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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 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): May 31, 2023
EXPEDIA GROUP, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware 001-37429 20-2705720
(State or other jurisdiction
of incorporation)
 (Commission
File Number)
 (I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
1111 Expedia Group Way W.
Seattle, Washington 98119
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)
(206) 481-7200
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code
Not Applicable
(Former name or former address if changed since last report)
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)
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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of each class
Trading symbol(s)
Name of each exchange on which registered
Common stock, $0.0001 par value
EXPE
Nasdaq Stock Market LLC
(Nasdaq Global Select Market)
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).
Emerging growth company
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.




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

(a)    Samuel Altman Resignation

Effective as of June 1, 2023, Samuel Altman resigned from the Expedia Group, Inc. (the “Company”) Board of Directors (the “Board”). Mr. Altman resigned in order to focus on his other business interests and not because of any disagreement with the Company, its management, or the Board.

(d)    Alexandr Wang Election

On May 31, 2023, following a recommendation from its Nominating Committee, the Board, including all remaining directors elected by holders of the Company’s common stock only, elected Alexandr Wang to fill the vacancy created by Mr. Altman's resignation.

Mr. Wang is the founder and CEO of Scale AI, the data platform accelerating the development of artificial intelligence. Mr. Wang founded Scale as a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (“MIT”) at the age of 19 to help companies build long-term AI strategies with the right data and infrastructure. Founded in 2016, Scale has grown to become the leading provider of AI development services for autonomous vehicle manufacturers and serves a broad range of customers from large governmental organizations to leading global companies. Mr. Wang grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where he began his journey with a deep passion for coding. He quickly developed a knack for it as a teenager, winning national computing and physics competitions, including the USA Computing Olympiad. He enrolled at MIT at 17, where he undertook graduate machine learning coursework as a freshman, before dropping out to found Scale.

In connection with his election, the Board determined that Mr. Wang is an “independent director” as contemplated by Section 5605(a)(2) of the Nasdaq Marketplace Rules. Mr. Wang’s initial term will expire at the Company’s 2024 annual meeting of stockholders or his earlier resignation or removal. As of the date of this Current Report on Form 8-K, neither Mr. Wang nor any of his immediate family members is a party, either directly or indirectly, to any transaction that would be required to be reported under Rule 404(a) of Regulation S-K, nor is Mr. Wang party to any understanding or arrangement pursuant to which he was elected as a director.

Mr. Wang will be compensated in accordance with the Company’s standard compensation policies and practices for the Board, the components of which were disclosed in the Company’s definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 21, 2023 (the "2023 Proxy Statement").

(e)     Plan Amendments

Amended Stock and Annual Incentive Plan

On May 31, 2023, the Company held its 2023 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “2023 Annual Meeting”). At the 2023 Annual Meeting, the Company’s stockholders approved the Sixth Amended and Restated Expedia Group, Inc. 2005 Stock and Annual Incentive Plan, effective as of May 31, 2023 (the “Amended 2005 Plan”), including an amendment to increase the number of shares authorized for issuance thereunder by 6,000,000 shares. A description of the terms and conditions of the Amended 2005 Plan is set forth in the Company’s 2023 Proxy Statement under the heading “Proposal 4: Approval of Expedia Group's Sixth Amended and Restated 2005 Stock and Annual Incentive Plan, Including an Amendment to Increase the Number of Shares Authorized for Issuance Thereunder by 6,000,000”, which description is incorporated herein by reference. This summary is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the Amended 2005 Plan, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated by reference into this Item 5.02.

Amended Employee Stock Purchase Plans

At the 2023 Annual Meeting, stockholders also approved the Expedia Group, Inc. 2013 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as Amended and Restated, effective as of May 31, 2023 (the “Amended U.S. ESPP”), and the Expedia Group, Inc. 2013 International Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as Amended and Restated, effective as of May 31, 2023 (the “Amended International ESPP” and, together with the Amended U.S. ESPP, the “Amended ESPPs”), including an amendment to increase the number of shares authorized for issuance under the Amended ESPPs by 1,000,000 shares. A description of the terms and conditions of the Amended ESPPs is set forth in the Company’s 2023 Proxy Statement under the heading “Proposal 5: Approval of Expedia Group's 2013 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as Amended and Restated, and Expedia Group's 2013 International Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as Amended and Restated, Including an Amendment to Increase the Number of



Shares Authorized for Issuance Thereunder by 1,000,000”, which description is incorporated herein by reference. This summary is qualified in its entirety by the full text of the Amended U.S. ESPP and the Amended International ESPP, copies of which are filed as Exhibits 10.2 and 10.3, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated by reference into this Item 5.02.

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

At the 2023 Annual Meeting, stockholders of the Company voted on the six proposals described in the 2023 Proxy Statement and cast their votes as set forth below.

As of the close of business on April 3, 2023, the record date for the 2023 Annual Meeting, there were 143,980,614 shares of the Company’s common stock (each share entitled to one vote) and 5,523,452 shares of the Company’s Class B common stock (each share entitled to 10 votes) entitled to vote. At the 2023 Annual Meeting, 123,719,819 shares of the Company’s common stock and 5,523,452 shares of the Company’s Class B common stock were represented in person or by proxy, representing an aggregate voting power of 178,954,339 votes and constituting a quorum.
Proposal 1 – Election of Directors. The stockholders elected 12 directors of the Company, three of whom were elected by holders of common stock only (the Common Stock Nominees), and nine of whom were elected by holders of common stock and Class B common stock voting together as a single class (the Combined Stock Nominees), with each director to hold office until the next annual meeting of stockholders or until such director's successor has been duly elected and qualified (or, if earlier, such director’s removal or resignation from the Board). The stockholders voted as follows:
ForWithheldBroker Non-Votes
Common Stock Nominees
   Samuel Altman98,913,78915,580,8889,225,142
   Henrique Dubugras109,389,4125,105,2659,225,142
   Patricia Menendez Cambo104,524,1309,970,5479,225,142
Combined Stock Nominees
   Beverly Anderson102,633,10967,096,0889,225,142
   M. Moina Banerjee164,997,1494,732,0489,225,142
   Chelsea Clinton89,165,14880,564,0499,225,142
   Barry Diller120,861,81648,867,3819,225,142
   Craig Jacobson86,698,71383,030,4849,225,142
   Peter Kern158,309,15511,420,0429,225,142
   Dara Khosrowshahi106,542,98363,186,2149,225,142
   Alex von Furstenberg153,342,47516,386,7229,225,142
   Julie Whalen148,671,16421,058,0339,225,142
Proposal 2 – Advisory vote on the compensation of the Company's named executive officers. The stockholders approved, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the Company's named executive officers as disclosed in the 2023 Proxy Statement. The stockholders voted as follows:
ForAgainstAbstainBroker Non-Votes
96,803,35672,819,937105,9049,225,142
Proposal 3 – Advisory vote on the frequency of future advisory votes on the compensation of the Company's named executive officers. The stockholders recommended, on an advisory basis, a frequency of every year for future advisory votes on the compensation of the Company's named executive officers. The stockholders voted as follows:
1 Year2 Years3 YearsAbstainBroker Non-Votes
168,648,38459,227977,58144,0059,225,142
In light of these voting results, and consistent with the Board's recommendation, the Board has determined that the Company will hold an advisory vote on named executive officer compensation every year, until the next required vote on the frequency of



such advisory votes, or until the Board otherwise determines that a different frequency is in the best interests of the Company and its stockholders.
Proposal 4 – Approval of the Company's Amended Stock and Annual Incentive Plan. The stockholders approved the Sixth Amended and Restated Expedia Group, Inc. 2005 Stock and Annual Incentive Plan, including an amendment to increase the number of shares authorized for issuance thereunder by 6,000,000 shares. The stockholders voted as follows:
ForAgainstAbstainBroker Non-Votes
104,754,86064,912,82761,5109,225,142
Proposal 5 – Approval of the Company's Amended Employee Stock Purchase Plans. The stockholders approved the Company's 2013 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as amended and restated, and the Company's 2013 International Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as amended and restated, including an amendment to increase the number of shares authorized for issuance thereunder by 1,000,000 shares. The stockholders voted as follows:
ForAgainstAbstainBroker Non-Votes
165,966,5553,712,71249,9309,225,142
Proposal 6 – Ratification of Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. The stockholders ratified the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2023. The stockholders voted as follows:
ForAgainstAbstainBroker Non-Votes
177,955,990955,03243,317


Item 9.01.    Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits
Exhibit
Number
  Description
  
104Cover Page Interactive Data File, formatted in Inline XBRL



SIGNATURE
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.
 
