amount equal to (i) the per-share cash dividend, multiplied by (ii) the total number of RSUs held by such individual on the record date for that dividend (“Dividend Equivalents”). Dividend Equivalents vest on the same schedule as the RSU to which they relate and will be paid to the award holder in cash at the same time the share of common stock (or, in the case of cash-settled RSUs, the cash) underlying the RSU is delivered to the award holder.

The Compensation Committee determined that the amendment of outstanding RSUs to provide for Dividend Equivalents and the provision for Dividend Equivalents on future grants of RSUs were appropriate in light of the Company’s announcement on December 1, 2016 that it intends pay a regular quarterly dividend yielding approximately 1% per year starting in 2017. As RSUs are not outstanding shares of common stock and thus would not otherwise be entitled to participate in any such dividends, the crediting of Dividend Equivalents is intended to treat the award holders consistently with shareholders and, in the case of outstanding RSUs, preserve the equity-based incentives intended by the Company when the awards were granted.

 

Item 5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.

On January 19, 2017, the Board amended and restated the Company’s bylaws to amend Section 3.02 to reduce the authorized number of directors from eleven to ten directors in connection with Mr. Watson’s and Mr. Coyne’s leaving the Board, as previously disclosed in the Proxy Statement, and the election of Mr. McNamara to the Board. The foregoing summary is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of the Amended and Restated Bylaws, which is filed as Exhibit 3.1 to this report and incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

On January 19, 2017, the Company held its annual meeting of shareholders, at which the following items were voted upon:

Proposal No. 1 : Election of Directors

 

Nominee

  

For

    

Against

    

Abstain

 

Joseph R. Bronson

     95,596,596         1,528,710         62,078   

Juan José Suárez Coppel

     93,196,644         1,851,750         138,990   

Robert C. Davidson, Jr.

     81,371,172         13,751,743         64,469   

Steven J. Demetriou

     93,803,822         1,094,299         289,263   

Ralph E. Eberhart

     93,565,261         1,490,738         131,385   

Dawne S. Hickton

     93,303,103         1,749,026         135,255   

Linda Fayne Levinson

     92,805,200         2,313,075         69,109   

Peter J. Robertson

     94,520,481         531,830         135,073   

Christopher M.T. Thompson

     91,851,519         3,200,386         135,479   

There were 13,509,497 broker non-votes in the election of directors.

Proposal No. 2 : Approval of an Amendment to and Restatement of the Company’s 1989 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

 

For

  

Against

  

Abstain

94,434,906

   610,241    142,237

There were 13,509,497 broker non-votes on the proposal.

Proposal No. 3 : Approval of an Amendment to and Restatement of the Company’s Global Employee Stock Purchase Plan

 

For

  

Against

  

Abstain

94,476,698

   571,740    138,946

 

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There were 13,509,497 broker non-votes on the proposal.

Proposal No. 4 : Ratification of the Appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company’s Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for the Year Ending September 29, 2017

 

For

  

Against

  

Abstain

107,077,287

   1,450,978    168,616

There were no broker non-votes on the proposal.

Proposal No. 5 : Advisory Vote to Approve the Company’s Executive Compensation

 

For

  

Against

  

Abstain

91,334,259

   3,045,852    807,273

There were 13,509,497 broker non-votes on the proposal.

Proposal No. 6 : Advisory Vote on the Frequency of Shareholder Advisory Votes on the Company’s Executive Compensation

 

3 Years

  

2 Years

  

1 Year

  

Abstain

7,284,669

   198,208    86,570,592    1,133,915

There were 13,509,497 broker non-votes on the proposal.

After considering the results of the stockholder advisory vote, the Company has determined to hold an advisory vote on executive compensation every year until the next stockholder vote on the frequency of stockholder votes on executive compensation. A stockholder vote on the frequency of stockholder votes on executive compensation is required to be held at least once every six years.

 

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d) Exhibits.

 

Exhibit
Number

  

Exhibit Description

  3.1    Amended and Restated Bylaws of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., dated January 19, 2017
10.1†    Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. 1989 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (as Amended and Restated on January 19, 2017)
10.2†    Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. Global Employee Stock Purchase Plan (as Amended and Restated on January 19, 2017)
99.1    Press Release, dated January 19, 2017, announcing the appointment of Robert McNamara to the Board of Directors of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.

 

Management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

Dated: January 24, 2017

 

JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP INC.
By:  

/s/ Kevin C. Berryman

  Kevin C. Berryman
  Executive Vice President
  and Chief Financial Officer

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit
Number

  

Exhibit Description

  3.1    Amended and Restated Bylaws of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., dated January 19, 2017
10.1†    Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. 1989 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (as Amended and Restated on January 19, 2017)
10.2†    Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. Global Employee Stock Purchase Plan (as Amended and Restated on January 19, 2017)
99.1    Press Release, dated January 19, 2017, announcing the appointment of Robert McNamara to the Board of Directors of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.

 

Management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement

 

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Exhibit 3.1

AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS OF

JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP INC.

(A DELAWARE CORPORATION)

January 19, 2017

ARTICLE I.

OFFICES

SECTION 1.01 REGISTERED OFFICE. The registered office of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (hereinafter called the “Corporation”) in the State of Delaware shall be at 1209 Orange Street, Wilmington, and the name of the registered agent at that address shall be The Corporation Trust Company.

SECTION 1.02 PRINCIPAL OFFICE. The principal office for the transaction of the business of the Corporation shall be at 155 North Lake Avenue, Pasadena, California. The Board of Directors (hereinafter called the “Board”) is hereby granted full power and authority to change said principal office from one location to another.

SECTION 1.03 OTHER OFFICES. The Corporation may also have an office or offices at such other place or places, either within or without the State of Delaware, as the Board may from time to time determine or as the business of the Corporation may require.

ARTICLE II.

MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS

SECTION 2.01 ANNUAL MEETINGS. Annual meetings of the stockholders of the Corporation for the purpose of electing directors and for the transaction of such other proper business as may come before such meetings shall be held at such time and date as the Board shall determine by resolution. At any annual meeting of the stockholders, only such nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors shall be made, and only such other business shall be conducted or considered, as shall have been properly brought before the meeting. For nominations to be properly made at an annual meeting, and proposals of other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting, nominations and proposals of other business must be (a) specified in the Corporation’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) given by or at the direction of the Board, (b) otherwise properly made at the annual meeting, by or at the direction of the Board or (c) otherwise properly requested to be brought before the annual meeting by a stockholder of the Corporation in accordance with these Bylaws. For nominations of persons for election to the Board or proposals of other business to be properly requested by a stockholder to be made at an annual meeting, a stockholder must (i) be a stockholder of record at the time of giving of notice of such annual meeting by or at the direction of the Board and at the time of the annual meeting, (ii) be entitled to vote at such annual meeting and (iii) comply with the procedures set forth in these Bylaws as to such business or nomination. The immediately preceding sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make nominations or other business proposals (other than matters properly brought under Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) and included in the Corporation’s notice of meeting) before an annual meeting of stockholders.


SECTION 2.02 SPECIAL MEETINGS. Special meetings of the stockholders for any purpose or purposes may be called by the Board, by a committee of the Board that has been duly designated by the Board and whose powers and authority, as provided in a resolution of the Board or in these Bylaws, include the power to call such meetings or by the Chairman of the Board. Unless otherwise prescribed by statute or by the Certificate of Incorporation, special meetings may not be called by any other person or persons. At any special meeting of the stockholders, only such business shall be conducted or considered, as shall have been properly brought before the meeting pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting. To be properly brought before a special meeting, proposals of business must be (a) specified in the Corporation’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) given by or at the direction of the Board or (b) otherwise properly brought before the special meeting, by or at the direction of the Board. Nominations of persons for election to the Board may be made at a special meeting of stockholders at which directors are to be elected pursuant to the Corporation’s notice of meeting (a) by or at the direction of the Board or (b) provided that the Board has determined that directors shall be elected at such meeting, by any stockholder of the Corporation who (i) is a stockholder of record at the time of giving of notice of such special meeting and at the time of the special meeting, (ii) is entitled to vote at the meeting and (iii) complies with the procedures set forth in these Bylaws as to such nomination. The immediately preceding sentence shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to make nominations or other business proposals before a special meeting of stockholders (other than matters properly brought under Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act and included in the Corporation’s notice of meeting).

SECTION 2.03 PLACE OF MEETINGS. All meetings of the stockholders shall be held at such places, within or without the State of Delaware, as may from time to time be designated by the person or persons calling the respective meeting pursuant to and in accordance with these Bylaws and specified in the respective notices thereof delivered pursuant to and in accordance with these Bylaws.

SECTION 2.04 RECORD DATE FOR STOCKHOLDER NOTICE; VOTING. In order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment or postponement thereof, or entitled to express consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting pursuant to Article IX of the Certificate of Incorporation, or entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights, or entitled to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of stock or for the purpose of any other lawful action, the Board may fix, in advance, a record date, which shall not be more than sixty (60) nor less than ten (10) days before the date of such meeting, nor more than sixty (60) nor less than ten (10) days prior to any other action.

If the Board does not so fix a record date, then: (i) The record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall be at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which notice is given, or, if notice is waived, at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which the meeting is held; (ii) The record date for determining stockholders for any other purpose shall be at the day on which the first written consent is expressed; (iii) The record date for determining stockholders for any other purpose shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board adopts the resolution relating thereto.

A determination of stockholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall apply to any adjournment or postponement of the meeting; provided, however, that the Board may fix a new record date for the adjourned or postponed meeting.

 

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SECTION 2.05 NOTICE OF MEETINGS. Except as otherwise required by law, notice of each meeting of the stockholders, whether annual or special, shall be given not less than ten (10) days nor more than sixty (60) days before the date of the meeting to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at such meeting by delivering a typewritten or printed notice thereof to the stockholder personally, or by depositing such notice in the United States mail, in a postage prepaid envelope, directed to the stockholder at the address furnished by the stockholder to the Secretary of the Corporation for such purpose or, if the stockholder shall not have furnished to the Secretary of the Corporation an address for such purpose, then at the address of the stockholder last known to the Secretary, or by a form of electronic transmission consented to by the stockholder to whom the notice is given, except to the extent prohibited by Section 232(e) of the Delaware General Corporation Law.

Any consent to receive notice by electronic transmission shall be revocable by the stockholder by written notice to the Corporation. Any such consent shall be deemed revoked if (i) the Corporation is unable to deliver by electronic transmission two consecutive notices given by the Corporation in accordance with such consent and (ii) such inability becomes known to the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Corporation or to the transfer agent, or other person responsible for the giving of notice; provided, however, the inadvertent failure to treat such inability as a revocation shall not invalidate any meeting or other action.

Notice given as provided above shall be deemed given to the stockholder as follows: (i) if by personal delivery, when delivered to the stockholder; (ii) if by mail, when deposited in the United States mail; (iii) if by facsimile, when directed to a number at which the stockholder has consented to receive notice; (iv) if by electronic mail, when directed to an electronic mail address at which the stockholder has consented to receive notice; (v) if by a posting on an electronic network together with separate notice to the stockholder of such specific posting, upon the later of (a) such posting and (b) the giving of such separate notice; and (vi) if by any other form of electronic transmission, when directed to the stockholder. An affidavit of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or of the transfer agent or other agent of the Corporation that the notice has been given by a form of electronic transmission shall, in the absence of fraud, be prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein.

Except as otherwise expressly required by law, no publication of any notice of a meeting of the stockholders shall be required. Every notice of a meeting of the stockholders shall state the place, date and hour of the meeting, and, in the case of a special meeting, shall also state the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called. Notice of any meeting of stockholders shall not be required to be given to any stockholder who shall have waived such notice and such notice shall be deemed waived by any stockholders who shall attend such meeting in person or by proxy, except as for stockholders who shall attend such meeting for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened. Except as otherwise expressly required by law, notice of any adjourned or postponed meeting of the stockholders need not be given if the time and place thereof are announced at the meeting at which the adjournment or postponement is taken.

SECTION 2.06 ADVANCE NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDER NOMINEES; OTHER BUSINESS.

 

(a) Annual Meeting of Stockholders .

 

  (i)

Without qualification or limitation, subject to Section 2.06(c)(iv) of these Bylaws, for any nominations or any other business to be properly brought before an

 

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  annual meeting by a stockholder pursuant to Section 2.01 of these Bylaws, the stockholder must have given timely notice thereof (including, in the case of nominations, the completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by Section 2.07 of these Bylaws) and timely updates and supplements thereof in writing to the Secretary and such other business must otherwise be a proper matter for stockholder action.

 

  (ii) To be timely, a stockholder’s notice shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not earlier than the close of business on the 120th day and not later than the close of business on the 90th day prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting; provided, however, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting is more than thirty (30) days before or more than sixty (60) days after such anniversary date, notice by the stockholder must be so delivered not earlier than the close of business on the 120th day prior to the date of such annual meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the 90th day prior to the date of such annual meeting or, if the first public announcement of the date of such annual meeting is less than one hundred (100) days prior to the date of such annual meeting, the 10th day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made by the Corporation. In no event shall any adjournment or postponement of an annual meeting, or the public announcement thereof, commence a new time period for the giving of a stockholder’s notice as described above.

Notwithstanding anything in the immediately preceding paragraph to the contrary, in the event that the number of directors to be elected to the Board is increased by the Board, and there is no public announcement by the Corporation naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board at least one hundred (100) days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting, a stockholder’s notice required by this Section 2.06(a) shall also be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than the close of business on the 10th day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the Corporation.

In addition, to be timely, a stockholder’s notice shall further be updated and supplemented, if necessary, so that the information provided or required to be provided in such notice shall be true and correct as of the record date for the meeting and as of the date that is ten (10) business days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof, and such update and supplement shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than five (5) business days after the record date for the meeting in the case of the update and supplement required to be made as of the record date, and not later than eight (8) business days prior to the date for the meeting, any adjournment or postponement thereof in the case of the update and supplement required to be made as of ten (10) business days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof.

 

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(b) Special Meetings of Stockholders .

 

  (i) Subject to Section 2.06(c)(iv) of these Bylaws, in the event the Corporation calls a special meeting of stockholders for the purpose of electing one or more directors to the Board, any stockholder may nominate a person or persons (as the case may be) for election to such position(s) to be elected as specified in the Corporation’s notice calling the meeting, provided that the stockholder gives timely notice thereof (including the completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by Section 2.07 of these Bylaws) and timely updates and supplements thereof in writing to the Secretary. In order to be timely, a stockholder’s notice shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not earlier than the close of business on the 120th day prior to the date of such special meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the 90th day prior to the date of such special meeting or, if the first public announcement of the date of such special meeting is less than one hundred (100) days prior to the date of such special meeting, the 10th day following the day on which public announcement is first made of the date of the special meeting and of the nominees proposed by the Board of Directors to be elected at such meeting. In no event shall any adjournment or postponement of a special meeting, or the public announcement thereof, commence a new time period for the giving of a stockholder’s notice as described above.

 

  (ii) In addition, to be timely, a stockholder’s notice shall further be updated and supplemented, if necessary, so that the information provided or required to be provided in such notice shall be true and correct as of the record date for the meeting and as of the date that is ten (10) business days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof, and such update and supplement shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not later than five (5) business days after the record date for the meeting in the case of the update and supplement required to be made as of the record date, and not later than eight (8) business days prior to the date for the meeting, any adjournment or postponement thereof in the case of the update and supplement required to be made as of ten (10) business days prior to the meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof.

 

(c) Other Provisions .

 

  (i) To be in proper form, a stockholder’s notice (whether given pursuant to Section 2.01 or 2.02 of these Bylaws) to the Corporation must include the following, as applicable:

 

  (A)

As to the stockholder giving the notice and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal is made, a stockholder’s notice must set forth: (1) the name and address of such stockholder, as they appear on the Corporation’s books, of such beneficial owner, if any, and of their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith; (2) the class or series and number of shares of the Corporation that are, directly or indirectly, owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder, such beneficial owner and their respective affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith; (3) any option, warrant,

 

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  convertible security, stock appreciation right, or similar right with an exercise or conversion privilege or a settlement payment or mechanism at a price related to any class or series of shares of the Corporation or with a value derived in whole or in part from the value of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any derivative or synthetic arrangement having the characteristics of a long position in any class or series of shares of the Corporation, or any contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions designed to produce economic benefits and risks that correspond substantially to the ownership of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, including due to the fact that the value of such contract, derivative, swap or other transaction or series of transactions is determined by reference to the price, value or volatility of any class or series of shares of the Corporation, whether or not such instrument, contract or right shall be subject to settlement in the underlying class or series of shares of the Corporation, through the delivery of cash or other property, or otherwise, and without regard to whether the stockholder of record, the beneficial owner, if any, or any affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith, may have entered into transactions that hedge or mitigate the economic effect of such instrument, contract or right or any other direct or indirect opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation (any of the foregoing, a “Derivative Instrument”) directly or indirectly owned beneficially by such stockholder, the beneficial owner, if any, or any affiliates or associates or others acting in concert therewith; (4) any proxy, contract, arrangement, understanding, or relationship pursuant to which such stockholder has a right to vote any class or series of shares of the Corporation; (5) any agreement, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, including any repurchase or similar so-called “stock borrowing” agreement or arrangement, engaged in, directly or indirectly, by such stockholder, the purpose or effect of which is to mitigate loss to, reduce the economic risk (of ownership or otherwise) of any class or series of the shares of the Corporation by, manage the risk of share price changes for, or increase or decrease the voting power of, such stockholder with respect to any class or series of the shares of the Corporation, or that provides, directly or indirectly, the opportunity to profit or share in any profit derived from any decrease in the price or value of any class or series of the shares of the Corporation (any of the foregoing, “Short Interests”); (6) any rights to dividends on the shares of the Corporation owned beneficially by such stockholder that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Corporation; (7) any proportionate interest in shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments held, directly or indirectly, by a general or limited partnership in which such stockholder is a general partner or, directly or indirectly, beneficially owns an interest in a general partner of such general or limited partnership; (8) any performance-related fees (other than an asset-based fee) that such stockholder is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the value of shares of the Corporation or Derivative Instruments, if any, including without limitation any such interests held by members of such stockholder’s immediate family sharing the same household; (9) any significant equity interests or any Derivative Instruments or Short Interests

 

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  in any principal competitor of the Corporation held by such stockholder; (10) any direct or indirect interest of such stockholder in any contract with the Corporation, any affiliate of the Corporation or any principal competitor of the Corporation (including, in any such case, any employment agreement, collective bargaining agreement or consulting agreement); and (11) any other information relating to such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement and form of proxy or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for, as applicable, the proposal and/or for the election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder;

 

  (B) If the notice relates to any business other than a nomination of a director or directors that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, a stockholder’s notice must, in addition to the matters set forth in paragraph (A) above, also set forth: (1) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting, the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest of such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, in such business, (2) the text of the proposal or business (including the text of any resolutions proposed for consideration) and (3) a description of all agreements, arrangements and understandings between such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, and any other person or persons (including their names) in connection with the proposal of such business by such stockholder;

 

  (C) As to each person, if any, whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection to the Board, a stockholder’s notice must, in addition to the matters set forth in paragraph (A) above, also set forth: (i) all information relating to such person that would be required to be disclosed in a proxy statement or other filings required to be made in connection with solicitations of proxies for election of directors in a contested election pursuant to Section 14 of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (including such person’s written consent to being named in the proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a director if elected) and (ii) a description of all direct and indirect compensation and other material monetary agreements, arrangements and understandings during the past three years, and any other material relationships, between or among such stockholder and beneficial owner, if any, and their respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the one hand, and each proposed nominee, and his or her respective affiliates and associates, or others acting in concert therewith, on the other hand, including, without limitation all information that would be required to be disclosed pursuant to Rule 404 promulgated under Regulation S-K if the stockholder making the nomination and any beneficial owner on whose behalf the nomination is made, if any, or any affiliate or associate thereof or person acting in concert therewith, were the “registrant” for purposes of such rule and the nominee were a director or executive officer of such registrant; and

 

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  (D) With respect to each person, if any, whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection to the Board, a stockholder’s notice must, in addition to the matters set forth in paragraphs (A) and (C) above, also include a completed and signed questionnaire, representation and agreement required by Section 2.07 of these Bylaws. The Corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as may reasonably be required by the Corporation to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee to serve as an independent director of the Corporation or that could be material to a reasonable stockholder’s understanding of the independence, or lack thereof, of such nominee.

 

  (ii) For purposes of these Bylaws, “public announcement” shall mean disclosure in a press release reported by a national news service or in a document publicly filed by the Corporation with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Section 13, 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

  (iii) Notwithstanding the provisions of these Bylaws, a stockholder shall also comply with all applicable requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder with respect to the matters set forth in these Bylaws; provided, however, that any references in these Bylaws to the Exchange Act or the rules promulgated thereunder are not intended to and shall not limit the requirements applicable to nominations or proposals as to any other business to be considered pursuant to Section 2.7 of these Bylaws.

 

  (iv) Nothing in these Bylaws shall be deemed to affect any rights (1) of stockholders to request inclusion of proposals in the Corporation’s proxy statement pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act or (2) of the holders of any series of Preferred Stock if and to the extent provided for under law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws. Subject to Rule 14a-8 under the Exchange Act, nothing in these Bylaws shall be construed to permit any stockholder, or give any stockholder the right, to include or have disseminated or described in the Corporation’s proxy statement any nomination of director or directors or any other business proposal.

 

  (v) Except as otherwise provided by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, the Chairman of the meeting shall have the power to determine whether a nomination or any other business proposed to be brought before the meeting was made or proposed, as the case may be, in accordance with these Bylaws and, if any proposed nomination or other business is not in compliance with these Bylaws, to declare that no action shall be taken on such nomination or other proposal, and such nomination or other proposal shall be disregarded.

SECTION 2.07 SUBMISSION OF QUESTIONNAIRE, REPRESENTATION AND AGREEMENT. To be eligible to be a nominee for election or reelection as a director of the Corporation, a person must deliver (in accordance with the time periods prescribed for delivery of notice under Section 2.06 of these Bylaws) to the Secretary of the Corporation at the principal executive offices of the Corporation a written questionnaire with respect to the background and qualification of such person and the background of any other person or entity on whose behalf the nomination is being made (which questionnaire shall be provided by the Secretary upon written request), and a written

 

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representation and agreement (in the form provided by the Secretary upon written request) that such person (a) is not and will not become a party to (i) any agreement, arrangement or understanding with, and has not given any commitment or assurance to, any person or entity as to how such person, if elected as a director of the Corporation, will act or vote on any issue or question (a “Voting Commitment”) that has not been disclosed to the Corporation or (ii) any Voting Commitment that could limit or interfere with such person’s ability to comply, if elected as a director of the Corporation, with such person’s fiduciary duties under applicable law, (b) is not and will not become a party to any agreement, arrangement or understanding with any person or entity other than the Corporation with respect to any direct or indirect compensation, reimbursement or indemnification in connection with service or action as a director that has not been disclosed therein, (c) in such person’s individual capacity and on behalf of any person or entity on whose behalf the nomination is being made, would be in compliance, if elected as a director of the Corporation, and will comply with all applicable corporate governance, conflict of interest, confidentiality and stock ownership and trading policies and guidelines of the Corporation publicly disclosed from time to time and (d) will abide by the requirements of Section 3.03.

SECTION 2.08 QUORUM. Except in the case of any meeting for the election of directors summarily ordered as provided by law, the holders of record of a majority in voting interest of the shares of stock of the Corporation entitled to be voted thereat, present in person or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting of the stockholders of the Corporation or any adjournment or postponement thereof. In the absence of a quorum at any meeting or any adjournment or postponement thereof, a majority in voting interest of the stockholders present in person or by proxy and entitled to vote thereat or, in the absence therefrom of all the stockholders, any officer entitled to preside at, or to act as secretary of, such meeting may adjourn or postpone such meeting from time to time. At any such adjourned or postponed meeting at which a quorum is present any business may be transacted that might have been transacted at the meeting as originally called.

SECTION 2.09 VOTING.

 

(a) Each stockholder shall, at each meeting of the stockholders, be entitled to vote in person or by proxy each share or fractional share of the stock of the Corporation that has voting rights on the matter in question and that has been held by him and registered in his name on the books of the Corporation (i) on the date fixed pursuant to Section 6.05 of these Bylaws as the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to notice of and to vote at such meeting or (ii) if no such record date shall have been so fixed, then (a) at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which notice of the meeting shall be given or (b) if notice of the meeting shall be waived, at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which the meeting shall be held.

 

(b)

Shares of its own stock belonging to the Corporation or to another corporation, if a majority of the shares entitled to vote in the election of directors in such other corporation is held, directly or indirectly, by the Corporation, shall neither be entitled to vote nor be counted for quorum purposes. Persons holding stock of the Corporation in a fiduciary capacity shall be entitled to vote such stock. Persons whose stock is pledged shall be entitled to vote, unless in the transfer by the pledgor on the books of the Corporation he shall have expressly empowered the pledgee to

 

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  vote thereon, in which case only the pledgee, or his proxy, may represent such stock and vote thereon. Stock having voting power standing of record in the names of two or more persons, whether fiduciaries, members of a partnership, joint tenants, tenants in common, tenants by the entirety or otherwise, or with respect to which two or more persons have the same fiduciary relationship, shall be voted in accordance with the provisions of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

 

(c) Any such voting rights may be exercised by the stockholder entitled thereto in person or by his proxy appointed by an instrument in writing, subscribed by such stockholder or by his attorney thereunto authorized and delivered to the secretary of the meeting; provided, however, that no proxy shall be voted or acted upon after three years from its date unless said proxy shall provide for a longer period. The attendance at any meeting of a stockholder who may theretofore have given a proxy shall not have the effect of revoking the same unless he shall in writing so notify the secretary of the meeting prior to the voting of the proxy. At any meeting of the stockholders all matters, except as otherwise provided by the Certificate of Incorporation, in these Bylaws or by law, shall be decided by the vote of a majority of the shares present in person or by proxy and entitled to vote thereat and thereon, a quorum being present. The vote at any meetings of the stockholders on any question need not be by ballot, unless so directed by the chairman of the meeting. On a vote by ballot each ballot shall be signed by the stockholder voting, or by his proxy, if there be such proxy, and it shall state the number of shares voted.

SECTION 2.10 LIST OF STOCKHOLDERS. The Secretary of the Corporation shall prepare and make, at least ten (10) days before every meeting of stockholders, a complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, arranged in alphabetical order, and showing the address of each stockholder and the number of shares registered in the name of each stockholder. Such list shall be open to the examination of any stockholder for any purpose germane to the meeting during ordinary business hours, for a period of at least ten (10) days prior to the meeting, either at a place within the city where the meeting is to be held, which place shall be specified in the notice of the meeting, or, if not so specified, at the place where the meeting is to be held. The list shall also be produced and kept at the time and place of the meeting during the duration thereof, and may be inspected by any stockholder who is present. Such list shall presumptively determine the identity of the stockholders entitled to notice of and to vote at the meeting and the number of shares held by each of them.

SECTION 2.11 INSPECTORS OF ELECTIONS. If at any meeting of the stockholders a vote by written ballot shall be taken on any question, the chairman of such meeting may appoint an inspector or inspectors of elections to act with respect to such vote. Each inspector so appointed shall first subscribe an oath faithfully to execute the duties of an inspector at such meeting with strict impartiality and according to the best of his ability. Such inspectors shall decide upon the qualification of the voters and shall report the number of shares represented at the meeting and entitled to vote on such question, shall conduct and accept the votes, and, when the voting is completed, shall ascertain and report the number of shares voted respectively for and against the question. Reports of inspectors shall be in writing and subscribed and delivered by them to the Secretary of the Corporation. The inspectors need not be stockholders of the Corporation, and any officer of the Corporation may be an inspector on any question other than a vote for or against a proposal in which he shall have a material interest.

 

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SECTION 2.12 ACTION WITHOUT A MEETING NOT PERMITTED. No action shall be taken by the stockholders except at an annual or special meeting of stockholders. The power of the stockholders to consent in writing without a meeting to the taking of any action is specifically denied.

SECTION 2.13 CONDUCT OF MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS. Subject to the following, meetings of stockholders generally shall follow accepted rules of parliamentary procedure:

 

(a) The chairman of the meeting shall have absolute authority over matters of procedure and there shall be no appeal from the ruling of the chairman. If the chairman, in his absolute discretion, deems it advisable to dispense with the rules of parliamentary procedure as to any one meeting of stockholders or part thereof, the chairman shall so state and shall clearly state the rules under which the meeting or appropriate part thereof shall be conducted.

 

(b) If disorder should arise that prevents continuation of the legitimate business of the meeting, the chairman may quit the chair and announce the adjournment or postponement of the meeting; and, upon his so doing, the meeting shall be immediately adjourned or postponed.

 

(c) The chairman may ask or require that anyone that is not a bona fide stockholder or proxy leave the meeting.

 

(d) A resolution or motion shall be considered for vote only if proposed by a stockholder or duly authorized proxy and seconded by an individual who is a stockholder or a duly authorized proxy, other than the individual who proposed the resolution or motion.

ARTICLE III.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

SECTION 3.01 GENERAL POWERS. The property, business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed by the Board.

SECTION 3.02 NUMBER AND TERM OF OFFICE. The authorized number of directors shall be ten (10) until changed by a duly adopted amendment to this Bylaw. Each of the directors of the Corporation shall hold office until his successor shall have been duly elected and shall qualify or until he shall resign or shall have been removed in the manner hereinafter provided.

SECTION 3.03 ELECTION OF DIRECTORS. At all meetings of stockholders for the election of directors at which a quorum is present, each director then standing for election shall be elected by the vote of the majority of the votes cast, subject to the following provisions:

 

(a) Resignation of Incumbent Director Who Fails to Receive a Majority Vote : In any non-contested election of directors, any director nominee who is an incumbent director who receives a greater number of votes “withheld” from his or her election (or “against” or “no” votes) than votes “for” such election shall immediately tender his or her resignation to the Board, which resignation shall be irrevocable. Thereafter, the Board shall decide, through a process managed by the nominating and corporate governance committee (or equivalent) (and excluding the nominee in question from all Board and committee deliberations), whether to accept such resignation.

 

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(b) Consequences of the Board’s Acceptance or Non-Acceptance of a Director’s Resignation : If such incumbent director’s resignation is accepted by the Board, then such director shall immediately cease to be a member of the Board upon the date of action taken by the Board to accept such resignation. If such incumbent director’s resignation is not accepted by the Board, such director will continue to serve until the next annual meeting when his or her class is due to be elected, or until his or her subsequent resignation or removal.

 

(c) Failure of a Non-Incumbent Director to Win Election : If any nominee for director who is not an incumbent fails in a non-contested election to receive a majority vote for his or her election at any meeting for the purpose of the election of directors at which a quorum is present, such candidate shall not be elected and shall not take office.

 

(d) Filling Vacancies : If an incumbent director’s resignation is accepted by the Board pursuant to this Section 3.03, or if a non-incumbent nominee for director is not elected, the Board, may fill any resulting vacancy pursuant to the provisions of Section 3.05, or may decrease the size of the Board pursuant to Section 3.02. If, for any cause, the entire Board of Directors shall not have been elected at an annual meeting, they may be elected as soon thereafter as convenient at a special meeting of the stockholders called for that purpose in the manner provided in these Bylaws.

 

(e) Nominees to Agree in Writing to Abide by this Bylaw : To be eligible for election as a director of the Corporation, each nominee (including incumbent directors and nominees proposed by stockholders in accordance with Section 2.06) must agree in writing in advance to comply with the requirements of this Section 3.03.

 

(f) Vote Standard in Contested Elections : Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 3.03, in the event of a contested election, directors shall be elected by the vote of a plurality of the votes cast at any meeting for the election of directors at which a quorum is present. For purposes of this Section 3.03, a contested election shall mean any election of directors in which the number of candidates for election as directors exceeds the number of directors to be elected, with the determination thereof being made by the Secretary of the Corporation (i) as of the close of the applicable notice of nomination period set forth in Section 2.06 based on whether one or more notice(s) of nomination were timely filed in accordance with such Section or (ii) if later, reasonably promptly following the determination by any court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction that one or more notice(s) of nomination were timely filed in accordance with Section 2.06; provided that the determination that an election is a contested election by the Secretary of the Corporation pursuant to clause (i) or (ii) shall be determinative only as to the timeliness of a notice of nomination and not otherwise as to its validity. If, prior to the time the Corporation mails its initial proxy statement in connection with such election of directors, one or more notices of nomination are withdrawn (or are declared invalid or untimely by any court or other tribunal of competent jurisdiction) such that the number of candidates for election as director no longer exceeds the number of directors to be elected, the election shall not be considered a contested election, but, in all other cases, once an election is determined to be a contested election, directors shall be elected by the vote of a plurality of the votes cast.