EXPEDIA GROUP, INC.
By:/s/ Robert J. Dzielak
Robert J. Dzielak
Chief Legal Officer and Secretary
Dated: June 2, 2023


Exhibit 10.1
SIXTH AMENDED AND RESTATED EXPEDIA GROUP, INC.
2005 STOCK AND ANNUAL INCENTIVE PLAN

SECTION 1. PURPOSE; DEFINITIONS
The purposes of this Plan are to give the Company a competitive advantage in attracting, retaining and motivating officers, employees, directors and/or consultants and to provide the Company and its Subsidiaries and Affiliates with a stock and incentive plan providing incentives directly linked to stockholder value. Certain terms used herein have definitions given to them in the first place in which they are used. In addition, for purposes of this Plan, the following terms are defined as set forth below:

(a) “Affiliate” means any present or future corporation or other entity controlled by, controlling or under common control with, the Company

(b) “Affiliated Persons” means, with respect to any specified Person, (i) such specified Person’s parents, spouse, siblings, descendants, step children, step grandchildren, nieces and nephews and their respective spouses, (ii) the estate, legatees and devisees of such specified Person and each of the Persons referred to in clause (i), and (iii) any company, partnership, trust or other entity or investment vehicle controlled by any of the Persons referred to in clause (i) or (ii) or the holdings of which are for the primary benefit of any of such Persons.
(c) “Applicable Exchange” means the Nasdaq or such other securities exchange as may at the applicable time be the principal market for the Common Stock.
(d) “Award” means an Option, Stock Appreciation Right, Restricted Stock, Restricted Stock Unit, other stock-based award or Cash-Based Award granted pursuant to the terms of this Plan, including under the Company’s 2005 Stock and Annual Incentive Plan, as amended prior to the Effective Date.
(e) “Award Agreement” means a written or electronic document or agreement setting forth the terms and conditions of a specific Award.
(f) “Board” means the Board of Directors of the Company.
(g) “Cash-Based Award” means an Award denominated in a U.S. dollar amount.
(h) “Cause” means, unless otherwise provided in an Award Agreement, (i) “Cause” as defined in any Individual Agreement to which the applicable Participant is a party, or (ii) if there is no such Individual Agreement or if it does not define Cause: (A) the willful or gross neglect by a Participant of his employment duties; (B) the plea of guilty or nolo contendere to, or conviction for, the commission of a felony or equivalent offense by a Participant; (C) a material breach by a Participant of a fiduciary duty owed to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates; (D) a material breach by a Participant of any nondisclosure, non-solicitation or non-competition obligation owed to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates; or (E) before a Change in Control, such other events as shall be determined by the Committee and set forth in a Participant’s Award Agreement. Notwithstanding the general rule of Section 2(c), following a Change in Control, any determination by the Committee as to whether “Cause” exists shall be subject to de novo review.
(i) “Change in Control” has the meaning set forth in Section 10(b).



(j) “Code” means the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and any successor thereto, the Treasury Regulations thereunder and other relevant interpretive guidance issued by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service or the Treasury Department. Reference to any specific section of the Code shall be deemed to include such regulations and guidance, as well as any successor provision of the Code.
(k) “Commission” means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission or any successor agency.
(l) “Committee” has the meaning set forth in Section 2(a).
(m) “Common Stock” means common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company.
(n) “Company” means Expedia Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation or its successor.
 (o) “Disability” means (i) “Disability” as defined in any Individual Agreement to which the Participant is a party, or (ii) if there is no such Individual Agreement or it does not define “Disability,” (A) permanent and total disability as determined under the Company’s long-term disability plan applicable to the Participant, or (B) if there is no such plan applicable to the Participant or the Committee determines otherwise in an applicable Award Agreement, “Disability” as determined by the Committee. Notwithstanding the above, with respect to an Incentive Stock Option, Disability shall mean Permanent and Total Disability as defined in Section 22(e)(3) of the Code and, with respect to all Awards, to the extent required by Section 409A of the Code, Disability shall mean “disability” within the meaning of Section 409A of the Code.
(p) “Disaffiliation” means a Subsidiary’s or Affiliate’s ceasing to be a Subsidiary or Affiliate for any reason (including, without limitation, as a result of a public offering, or a spinoff or sale by the Company, of the stock of the Subsidiary or Affiliate) or a sale of a division of the Company and its Affiliates.
(q) “EBITA” means for any period, operating profit (loss) plus (i) amortization, including goodwill impairment, (ii) amortization of non-cash distribution and marketing expense and non-cash compensation expense, (iii) disengagement expenses, (iv) restructuring charges, (v) non cash write-downs of assets or goodwill, (vi) charges relating to disposal of lines of business, (vii) litigation settlement amounts and (viii) costs incurred for proposed and completed acquisitions.
(r) “EBITDA” means for any period, operating profit (loss) plus (i) depreciation and amortization, including goodwill impairment, (ii) amortization of non-cash distribution and marketing expense and non-cash compensation expense, (iii) disengagement expenses, (iv) restructuring charges, (v) non cash write-downs of assets or goodwill, (vi) charges relating to disposal of lines of business, (vii) litigation settlement amounts and (viii) costs incurred for proposed and completed acquisitions.
(s) “Eligible Individuals” means directors, officers, employees, consultants and other personal service providers of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates, and prospective directors, officers, employees, consultants and other personal service providers who have accepted offers of employment or consultancy from the Company or its Subsidiaries or Affiliates.
(t) “Exchange Act” means the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended from time to time, and any successor thereto.
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(u) “Fair Market Value” means, unless otherwise determined by the Committee, the closing price of a share of Common Stock on the Applicable Exchange on the date of measurement, or if Shares were not traded on the Applicable Exchange on such measurement date, then on the next preceding date on which Shares were traded, all as reported by such source as the Committee may select. If the Common Stock is not listed on a national securities exchange, Fair Market Value shall be determined by the Committee in its good faith discretion, provided that such determination shall be made in a manner consistent with any applicable requirements of Section 409A of the Code. The determination of fair market value for purposes of tax withholding may be made in the Company’s discretion, subject to applicable law, and need not be consistent with the determination of Fair Market Value for other purposes.
(v) “Free-Standing SAR” has the meaning set forth in Section 5(b).
(w) “Full Value Award” means an Award denominated in Shares, other than an Option or Stock Appreciation Right.
(x) “Grant Date” means (i) the date on which the Committee by resolution, written consent or other appropriate action selects an Eligible Individual to receive a grant of an Award and determines the number of Shares or the cash amount to be subject to such Award or the formula for earning a number of Shares or cash amount, or (ii) such later date as the Committee shall provide in such resolution, consent or action.
(y) “Incentive Stock Option” means any Option that is designated in the applicable Award Agreement as an “incentive stock option” within the meaning of Section 422 of the Code, and that in fact so qualifies.
(z) “Individual Agreement” means an employment, consulting or similar agreement between a Participant and the Company or one of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates, provided that such Individual Agreement has been approved by the Committee.
 (aa) “Nasdaq” means the Nasdaq Stock Market.
(bb) “Nonqualified Option” means any Option that is not an Incentive Stock Option.
(cc) “Option” means an Award described under Section 5.
(dd) “Participant” means an Eligible Individual to whom an Award is or has been granted.
(ee) “Performance Goals” means the performance goals established by the Committee in connection with the grant of an Award. Such goals may be based on the attainment of one or any combination of the following or such other performance criteria as may be selected by the Committee: specified levels of earnings per share from continuing operations, net profit after tax, EBITDA, EBITA, gross profit, cash generation, unit volume, market share, sales, including hotel room night bookings or air tickets sold, asset quality, earnings per share, operating income, revenues, return on assets, return on operating assets, return on equity, profits, total stockholder return (measured in terms of stock price appreciation and/or dividend growth), cost saving levels, marketing-spending efficiency, core non-interest income, change in working capital, return on capital, stock price and/or environmental, social, and governance or diversity, equity and inclusion criteria, with respect to the Company or any Subsidiary, Affiliate, division or department of the Company. Such Performance Goals also may be based upon the attaining of specified levels of Company, Subsidiary, Affiliate or divisional performance under one or more of the measures described above, or such other performance criteria as may be selected by the Committee, relative to the performance of other entities, divisions or subsidiaries.