 

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SECTION 3.04 RESIGNATIONS. Any director of the Corporation may resign at any time by giving written notice to the Board or to the Secretary of the Corporation. Subject to Section 3.03, any such resignation shall take effect at the time specified therein, or, if the time is not specified, it shall take effect immediately upon its receipt; and unless otherwise specified therein, the acceptance of such resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective.

SECTION 3.05 VACANCIES. Except as otherwise provided in the Certificate of Incorporation, any vacancy in the Board, whether because of death, resignation, disqualification, an increase in the number of directors, or any other cause, may be filled by vote of the majority of the remaining directors, although less than a quorum. Each director so chosen to fill a vacancy shall hold office until the annual meeting immediately following such director’s election by the Board, unless the appointment occurred less than thirty (30) days prior to such meeting, in which case such director shall stand for election at the following year’s annual meeting, and, in either case, if elected by the stockholders, such director shall hold office for the remainder of the term of the class of directors in which the new directorship was created or the vacancy occurred and until his successor shall have been elected and shall qualify or until he shall resign or shall have been removed in the manner hereinafter provided.

SECTION 3.06 PLACE OF MEETING. The Board may hold any of its meetings at such place or places within or without the State of Delaware as the Board may from time to time by resolution designate or as shall be designated by the person or persons calling the meeting or in the notice or a waiver of notice of any such meeting. Directors may participate in any regular or special meeting of the Board by means of conference telephone or similar communications equipment pursuant to which all persons participating in the meeting of the Board can hear each other, and such participation shall constitute presence in person at such meeting.

SECTION 3.07 FIRST MEETING. The Board shall meet as soon as practicable after each annual election of directors and notice of such first meeting shall not be required.

SECTION 3.08 REGULAR MEETINGS. Regular meetings of the Board may be held at such times as the Board may from time to time by resolution determine. If any day fixed for a regular meeting shall be a legal holiday at the place where the meeting is to be held, then the meeting shall be held at the same hour and place on the next succeeding business day not a legal holiday. Except as provided by law, notice of regular meetings need not be given.

SECTION 3.09 SPECIAL MEETINGS. Special meetings of the Board may be called by the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Vice Chairmen of the Board, if any, or the President and Chief Executive Officer and shall be called by the President and Chief Executive Officer or Secretary on the written request of two directors. Notice of all special meetings of the Board shall be given to each director at the address, facsimile number or electronic mail address provided by the director to the Secretary of the Corporation, or in the absence of such information, at the last known address, facsimile number or electronic mail address of the director, as follows:

 

(a) By first-class mail, postage prepaid, deposited in the United States mail in the city where the principal office of the Corporation is located at least five (5) days before the date of such meeting; or

 

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(b) By personal delivery at least twelve (12) hours prior to the time of holding such meeting; or

 

(c) By facsimile directed to the director’s facsimile number at least twelve (12) hours prior to the time of holding such meeting; or

 

(d) By electronic mail directed to the director’s electronic mail address at least twelve (12) hours prior to the time of holding such meeting.

It shall not be necessary that the same method of giving notice be employed in respect of all directors.

Such notice may be waived by any director and any meeting shall be a legal meeting without notice having been given if all the directors shall be present thereat or if those not present shall, either before or after the meeting, sign a written waiver of notice of, or a consent to, such meeting or shall after the meeting sign the approval of the minutes thereof. All such waivers, consents or approvals shall be filed with the corporate records or be made a part of the minutes of the meeting.

SECTION 3.10 QUORUM AND MANNER OF ACTING. Except as otherwise provided in the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws or by law, the presence of a majority of the total number of directors then in office shall be required to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business at any meeting of the Board. Except as otherwise provided in the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws or by law, all matters shall be decided at any such meeting, a quorum being present, by the affirmative votes of a majority of the directors present. In the absence of a quorum, a majority of directors present at any meeting may adjourn or postpone the same from time to time until a quorum shall be present. Notice of any adjourned or postponed meeting need not be given. The directors shall act only as a Board, and the individual directors shall have no power as such.

SECTION 3.11 ACTION BY CONSENT. Any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board or of any committee thereof may be taken without a meeting if a written consent thereto is signed by all members of the Board or of such committee, as the case may be, and such written consent is filed with the minutes of proceedings of the Board or committee.

SECTION 3.12 MANIFESTATION OF DISSENT. A director of the Corporation who is present at a meeting of the Board at which action on any corporate matter is taken shall be presumed to have assented to the action taken unless his dissent shall be entered in the minutes of the meeting or unless he shall file his written dissent to such action with the person acting as the secretary of the meeting before the adjournment thereof or shall forward such dissent by registered mail to the Secretary of the Corporation immediately after the adjournment of the meeting. Such right to dissent shall not apply to a director who voted in favor of such action.

SECTION 3.13 COMPENSATION. The directors shall receive only such compensation for their services as directors as may be allowed by resolution of the Board. The Board may also provide that the Corporation shall reimburse each such director for any expense incurred by him on account of his attendance at any meetings of the Board or Committees of the Board. Neither the payment of such compensation nor the reimbursement of such expenses shall be construed to preclude any director from serving the Corporation or its subsidiaries in any other capacity and receiving compensation therefor.

 

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SECTION 3.14 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. There may be an Executive Committee of three or more directors appointed by the Board, who may meet at stated times, or on notice to all members of such Committee by any of their own number, during the intervals between the meetings of the Board; they shall advise and aid the officers of the Corporation in all matters concerning its interests and the management of its business, and generally perform such duties and exercise such powers as may be directed or delegated by the Board from time to time. To the full extent permitted by law, the Board may delegate to such Committee authority to exercise all the powers of the Board while the Board is not in session. Vacancies in the members of the Committee shall be filled by the Board at a regular meeting or at a special meeting for that purpose. The Executive Committee shall keep written minutes of its meeting and report the same to the Board when required. The provisions of Sections 3.08, 3.09 and 3.11 of these Bylaws shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to any Executive Committee of the Board.

SECTION 3.15 EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. The Board of Directors, by resolution, may provide for an Emergency Management Committee and appoint members or designate the manner in which membership of the Committee shall be determined. The emergency powers granted hereunder shall be operative during any emergency resulting from an attack on the United States or during any nuclear or atomic disaster or during the existence of any catastrophe, or other similar emergency condition, as a result of which a quorum of the Board of Directors or a standing committee thereof cannot readily be convened for action (an “emergency condition”). Said Committee shall have and may exercise all of the powers of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation. It shall act only during such emergency condition and so long as the number of Directors able to act shall have been reduced to fewer than five, and until a Board of Directors has been elected by the stockholders. Such Committee shall meet as promptly as possible after the commencement of such an emergency condition as would activate the Committee and at such subsequent time or times as it may designate until a Board of Directors has been duly elected. Such Committee shall as the first order of business elect an Emergency Executive Committee from among its members and a chairman thereof, who shall be the chief executive officer of the Corporation. Such Executive Committee shall function in the same manner and possess the same powers as the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, as provided in Article III of these Bylaws, and shall have as many members as shall be provided by resolution of the Board. Such Committees shall make their own rules of procedure except to the extent otherwise provided by resolution of the Board. A majority of the members of the Committees able to act shall constitute a quorum. The physical presence of a member shall not be required if his vote on an action to be taken can be obtained by available means of communication. Any vacancy occurring in said Committees caused by resignation, death or other incapacity may be filled by a majority of the remaining members of the Emergency Management Committee and any member so chosen shall serve until a Board of Directors has been duly elected.

SECTION 3.16 OTHER COMMITTEES. The Board may, by resolution passed by a majority of the whole Board, designate one or more other committees, each such committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the Corporation. To the full extent permitted by law, any such committee shall have and may exercise such powers and authority as the Board may designate in such resolution. Vacancies in the membership of a committee shall be filled by the Board at a regular meeting or a special meeting for that purpose. Any such committee shall keep written minutes of its meetings and report the same to the Board when required. The provisions of Sections 3.08, 3.09, 3.10, 3.11 and 3.12 of these Bylaws shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to any such committee of the Board.

 

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ARTICLE IV.

OFFICERS

SECTION 4.01 NUMBER. The officers of the Corporation shall be a Chairman of the Board, a President, one or more Vice Presidents (including Executive Vice Presidents, Group Vice Presidents and Senior Vice Presidents), a Secretary and a Treasurer. The Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation shall be such officer as the Board shall from time to time designate. The Board may also elect a Vice Chairman of the Board and one or more Assistant Secretaries and Assistant Treasurers. A person may hold more than one office provided that the duties thereof can be consistently performed by the same person.

SECTION 4.02 OTHER OFFICERS. The Board may appoint such other officers as it shall deem necessary who shall hold their offices for such terms and shall exercise such powers and perform such duties as shall be determined from time to time by the Board.

SECTION 4.03 ELECTION. Each of the officers of the Corporation, except such officers as may be appointed in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.02 or Section 4.05 of this Article, shall be chosen annually by the Board and shall hold his office until he shall resign or shall be removed or otherwise disqualified to serve, or his successor shall be elected and qualified.

SECTION 4.04 SALARIES. The salaries of all officers of the Corporation shall be fixed by the Board.

SECTION 4.05 REMOVAL; VACANCIES. Subject to the express provisions of a contract authorized by the Board, any officer may be removed, either with or without cause, at any time by the Board or by any officer upon whom such power of removal may be conferred by the Board. Any vacancy occurring in any office of the Corporation shall be filled by the Board.

SECTION 4.06 THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD. The Chairman of the Board shall preside at all meetings of the stockholders and directors and shall have such other powers and duties as may be prescribed by the Board or by applicable law. He shall be an ex-officio member of standing committees, if so provided in the resolutions of the Board appointing the members of such committees.

SECTION 4.07 THE VICE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD. In the absence of the Chairman of the Board the Vice Chairman of the Board, if there be such an officer, shall have all the powers and shall exercise all the duties of the Chairman of the Board.

SECTION 4.08 THE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER. Unless otherwise determined by the Board, the President shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation and subject to the direction and control of the Board and the Chairman, the President and Chief Executive Officer shall have general supervision, control and management of the affairs and business of the Corporation, and general charge and supervision of all officers, agents and employees of the Corporation; shall ensure that all orders and resolutions of the Board are carried into effect; shall, in the absence of the Chairman of the Board and Vice Chairman of the Board, if any, preside at all meetings of the stockholders and the Board; and in general shall exercise all powers and perform all duties incident to the office of the President and Chief Executive Officer and such other powers and duties as may from time to time be assigned by the Board or as may be prescribed by these Bylaws.

 

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The President and Chief Executive Officer may execute bonds, mortgages and other contracts requiring a seal, under the seal of the Corporation, except where required or permitted by law to be otherwise signed and executed and except where the signing and execution thereof shall be expressly delegated by the Board to some other officer or agent of the Corporation.

SECTION 4.09 THE EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENTS. In the absence of the President and Chief Executive Officer or in the event of the inability or refusal of the President and Chief Executive Officer to act, the Executive Vice Presidents, if any, (in the order of their rank, as specified by the Board, or in the absence of such specification then in the order of their elections) shall perform all duties of the President and Chief Executive Officer and when so acting shall have all of the powers of and be subject to all the restrictions upon, the President and Chief Executive Officer. The Executive Vice Presidents shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as from time to time may be prescribed for them by the President and Chief Executive Officer, the Board or these Bylaws.

SECTION 4.10 THE VICE PRESIDENTS. In the absence of the Executive Vice Presidents or in the event of the inability or refusal of the Executive Vice Presidents to act, the Group Vice Presidents and Senior Vice Presidents, if any, or, if none, the Vice Presidents, (in the order of their rank, as specified by the Board, or in the absence of such specification, then in the order of their election) shall perform the duties of the President and Chief Executive Officer, and when so acting, shall have all the powers of and be subject to all the restrictions upon the President and Chief Executive Officer. The Group Vice Presidents, Senior Vice Presidents and Vice Presidents shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as may from time to time be prescribed for them by the President and Chief Executive Officer, the Board or these Bylaws.

SECTION 4.11 THE SECRETARY AND ASSISTANT SECRETARY. The Secretary shall attend all meetings of the Board and all meetings of the stockholders and record all the proceedings of the meetings of the Corporation and of the Board in a book to be kept for that purpose and shall perform like duties for the standing and special committees of the Board when required. He shall give, or cause to be given, notice of all meetings of the stockholders and special meetings of the Board, and shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the Board or President and Chief Executive Officer, under whose supervision he shall act. He shall have custody of the corporate seal of the Corporation and he, or an assistant secretary, shall have authority to affix the same to an instrument requiring it and, when so affixed, it may be attested by his signature or by the signature of such assistant secretary. The Board may give general authority to any other officer to affix the seal of the Corporation and to attest the affixing of his signature.

The assistant secretary, or if there be more than one, the assistant secretaries in the order determined by the Board (or if there be no such determination, then in the order of their election), shall, in the absence of the Secretary or in the event of his inability or his refusal to act, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the Secretary and shall perform such other duties and have such other powers as the Board may from time to time prescribe.

SECTION 4.12 THE TREASURER. The Treasurer shall be the chief financial officer of the Corporation and may be referred to by that title shall have the custody of the corporate funds and securities and shall keep full and accurate accounts of receipts and disbursements in books belonging to the Corporation and shall deposit all moneys and other valuable effects in the name and to the credit of the Corporation in such depositories as may be designated by the Board.

 

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The Treasurer shall disburse the funds of the Corporation as may be ordered by the Board, making proper vouchers for such disbursements, and shall render to the President and Chief Executive Officer and the Board, at its regular meetings, or when the Board so requires, an account of all his transactions as Treasurer and of the financial condition of the Corporation.

If required by the Board, the Treasurer shall give the Corporation a bond in such sum and with such surety as shall be satisfactory to the Board for the faithful performance of the duties of his office and for the restoration to the Corporation, in case of his death, resignation, retirement or removal from office, of all books, papers, vouchers, money and other property of whatever kind in his possession or under his control belonging to the Corporation.

SECTION 4.13 THE ASSISTANT TREASURER. The assistant treasurer, or if there be more than one, the assistant treasurers in the order determined by the Board (or if there be no such determination, then in the order of their election), shall, in the absence of the Treasurer or in the event of his inability or refusal to act, perform the duties and exercise the powers of the Treasurer and shall perform such other duties and have such other powers as the Board may from time to time prescribe.

ARTICLE V.

CONTRACTS, CHECKS, DRAFTS, BANK ACCOUNTS, ETC.

SECTION 5.01 CHECKS, DRAFTS, ETC. All checks, drafts or other orders for payment of money, notes or other evidence of indebtedness payable by the Corporation shall be signed by such person or persons and in such manner as, from time to time, shall be determined by resolution of the Board. Each such person or persons shall give such bond, if any, as the Board may require.

SECTION 5.02 DEPOSITS. All funds of the Corporation not otherwise employed shall be deposited from time to time to the credit of the Corporation in such banks, trust companies or other depositories as the Board may select, or as may be selected by any officer or officers, assistant or assistants, agent or agents, or attorney or attorneys of the Corporation to whom such power shall have been delegated by the Board. For the purpose of deposit and for the purpose of collection for the account of the Corporation, the President and Chief Executive Officer, any Executive, Group, Senior or other Vice President or the Treasurer (or any other officer or officers, assistant or assistants, agent or agents, or attorney or attorneys of the Corporation who shall from time to time be determined by the Board) may endorse, assign and deliver checks, drafts and other orders for the payment of money which are payable to the order of the Corporation.

SECTION 5.03 GENERAL AND SPECIAL BANK ACCOUNTS. The Board may from time to time authorize the opening and keeping of general and special bank accounts with such banks, trust companies or other depositories as the Board may select or as may be selected by any officer or officers, assistant or assistants, agent or agents, or attorney or attorneys of the Corporation to whom such power shall have been delegated by the Board. The Board may make such special rules and regulations with respect to such bank accounts, not inconsistent with the provisions of these Bylaws, as it may deem expedient.

 

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ARTICLE VI.

SHARES AND THEIR TRANSFER

SECTION 6.01 CERTIFICATES FOR STOCK. Shares of the Corporations stock may be certificated or uncertificated; provided, however, that every owner of stock of the Corporation shall be entitled to have a certificate or certificates, to be in such form as the Board shall prescribe, certifying the number and class of shares of the stock of the Corporation owned by him. Except as otherwise provided by law, the rights and obligations of the holders of uncertificated shares and the rights and obligations of the holders of certificated shares of the same class and series shall be identical. The certificates representing shares of such stock shall be numbered in the order in which they shall be issued and shall be signed in the name of the Corporation by the Chairman, Vice Chairman or President and Chief Executive Officer or an Executive, Group, Senior or other Vice President, and by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer. Any of or all of the signatures on the certificates may be a facsimile. In case any officer, transfer agent or registrar who has signed, or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon, any such certificate shall have ceased to be such officer, transfer agent or registrar before such certificate is issued, such certificate may nevertheless be issued by the Corporation with the same effect as though the person who signed such certificate, or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon, any such certificate shall have ceased to be such officer, transfer agent or registrar before such certificate is issued, such certificate may nevertheless be issued by the Corporation with the same effect as though the person who signed such certificate, or whose facsimile signature shall have been placed thereupon, were such officer, transfer agent or registrar at the date of issue. A record shall be kept of the respective names of the persons, firms or corporations owning the Corporation’s stock whether or not represented by such certificates, the number and class of shares owned thereby, respectively, and the respective dates thereof, and in case of cancellation, the respective dates of cancellation. Upon a holder’s request, the Corporation shall provide evidence of any equivalent uncertificated shares. Every certificate surrendered to the Corporation for exchange or transfer shall be cancelled, and no new certificated or uncertificated share or shares shall be issued in exchange for any existing certificate until such existing certificate shall have been cancelled, except in cases provided for in Section 6.04.

SECTION 6.02 TRANSFERS OF STOCK. The person in whose name shares of stock stand on the books of the Corporation shall be deemed the owner thereof for all purpose as regards the Corporation. Transfers of shares of stock of the Corporation shall be registered on the books of the Corporation or a transfer agent appointed as provided in Section 6.03, and may only be made upon instruction of the registered holder thereof, or of his attorney thereunto authorized by power of attorney duly executed, and the payment of all taxes thereon. Upon surrender of a certificate of shares to the Corporation or its transfer agent, with an assignment or power of transfer endorsed thereon or delivered therewith, duly executed, and with such proof of the authenticity of the signature and of authority to transfer, and of payment of transfer taxes, as the Corporation or its agents may require, the Corporation shall cancel the old certificate and issue new equivalent certificated or uncertificated shares to the person entitled thereto, and record the transaction upon its books. Upon receipt of proper transfer instructions from the holder of uncertificated shares, and of payment of transfer taxes as the Corporation or its agents may require, the Corporation shall cancel such uncertificated shares and issue new equivalent certificated or uncertificated shares to the person entitled thereto, and record the transaction upon its books. Whenever any transfer of shares shall be made for collateral security, and not absolutely, such fact shall be so expressed in the entry of transfer if, when the certificate or certificates shall be presented to the Corporation for registration of transfer, both the transferor and the transferee request the Corporation to do so.

 

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SECTION 6.03 REGULATIONS. The Board may make such rules and regulations as it may deem expedient, not inconsistent with these Bylaws, concerning the issue, transfer and registration of certificates for shares of the stock of the Corporation. It may appoint, or authorize any officer or officers to appoint, one or more transfer clerks or one or more transfer agents and one or more registrars, and may require all certificates for stock to bear the signature or signatures of any of them.

SECTION 6.04 LOST, STOLEN, DESTROYED, AND MUTILATED CERTIFICATES. In any case of loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of any certificate of stock, the Corporation may issue new equivalent certificated or uncertificated shares in its place upon proof of such loss, theft, destruction or mutilation and upon the giving of a bond of indemnity to the Corporation in such form and in such sums as the Board may direct; provided, however, that such new shares may be issued without requiring any bond when, in the judgment of the Board, it is proper so to do.

SECTION 6.05 FIXING DATE FOR DETERMINATION OF STOCKHOLDERS OF RECORD. In order that the Corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment or postponement thereof, or entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights, or entitled to exercise any rights in respect of any other change, conversion or exchange of stock or for the purpose of any other lawful action, the Board may fix, in advance, a record date, which shall not be more than sixty (60) nor less than twenty (20) days before the date of such meeting, nor more than sixty (60) days prior to any other action. If in any case involving the determination of stockholders for any purpose other than notice of or voting at a meeting of stockholders the Board shall not fix such a record date, the record date for determining stockholders for such purpose shall be the close of business on the day on which the Board shall adopt the resolution relating thereto. A determination of stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall apply to any adjournment or postponement of such meeting; provided, however, that the Board may fix a new record date for the adjourned or postponed meeting.

ARTICLE VII.

INDEMNIFICATION

SECTION 7.01 ACTIONS OTHER THAN BY OR IN THE RIGHT OF THE CORPORATION. The Corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the Corporation) by reason of the fact that he is or was a director, officer or employee of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer or employee of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise or as a member of any committee or similar body, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of the Corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner which he reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of the Corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, that he had reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful.

 

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SECTION 7.02 ACTIONS BY OR IN THE RIGHT OF THE CORPORATION. The Corporation shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the Corporation to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that he is or was a director, officer or employee of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer or employee of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, or as a member of any committee or similar body, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of the Corporation, except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the Corporation unless and only to the extent that the Court of Chancery or the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the Court of Chancery or such other court shall deem proper.

SECTION 7.03 DETERMINATION OF RIGHT OF INDEMNIFICATION. To obtain indemnification under Section 7.01 or 7.02, a claimant shall submit to the Corporation a written request, including therein or therewith such documentation and information as is reasonably available to the claimant and is reasonably necessary to determine whether and to what extent the claimant is entitled to indemnification. Any indemnification under Section 7.01 or 7.02 (unless ordered by a court) shall be made by the Corporation only as authorized in the specific case upon a determination that indemnification of the director, officer or employee is proper in the circumstances because he has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in Sections 7.01 and 7.02. Such determination shall be made (i) by the Board by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of directors who were not parties to such action, suit or proceeding, or (ii) if such a quorum is not obtainable, or, even if obtainable, a quorum of disinterested directors so directs, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion, or (iii) by the stockholders.

SECTION 7.04 INDEMNIFICATION AGAINST EXPENSES OF SUCCESSFUL PARTY. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Article, to the extent that a director, officer or employee of the Corporation has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to in Section 7.01 or 7.02, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, he shall be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection therewith.

SECTION 7.05 ADVANCE OF EXPENSES. Expenses incurred in defending a civil or criminal action, suit or proceeding may be paid by the Corporation in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding as authorized by the Board upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the director or officer, to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined that he is not entitled to be indemnified by the Corporation as authorized in this Article. Such expenses incurred by other employees may be so paid upon such terms and conditions, if any, as the Board deems appropriate, provided that advances pursuant to this Section 7.05 shall paid by the Corporation within twenty (20) days after the receipt by the Corporation of a written statement or statements from the claimant requesting such advance or advances from time to time.

 

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SECTION 7.06 OTHER RIGHTS AND REMEDIES. The benefits provided by this Article shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification may be entitled under any statute, Bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in his official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office, and shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer or employee and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.

SECTION 7.07 INSURANCE. Upon resolution passed by the Board, the Corporation may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer or employee of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer or employee of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any liability asserted against him and incurred by him in any such capacity, or arising out of his status as such, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify him or hold him harmless against such liability under the provisions of this Article.

SECTION 7.08 CONSTITUENT CORPORATIONS. For the purposes of this Article, references to “the Corporation” include all constituent corporations absorbed in a consolidation or merger as well as the resulting or surviving corporation, and shall also include without limitation Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., a California corporation, so that any person who is or was a director, officer or employee of such a constituent corporation or is or was serving at the request of such constituent corporation as a director, officer or employee of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise shall stand in the same position under the provisions of this Article with respect to the resulting or surviving corporation as he would if he had served the resulting or surviving corporation in the same capacity.

SECTION 7.09 EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS. For purposes of this Article, references to “other enterprises” shall include employee benefit plans, and references to “serving at the request of the Corporation” shall include any service as a director, officer or employee of the Corporation that imposes a duty on, or involves services by, such director, officer or employee with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants or beneficiaries.

SECTION 7.10 BROADEST LAWFUL INDEMNIFICATION. In addition to the foregoing, the Corporation shall, to the broadest and maximum extent permitted by Delaware law, as the same exists from time to time (but, in case of any amendment to or change in Delaware law, only to the extent that such amendment or change permits the Corporation to provide broader rights of indemnification than is permitted to the Corporation prior to such amendment or change), indemnify each person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative by reason of the fact that he is or was a director or officer of the Corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer or employee of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with such action, suit or proceeding than is permitted to the Corporation prior to such amendment or change), pay to such person any and all expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred in defending or settling any such action, suit or proceeding in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the director or officer, to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined by a final judgment or other final adjudication that he is not entitled to be indemnified by the Corporation as authorized in this Section 7.10, provided that advances pursuant to this Section 7.10 shall paid by the Corporation within twenty (20) days after the

 

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receipt by the Corporation of a written statement or statements from the claimant requesting such advance or advances from time to time. The first sentence of this Section 7.10 to the contrary notwithstanding, the Corporation shall not indemnify any such person with respect to any of the following matters: (i) remuneration paid to such person if it shall be determined by a final judgment or other final adjudication that such remuneration was in violation of law; or (ii) any accounting of profits made from the purchase or sale by such person of the Corporation’s securities within the meaning of Section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and amendments thereto or similar provisions of any federal, state or local statutory law; or (iii) actions brought about or contributed to by the dishonesty of such person, if a final judgment or other final adjudication adverse to such person establishes that acts of active and deliberate dishonesty were committed or attempted by such person with actual dishonest purpose and intent and were material to the adjudication; or (iv) actions based on or attributable to such person having gained any personal profit or advantage to which he was not entitled, in the event that a final judgment or other final adjudication adverse to such person establishes that such person in fact gained such personal profit or other advantage to which he was not entitled; or (v) any matter in respect of which a final decision by a court with competent jurisdiction shall determine that indemnification is unlawful; provided, however, that the Corporation shall perform its obligations under the second sentence of this Section 7.10 on behalf of such person until such time as it shall be ultimately determined by a final judgment or other final adjudication that he is not entitled to be indemnified by the Corporation as authorized by the first sentence of this Section 7.10 by virtue of any of the preceding clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) or (v). To obtain indemnification under Section 7.10, a claimant shall submit to the Corporation a written request, including therein or therewith such documentation and information as is reasonably available to the claimant and is reasonably necessary to determine whether and to what extent the claimant is entitled to indemnification.

SECTION 7.11 INDEMNITY FUND. Upon resolution passed by the Board, the Corporation may establish a trust or other designated account, grant a security interest or use other means (including, without limitation, a letter of credit), to ensure the payment of any or all of its obligations arising under this Article VII and/or any agreements that may be entered into between the Corporation and its officers and directors from time to time.

SECTION 7.12 SEVERABILITY. If any part of this Article VII shall be found, in any action, suit or proceeding or appeal therefrom or in any other circumstances or as to any particular officer, director or employee to be unenforceable, ineffective or invalid for any reason (a) the enforceability, effect and validity of the remaining parts or of such parts in other circumstances shall not be affected, except as otherwise required by applicable law, and (b) to the fullest extent possible, the provisions of this Article VII (including each such portion of any paragraph of this Article VII containing any such provision held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable) shall be construed so as to give effect to the intent manifested by the provision held invalid, illegal or unenforceable.

SECTION 7.13 AMENDMENTS. The foregoing provisions of this Article VII shall be deemed to constitute an agreement between the Corporation and each of the persons entitled to indemnification hereunder, for as long as such provisions remain in effect. Any amendment to the foregoing provisions of this Article VII which limits or otherwise adversely affects the scope of indemnification or rights of any such persons hereunder shall, as to such persons, apply only to claims arising, or causes of action based on actions or events occurring, after such amendment and delivery of notice of such amendment is given to the person or persons so affected. Until notice of such amendment is given to the person or persons whose rights hereunder are adversely affected, such amendment shall have no effect on such rights of such

 

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persons hereunder. Any person entitled to indemnification under the foregoing provisions of this Article VII shall as to any act or omission occurring prior to the date of receipt of such notice, be entitled to indemnification to the same extent as had such provisions continued as Bylaws of the Corporation without such amendment.

ARTICLE VIII.

MISCELLANEOUS

SECTION 8.01 SEAL. The Board shall provide a corporate seal, which shall be in the form of a circle and shall bear the name of the Corporation and words and figures showing that the Corporation was incorporated in the State of Delaware and the year of incorporation.

SECTION 8.02 WAIVER OF NOTICES. Whenever notice is required to be given by these Bylaws or the Certificate of Incorporation or by law, the person entitled to said notice may waive such notice in writing, either before or after the time stated therein, and such waiver shall be deemed equivalent to notice.

SECTION 8.03 FISCAL YEAR. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall end on the Friday closest to September 30 of each year (determined on the basis of the number of business days).

SECTION 8.04 AMENDMENTS. Subject to the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation, these Bylaws and applicable law, these Bylaws or any of them may be amended or repealed and new Bylaws may be adopted (a) by the Board, by vote of a majority of the number of directors then in office or (b) by the vote of the holders of not less than seventy-five (75%) percent of the total voting power of all outstanding shares of voting stock of the Corporation in an annual meeting of stockholders or at any special meeting of stockholders, provided that notice of such proposed amendment, repeal or adoption is given in the Corporation’s notice calling such meeting delivered pursuant to and in accordance with these Bylaws. Subject to the provisions of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware and the Certificate of Incorporation, any Bylaws adopted or amended by the stockholders may be amended or repealed by the Board or the stockholders.

SECTION 8.05 VOTING STOCK. Unless otherwise ordered by the Board, the Chairman of the Board, the President and Chief Executive Officer and each Executive, Group, Senior or other Vice President shall have full power and authority on behalf of the Corporation to attend and to act and vote at any meeting of the stockholders of any corporation in which the Corporation may hold stock and at any such meeting shall possess and may exercise any and all rights and powers that are incident to the ownership of such stock and which as the owner thereof the Corporation may have possessed and exercised if present. The Board by resolution from time to time may confer like powers upon any other person or person.

 

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Exhibit 10.1

 

JACOBS ENGINEERING GROUP INC.

 

1989 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN

(As amended and restated on January 19, 2017)

 

1. Purpose . The purpose of the Plan is to provide employees of the Company and its Designated Subsidiaries and Designated Affiliates with an opportunity to purchase Shares of the Company. This Plan includes two components: a Code Section 423 Component (the “423 Component”) and a non-Code Section 423 Component (the “Non-423 Component”). It is the intention of the Company to have the 423 Component qualify as an “employee stock purchase plan” under Section 423 of the Code. The provisions of the 423 Component, accordingly, shall be construed so as to extend and limit participation in a uniform and nondiscriminatory basis consistent with the requirements of Section 423 of the Code. In addition, this Plan authorizes the grant of purchase rights under the Non-423 Component that does not qualify as an “employee stock purchase plan” under Section 423 of the Code; such purchase rights shall be granted pursuant to rules, procedures or subplans adopted by the Committee designed to achieve tax, securities laws or other objectives for Eligible Employees and the Company. Except as otherwise provided herein, the Non-423 Component will be operated and administered in the same manner as the 423 Component.

 

2. Definitions .

 

(a) “ Administrator ” means the Company’s Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer or one or more of the Company’s officers or management team appointed by the Board or Committee to administer the day-to-day operations of the Plan. Except as otherwise provided in the Plan, the Board or Committee may assign any of its administrative tasks to the Administrator.