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(ff) “Permitted Holders” means any one or more of (i) Barry Diller, (ii) each of the respective Affiliated Persons of Barry Diller and (iii) any Person a majority of the aggregate voting power of all the outstanding classes or series of the equity securities of which are beneficially owned by any one or more of the Persons referred to in clauses (i) or (ii).
(gg) “Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, incorporated or unincorporated association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or government or other agency or political subdivision thereof or other entity of any kind.
(hh) “Plan” means this Sixth Amended and Restated Expedia, Group Inc. 2005 Stock and Annual Incentive Plan, as set forth herein and as hereafter amended from time to time. Where the context so requires, references to the “Plan” shall include the Company’s 2005 Stock and Annual Incentive Plan, as amended prior to the Effective Date.
(ii) “Restricted Stock” means an Award described under Section 6.
(jj) “Restricted Stock Units” means an Award described under Section 7.
(kk) “Retirement” means, unless otherwise provided in an Award Agreement, retirement from active employment with the Company, a Subsidiary or Affiliate at or after the Participant’s attainment of age 65.
(ll) “RS Restriction Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 6(b)(ii).
(mm) “Share” means a share of Common Stock.
(nn) “Stock Appreciation Right” has the meaning set forth in Section 5(b).
(oo) “Subsidiary” means any present or future corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or other entity during any period in which at least a 50% voting or profits interest is owned, directly or indirectly, by the Company or any successor to the Company.
 (pp) “Substitute Awards” means Awards granted in assumption of, or in substitution or exchange for, awards previously granted by a company or other entity acquired by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates or with which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates combines. Substitute Awards may be granted on such terms as the Committee deems appropriate to conform, in whole or in part, to the provisions of the awards in substitution for which they are granted, notwithstanding limitations on Awards in the Plan.
(qq) “Tandem SAR” has the meaning set forth in Section 5(b).
(rr) “Term” means the maximum period during which an Option or Stock Appreciation Right may remain outstanding, subject to earlier termination upon Termination of Employment or otherwise, as specified in the applicable Award Agreement.
(ss) “Termination of Employment” means the termination of the applicable Participant’s employment with, or performance of services for, the Company and any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates. Unless otherwise determined by the Committee, if a Participant’s employment or service with, or membership on a board of directors of, the Company and its Subsidiaries and Affiliates terminates but such Participant continues to provide services to the Company or a Subsidiary or an Affiliate in a non-employee director capacity or as an employee or other service provider, as applicable, such change in status shall not be deemed a Termination of Employment.
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A Participant employed by, or performing services for, a Subsidiary or an Affiliate or a division of the Company and its Subsidiaries and Affiliates shall be deemed to incur a Termination of Employment if, as a result of a Disaffiliation, such Subsidiary, Affiliate, or division ceases to be a Subsidiary, Affiliate or division, as the case may be, and the Participant does not immediately thereafter become an employee of (or service provider for), or member of the board of directors of, the Company or another Subsidiary or Affiliate. Temporary absences from employment because of illness, vacation or leave of absence and transfers among the Company and its Subsidiaries and Affiliates shall not be considered Terminations of Employment. Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any Award that constitutes “nonqualified deferred compensation” within the meaning of Section 409A of the Code, “Termination of Employment” shall mean a “separation from service” as defined under Section 409A of the Code.
SECTION 2. ADMINISTRATION
(a) Committee. The Plan shall be administered by the Compensation Committee of the Board or such other committee of the Board as the Board may from time to time designate (the “Committee”), which committee shall be composed of not less than two directors, and shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the Board. The Committee shall have plenary authority to grant Awards pursuant to the terms of the Plan to Eligible Individuals. Among other things, the Committee shall have the authority, subject to the terms of the Plan:
(i) to select the Eligible Individuals to whom Awards may from time to time be granted;
(ii) to determine whether and to what extent Incentive Stock Options, Nonqualified Options, Stock Appreciation Rights, Restricted Stock, Restricted Stock Units, other stock-based awards, Cash-Based Awards or any combination thereof, are to be granted hereunder;
(iii) to determine the number of Shares to be covered by each Award granted hereunder or the amount of any Cash-Based Award;
(iv) to determine the terms and conditions of each Award granted hereunder, based on such factors as the Committee shall determine;
(v) subject to Section 12, to modify, amend or adjust the terms and conditions of any Award, at any time or from time to time;
(vi) to adopt, alter and repeal such administrative rules, guidelines and practices governing the Plan as it shall from time to time deem advisable;
(vii) to accelerate the vesting or lapse of restrictions of any outstanding Award, based in each case on such considerations as the Committee in its sole discretion determines;
(viii) to interpret the terms and provisions of the Plan and any Award issued under the Plan (and any agreement relating thereto);
(ix) to establish any “blackout” period that the Committee in its sole discretion deems necessary or advisable;
 (x) to decide all other matters that must be determined in connection with an Award; and
(xi) to otherwise administer the Plan.
(b) Procedures.
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(i) The Committee may act only by a majority of its members then in office, except that the Committee may, except to the extent prohibited by applicable law or the listing standards of the Applicable Exchange and subject to Section 11, allocate all or any portion of its responsibilities and powers to any one or more of its members and may delegate all or any part of its responsibilities and powers to any person(s) or body selected by it. References to the Committee within the Plan shall include any such duly appointed delegate of the Committee.
(ii) Subject to any applicable law, regulation or listing standard, any authority granted to the Committee may also be exercised by the full Board. To the extent that any permitted action taken by the Board conflicts with action taken by the Committee, the Board action shall control.
(c) Discretion of Committee. Subject to Section 1(h), any determination made by the Committee or by an appropriately delegated officer or other person pursuant to delegated authority under the provisions of the Plan with respect to any Award shall be made in the sole discretion of the Committee or such delegate at the time of the grant of the Award or, unless in contravention of any express term of the Plan, at any time thereafter. All decisions made by the Committee or any appropriately delegated officer or other person or body pursuant to the provisions of the Plan shall be final and binding on all persons, including the Company, Participants, and Eligible Individuals.
(d) Award Agreements. The terms and conditions of each Award (other than any Cash-Based Award), as determined by the Committee, shall be set forth in an Award Agreement, which shall be delivered to the Participant receiving such Award upon, or as promptly as is reasonably practicable following, the grant of such Award. The effectiveness of an Award shall not be subject to the Award Agreement’s being signed by the Company and/or the Participant receiving the Award unless specifically so provided in the Award Agreement. Award Agreements may be amended only in accordance with Section 12 hereof.
SECTION 3. COMMON STOCK SUBJECT TO PLAN
(a) Plan Maximums. Subject to the adjustment provisions of Section 3(d) below and the rules in Section 3(c), the maximum number of Shares that may be delivered pursuant to Awards under the Plan shall be 80,616,336, which reflects an increase of 6,000,000 over the number of Shares that were authorized for delivery under the Company’s Fifth Amended and Restated Expedia, Group Inc. 2005 Stock and Annual Incentive Plan. The maximum number of Shares that may be granted pursuant to Options intended to be Incentive Stock Options shall be 7,000,000 Shares. Shares subject to an Award under the Plan may be authorized and unissued Shares or may be treasury Shares.
(b) Individual Limits and Director Compensation Limit.
(i) During a calendar year, no single Participant may be granted:
(A) Options or Stock Appreciation Rights covering in excess of 3,000,000 Shares in the aggregate; or
(B) Full Value Awards covering in excess of 2,000,000 Shares in the aggregate.
(ii) Notwithstanding the foregoing or any provision to the contrary in the Plan or in any policy of the Company regarding compensation payable to a non-employee director, the sum of the grant date fair value (determined in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification Topic 718, or any successor thereto) of all Awards
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denominated in Shares and the maximum cash value of any Cash-Based Award granted under the Plan to an individual as compensation for services as a non-employee director of the Company, together with cash compensation paid to such non-employee director in the form of Board and Committee retainer, meeting or similar fees, during any calendar year shall not exceed $750,000; provided, however, that the foregoing limit shall not apply to the calendar year in which a non-employee director commences service as a director of the Company or to the extent that the Board deems it necessary to compensate a non-employee director for service on a special purpose committee or for any other special service, as determined in the discretion of the Board excluding any non-employee director receiving such additional compensation. For avoidance of doubt, compensation will count towards this limit for the calendar year in which it was granted or earned, and not later when distributed, in the event it is deferred. The foregoing limit may not be increased without the approval of the stockholders of the Company.
(c) Rules for Calculating Shares Delivered.
(i) To the extent that any Award or portion thereof is forfeited, terminates, expires or lapses without being exercised or without delivery of Shares, or any Award is settled for cash, the Shares subject to such Award or portion thereof not delivered as a result thereof shall again be available for Awards under the Plan.
(ii) Notwithstanding Section 3(c)(i), the following Shares shall be deemed delivered for purposes of the limits set forth in Section 3(a) and shall not be available for future grants of Awards under the Plan: (A) Shares delivered by a Participant (by either actual delivery or by attestation) or withheld by the Company in payment of the exercise price of an Option and/or the tax withholding obligations relating to an Option or Stock Appreciation Right; (B) Shares subject to Stock Appreciation Rights that are not issued in connection with the stock settlement of the Stock Appreciation Rights on exercise thereof; and (C) Shares purchased on the open market by the Company with the cash proceeds received from the exercise of Options.