 

(b) “ Affiliate ” means (a) any entity that, directly or indirectly, is controlled by, controls or is under common control with, the Company and (b) any entity in which the Company has a significant equity interest, in either case as determined by the Committee, whether now or hereafter existing.

 

(c) “ Board ” means the Board of Directors of the Company.

 

(d) “ Change in Control ” means, with respect to the Company, a change in control of a nature that would be required to be reported in response to Item 6(e) of Schedule 14A of Regulation 14A under the Exchange Act, provided that such a change in control shall be deemed to have occurred at such time as (i) any “person” (as that term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act) is or becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of securities representing 35% or more of the combined voting power for election of Directors of the then outstanding securities of the Company or any successor of the Company; (ii) during any period of two (2) consecutive years or less, individuals who at the beginning of such period constituted the Board cease, for any reason, to constitute at least a majority of the Board, unless the election or nomination for election of each new Director was approved by a vote of at least two-thirds of the Directors then still in office who were Directors at the beginning of the period; (iii) the consummation of any merger or consolidation as a result of which the Shares shall be changed, converted or exchanged (other than by merger with a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company) or any liquidation of the Company or any sale or other disposition of 50% or more of the assets or earning power of the Company; or (iv) the consummation of any merger or consolidation to which the Company is a party as a result of which the persons who were shareholders of the Company immediately prior to the effective date of the merger or consolidation shall have beneficial ownership of less than 50% of the combined voting power for election of directors of the surviving corporation following the effective date of such merger or consolidation; provided, however, that no Change in Control shall be deemed to have occurred if, prior to such time as a Change in Control would otherwise be deemed to have occurred, the Board determines otherwise.

 

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(e) “ Code ” means the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, or any successor statute thereto, and the regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

(f) “ Committee ” means the Human Resource & Compensation Committee of the Board or another committee designated by the Board, or the person(s) or entity delegated the responsibility of administering the Plan.

 

(g) “ Company ” means Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., including any successor thereto.

 

(h) “ Compensation ” means wages and salary but exclusive of overtime pay and regularly paid wage premiums (such as evening or shift premiums), commissions, income from equity compensation awards, bonuses, contributions to other plans, and other compensation, unless otherwise determined by the Administrator. The Committee shall have the discretion to determine the application of this definition to employees outside the United States.

 

(i) “ Designated Affiliate ” means any Affiliate selected by the Administrator as eligible to participate in the Non-423 Component.

 

(j) “ Designated Subsidiary ” means any Subsidiary selected by the Administrator as eligible to participate in the 423 Component.

 

(k) “ Disability ” means the Participant becoming unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medical determinable physical or mental impairment that can be expected to result in death or that has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months, within the meaning of Code Section 422(c)(6).

 

(l) “ Director ” means a member of the Board.

 

(m) “ Effective Date ” shall mean the date the Plan becomes effective in accordance with Section 25.

 

(n) “ Eligible Employee ” means (i) any individual who is treated as an active employee in the records of the Company or any Designated Subsidiary or (ii) any individual who is treated as an active employee in the records of the Company or any Designated Affiliate, in each case regardless of any subsequent reclassification by the Company or by any Designated Subsidiary or Designated Affiliate, any governmental agency, or any court; provided , however , in all cases, only following the completion of one year of service as an active employee of the Company, Designated Subsidiary, or Designated Affiliate. The Administrator, in its discretion, from time to time may, prior to an Offering Date for a particular Offering and for all purchase rights to be granted on such Offering Date under such Offering, determine that the definition of Eligible Employee will or will not include an individual if he or she customarily works not more than twenty (20) hours per week or not more than five (5) months in any calendar year (or, in each case, such lesser period of time as may be determined by the Administrator in its discretion), provided that any such exclusion is applied with respect to each Offering in a uniform manner to all similarly-situated employees who otherwise would be Eligible Employees for that Offering. The Administrator, in its discretion, may further modify this definition as applied to the Non-423 Component. For purposes of the 423 Component, the employment relationship shall be treated as continuing intact while the individual is on military or sick leave or other bona fide leave of absence approved by the Company or the Designated Subsidiary so long as the leave does not exceed three (3) months or if longer than three (3) months, the individual’s right to reemployment is provided by statute or has been agreed to by contract or in a written policy of the Company which provides for a right of reemployment following the leave of

 

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absence. The employment relationship shall be treated as continuing intact where an Eligible Employee transfers employment between the Company, Designated Subsidiaries and/or Designated Affiliates; provided , however , that an individual who is not employed by the Company or a Designated Subsidiary on the Offering Date and through a date that is no more than three (3) months prior to the Purchase Date will participate only in the Non-423 Component unless the individual continues to have a right to reemployment with the Company or a Designated Subsidiary provided by statute or contract or in a written policy of the Company which provides for a right of reemployment following the leave of absence. The Administrator shall establish rules to govern other transfers into the 423 Component, and between any separate Offerings established thereunder, consistent with the applicable requirements of Section 423 of the Code.

 

(o) “ Employer ” means, individually and collectively, the Company, a Designated Affiliate and the Designated Affiliates, a Designated Subsidiary and the Designated Subsidiaries.

 

(p) “ Exchange Act ” means the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, from time to time, or any successor law thereto, and the regulations promulgated thereunder.

 

(q) “ Fair Market Value ” means, with respect to the Shares, as of any date, (i) the closing per-share sales price of the Shares (A) as reported by the NYSE composite tape for such date or (B) if the Shares are no longer listed on the NYSE but are listed on any other national stock exchange or national market system, as reported on the stock exchange composite tape for securities traded on such exchange for such date, or, with respect to each of clauses (A) and (B), if there were no sales on such date, on the closest preceding date on which there were sales of Shares, or, (ii) in the event there shall be no public market for the Shares on such date, the fair market value of the Shares as determined in good faith by the Committee upon the reasonable application of a reasonable valuation method.

 

(r) “ NYSE ” means the New York Stock Exchange.

 

(s) “ Offering ” means an offer under the Plan of a purchase right that may be exercised during an Offering Period as further described in Section 2(t). For purposes of this Plan, the Committee may designate separate Offerings under the Plan (the terms of which need not be identical) in which Eligible Employees of one or more Designated Subsidiaries or Designated Affiliates will participate, even if the dates of the applicable Offering Periods of each such Offering are identical.

 

(t) “ Offering Date ” means the first Trading Day of each Offering Period.

 

(u) “ Offering Period ” means a period of six months during which a purchase right granted pursuant to the Plan may be offered, or such different period for the offer of the purchase right as may be established by the Committee. In no event shall an Offering Period exceed 27 months. The duration and timing of Offering Periods may be changed pursuant to Section 4.

 

(v) “ Parent ” means a “parent corporation” of the Company whether now or hereinafter existing as defined in Section 424(e) of the Code.

 

(w) “ Participant ” means any Eligible Employee who participates in the Plan as described in Section 5.

 

(x) “ Payroll Deduction Authorization Form ” means any written agreement, enrollment form, contract or other instrument or document (in each case in paper or electronic form) evidencing that an Eligible Employee has elected to become a Participant in the Plan, which may, but need not, require execution by a Participant.

 

(y) “ Plan ” means the Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. 1989 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (as Amended and Restated on January 19, 2017), including both the 423 Component and the Non-423 Component.

 

(z) “Purchase Date ” means the last Trading Day of each month during the Offering Period.

 

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(aa) “ Purchase Price ” means a per-Share amount to be paid by a Participant to purchase a Share during the Offering Period. Such Purchase Price shall be established in the manner specified by the Committee and in effect thereafter unless otherwise changed by the Committee, for each Offering prior to an Offering Period, shall be ninety-five percent (95%) of the Fair Market Value of a Share on the relevant Purchase Date. Such Purchase Price may be established by the Committee by any manner or method the Committee determines, pursuant to Section 16, and subject to (i) with respect to the 423 Component, compliance with Section 423 of the Code (or any successor rule or provision or any other applicable law, regulation or stock exchange rule) or (ii) with respect to the Non-423 Component, pursuant to such manner or method as determined by the Committee to comply with applicable local law.

 

(bb) “ Share ” means a share of common stock of the Company, par value $1.00 per share, or such other security of the Company (i) into which such share shall be changed by reason of a recapitalization, merger, consolidation, split-up, combination, exchange of shares or other similar transaction or (ii) as may be determined by the Committee pursuant to Section 16.

 

(cc) “ Subsidiary ” means a “subsidiary corporation” of the Company whether now or hereafter existing, as defined in Section 424(f) of the Code.

 

(dd) “ Trading Day ” means a day on which the NYSE is open for trading .

 

3. Eligibility . Any Eligible Employee on a given Offering Date shall be eligible to participate in the Plan, provided , however , that employees who are citizens or residents of a non-U.S. jurisdiction may be excluded from participation in the Plan or an Offering if the participation of such Employees is prohibited under the laws of the applicable jurisdiction or if complying with the laws of the applicable jurisdiction would cause the Plan or an Offering to violate Section 423 of the Code. Further, notwithstanding any provisions of the Plan to the contrary, no Eligible Employee may be granted a purchase right under the 423 Component of the Plan (i) to the extent that, immediately after the grant, such Eligible Employee (or any other person whose stock would be attributed to such Eligible Employee pursuant to Section 424(d) of the Code) would own capital stock of the Company and/or hold outstanding purchase rights to purchase capital stock possessing five percent (5%) or more of the total combined voting power or value of all classes of the capital stock of the Company or of any Subsidiary, or (ii) to the extent that his or her rights to purchase capital stock under all employee stock purchase plans of the Company and its subsidiaries accrues at a rate that exceeds Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars (US$25,000) worth of such stock (determined at the Fair Market Value of the shares of such stock at the time such purchase right is granted) for each calendar year in which such purchase right is both outstanding and exercisable.

 

4. Offering Periods . The Plan shall be implemented by consecutive six-month Offering Periods with a new Offering Period commencing on the first Trading Day in January and July or on such other date as the Committee shall determine, and continuing thereafter to the last Trading Day of the respective six-month period or until terminated in accordance with Section 20. Within the limitations set forth in Section 2(t), the Committee shall have the power to change the duration of Offering Periods (including the commencement dates thereof) with respect to future offerings without stockholder approval if such change is announced prior to the scheduled beginning of the first Offering Period to be affected thereafter.

 

5. Participation . An Eligible Employee may become a Participant in the Plan by completing, within any prescribed enrollment period prior to the applicable Offering Date, a Payroll Deduction Authorization Form (electronic or otherwise) and/or any other forms and following any procedures for enrollment in the Plan as may be established by the Administrator from time to time.

 

6. Payroll Deductions or Contributions .

 

(a) At the time a Participant completes any Payroll Deduction Authorization Form, enrollment form and/or procedure to enroll in the Plan, as provided in Section 5, he or she shall elect to have payroll deductions made on

 

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each pay day during the Offering Period in an amount not exceeding 15% of the Compensation that he or she receives on each pay day during the Offering Period, provided , that should a pay day occur on a Purchase Date, a Participant shall have the payroll deductions made on such day applied to his or her account under the new Offering Period, unless otherwise provided by the Administrator and subject to withdrawal by the Participant as provided in Section 10. The Administrator may permit Eligible Employees participating in a specified Offering to contribute amounts to the Plan through payment by cash, check or other means to comply with non-U.S. requirements, provided , that such contributions shall not exceed 15% of the Compensation received each pay period, during the Offering Period. A Participant’s enrollment in the Plan shall remain in effect for successive Offering Periods unless terminated as provided in Section 10.

 

(b) Payroll deductions or contributions, as applicable, for a Participant shall commence on the first pay day following the Offering Date and shall end on the last pay day in the Offering Period to which such authorization is applicable (subject to subsection 6(a)), unless sooner terminated by the Participant as provided in Section 10.

 

(c) A Participant may discontinue his or her participation in the Plan as provided in Section 10 by completing any forms and following any procedures for withdrawal from the Plan as may be established by the Administrator from time to time. Further, the Participant may increase or decrease payroll deductions or contributions by completing any form or following any procedure established by the Administrator from time to time.

 

(d) At the time that Shares are purchased under the Plan, or at the time some or all of the Company’s Shares issued under the Plan are disposed of, the Participant must make adequate provision for the Company’s or its Subsidiary’s or Affiliate’s federal, state, or any other tax liability payable to any authority, national insurance, social security, payment-on-account or other tax obligations, if any, which arise as a result of participation in the Plan, including, for the avoidance of doubt, any liability of the Participant to pay an employer tax or social insurance contribution obligation, which liability has been shifted to the Participant as a matter of law or contract. At any time, the Company or its Subsidiary or Affiliate, as applicable, may, but shall not be obligated to, withhold from the Participant’s compensation the amount necessary for the Company or its Subsidiary or Affiliate, as applicable, to meet applicable withholding obligations, including any withholding required to make available to the Company or its Subsidiary or Affiliate, as applicable, any tax deductions or benefits attributable to sale or early disposition of Shares by the Eligible Employee. In addition, the Company or its Subsidiary or Affiliate, as applicable, (i) may withhold from the proceeds of the sale of Shares, (ii) may withhold a sufficient whole number of Shares otherwise issuable following purchase having an aggregate fair market value sufficient to pay applicable withholding obligations, or (iii) may withhold by any other means set forth in the applicable Payroll Deduction Authorization Form. Where necessary to avoid negative accounting treatment, the Company or its Subsidiary or Affiliate shall not withhold taxes in excess of the applicable maximum marginal tax rates.

 

7. Grant of Purchase Right . On the Offering Date of each Offering Period, each Eligible Employee participating in such Offering Period shall be granted a right to purchase on each Purchase Date during such Offering Period (at the applicable Purchase Price) up to a number of Shares determined by dividing such Eligible Employee’s payroll deductions or contributions accumulated prior to such Purchase Date by the applicable Purchase Price; provided , however , that in no event shall an Eligible Employee be permitted to purchase during each Offering Period more than 2,400 Shares subject to adjustment pursuant to Section 15, and provided further that such purchase shall be subject to the limitations set forth in Sections 3 and 14. The Committee may, for future Offering Periods, increase or decrease, in its discretion, the maximum number of Shares that an Eligible Employee may purchase during each Offering Period. The purchase of Shares pursuant to the purchase right shall occur as provided in Section 8, unless the Participant has withdrawn pursuant to Section 10. Each purchase right expires following the applicable Purchase Date.

 

8. Purchase of Shares .

 

(a) Unless a Participant withdraws from the Plan as provided in Section 10, on the Purchase Date, the maximum number of Shares, including fractional shares, as may be purchased with the accumulated payroll

 

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deductions or contributions in the Participant’s account shall be purchased for such Participant at the applicable Purchase Price, subject to the limitations in Section 7 and Section 8(b). Unless specifically permitted by the Committee, fractional shares shall not be purchased under the Plan. In the absence of such permission by the Committee, any payroll deductions or contributions accumulated in a Participant’s account which are not sufficient to purchase a full Share shall, at the discretion of the Committee, be returned to the Participant or be retained in the Participant’s account for the subsequent Offering Period, subject to earlier withdrawal by the Participant as provided in Section 10. During a Participant’s lifetime, Shares may be purchased pursuant to the Participant’s purchase right only by the Participant.

 

(b) No Participant in the 423 Component of the Plan is permitted to purchase shares under all employee stock purchase plans of the Company and its subsidiaries at a rate that exceeds $25,000 in Fair Market Value (determined at the time the purchase right is granted) for each calendar year in which any stock purchase right is both outstanding and exercisable.

 

(c) If the Company determines that, on a given Purchase Date, the number of Shares with respect to which purchase rights are to be exercised may exceed (i) the number of Shares that were available for sale under the Plan on the Offering Date of the applicable Offering Period, or (ii) the number of Shares available for sale under the Plan on such Purchase Date, the Company shall make a pro-rata allocation of the Shares available for purchase on such Purchase Date in as uniform a manner as shall be practicable to be equitable among all Participants exercising purchase rights on such Purchase Date. The Company may make a pro-rata allocation of the Shares available on the Offering Date of any applicable Offering Period pursuant to the preceding sentence, notwithstanding any authorization of additional Shares for issuance under the Plan by the Company’s shareholders subsequent to such Offering Date. In such event, any residual payroll deductions or contributions accumulated in a Participant’s account which are not used to purchase Shares shall be promptly refunded to the relevant Participant or beneficiary, as applicable.