(iii) With respect to Full Value Awards and Cash-Based Awards that are paid in Shares, to the extent any Shares subject to an Award are delivered by a Participant (by either actual delivery or by attestation) or withheld by the Company to satisfy the tax withholding obligations relating to such Award, such Shares shall not be deemed to have been delivered for purposes of the limits set forth in Section 3(a) and shall be available for future grants of Awards under the Plan.
(iv) Substitute Awards shall not reduce the Shares authorized for grant under Section 3(a) of the Plan and Shares subject to such Substitute Awards shall not be added to the Shares available for Awards under the Plan as provided in Section 3(c)(i) and (iii) above. Additionally, in the event that a company acquired by the Company or any Subsidiary or Affiliate or with which the Company or any Subsidiary or Affiliate combines has shares available under a pre-existing plan approved by its stockholders and not adopted in contemplation of such acquisition or combination, the shares available for grant pursuant to the terms of such pre-existing plan (as adjusted, to the extent appropriate, using the exchange ratio or other adjustment or valuation ratio or formula used in such acquisition or combination to determine the consideration payable to the holders of common stock of the entities party to such acquisition or combination) may be used for Awards under the Plan and shall not reduce the Shares authorized for grant under the Plan (and Shares subject to such Awards shall not be added to the Shares available for Awards under the Plan as provided in Section 3(c)(i) or (iii) above); provided that Awards using such available Shares shall not be made after the date awards or grants could have been made under the terms of the pre-existing plan, absent the acquisition or combination, and shall be made only to individuals
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who were not employed by or providing services to the Company or its Subsidiaries or Affiliates immediately prior to such acquisition or combination.
 (d) Adjustment Provisions.
(i) In the event of a merger, consolidation, acquisition of property or shares, stock rights offering, liquidation, disposition for consideration of the Company’s direct or indirect ownership of a Subsidiary or Affiliate (including by reason of a Disaffiliation), or similar event affecting the Company or any of its Subsidiaries (each, a “Corporate Transaction”), the Committee or the Board may in its discretion make such substitutions or adjustments as it deems appropriate and equitable to (A) the aggregate number and kind of Shares or other securities reserved for issuance and delivery under the Plan, (B) the various maximum limitations set forth in Sections 3(a) and 3(b) upon certain types of Awards and upon the grants to individuals of certain types of Awards, (C) the number and kind of Shares or other securities subject to outstanding Awards; and (D) the exercise price of outstanding Options and Stock Appreciation Rights.
(ii) In the event of a stock dividend, stock split, reverse stock split, reorganization, share combination, or recapitalization or similar event affecting the capital structure of the Company or a Disaffiliation, separation or spinoff, in each case without consideration, or other extraordinary dividend of cash or other property (each, a “Share Change”), the Committee or the Board shall make such substitutions or adjustments as it deems appropriate and equitable to (A) the aggregate number and kind of Shares or other securities reserved for issuance and delivery under the Plan, (B) the various maximum limitations set forth in Sections 3(a) and 3(b) upon certain types of Awards and upon the grants to individuals of certain types of Awards, (C) the number and kind of Shares or other securities subject to outstanding Awards; and (D) the exercise price of outstanding Options and Stock Appreciation Rights.
(iii) In the case of Corporate Transactions, the adjustments contemplated by clause (i) of this paragraph (d) may include, without limitation, (A) the cancellation of outstanding Awards in exchange for payments of cash, property or a combination thereof having an aggregate value equal to the value of such Awards, as determined by the Committee or the Board in its sole discretion (it being understood that in the case of a Corporate Transaction with respect to which holders of Common Stock receive consideration other than publicly traded equity securities of the ultimate surviving entity, any such determination by the Committee that the value of an Option or Stock Appreciation Right shall for this purpose be deemed to equal the excess, if any, of the value of the consideration being paid for each Share pursuant to such Corporate Transaction over the exercise price of such Option or Stock Appreciation Right shall conclusively be deemed valid); (B) the substitution of other property (including, without limitation, cash or other securities of the Company and securities of entities other than the Company) for the Shares subject to outstanding Awards; and (C) in connection with any Disaffiliation (whether by means of a Corporate Transaction or a Share Change), arranging for the assumption of Awards, or replacement of Awards with new awards based on other property or other securities (including, without limitation, other securities of the Company and securities of entities other than the Company), by the affected Subsidiary, Affiliate, or division or by the entity that controls such Subsidiary, Affiliate, or division following such Disaffiliation (as well as any corresponding adjustments to Awards that remain based upon Company securities).
(iv) Any adjustments made pursuant to this Section 3(d) to Awards that are considered “deferred compensation” within the meaning of Section 409A of the Code shall be made in compliance with the requirements of Section 409A of the Code. Any adjustments made pursuant to this Section 3(d) to Awards that are not considered “deferred compensation”
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subject to Section 409A of the Code shall be made in such a manner as to ensure that after such adjustment, the Awards either (A) continue not to be subject to Section 409A of the Code or (B) comply with the requirements of Section 409A of the Code.
(v) Any adjustment under this Section 3(d) need not be the same for all Participants.
SECTION 4. ELIGIBILITY
Awards may be granted under the Plan to Eligible Individuals; providedhowever, that Incentive Stock Options may be granted only to employees of the Company and its subsidiaries or parent corporation (within the meaning of Sections 424(e) and (f) of the Code).
SECTION 5. OPTIONS AND STOCK APPRECIATION RIGHTS
(a) Types of Options. Options may be of two types: Incentive Stock Options and Nonqualified Options. The Award Agreement for an Option shall indicate whether the Option is intended to be an Incentive Stock Option or a Nonqualified Option.
(b) Types and Nature of Stock Appreciation Rights. Stock Appreciation Rights may be “Tandem SARs,” which are granted in conjunction with an Option, or “Free-Standing SARs,” which are not granted in conjunction with an Option. Upon the exercise of a Stock Appreciation Right, the Participant shall be entitled to receive an amount in cash, Shares, or both, in value equal to the product of (i) the excess of the Fair Market Value of one Share over the exercise price of the applicable Stock Appreciation Right, multiplied by (ii) the number of Shares in respect of which the Stock Appreciation Right has been exercised. The applicable Award Agreement shall specify whether such payment is to be made in cash or Common Stock or both, or shall reserve to the Committee or the Participant the right to make that determination prior to or upon the exercise of the Stock Appreciation Right.
(c) Tandem SARs. A Tandem SAR may be granted at the Grant Date of the related Option. A Tandem SAR shall be exercisable only at such time or times and to the extent that the related Option is exercisable in accordance with the provisions of this Section 5, and shall have the same exercise price as the related Option. A Tandem SAR shall terminate or be forfeited upon the exercise or forfeiture of the related Option, and the related Option shall terminate or be forfeited upon the exercise or forfeiture of the Tandem SAR.
(d) Exercise Price. The exercise price per Share subject to an Option or Stock Appreciation Right shall be determined by the Committee and set forth in the applicable Award Agreement, and shall not be less than the Fair Market Value of a Share on the applicable Grant Date. In no event may any Option or Stock Appreciation Right granted under this Plan be amended, other than pursuant to Section 3(d), to decrease the exercise price thereof, be cancelled in exchange for cash or other Awards or in conjunction with the grant of any new Option or Stock Appreciation Right with a lower exercise price or otherwise be subject to any action that would be treated under the Applicable Exchange listing standards or for accounting purposes, as a “repricing” of such Option or Stock Appreciation Right, unless such amendment, cancellation, or action is approved by the Company’s stockholders. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the case of an Option or Stock Appreciation Right that is a Substitute Award, the exercise price per share of the Shares subject to such Option or Stock Appreciation Right, as applicable, may be less than the Fair Market Value per share on the Grant Date; provided that the exercise price of any Substitute Award shall be determined in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 424 and 409A of the Code.
(e) Term. The Term of each Option and each Stock Appreciation Right shall be fixed by the Committee, but shall not exceed ten years from the Grant Date.
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(f) Vesting and Exercisability. Except as otherwise provided herein, Options and Stock Appreciation Rights shall be exercisable at such time or times and subject to such terms and conditions as shall be determined by the Committee. If the Committee provides that any Option or Stock Appreciation Right will become exercisable only in installments, the Committee may at any time waive such installment exercise provisions, in whole or in part, based on such factors as the Committee may determine. In addition, the Committee may at any time accelerate the exercisability of any Option or Stock Appreciation Right.
(g) Method of Exercise. Subject to the provisions of this Section 5, Options and Stock Appreciation Rights may be exercised, in whole or in part, at any time during the applicable Term by giving written notice of exercise to the Company or through the procedures established with the Company’s appointed third-party Option administrator specifying the number of Shares as to which the Option or Stock Appreciation Right is being exercised; providedhowever, that, unless otherwise permitted by the Committee, any such exercise must be with respect to a portion of the applicable Option or Stock Appreciation Right relating to no less than the lesser of the number of Shares then subject to such Option or Stock Appreciation Right or 100 Shares. In the case of the exercise of an Option, such notice shall be accompanied by payment in full of the aggregate exercise price (which shall equal the product of such number of Shares subject to such Option multiplied by the applicable per Share exercise price) by certified or bank check or such other instrument as the Company may accept. If approved by the Committee and to the extent permitted by applicable law, payment, in full or in part, may also be made as follows:
(i) Payment may be made in the form of unrestricted Shares already owned by Participant (by delivery of such Shares or by attestation) of the same class as the Common Stock subject to the Option (based on the Fair Market Value of the Common Stock on the date the Option is exercised); providedhowever, that, in the case of an Incentive Stock Option, the right to make a payment in the form of already owned Shares of the same class as the Common Stock subject to the Option may be authorized only at the time the Option is granted.
(ii) Payment may be made by delivering a properly executed exercise notice to the Company, together with a copy of irrevocable instructions to a broker to deliver promptly to the Company the amount of sale proceeds necessary to pay the aggregate exercise price, and, if requested, an amount sufficient to satisfy the Company’s or applicable Affiliate’s or Subsidiary’s withholding obligations with respect to any U.S. or non-U.S. federal, state and/or local taxes or other tax-related items. To facilitate the foregoing, the Company may, to the extent permitted by applicable law, enter into agreements for coordinated procedures with one or more brokerage firms. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Committee may also provide for Company loans to be made for purposes of the exercise of Options.
(iii) Payment may be made by instructing the Company to withhold a number of Shares having a Fair Market Value (based on the Fair Market Value of the Common Stock on the date the applicable Option is exercised) equal to the product of (A) the exercise price per Share multiplied by (B) the number of Shares in respect of which the Option shall have been exercised.
(h) Delivery; Rights of Stockholders. No Shares shall be delivered pursuant to the exercise of an Option or Stock Appreciation Right until the exercise price therefor has been fully paid and applicable taxes and other tax-related items have been withheld. The applicable Participant shall have all of the rights of a stockholder of the Company holding the class or series of Common Stock that is subject to the Option or Stock Appreciation Right (including, if applicable, the right to vote the applicable Shares and the right to receive dividends), when the Participant (i) has given written notice of exercise, (ii) if requested, has given the representation described in Section 14(a), and (iii) in the case of an Option, has paid in full for such Shares.
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(i) Terminations of Employment. Subject to Section 10(c), a Participant’s Options and Stock Appreciation Rights shall be forfeited upon such Participant’s Termination of Employment, except as set forth below:
(i) Upon a Participant’s Termination of Employment by reason of death, Disability or Retirement, any Option or Stock Appreciation Right held by the Participant that was exercisable immediately before the Termination of Employment may be exercised at any time until the earlier of (A) the first anniversary of the date of such Termination of Employment and (B) the expiration of the Term thereof;
(ii) Upon a Participant’s Termination of Employment for Cause, any Option or Stock Appreciation Right held by the Participant shall be forfeited, effective as of such Termination of Employment;
(iii) Upon a Participant’s Termination of Employment for any reason other than death, Disability, Retirement or for Cause, any Option or Stock Appreciation Right held by the Participant that was exercisable immediately before the Termination of Employment may be exercised at any time until the earlier of (A) the 90th day following such Termination of Employment and (B) expiration of the Term thereof; and
(iv) Notwithstanding the above provisions of this Section 5(i), if a Participant dies after such Participant’s Termination of Employment but while any Option or Stock Appreciation Right remains exercisable as set forth above, such Option or Stock Appreciation Right may be exercised at any time until the later of (A) the earlier of (1) the first anniversary of the date of such death and (2) expiration of the Term thereof and (B) the last date on which such Option or Stock Appreciation Right would have been exercisable, absent this Section 5(i)(iv).
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Committee shall have the power, in its discretion, to apply different rules concerning the consequences of a Termination of Employment; providedhowever, that if such rules are less favorable to the Participant than those set forth above, such rules are set forth in the applicable Award Agreement. If an Incentive Stock Option is exercised after the expiration of the exercise periods that apply for purposes of Section 422 of the Code, such Option will thereafter be treated as a Nonqualified Option.
(j) Nontransferability of Options and Stock Appreciation Rights. No Option or Stock Appreciation Right shall be transferable by a Participant other than (i) by will or by the laws of descent and distribution, or (ii) in the case of a Nonqualified Option or Stock Appreciation Right, and to the extent allowed by applicable law, pursuant to a qualified domestic relations order or as otherwise expressly permitted by the Committee including, if so permitted, pursuant to a transfer to the Participant’s family members or to a charitable organization, whether directly or indirectly or by means of a trust or partnership or otherwise. For purposes of this Plan, unless otherwise determined by the Committee, “family member” shall have the meaning given to such term in General Instructions A.1(a)(5) to Form S-8 under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any successor thereto. A Tandem SAR shall be transferable only with the related Option as permitted by the preceding sentence. Any Option or Stock Appreciation Right shall be exercisable, subject to the terms of this Plan, only by the applicable Participant, the guardian or legal representative of such Participant, or any person to whom such Option or Stock Appreciation Right is permissibly transferred pursuant to this Section 5(j), it being understood that the term “Participant” includes such guardian, legal representative and other transferee; providedhowever, that the term “Termination of Employment” shall continue to refer to the Termination of Employment of the original Participant.
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SECTION 6. RESTRICTED STOCK
(a) Nature of Awards and Certificates. Shares of Restricted Stock are actual Shares issued to a Participant, and shall be evidenced in such manner as the Committee may deem appropriate, including book-entry registration or issuance of one or more stock certificates. Any certificate issued in respect of shares of Restricted Stock shall be registered in the name of the applicable Participant and shall bear an appropriate legend referring to the terms, conditions, and restrictions applicable to such Award, substantially in the following form:
“The transferability of this certificate and the shares of stock represented hereby are subject to the terms and conditions (including forfeiture) of the Sixth Amended and Restated Expedia Group, Inc. 2005 Stock and Annual Incentive Plan and an Award Agreement. Copies of such Plan and Agreement are on file at the offices of Expedia Group, Inc.”
The Committee may require that the certificates evidencing such shares be held in custody by the Company until the restrictions thereon shall have lapsed and that, as a condition of any Award of Restricted Stock, the applicable Participant shall have delivered a stock power, endorsed in blank, relating to the Common Stock covered by such Award.
(b) Terms and Conditions. Shares of Restricted Stock shall be subject to the following terms and conditions:
(i) The Committee shall, prior to or at the time of grant, condition the vesting or transferability of an Award of Restricted Stock upon the continued service of the applicable Participant or the attainment of Performance Goals, or the attainment of Performance Goals and the continued service of the applicable Participant. The conditions for grant, vesting, or transferability and the other provisions of Restricted Stock Awards (including without limitation any Performance Goals) need not be the same with respect to each Participant.
(ii) Subject to the provisions of the Plan and the applicable Award Agreement, so long as a Restricted Stock Award remains subject to the satisfaction of vesting conditions (the “RS Restriction Period”), the Participant shall not be permitted to sell, assign, transfer, pledge or otherwise encumber Shares of Restricted Stock.
(iii) Except as provided in this Section 6 and in the applicable Award Agreement, the applicable Participant shall have, with respect to the shares of Restricted Stock, all of the rights of a stockholder of the Company holding the class or series of Common Stock that is the subject of the Restricted Stock, including, if applicable, the right to vote the Shares and the right to receive any cash dividends, subject to Section 14(e). If so determined by the Committee in the applicable Award Agreement and subject to Section 14(e), (A) cash dividends on the class or series of Common Stock that is the subject of the Restricted Stock Award shall be automatically reinvested in additional Restricted Stock, held subject to the vesting of the underlying Restricted Stock, and (B) subject to any adjustment pursuant to Section 3(d), dividends payable in Common Stock shall be paid in the form of Restricted Stock of the same class as the Common Stock with respect to which such dividend was paid, held subject to the vesting of the underlying Restricted Stock.
(iv) Except as otherwise set forth in the applicable Award Agreement and subject to Section 10(c), upon a Participant’s Termination of Employment for any reason during the RS Restriction Period or before the applicable Performance Goals are satisfied, all shares of Restricted Stock still subject to restriction shall be forfeited by such Participant; providedhowever, the Committee shall have the discretion to waive, in whole or in part, any or all remaining restrictions with respect to any or all of such Participant’s shares of Restricted Stock.
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(v) If and when any applicable Performance Goals are satisfied and the RS Restriction Period expires without a prior forfeiture of the shares of Restricted Stock for which legended certificates have been issued, unlegended certificates for such Shares shall be delivered to the Participant upon surrender of the legended certificates.
SECTION 7. RESTRICTED STOCK UNITS
(a) Nature of Awards. Restricted Stock Units are Awards denominated in Shares that will be settled, subject to the terms and conditions of the Restricted Stock Units, in an amount in cash, Shares or both, with any cash settlement based upon the Fair Market Value of a specified number of Shares.
(b) Terms and Conditions. Restricted Stock Units shall be subject to the following terms and conditions:
(i) The Committee shall, prior to or at the time of grant, condition the grant, vesting, or transferability of Restricted Stock Units upon the continued service of the applicable Participant or the attainment of Performance Goals, or the attainment of Performance Goals and the continued service of the applicable Participant. The conditions for grant, vesting or transferability and the other provisions of Restricted Stock Units (including without limitation any Performance Goals) need not be the same with respect to each Participant.
(ii) Subject to the provisions of the Plan and the applicable Award Agreement, the Participant shall not be permitted to sell, assign, transfer, pledge or otherwise encumber Restricted Stock Units.
 (iii) The Award Agreement for Restricted Stock Units shall specify whether, to what extent and on what terms and conditions the applicable Participant shall be entitled to receive current or delayed payments of cash, Common Stock or other property corresponding to the dividends payable on the Common Stock, subject to Section 14(e) below.
(iv) Except as otherwise set forth in the applicable Award Agreement and subject to Section 10(c), upon a Participant’s Termination of Employment for any reason while Restricted Stock Units remain subject to the satisfaction of vesting conditions or before the applicable Performance Goals are satisfied, all Restricted Stock Units still subject to restriction shall be forfeited by such Participant; providedhowever, the Committee shall have the discretion to waive, in whole or in part, any or all remaining restrictions with respect to any or all of such Participant’s Restricted Stock Units.
(v) Except to the extent otherwise provided in the applicable Award Agreement, an award of Restricted Stock Units shall be settled as and when the Restricted Stock Units vest (but in no event later than March 15 of the calendar year following the end of the calendar year in which the Restricted Stock Units vest).