 

9. Delivery . By enrolling and participating in the Plan, each Participant shall be deemed to have authorized the establishment of a brokerage account on his or her behalf at a securities brokerage firm selected by the Company. Alternatively, the Company may provide for Plan share accounts for each Participant to be established by the Company or by an outside entity selected by the Committee which is not a brokerage firm. As soon as reasonably practicable after each Purchase Date on which a purchase of Shares occurs, the Company shall arrange for the delivery to each Participant of the Shares purchased upon exercise of his or her purchase right to the Participant’s brokerage or Plan share account in a form determined by the Company. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, unless otherwise determined by the Administrator or required by any applicable law, rule or regulation, the Company shall not deliver to any Participant certificates evidencing Shares issued in connection with any purchase under the Plan, and instead such Shares shall be recorded in the books of the brokerage firm or, as applicable, the Company, its transfer agent, stock plan administrator or such other outside entity which is not a brokerage firm.

 

10. Withdrawal .

 

(a) A Participant may decide not to purchase Shares on a given Purchase Date and opt to withdraw all, but not less than all, the payroll deductions or contributions credited to his or her account and not yet used to purchase Shares under the Plan at any time by giving notice in a form or manner prescribed by the Administrator from time to time, except that no withdrawals shall be permitted for the ten (10) day period immediately preceding each Purchase Date, or other time period specified by the Administrator in its discretion. All of the Participant’s payroll deductions or contributions credited to his or her account shall, at the discretion of the Administrator, (i) be retained in Participant’s account and used to purchase Shares at the next Purchase Date, or (ii) be paid to such Participant as soon as reasonably practicable after receipt of notice of withdrawal and such Participant’s purchase right for the Offering Period shall be terminated automatically, and no further payroll deductions or contributions for the purchase of Shares shall be made for such Offering Period. If a Participant withdraws from an Offering Period, payroll deductions or contributions shall not resume at the beginning of the succeeding Offering Period unless he or she satisfactorily completes the process to re-enroll in the Plan as prescribed by the Administrator from time to time.

 

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(b) A Participant’s withdrawal from an Offering Period shall not have any effect upon his or her eligibility to participate in any similar plan that may hereafter be adopted by the Company or in succeeding Offerings which commence after the termination of the Offering Period from which he or she has withdrawn.

 

11. No Right to Employment . Participation in the Plan by a Participant shall not be construed as giving a Participant the right to be retained as an employee of the Company, a Subsidiary, or an Affiliate, as applicable. Furthermore, the Company, a Subsidiary, or an Affiliate may dismiss a Participant from employment at any time, free from any liability or any claim under the Plan.

 

12. Termination of Employment . Unless otherwise determined by the Administrator, upon a Participant’s ceasing to be an Eligible Employee, due to termination of employment for any reason (other than death or Disability), he or she shall be deemed to have elected to withdraw from the Plan and the payroll deductions or contributions credited to such Participant’s account during the Offering Period but not yet used to purchase Shares under the Plan shall be returned to such Participant and such Participant’s purchase right shall be terminated automatically. Unless otherwise determined by the Administrator, upon a Participant’s ceasing to be an Eligible Employee, due to termination of employment on account of death or Disability, the Participant or, in the case of his or her death, the person or persons entitled thereto under Section 17 may elect to (i) purchase Shares on the next applicable Purchase Date, as may be purchased with the accumulated payroll deductions or contributions in the Participant’s account in accordance with the terms of the Plan and Section 8 or, (ii) elect to withdraw from the Plan as described in this Section 12.

 

13. Interest . No interest will accrue on the contributions of a Participant in the Plan, except as may be required by applicable law, as determined by the Administrator.

 

14. Shares Available for Purchase under the Plan .

 

(a) Basic Limitation . Subject to adjustment pursuant to Section 15, the aggregate number of Shares authorized for sale under the Plan is 30,977,108 Shares. The limitation set forth in this section may be used to satisfy purchases of Shares under either the 423 Component or the Non-423 Component.

 

(b) Rights as an Unsecured Creditor . Until the Shares are issued (as evidenced by the appropriate entry on the books of the Company or of a duly-authorized transfer agent or broker selected by the Company), a Participant shall only have the rights of an unsecured creditor with respect to such Shares, and no right to vote or receive dividends or any other rights as a stockholder shall exist with respect to such Shares.

 

(c) Sources of Shares Deliverable at Purchase . Any Shares issued after purchase may consist, in whole or in part, of authorized and unissued Shares or of treasury Shares.

 

15. Adjustments for Changes in Capitalization and Similar Events .

 

(a) Changes in Capitalization . Subject to any required action by the shareholders of the Company, the maximum number of Shares that shall be made available for sale under the Plan, the maximum number of Shares that each Participant may purchase during the Offering Period (pursuant to Section 7) or over a calendar year under the $25,000 limitation (pursuant to Section 8(b)) and the per Share price used to determine the Purchase Price shall be proportionately adjusted for any increase or decrease in the number of issued Shares resulting from any nonreciprocal transaction between the Company and its shareholders, (such as a stock dividend, stock split, spin-off, rights offering or recapitalization through a large, nonrecurring cash dividend), that affects the Shares (or other securities of the Company) or the price of Shares (or other securities) and causes a change in the per share value of the Shares underlying outstanding purchase rights. Such adjustment shall be made by the Committee, whose determination in that respect shall be final, binding and conclusive. The Committee may not delegate its authority to make adjustments pursuant to this paragraph. Except as expressly provided herein, no issuance by the Company of shares of stock of any class, or securities convertible into shares of stock of any class, shall affect, and no adjustment by reason thereof shall be made with respect to, the number or price of Shares subject to a purchase right.

 

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(b) Dissolution or Liquidation . In the event of the proposed dissolution or liquidation of the Company, the Offering Period then in progress shall be shortened by setting a new Purchase Date (the “New Purchase Date”), and shall terminate immediately prior to the consummation of such proposed dissolution or liquidation, unless provided otherwise by the Company. The New Purchase Date shall be before the date of the Company’s proposed dissolution or liquidation. The Company shall notify each Participant, at least ten (10) U.S. business days prior to the New Purchase Date, that the Purchase Date for the Participant’s purchase right has been changed to the New Purchase Date and that Shares shall be purchased automatically for the Participant on the New Purchase Date, unless prior to such date the Participant has withdrawn from the Offering Period as provided in Section 10.

 

(c) Change in Control . In the event of a Change in Control, each outstanding purchase right shall be assumed or an equivalent purchase right substituted by the successor corporation or a Parent or Subsidiary of the successor corporation. In the event that the successor corporation refuses to assume or substitute for the purchase right, the Offering Period then in progress shall be shortened by setting a New Purchase Date and shall end on the New Purchase Date. The New Purchase Date shall be before the date of the Company’s proposed merger or Change in Control. The Company shall notify each Participant in writing, at least ten (10) U.S. business days prior to the New Purchase Date, that the Purchase Date for the Participant’s purchase right has been changed to the New Purchase Date and that Shares shall be purchased automatically for the Participant on the New Purchase Date, unless prior to such date the Participant has withdrawn from the Offering Period as provided in Section 10.

 

16. Administration .

 

(a) Authority of the Committee . Subject to the terms of the Plan and applicable law, and in addition to other express powers and authorizations conferred on the Committee by the Plan, the Committee shall have sole and plenary authority to administer the Plan, including, without limitation, the authority to:

 

(i) construe, interpret, reconcile any inconsistency in, correct any default in and supply any omission in, and apply the terms of the Plan and any Payroll Deduction Authorization Form or other instrument or agreement relating to the Plan,

 

(ii) determine eligibility and adjudicate all disputed claims filed under the Plan, including whether Eligible Employees shall participate in the 423 Component or the Non-423 Component and which entities shall be Designated Subsidiaries or Designated Affiliates,

 

(iii) determine the terms and conditions of any purchase right to purchase Shares under the Plan,

 

(iv) establish, amend, suspend or waive such rules and regulations and appoint such agents as it shall deem appropriate for the proper administration of the Plan,

 

(v) amend an outstanding purchase right or grant a replacement purchase right for a purchase right previously granted under the Plan if, in the Committee’s discretion, it determines that (A) the tax consequences of such purchase right to the Company or the Participant differ from those consequences that were expected to occur on the date the purchase right was granted, or (B) clarifications or interpretations of, or changes to, tax law or regulations permit purchase rights to be granted that have more favorable tax consequences other than initially anticipated, and

 

(vi) make any other determination and take any other action that the Committee deems necessary or desirable for the administration of the Plan.

 

Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in this Plan, the Committee may adopt rules or procedures relating to the operation and administration of the Plan to accommodate the specific requirements of local laws and procedures for jurisdictions outside of the United States. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Committee specifically is authorized to adopt rules, procedures and subplans, which, for purposes of the Non-423

 

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Component, may be outside the scope of Section 423 of the Code, regarding, without limitation, eligibility to participate, the definition of Compensation, handling of payroll deductions, making of contributions to the Plan (including, without limitation, in forms other than payroll deductions), establishment of bank or trust accounts to hold payroll deductions, payment of interest, conversion of local currency, obligations to pay payroll tax, determination of beneficiary-designation requirements, withholding procedures and handling of Share issuances, which may vary according to local requirements. The Committee may assign any of its administrative tasks set forth in this paragraph to the Administrator, unless constrained by applicable law. However, the Committee may not delegate its authority to make adjustments pursuant to Section 15(a).

 

(b) Committee Decisions . Unless otherwise expressly provided in the Plan, all designations, determinations, interpretations and other decisions under or with respect to the Plan or any right to purchase Shares granted under the Plan made by the Committee or its delegate, including, but not limited to decisions of the Administrator in fulfilling its duties under the Plan, shall be final, conclusive, and binding upon all persons, including the Company, Designated Subsidiary, Designated Affiliate, Participant, Eligible Employee, or any beneficiary of such person, as applicable.

 

(c) Indemnification . To the extent allowable pursuant to applicable law, each member of the Board, the Committee, the Administrator or any employee of the Company, a Designated Subsidiary, or a Designated Affiliate (each such person, a “Covered Person”) shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Company from any loss, cost, liability, or expense that may be imposed upon or reasonably incurred by such Covered Person in connection with or resulting from any claim, action, suit, or proceeding to which he or she may be a party or in which he or she may be involved by reason of any action or failure to act pursuant to the Plan and against and from any and all amounts paid by him or her in satisfaction of judgment in such action, suit, or proceeding against him or her; provided , however , that he or she has acted in accordance with his or her duties and responsibilities to the Company under applicable law, and provided that he or she gives the Company an opportunity, at its own expense, to handle and defend any claim, action, suit, or proceeding to which he or she is a party before he or she undertakes to handle and defend it on his or her own behalf. The foregoing right of indemnification shall not be exclusive of any other rights of indemnification to which such Covered Persons may be entitled pursuant to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws, as a matter of law, or otherwise, or any power that the Company may have to indemnify them or hold them harmless.

 

17. Death . Unless otherwise provided in an enrollment form or procedures established by the Administrator from time to time, in the event of the Participant’s death, any accumulated payroll deductions and other contributions not used to purchase Shares shall be paid to and any Shares credited to his or her brokerage or Plan share account shall be transferred to Participant’s heirs or estate as soon as reasonably practicable following the Participant’s death.

 

18. Transferability . Payroll deductions, contributions credited to a Participant’s account and any rights with regard to the purchase of Shares pursuant to a purchase right or to receive Shares under the Plan may not be assigned, alienated, pledged, attached, sold or otherwise disposed of in any way (other than by will, the laws of descent and distribution or as provided in Section 17) by the Participant. Any such attempt at assignment, transfer, pledge or other disposition shall be without effect, except that the Company may treat such act as an Offering to withdraw funds from an Offering Period in accordance with Section 10.

 

19. Use of Funds . All payroll deductions or contributions received or held by the Company under the Plan may be used by the Company for any corporate purpose, and the Company shall not be obligated to segregate such payroll deductions or contributions except as may be required by applicable local law, as determined by the Administrator, and if so required by the laws of a particular jurisdiction, shall apply to all Participants in the relevant Offering except to the extent otherwise permitted by U.S. Treasury Regulation Section 1.423-2(f). Until Shares are issued, Participants shall only have the rights of an unsecured creditor, although Participants in specified Offerings may have additional rights where required under local law, as determined by the Administrator.

 

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20. Amendment and Termination .

 

(a) Subject to any applicable law or government regulation and to the rules of the NYSE or any successor exchange or quotation system on which the Shares may be listed or quoted, the Plan may be amended, modified, suspended or terminated by the Board without the approval of the shareholders of the Company. This termination authority may not be delegated. Except as provided in Section 15, no amendment may make any change in any purchase right previously granted which adversely affects the rights of any Participant or any beneficiary (as applicable) without the consent of the affected Participant or beneficiary. To the extent necessary to comply with Section 423 of the Code (or any successor rule or provision or any other applicable law, regulation or stock exchange rule), the Company shall obtain shareholder approval of any amendment in such a manner and to such a degree as required.

 

(b) Without shareholder approval and without regard to whether any Participant rights may be considered to have been “adversely affected,” the Committee or its delegate, including the Administrator, in each case to the extent permitted under the terms of the Plan, applicable law, the by-laws of the Company and under the Committee charter, may change the Offering Periods, limit the frequency or number of changes in the amount withheld during an Offering Period, establish the exchange rate applicable to amounts withheld in a currency other than U.S. dollars, permit payroll withholding in excess of the amount designated by a Participant to adjust for delays or mistakes in the Company’s processing of properly completed Participant Offerings, establish reasonable waiting and adjustment periods and/or accounting and crediting procedures to ensure that amounts applied toward the purchase of Shares for each Participant properly correspond with amounts withheld from the Participant’s Compensation, and establish such other limitations or procedures as the Committee deems appropriate.

 

21. Notices . All notices or other communications by a Participant to the Company under or in connection with the Plan shall be deemed to have been duly given when received in the form and manner specified by the Administrator at the location, or by the person, designated by the Administrator for the receipt thereof.

 

22. Conditions Upon Issuance of Shares .

 

(a) Shares shall not be issued with respect to a purchase right unless the purchase of Shares pursuant to such purchase right and the issuance and delivery of such Shares comply with all applicable law. This may include, without limitation U.S. and non-U.S. and state and local rules and regulations promulgated under U.S. securities laws, and the requirements of any stock exchange upon which the Shares may then be listed. Share issuance is subject to the approval of counsel for the Company with respect to such compliance. In the event that any payroll deductions or contributions cannot be used to purchase shares due to noncompliance with applicable rules and regulations, such payroll deductions or contributions shall be promptly refunded to the relevant Participant or beneficiary, as applicable.

 

(b) As a condition to the purchase of Shares pursuant to a purchase right, the Company may require the person on whose behalf Shares are purchased to represent and warrant at the time of any such purchase that the Shares are being purchased only for investment and without any present intention to sell or distribute such Shares if, in the opinion of counsel for the Company, such a representation is required by any of the applicable provisions of law described in subsection (a) above.

 

23. Share Issuance . All Shares delivered under the Plan pursuant to the exercise of a purchase right to purchase Shares shall be subject to such stop-transfer orders and other restrictions as the Company may deem advisable under the Plan or the rules, regulations, and other requirements of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the NYSE or any other stock exchange or quotation system upon which such Shares or other securities are then listed or reported and any applicable Federal or state laws, and the Company may take whatever steps are necessary to effect such restrictions.

 

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24. Term of Plan . The Plan shall terminate on the earlier of (i) the date the Plan is terminated by the Board in accordance with Section 20 and (ii) the date on which all purchase rights are exercised in connection with a dissolution or liquidation pursuant to Section 15(b) or Change in Control pursuant to Section 15(c). No further purchase rights shall be granted or Shares purchased, and no further payroll deductions or contributions shall be collected under the Plan following such termination.

 

25. Shareholder Approval . The Plan, as amended and restated, will become effective on January 19, 2017 following approval by the shareholders of the Company. If the Company stockholders do not approve the amended and restated Plan, any amounts deducted from Participants will be administered based upon the terms of the Plan immediately prior to the amendment and restatement presented to the Company shareholders for approval.