SECTION 8. OTHER STOCK-BASED AWARDS
Other Awards of Common Stock and other Awards that are valued in whole or in part by reference to, or are otherwise based upon or settled in, Common Stock, including (without limitation), unrestricted stock, performance units, dividend equivalents, and convertible debentures, may be granted under the Plan.
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SECTION 9. CASH-BASED AWARDS
Cash-Based Awards may be granted under this Plan. No Eligible Individual may be granted Cash-Based Awards under this Plan that have an aggregate maximum payment value in any calendar year in excess of $10.0 million. Cash-Based Awards may be paid in cash or in Shares (valued as of the date of payment) as determined by the Committee.
SECTION 10. CHANGE IN CONTROL PROVISIONS
(a) Impact of Event. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Award Agreement, subject to Sections 3(d), 10(e) and 14(k), notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan to the contrary, if a Change in Control occurs and a Participant’s Awards are not converted, assumed, substituted or continued by the surviving, continuing, successor, or purchasing entity or parent thereof, as the case may be, then immediately prior to the Change in Control such Awards shall become fully exercisable and vested and all forfeiture and other restrictions on such Awards shall lapse. Upon, or in anticipation of, a Change in Control, the Committee may cause any and all Awards outstanding hereunder to terminate at a specific time in the future, including but not limited to the date of such Change in Control, and shall give each Participant the right to exercise such Awards during a period of time as the Committee, in its sole and absolute discretion, shall determine.
(b) Definition of Change in Control. Except as otherwise may be provided in an applicable Award Agreement, for purposes of the Plan, a “Change in Control” shall mean any of the following events:
(i) The acquisition by any individual entity or group (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act), other than a Permitted Holder, of beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act) of equity securities of the Company representing more than 50% of the voting power of the then outstanding equity securities of the Company entitled to vote generally in the election of directors (the “Outstanding Company Voting Securities”); providedhowever, that for purposes of this subsection (i), the following acquisitions shall not constitute a Change in Control: (A) any acquisition by the Company, (B) any acquisition directly from the Company, (C) any acquisition by any employee benefit plan (or related trust) sponsored or maintained by the Company or any corporation controlled by the Company, or (D) any acquisition pursuant to a transaction which complies with clauses (A), (B) and (C) of subsection (iii); or
(ii) Individuals who, as of the Effective Date, constitute the Board (the “Incumbent Board”) cease for any reason to constitute at least a majority of the Board; provided, however, that any individual becoming a director subsequent to the Effective Date, whose election, or nomination for election by the Company’s stockholders, was approved by a vote of at least a majority of the directors then comprising the Incumbent Board shall be considered as though such individual were a member of the Incumbent Board, but excluding, for this purpose, any such individual whose initial assumption of office occurs as a result of an actual or threatened election contest with respect to the election or removal of directors or other actual or threatened solicitation of proxies or consents by or on behalf of a Person other than the Board; or
(iii) Consummation of a reorganization, merger or consolidation or sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company or the purchase of assets or stock of another entity (a “Business Combination”), in each case, unless immediately following such Business Combination, (A) all or substantially all of the individuals and entities who were the beneficial owners of the Outstanding Company Voting Securities
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immediately prior to such Business Combination will beneficially own, directly or indirectly, more than 50% of the then outstanding combined voting power of the then outstanding voting securities entitled to vote generally in the election of directors (or equivalent governing body, if applicable) of the entity resulting from such Business Combination (including, without limitation, an entity which as a result of such transaction owns the Company or all or substantially all of the Company’s assets either directly or through one or more subsidiaries) in substantially the same proportions as their ownership, immediately prior to such Business Combination of the Outstanding Company Voting Securities, (B) no Person (excluding a Permitted Holder, any employee benefit plan (or related trust) of the Company or such entity resulting from such Business Combination) will beneficially own, directly or indirectly, more than a majority of the combined voting power of the then outstanding voting securities of such entity except to the extent that such ownership of the Company existed prior to the Business Combination and (C) at least a majority of the members of the board of directors (or equivalent governing body, if applicable) of the entity resulting from such Business Combination will have been members of the Incumbent Board at the time of the initial agreement, or action of the Board, providing for such Business Combination; or
(iv) Approval by the stockholders of the Company of a complete liquidation or dissolution of the Company.
(c) Impact of Event/Double Trigger. Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Award Agreement, subject to Sections 3(d), 10(e) and 14(k), notwithstanding any other provision of this Plan to the contrary, if a Change in Control occurs and a Participant’s Awards are converted, assumed, substituted or continued by the surviving, continuing, successor, or purchasing entity or parent thereof, as the case may be, then with respect to Awards held by officers of the Company (and not the Company’s Subsidiaries or Affiliates) with a title of Senior Vice President or above as of immediately prior to the Change in Control, and with respect to all other Participants solely to the extent provided in the applicable Award Agreement, upon a Participant’s Termination of Employment, during the two-year period following such Change in Control, by the Company or a Subsidiary or Affiliate other than for Cause or Disability or by the Participant for Good Reason (as defined below):
(i) any Options and Stock Appreciation Rights outstanding as of such Termination of Employment which were outstanding as of the date of such Change in Control shall be fully exercisable and vested and shall remain exercisable until the later of (i) the last date on which such Option or Stock Appreciation Right would be exercisable in the absence of this Section 10(c) and (ii) the earlier of (A) the first anniversary of such Change in Control and (B) expiration of the Term of such Option or Stock Appreciation Right;
(ii) all Restricted Stock outstanding as of such Termination of Employment which were outstanding as of the date of such Change in Control shall become free of all restrictions and become fully vested and transferable; and
 (iii) all Restricted Stock Units outstanding as of such Termination of Employment which were outstanding as of the date of such Change in Control shall be considered to be earned and payable in full, and any restrictions shall lapse and such Restricted Stock Units shall be settled as promptly as is practicable (but in no event later than March 15 of the calendar year following the end of the calendar year in which the Restricted Stock Units vest or such other date as specified in an Award Agreement for Restricted Stock Units that are subject to Section 409A of the Code).
(d) For purposes of this Section 10, “Good Reason” means (i) “Good Reason” as defined in any Individual Agreement or Award Agreement to which the applicable Participant is a party, or
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(ii) if there is no such Individual Agreement or if it does not define Good Reason, without the Participant’s prior written consent: (A) a material reduction in the Participant’s rate of annual base salary from the rate of annual base salary in effect for such Participant immediately prior to the Change in Control, (B) a relocation of the Participant’s principal place of business more than 35 miles from the city in which such Participant’s principal place of business was located immediately prior to the Change in Control or (C) a material and demonstrable adverse change in either (1) the nature and scope of the Participant’s duties from those in effect immediately prior to the Change in Control or (2) the authority, duties or responsibilities of the supervisor to whom the Participant is required to report, as compared to those of the supervisor to whom the Participant reported immediately prior to the Change in Control. In order to invoke a Termination of Employment for Good Reason, a Participant shall provide written notice to the Company of the existence of one or more of the conditions described in clauses (A) through (C) within 90 days following the Participant’s knowledge of the initial existence of such condition or conditions, and the Company shall have 30 days following receipt of such written notice (the “Cure Period”) during which it may remedy the condition. In the event that the Company fails to remedy the condition constituting Good Reason during the Cure Period, the Participant must terminate employment, if at all, within 90 days following the Cure Period in order for such Termination of Employment to constitute a Termination of Employment for Good Reason.
(e) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Award is subject to Section 409A of the Code, this Section 10 shall be applicable only to the extent specifically provided in the Award Agreement or in the Individual Agreement. Further, if a Change in Control constitutes a payment event with respect to an Award that is subject to Section 409A of the Code, in order to make payment on such Change in Control, the transaction or event described in Section 10(b) with respect to such Award must also constitute a “change in control event,” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.409A-3(i)(5), to the extent required by Section 409A.
(f) Unless otherwise provided in the applicable Award Agreement or in an Individual Agreement, the number or value of any Award that is based on Performance Goals that shall become fully exercisable and free of forfeiture restrictions upon occurrence of the events described in Section 10(a) or Section 10(c) shall be based on the applicable target number or value.
SECTION 11. SECTION 16(b)
The provisions of this Plan are intended to ensure that no transaction under the Plan is subject to (and all such transactions will be exempt from) the short-swing recovery rules of Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act (“Section 16(b)”). Accordingly, the composition of the Committee shall be subject to such limitations as the Board deems appropriate to permit transactions pursuant to this Plan to be exempt (pursuant to Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act) from Section 16(b), and no delegation of authority by the Committee shall be permitted if such delegation would cause any such transaction to be subject to (and not exempt from) Section 16(b).
SECTION 12. TERM, AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION
(a) Effectiveness. The Board approved this Plan on March 22, 2023. The effective date (the “Effective Date”) of this Plan is the date that the Plan is approved by the Company’s stockholders.
(b) Termination. The Plan will terminate on the tenth anniversary of the Effective Date; however, no Incentive Stock Option may be granted on or after the tenth anniversary of the date
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that the Board adopted the Plan. Awards outstanding as of the date the Plan terminates shall not be affected or impaired by the termination of the Plan.
(c) Amendment of Plan. The Board may amend, alter, or discontinue the Plan, but no amendment, alteration or discontinuation shall be made which would materially impair the rights of the Participant with respect to a previously granted Award without such Participant’s consent, except such an amendment made to comply with applicable law (including without limitation Section 409A of the Code), stock exchange rules or accounting rules. In addition, no amendment shall be made without the approval of the Company’s stockholders to the extent such approval is required by applicable law or the listing standards of the Applicable Exchange.
(d) Amendment of Awards. Subject to Section 5(d), the Committee may unilaterally amend the terms of any Award theretofore granted, but no such amendment shall, without the Participant’s consent, materially impair the rights of any Participant with respect to an Award, except such an amendment made to cause the Plan or Award to comply with applicable law, stock exchange rules or accounting rules.
SECTION 13. UNFUNDED STATUS OF PLAN
It is intended that the Plan constitute an “unfunded” plan. Solely to the extent permitted under Section 409A, the Committee may authorize the creation of trusts or other arrangements to meet the obligations created under the Plan to deliver Common Stock or make payments; providedhowever, that the existence of such trusts or other arrangements is consistent with the “unfunded” status of the Plan.
SECTION 14. GENERAL PROVISIONS
(a) Conditions for Issuance. The Committee may require each person purchasing or receiving Shares pursuant to an Award to represent to and agree with the Company in writing that such person is acquiring the Shares without a view to the distribution thereof. The certificates for such Shares may include any legend which the Committee deems appropriate to reflect any restrictions on transfer. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan or agreements made pursuant thereto, the Company shall not be required to issue or deliver any certificate or certificates for Shares under the Plan prior to fulfillment of all of the following conditions: (i) listing or approval for listing upon notice of issuance, of such Shares on the Applicable Exchange; (ii) any registration (including, without limitation, with the Commission) or other qualification of such Shares of the Company under any U.S. or non-U.S. state, federal or local law or regulation, or the maintaining in effect of any such registration or other qualification which the Committee shall, in its absolute discretion upon the advice of counsel, deem necessary or advisable; and (iii) obtaining any other consent, approval, or permit from any U.S. or non-U.S. state or federal governmental agency which the Committee shall, in its absolute discretion after receiving the advice of counsel, determine to be necessary or advisable. In the event that any of (A) any offer or issuance of any Award, (B) any Shares issuable pursuant to any Award, or (C) the sale of any Shares issued pursuant to any Award are not registered or otherwise qualified with any governmental body or organization (including, without limitation, the Commission), or if the Company is otherwise not able to issue Shares in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, then the Company shall be relieved from any liability for failure to issue or transfer Shares and the Company will not under any circumstance be required to settle its obligations, if any, under this Plan in cash.
(b) Additional Compensation Arrangements. Nothing contained in the Plan shall prevent the Company or any Subsidiary or Affiliate from adopting other or additional compensation arrangements for its employees.
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 (c) No Contract of Employment. The Plan shall not constitute a contract of employment or service, and adoption of the Plan shall not confer upon any employee, service provider or consultant any right to continued employment or service, nor shall it interfere in any way with the right of the Company or any Subsidiary or Affiliate to terminate the employment or service of any employee, service provider or consultant at any time.
(d) Taxes. No later than the date as of which an amount first becomes includible in the gross income of a Participant for U.S. or non-U.S. federal, state or local income or employment or other tax purposes with respect to any Award under the Plan, such Participant shall pay to the Company, or make arrangements satisfactory to the Company regarding the payment of, any U.S. or non-U.S. federal, state and local taxes of any kind, including, without limitation, income tax, social insurance, payroll tax, fringe benefits tax, payment on account or other tax-related items related to participation in the Plan and legally applicable to the Participant and required by law to be withheld (including any amount deemed by the Company, in its discretion, to be an appropriate charge to the Participant even if legally applicable to the Company or a Subsidiary or an Affiliate). If determined by the Committee, withholding obligations may be settled with Common Stock, including Common Stock that is part of the Award that gives rise to the withholding requirement. The obligations of the Company under the Plan shall be conditional on such payment or arrangements, and the Company and its Subsidiaries and Affiliates shall, to the extent permitted by law, have the right to deduct any such taxes from any payment otherwise due to such Participant. The Committee may establish such procedures as it deems appropriate, including making irrevocable elections, for the settlement of withholding obligations with Common Stock.
(e) Limitation on Dividends, Dividend Reinvestment and Dividend Equivalents. Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the contrary, in no event shall any Award provide for the Participant’s receipt of payment of dividends or dividend equivalents in any form prior to the vesting of such Award (or applicable portion thereof) or otherwise permit the payment of dividends or dividend equivalents on an Award to the extent that it has not vested. Further, reinvestment of dividends in additional Restricted Stock at the time of any dividend payment, and the payment of Shares with respect to dividends to Participants holding Awards of Restricted Stock Units, shall only be permissible if sufficient Shares are available under Section 3 for such reinvestment or payment (taking into account then outstanding Awards). In the event that sufficient Shares are not available for such reinvestment or payment, such reinvestment or payment shall be made in the form of a grant of Restricted Stock Units equal in number to the Shares that would have been obtained by such payment or reinvestment, the terms of which Restricted Stock Units shall provide for settlement in cash and for dividend equivalent reinvestment in further Restricted Stock Units on the terms contemplated by this Section 14(e).
(f) Designation of Death Beneficiary. The Committee may, in its discretion, permit a Participant to designate a beneficiary to whom any amounts payable in the event of such Participant’s death are to be paid or by whom any rights of such eligible Individual, after such Participant’s death, may be exercised, and in such case, the Committee shall establish such procedures as it deems appropriate for such beneficiary designations.
(g) Subsidiary or Affiliate Employees. In the case of a grant of an Award to any employee of a Subsidiary or an Affiliate, the Company may, if the Committee so directs, issue or transfer the Shares, if any, covered by the Award to the Subsidiary or Affiliate, for such lawful consideration as the Committee may specify, upon the condition or understanding that the Subsidiary or Affiliate will transfer the Shares to the employee in accordance with the terms of the Award specified by the Committee pursuant to the provisions of the Plan. All Shares underlying Awards that are forfeited or canceled shall revert to the Company.
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(h) Governing Law and Interpretation. The Plan and all Awards made and actions taken thereunder shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, without reference to principles of conflict of laws. The captions of this Plan are not part of the provisions hereof and shall have no force or effect.
(i) Non-Transferability. Except as otherwise provided in Section 5(j) or as determined by the Committee, Awards under the Plan are not transferable except by will or by laws of descent and distribution.
(j) Foreign Employees and Foreign Law Considerations. The Committee may grant Awards to Eligible Individuals who are foreign nationals, who are located outside the United States or who are not compensated from a payroll maintained in the United States, or who are otherwise subject to (or could cause the Company to be subject to) legal or regulatory provisions of countries or jurisdictions outside the United States, on such terms and conditions different from those specified in the Plan as may, in the judgment of the Committee, be necessary or desirable to foster and promote achievement of the purposes of the Plan, including, without limitation, for purposes of facilitating compliance with foreign laws and regulations, easing the administration of the Plan outside the United States and providing tax-favorable treatment of Awards granted to Eligible Individuals outside the United States; and, in furtherance of such purposes, the Committee may adopt such modifications, amendments, procedures, supplements, appendices or subplans to the Plan or any Award Agreement as may be necessary or advisable to comply with such legal or regulatory provisions.
(k) Section 409A of the Code. It is the intention of the Company that no Award shall be “deferred compensation” subject to Section 409A of the Code, unless and to the extent that the Committee specifically determines otherwise as provided in this Section 14(k), and the Plan and the terms and conditions of all Awards shall be interpreted accordingly. The terms and conditions governing any Awards that the Committee determines will be subject to Section 409A of the Code, including any rules for elective or mandatory deferral of the delivery of cash or Shares pursuant thereto and any rules regarding treatment of such Awards in the event of a Change in Control, shall be set forth in the applicable Award Agreement, and shall comply in all respects with Section 409A of the Code. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan to the contrary, with respect to any Award that constitutes a “nonqualified deferred compensation plan” subject to Section 409A of the Code, if the Participant is a “specified employee” within the meaning of Section 409A of the Code, any payments (whether in cash, Shares or other property) to be made with respect to the Award upon the Participant’s Termination of Employment shall be delayed until the earlier of (A) the first day of the seventh month following the Participant’s Termination of Employment and (B) the Participant’s death. Each payment under any Award shall be treated as a separate payment for purposes of Section 409A of the Code. In no event may a Participant, directly or indirectly, designate the calendar year of any payment to be made under any Award.
(l) Clawback. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, all Awards are subject to recovery or other penalties pursuant to (i) any clawback or recoupment policy of the Company, as may be adopted or amended from time to time, (ii) any clawback or recoupment provision set forth in an applicable Award Agreement; and (iii) any applicable law, rule or regulation or Applicable Exchange rule, including, without limitation, Section 304 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Section 954 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Section 10D of the Exchange Act, Rule 10D-1 thereunder and any Applicable Exchange rule adopted pursuant thereto. By accepting an Award, the Participant agrees to such recovery or other penalties.