 

26. Code Section 409A; Tax Qualification .

 

(a) Purchase rights granted under the 423 Component are exempt from the application of Section 409A of the Code. Purchase rights granted under the Non-423 Component to U.S. taxpayers are intended to be exempt from the application of Section 409A under the short-term deferral exception and any ambiguities shall be construed and interpreted in accordance with such intent. Subject to Section 26(b), purchase rights granted to U.S. taxpayers under the Non-423 Component are subject to such terms and conditions that will permit such purchase rights to satisfy the requirements of the short-term deferral exception available under Section 409A of the Code, including the requirement that the Shares subject to a purchase right be delivered within the short-term deferral period. Subject to Section 26(b), in the case of a Participant who would otherwise be subject to Section 409A of the Code, to the extent the Company determines that a purchase right or the exercise, payment, settlement or deferral is subject to Section 409A of the Code, the purchase right shall be granted, exercised, paid, settled or deferred in a manner that will comply with Section 409A of the Code, including Department of Treasury regulations and other interpretive guidance issued thereunder, including without limitation any such regulations or other guidance that may be issued after the Effective Date. Anything in the foregoing to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company shall have no liability to a Participant or any other party if the purchase right that is intended to be exempt from, or compliant with Section 409A of the Code is not so exempt or compliant or for any action taken by the Company with respect thereto.

 

(b) Although the Company may endeavor to (i) qualify a purchase right for favorable tax treatment under the laws of the U.S. or jurisdictions outside of the U.S. or (ii) avoid adverse tax treatment ( e.g. , under Section 409A of the Code), the Company makes no representation to that effect and expressly disavows any covenant to maintain favorable or avoid unfavorable tax treatment, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Plan, including Section 26(a). The Company is not constrained in its corporate activities by any potential negative tax impact on Participants under the Plan.

 

27. Severability . If any particular provision of this Plan is found to be invalid or otherwise unenforceable, such determination shall not affect the other provisions of the Plan, but the Plan shall be construed in all respects as if such invalid provision were omitted.

 

28. Governing Law and Jurisdiction . Except to the extent that provisions of this Plan are governed by applicable provisions of the Code or any other substantive provision of federal law, this Plan shall be construed in accordance with the laws of Delaware, without giving effect to the conflict of laws principles thereof. The jurisdiction and venue for any disputes arising under, or any action brought to enforce (or otherwise relating to) this Plan shall be exclusively in the courts in Dallas County, Texas, including the Federal Courts located therein (should Federal jurisdiction exist).

 

29. Headings . Headings are given to the Sections and subsections of the 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 the Plan.

 

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Exhibit 10.2

 

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.

 

Global Employee Stock Purchase Plan

(As Amended and Restated on January 19, 2017)

 

1. Purpose of the Plan

 

This Global Employee Stock Purchase Plan is intended to advance the interests of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. by encouraging stock ownership by employees of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. and certain subsidiaries of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., who are located outside of the United States. Although this Plan incorporates certain Code Section 423 limitations, it is not intended to qualify as an “employee stock purchase plan” under Code Section 423.

 

2. Definitions

 

(a) “Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

(b) “Administrator” shall mean the bank, brokerage firm, financial institution, or other entity or person(s) engaged, retained or appointed by the Committee to act as the agent of the Employer and of the Participants under the Plan from time to time.

 

(c) “Addendum or Addenda” shall mean, individually and collectively, the appendices hereto and such other additional appendices as may be added to this Plan at the discretion of the Committee. Each appendix will govern the operation of the Plan in respect of the Designated Subsidiaries in the countries named in the appendix and will be considered part of the Plan. Unless otherwise stated, the applicable appendix for the country will govern the operation of the Plan in that country and to that extent the appendix will override other parts of this Plan in the event of a conflict.

 

(d) “Board” shall mean the Board of Directors of the Company.

 

(e) “Closing Value” shall mean, as of a particular date, the value of a Share determined by:

 

(i) the closing sales price for such Share (or the closing bid, if no sales were reported) as quoted on The New York Stock Exchange, or such other established stock exchange or national market system on which the Shares are listed or traded, for the day for which the Closing Value is to be determined.

 

(ii) such other valuation method as required under the applicable Local Law.

 

In the event that the foregoing valuation method is not practicable, the “Closing Value” shall be determined by such other reasonable valuation method as the Committee shall, in its discretion, select and apply in good faith as of such date.

 

(f) “Code” shall mean the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended and currently in effect, or any successor body of federal tax law in the United States.

 

(g) “Committee” shall mean the Board, a designated committee thereof, or the person(s) or entity delegated the responsibility of administering the Plan.

 

(h) “Company” shall mean Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., including any successor thereto.

 

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(i) “Compensation”, shall mean, unless otherwise required by the applicable Local Law, regular fixed basic gross compensation.

 

“Compensation” does not include, unless otherwise required by the applicable Local Law:

 

(i) any bonus, overtime payment, contribution to an employee benefit plan or other similar payment or contribution;

 

(ii) amounts realized from the exercise, sale, exchange or other disposition of a stock option or sale, exchange or other disposition of a stock acquired under a stock option;

 

(iii) amounts realized from restricted stock, restricted stock units or other equity compensation awards;

 

(iv) moving allowances, automobile allowances, tuition reimbursement, financial/tax planning reimbursement, lunch vouchers, house allowances, and other allowances that receive special tax benefits, other extraordinary compensation, including tax “gross-up” payments, and imputed income from other employer-provided benefits; and

 

(v) other amounts that receive special tax benefits, such as, but not limited to, premiums for group term life insurance or contributions made by the Employer (whether or not under salary reduction agreement) or mandatory payments made by the Employer to the Employee under Local Law.

 

(j) “Designated Subsidiaries” shall mean those Subsidiaries whose Employees have been designated in accordance with Section 18, as eligible to participate in the Plan.

 

(k) “Election Period” shall mean the period during which Participants in the Plan authorize payroll deductions or provide alternative contributions to fund the purchase of Shares on their behalf under the Plan pursuant to the right to purchase Shares granted to them hereunder. Alternative contributions for the purpose of this Plan shall mean payment of contributions to fund the purchase of Shares under the Plan pursuant to the right to purchase Shares granted to the Participants hereunder through such other means as authorized by the Committee, including, but not limited to, personal checks of the Participants. As determined by the Committee, Election Periods may vary from country to country, or from Designated Subsidiary to Designated Subsidiary.

 

(l) “Eligible Employee” shall mean, subject to the applicable Local Law, an Employee of a Designated Subsidiary with one (1) year service on an Enrollment Date. Employees of Designated Subsidiaries that have become Subsidiaries by reason of having been acquired by the Company or a Subsidiary and companies that have been merged with the Company or a Subsidiary may, at the discretion of the Committee, receive credit for the time they have worked for such acquired or merged company prior to its affiliation with the Company or the Designated Subsidiary.

 

The Committee in its sole discretion may determine that the following Employees shall not be Eligible Employees under the Plan:

 

(i) Unless otherwise required by the applicable Local Law, Employees whose customary employment is less than 20 hours per week or who are employed for less than five months in any calendar year;

 

(ii) Employees who are not actively employed by the Employer at the beginning of a six-month Election Period, including Employees who are on disability, or leave of absence;

 

(iii) Any Employee who would own more than five (5) percent of the common stock in the Company immediately after the Share purchase opportunity is granted to them under the Plan. Shares that the Employee may purchase under all outstanding stock options or such other share-based compensation plan of the Company shall be treated as stock owned by the Employee for such purposes, even though the option is not presently exercisable or the Shares are not presently receivable by the Employee;

 

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(iv) Employees who are subject to Section 16(a) of the 1934 Act; and

 

(v) Employees who are eligible to participate or who participate in the Company’s 1989 Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

 

(m) “Employee” shall be limited to the following individuals, subject to the applicable Local Law:

 

(i) an individual who is a regular full time or part time employee of the Employer as defined under the applicable Local Law;

 

(ii) an individual whose work schedule is normally included in the authorized staffing targets and budget of the Employer; and

 

(iii) an individual who has been hired on a temporary contract but who is expected to fill a permanent staffing need.

 

Unless otherwise required by the applicable Local Law, Employee shall not include unionized employees as defined by the regular practices of the Employer.

 

(n) “Employer” means, individually and collectively, the Company, a Designated Subsidiary and the Designated Subsidiaries.

 

(o) “Enrollment Period” shall mean the period immediately preceding the Election Period that is designated by the Committee in its discretion as the period during which an Eligible Employee may elect to participate in the Plan.

 

(p) “Holding Period” shall mean the period during which the Participant is not permitted to transfer, sell, pledge or otherwise deal in the Shares credited to the Participant’s Plan Account. Unless otherwise required by the applicable Local Law or specified in the Addendum, there is no Holding Period for the purposes of this Plan.

 

(q) “Local Law” shall mean the laws of the jurisdiction in which the Employer is incorporated or located or where the Employee or Participant is employed or resides including but not limited to the securities regulatory body requirements and the taxation requirements of that same jurisdiction.

 

(r) “1934 Act” shall mean the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and currently in effect, or any successor body of federal securities law in the United States.

 

(s) “Participant” shall mean any Eligible Employee who has elected to participate in the Plan for an Election Period by authorizing payroll deductions or by making alternative contributions and following all applicable procedures established by the Committee during the Enrollment Period for such Election Period.

 

(t) “Plan” shall mean this Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. Global Employee Stock Purchase Plan (as Amended and Restated on January 19, 2017).

 

(u) “Plan Account” shall mean the individual account established for each Participant for purposes of accounting for and/or holding each Participant’s payroll deductions, alternative contributions, Shares, etc. The Plan Account may be a bookkeeping account or a brokerage account, or such other account as determined by the Committee.

 

(v) “Plan Year” shall mean the period of twelve (12) calendar months commencing on September 1 each year or such other period as determined by the Committee.

 

(w) “Purchase Period” shall mean a period within an Election Period of such duration and commencing on such date as the Committee may, in its absolute discretion, approve.

 

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(x) “Purchase Price” shall mean, for each Share purchased in accordance with Paragraph 9 hereof, an amount equal to ninety-five percent (95%) of the Closing Value of a Share on the last Trading Day in a Purchase Period.

 

(y) “Shares” means shares of common stock, par value $1.00 per share, of the Company.

 

(z) “Subsidiary” shall mean a corporation or other entity, domestic or foreign, controlled directly or indirectly by the Company (except for the U.K. in which this term shall mean a corporation or other entity, domestic or foreign, of which more than fifty percent (50%) ownership of the voting shares are held by the Company or a Subsidiary) whether or not such corporation or other entity now exists or is hereafter organized or acquired by the Company or a Subsidiary.

 

(aa) “Trading Day” shall mean a day on which The New York Stock Exchange is open for trading.

 

3. Participation

 

Participation in the Plan is voluntary. All Eligible Employees of an Employer satisfying the applicable requirements of the Plan will be entitled to participate in the Plan.

 

4. Enrollment and Election Periods

 

(a) Enrolling in the Plan . To participate in the Plan, an Eligible Employee must enroll in the Plan. Enrollment for a given Election Period will take place during the Enrollment Period for such Election Period. The Committee shall designate the initial Enrollment Period and each subsequent Enrollment Periods and the Election Periods to which each Enrollment Period relates. Participation in the Plan with respect to any one or more of the Election Periods shall neither limit nor require participation in the Plan for any other Election Period.

 

(b) The Election Period . Any Employee who is an Eligible Employee and who desires to be granted rights to purchase Shares hereunder must enroll, in accordance with the procedures established by the Committee, during an Enrollment Period. Such authorization shall be effective for the Election Period immediately following such Enrollment Period.

 

The duration of an Election Period shall be determined by the Committee prior to the Enrollment Period; provided, however, that if the Committee terminates the Plan during an Election Period, pursuant to its authority in Paragraph 17 of the Plan, such Election Period and any associated Purchase Period shall be deemed to end on the date the Plan is terminated. The termination of the Plan and the Election Period shall end the Participant’s rights to contribute amounts to the Plan or continue participation in the Election Period. The date of termination of the Plan shall be deemed to be the final day of a Purchase Period for the purposes of determining the Purchase Price under the Purchase Period and all amounts contributed during the Purchase Period will be used as of such termination date to purchase Shares in accordance with the provisions of Paragraph 8 of this Plan or alternatively, at the sole discretion of the Committee, refunded in cash without interest or with interest where required under the applicable Local Law.

 

The Committee may designate one or more Election Periods during each Plan Year during the term of this Plan. Any such Election Period may commence and end in different Plan Years. On the first day or the first Trading Day of each Election Period, as determined by the Committee, each Participant shall be granted a right to purchase Shares under the Plan. Each right granted hereunder shall expire at the end of the Election Period for which it was granted. In no event may a right granted hereunder be exercised later than the period of time specified in section 423(b)(7)(B) of the Code. Except as otherwise provided in Paragraph 9, a right to purchase Shares granted under the Plan shall be treated as exercised on the last Trading Day of each Election Period.

 

(c) Changing Enrollment . The offering of Shares pursuant to rights granted under the Plan shall occur only during an Election Period and shall be made only to Participants.

 

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Once enrolled, a Participant shall continue to participate in the Plan for each successive Election Period (s) until he or she terminates his or her participation by revoking his or her payroll deduction authorization or by revoking his or her alternative contribution authorization or not contributing his or her alternative contributions or ceases to be an Eligible Employee;

 

Once a Participant has elected to participate under the Plan, that Participant’s payroll deduction authorization or alternative contribution authorization shall apply to all subsequent Election Periods unless and until the Participant ceases to be an Eligible Employee or the Participant changes or terminates said authorization.

 

Unless otherwise required by the applicable Local Law, or otherwise determined by the Committee, if a Participant desires to change his or her rate of contribution during an Election Period such change shall be effective for the next Election Period and only if such change is made by the Participant by giving a notice to the Company in the manner established by the Committee.

 

5. Term of Plan

 

This Plan was established September 1, 2001, and will terminate on January 19, 2020.

 

6. Number and Type of Shares to Be Made Available Under The Plan

 

Subject to adjustment as provided in Paragraph 16 hereof, the total number of Shares made available for purchase by Participants granted rights which are exercised under Paragraph 9 hereof is one million three-hundred fifty thousand (1,350,000) Shares, which may consist of authorized but unissued shares, treasury shares, or shares purchased by the company in the open market. The provisions of Paragraph 9(d) shall control in the event the number of Shares covered by rights which are exercised for any Purchase Period exceeds the number of Shares available for sale under the Plan. If all of the Shares authorized for sale under the Plan have been sold, the Plan shall either be continued through additional authorizations of Shares made by the Board (such authorizations must, however, comply with Paragraph 17 hereof), or shall be terminated in accordance with Paragraph 17 hereof.

 

7. Use of Funds

 

All payroll deductions or alternative contributions received or held by an Employer under the Plan will be used to purchase Shares in accordance with the provisions of this Plan. Any amounts held by an Employer or other party holding amounts in connection with or as a result of payroll deductions or alternative contributions made pursuant to the Plan and pending the purchase of Shares hereunder shall be considered a non-interest-bearing, unsecured indebtedness extended to the Employer or other party by the Participants, unless otherwise required under the applicable Local Law. Administrative expenses of the Plan shall be allocated to each Participant’s Plan Account unless the Employer pays such expenses.

 

8. Amount of Contribution; Method of Payment

 

(a) Payroll Deduction or Alternative Contribution . Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, the Purchase Price will be payable by each Participant by means of payroll deduction or alternative contribution. Unless otherwise authorized by the Committee, the minimum payroll deduction or alternative contribution permitted shall be an amount equal to two percent (2%) of a Participant’s Compensation and the maximum payroll deduction or alternative contribution shall be an amount equal to fifteen percent (15%) of a Participant’s Compensation. In any event, the total payroll deduction or alternative contribution permitted to be made by any Participant in any calendar year shall be limited to the sum of legal currency equivalent of U.S. $25,000 as specified under Section 423(b)(8)(C), or such other amount as Section 423(b)(8)(C) of the Code, or any successor section, may hereafter allow. The actual percentage of Compensation to be deducted or contributed shall be specified by a Participant in his or her authorization to participate in the Plan. Unless otherwise authorized by the Committee, Participant may not deposit any separate cash payments into their Plan Accounts.

 

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Payroll deductions will commence with the first payroll issued during the Election Period and will, except as otherwise provided herein, continue with each payroll throughout the entire Election Period, except for pay periods for which such Participant receives no Compensation. A pay period which ends at such time that it is administratively impracticable to credit any payroll for such pay period to the then current Election Period will be credited in its entirety to the immediately subsequent Election Period. A pay period that overlaps Election Periods will be credited in its entirety to the Election Period in which it is paid. Alternative contributions will be made in accordance with the procedure established by the Company.

 

(b) Application of Withholding Rules . Payroll deductions or alternative contributions shall be retained by the Employer or other party, designated by the Company or the Employer as the case may be, until applied to the purchase of Shares as described in Paragraph 9 hereof and the satisfaction of any related withholding obligations (including any employment tax obligations) under the applicable Local Law.

 

At the time the Shares are purchased, or at the time some or all of the Shares issued under the Plan are disposed of, Participants must make adequate provision for the Employer’s tax withholding obligations (including any employment tax obligations), if any, which arise in any applicable jurisdiction upon the purchase or disposition of the Shares. Subject to the applicable Local Law, and the Holding Period, if any, the Employer may instruct the Administrator to dispose or sell such number of Shares (credited to the Participant’s Plan Account) to raise the amount necessary, or may withhold from each Participant’s Compensation the amount necessary, to enable the Employer to meet applicable withholding obligations, including any withholding required to make available to the Employer any tax deductions or benefits attributable to the sale or early disposition of Shares by the Participant. Each Participant, as a condition of participating under the Plan, agrees to bear responsibility for all taxes required to be withheld in any applicable jurisdiction from his or her Compensation as well as the Participant’s portion of applicable social security, social insurance, or similar such taxes, with respect to any Compensation arising on account of the purchase or disposition of Shares. The Employer may increase income and/or employment tax withholding on a Participant’s Compensation after the purchase or disposition of Shares in order to comply with the applicable tax laws in any jurisdiction, and each Participant agrees to sign any and all appropriate documents to facilitate such withholding.

 

9. Purchasing, Transferring Shares

 

(a) Maintenance of Plan Account . Upon the exercise of a Participant’s initial right to purchase Shares under the Plan, the Administrator shall establish a Plan Account in the name of such Participant. At the close of each Purchase Period, the aggregate amount deducted during such Purchase Period by the Employer from a Participant’s Compensation by way of payroll deduction or alternative contributions made to the Plan by the Participant (and credited to an account maintained by the Employer or other party) and interest, if any, payable under the applicable Local Law will be communicated by the Employer to the Administrator. The Company shall convert the said payroll deductions or alternative contributions into US dollars in accordance with the process and at the rate established by the Company. The Administrator shall thereupon credit to the Participant’s Plan Account such US dollars. As of the last day of each Purchase Period, or as soon thereafter as is administratively practicable, each Participant’s right to purchase Shares will be exercised automatically for him or her by the Administrator with respect to those amounts reported to the Administrator by the Company as credited to that Participant’s Plan Account. On the date of exercise, the amount then credited to the Participant’s Plan Account for the purpose of purchasing Shares hereunder will be divided by the Purchase Price and there shall be credited to the Participant’s Plan Account by the Administrator the number of whole Shares which results.

 

The Administrator shall hold in its name, or in the name of its nominee, all Shares so purchased by Participants under the Plan. Participation in the Plan, purchase, ownership and sale of Shares under the Plan, is subject to risk of fluctuation in Shares’ price and currency exchange.

 

(c) Insufficient Funds for Whole Shares . In the event that the amount credited to Participant’s Plan Account is not exactly equal to the Purchase Price for a whole number of Shares, then any excess amount may be refunded

 

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to the Participant without interest or where required by the applicable Local Law with interest, or may be used to purchase Shares in the subsequent Purchase Periods, as determined by the Committee.

 

(d) Insufficient Number of Available Shares . In the event the number of Shares covered by rights which are exercised for any Purchase Period exceeds the number of Shares available for sale under the Plan, the number of Shares actually available for sale hereunder shall be allocated by the Administrator among the Participants in proportion to the amount then credited to each Participant’s Plan Account over the total amount then credited to all Participant’s Plan Accounts. Any excess amounts withheld and credited to Participants’ Plan Accounts then shall be returned to the Participants as soon as is administratively practicable without interest or with interest where required by the applicable Local Law.

 

(e) Handling Excess Shares . In the event that the number of Shares which would be credited to any Participant’s Plan Account in any Purchase Period exceeds the limit specified in Paragraph 2(l)(iii) hereof, such Participant’s Plan Account shall be credited with the maximum number of Shares permissible, and the remaining amounts will be refunded in cash as soon as administratively practicable without interest or with interest where required by the applicable Local Law or used to purchase Shares in the subsequent Purchase Periods, as determined by the Committee.

 

10. Dividends and Other Distributions

 

(a) Subject to the applicable Local Law, cash dividends and other cash distributions and stock dividend or other non-cash distributions received by the Administrator on Shares held in custody hereunder will be credited to the Plan Account of an individual Participant in accordance with such Participant’s interest in the Shares with respect to which such dividends or distributions are paid.

 

(b) Cash dividends or cash distributions will be paid in cash to the Participant as soon as administratively possible, after receipt thereof by the Administrator.

 

(c) Stock dividend and other non-cash distribution of property will be subject to the similar Holding Period, if any applicable to the Shares with respect to which the same is declared.

 

(d) Tax Responsibilities. The Administrator shall report to each Participant (or Eligible Employee with a Plan Account) the amount of dividends credited to his or her Plan Account. Subjecting the stock dividend or other non-cash distributions to the Holding Period requirement will not relieve a Participant (or Eligible Employee with Plan Account) of any income or other tax that may be due on or with respect to such dividend or other non-cash distribution of property.

 

11. Voting of Shares

 

A Participant shall have no interest or voting rights in the Shares until such time as the Shares are credited to the Participant’s Plan Account. Shares held for a Participant (or Eligible Employee) in his or her Plan Account will be voted in accordance with the Participant’s (or the Eligible Employee’s) express direction. In the absence of any such directions such Shares will not be voted.

 

12. In-Service Distribution or Sale of Shares

 

(a) Sale of Shares . Subject to the provisions of Paragraph 20 hereof, a Participant may at any time after the end of the Holding Period, if any, and without withdrawing from the Plan, by giving notice to the Administrator, direct the Administrator to sell all or part of the Shares held on behalf of the Participant. Upon receipt of such a notice, the Administrator shall, as soon as practicable after receipt of such notice, sell such Shares and transmit the net proceeds of such sale (less any bank service fees, brokerage charges, transfer or withholding taxes, and any other transaction fee, expense or cost) to the Participant.

 

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(b) In-Service Share Distributions . A Participant may after the end of the Holding Period, if any, and without withdrawing from the Plan, request that a certificate for all or part of the whole number of Shares held in his or her Plan Account be sent to him or her as described in Paragraph 9(a) above. All such requests must be submitted to the Administrator in accordance with the Administrator’s procedures. The Administrator may impose a reasonable charge, to be paid by the Participant, for each stock certificate so issued.

 

13. Cessation of Active Participation

 

A Participant may during the Enrollment Period, by giving notice to the Company, in the manner established by the Committee, revoke his or her authorization for payroll deduction or alternative contribution for the Election Period to which such Enrollment Period relates. Unless otherwise required by the applicable Local Law, a Participant may not terminate his or participation by revoking his or her authorization for payroll deduction or alternative contribution or not contributing his or her alternative contributions for the Election Period after such Election Period has commenced. If a Participant terminates his or her participation in the Plan during an Election Period, such termination shall be effective for the next Election Period, and only if such change is made by the Participant by giving notice to the Company in the manner established by the Committee.

 

14. Termination of Employment or Cessation on Eligible Employee

 

In the event that a Participant ceases to be employed by the Company or a Designated Subsidiary for any reason, including death, disability, retirement or voluntary or involuntary termination, or ceases to be an Eligible Employee, then the Participant’s rights under the Plan shall terminate. Except as provided in Paragraph 15, below, the Company shall as soon as administratively possible, refund to the Participant without interest or where required by the applicable Local Law with interest the payroll deductions or alternative contributions made by the Participant during the Purchase Period in which such termination of employment or cessation of eligibility occurs, unless such payroll deductions or alternative contributions have already been used to purchase Shares in respect of that Purchase Period.

 

15. Assignment

 

The payroll deductions, or alternative contributions or interest where payable under the applicable Local Law credited to a Participant’s Plan Account, or any rights to purchase Shares under the Plan may not be assigned, alienated, transferred, pledged, or otherwise disposed of in any way by a Participant other than by will or the laws of descent and distribution. Any such assignment, alienation, transfer, pledge, or other disposition shall be without effect, except that the Committee may treat such act as an election to withdraw from the Plan. A Participant’s right to purchase Shares under this Plan may be exercisable during the Participant’s lifetime only by the Participant. A Participant’s Plan Account shall be payable to the Participant’s estate upon his or her death in accordance with the applicable law of death and descent and distribution.

 

16. Adjustment of and Changes in Shares

 

If at any time after the effective date of the Plan the Company shall subdivide or reclassify the Shares with respect to which a purchase right has been or may be granted under the Plan, or shall declare thereon any stock split or dividend payable in Shares, or shall alter the capital structure of the Shares or the Company in any similar manner, then the number and class of Shares held in the Plan and which may thereafter be subject to the Share purchase right granted under the Plan (in the aggregate and to any Participant) shall be adjusted accordingly, and in the case of each right outstanding at the time of any such action, the number and class of Shares which may thereafter be purchased pursuant to such right and the Purchase Price shall be adjusted accordingly, as necessary to preserve the rights of the holder(s) of such Shares and right(s).

 

17. Amendment or Termination of the Plan

 

The Committee shall have the right, at any time, to amend, modify or terminate the Plan without notice; provided, however, that no Participant’s existing rights shall be adversely affected by any such amendment, modification or termination, except to comply with the applicable Local Law, stock exchange rules or accounting rules.

 

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Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Committee shall have the right to terminate the Plan with respect to all future payroll deductions or alternative contributions and related purchases at any time.

 

Such termination of the Plan shall also terminate any current Election Period and any associated Purchase Period in accordance with Paragraph 4 of the Plan.

 

18. Designation of Subsidiaries

 

Subsidiaries may be added as Designated Subsidiaries by the Committee in its sole discretion from time to time.

 

19. Administration

 

(a) Administration . The Plan shall be administered by the Committee. The Committee shall be responsible for the administration of all matters under the Plan which have not been delegated to the Administrator. The Committee shall have full and exclusive discretionary authority to construe, interpret and apply the terms of the Plan, to determine eligibility and to adjudicate all disputed claims filed under the Plan. Any rule or regulation adopted by the Committee shall remain in full force and effect unless and until altered, amended or repealed by the Committee. The Committee specifically is authorized to adopt rules, procedures and subplans, regarding, without limitation, handling of payroll deductions, making of alternative contributions, establishment of bank or trust accounts to hold payroll deductions, payment of interest, conversion of local currency, obligations to pay payroll tax, and withholding procedures which may vary according to Local Law.

 

(b) Specific Responsibilities . The Committee’s responsibilities shall include, but shall not be limited to:

 

(i) interpreting the Plan (including issues relating to the definition and application of “Compensation”);

 

(ii) identifying and compiling a list of persons who are Eligible Employees for an Election Period;

 

(iii) identifying those Eligible Employees not entitled to be granted rights or other rights for an Election Period on account of the limitations described in Paragraph 2(l)(iii) hereof; and

 

(iv) providing to Participants upon request Company financial statements and other information which is publicly available.

 

Interpretation or construction of any provision of the Plan by the Committee shall be final and conclusive on all persons, absent specific and contrary action taken by the Board. Any interpretation or construction of any provision of the Plan by the Committee or the Board shall be final and conclusive. The Committee may assign or delegate any of the tasks set forth in this paragraph to one or more persons, including the designation of a Designated Subsidiary under the Plan, unless constrained by applicable law.

 

20. Securities Law and Other Restrictions

 

Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the contrary, no payroll deductions or alternative contributions shall take place and no Shares may be purchased or sold under the Plan until a registration statement has been filed and become effective with respect to the issuance of the Shares covered by the Plan under the Act and any other required action has been taken under any other applicable Local Law of the jurisdiction in which the Employer of the Employee is located or the Employee is employed or resides. Prior to the effectiveness of such registration statement, Shares subject to purchase under the Plan may be offered to Eligible Employees only pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the Act and pursuant to any other action that is required under any applicable Local Law.

 

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21. No Independent Employees’ Rights

 

Nothing in the Plan shall be construed to be a contract of employment between an Employer or its parent or any Subsidiary and any Employee, or any group or category of Employees (whether for a definite or specific duration or otherwise), or to prevent the Employer, the Company or any Subsidiary from terminating any Employee’s employment at any time, in accordance with the applicable Local Law. Nothing in this Plan shall be construed as conferring any rights of a shareholder in any Employee or any other person until the Shares are credited to the Plan Account.

 

22. Applicable Law

 

The Plan shall be construed, administered and governed in all respects under the laws of the State of Delaware, without giving effect to the conflict of laws principles thereof. The jurisdiction and venue for any disputes arising under, or any action brought to enforce (or otherwise relating to) the Plan shall be exclusively in the courts in Dallas County, Texas, including the Federal Courts located therein (should Federal jurisdiction exist).

 

23. Merger or Consolidation

 

Each outstanding purchase right will automatically be exercised immediately prior to the effective date of any Corporate Transaction (as defined below), by applying the accumulated payroll deductions or alternative contributions and interest where payable under the applicable Local Law, of each Participant for the Purchase Period in which such Corporate Transaction occurs to the purchase of whole Shares at the Purchase Price for such Purchase Period by treating the day immediately prior to the effective date of any Corporate Transaction as the last Trading Day of the Purchase Period, unless the Committee determines, in the exercise of its sole discretion, to establish an earlier date as the last Trading Day of the Purchase Period, or to provide that purchase rights shall be assumed by a successor entity that is a party to the Corporate Transaction or terminate the Plan as of the end of the Purchase Period immediately preceding the effective date of the Corporate Transaction and promptly refund to Participants all payroll deductions or alternative contributions and interest where payable under the applicable Local Law accumulated through such effective date. The applicable limitation on the number of whole Shares purchasable per Participant will continue to apply to any purchase made hereunder. With respect to Shares acquired prior to or in connection with a Corporate Transaction, each Participant will thereafter be entitled to receive as soon as practicable following the effective date of such Corporate Transaction the securities or property which a holder of Shares of the Company was entitled to receive in connection with such Corporate Transaction. For purposes of this Paragraph 23, “Corporate Transaction” shall mean a transaction by which the Company is acquired by merger or sale of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets or outstanding voting stock.

 

Date of Shareholder Approval: January 19, 2017

 

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Exhibit 99.1

 

LOGO

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE    January 19, 2017

For additional information contact:

Mendi Head

214.920.8015

John Coyne Retires from Jacobs Board of Directors; Robert McNamara Joins Board

DALLAS – Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) announced today that John Coyne, who has served on the Jacobs Board of Directors since 2008, will retire from the board, and Robert McNamara has been appointed to the open board position. These changes to Jacobs’ Board of Directors are effective today.

“John has been a valuable and engaged board member for the past nine years. We will miss his counsel, insight and experience,” said Jacobs Chairman and CEO Steve Demetriou. “On behalf of the board, I want to thank John for his contributions and wish him the best in his retirement.”

Coyne, who has dedicated the majority of his career to Western Digital in various capacities around the globe, served as president and CEO from 2007 to 2013, and was also a member of Western Digital’s Board of Directors.

McNamara brings deep industry experience and currently serves as the Global Risk Officer and the Chief Operating Officer of Lendlease Corporation’s Building, Engineering and Services businesses in Australia. He previously served as the Chairman and CEO of Penhall/LVI International, a privately owned building services and environmental remediation company; prior to that he was a Senior Group President at the Fluor Corporation.

“I am very pleased to welcome Bob to the board. His wealth of international experience along with extensive industry and customer knowledge will be extremely beneficial to Jacobs,” said Demetriou. “The board is committed to continue to work in the best interest of our shareholders and Bob will be an excellent fit as we continue to serve our clients and work towards executing our strategy.”

Jacobs is one of the world’s largest and most diverse providers of full-spectrum technical, professional and construction services for industrial, commercial and government organizations globally. The company employs over 54,000 people and operates in more than 25 countries around the world. For more information, visit www.jacobs.com .


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