 
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Exhibit 10.2

EXPEDIA GROUP, INC.
2013 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN, AS AMENDED AND RESTATED

1.Purpose. The purpose of the Plan is to provide incentive for present and future eligible Employees to acquire equity interests (or increase existing equity interests) in the Company through the purchase of Shares. It is the Company’s intention that the Plan qualify as an “employee stock purchase plan” under Section 423 of the Code. Accordingly, the provisions of the Plan shall be administered, interpreted and construed in a manner consistent with the requirements of that section of the Code.
2.Definitions.
(a)Applicable Exchange” means the Nasdaq Stock Market or such other securities exchange or inter-dealer quotation system as may at the applicable time be the principal market for the Shares.
(b)Applicable Law” means the requirements relating to the administration of equity-based awards under state corporate laws, United States federal and state securities laws, the Code, the rules of the Applicable Exchange and the applicable laws of any non-U.S. jurisdiction where options are, or will be, granted under the Plan.
(c)Applicable Percentage” means, with respect to each Exercise Period, 85% unless and until such Applicable Percentage is increased by the Committee, in its discretion, provided that any such increase in the Applicable Percentage with respect to a given Exercise Period must be established prior to the commencement of the Enrollment Period for such Exercise Period.
(d)Board” means the Board of Directors of the Company
(e)Code” means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and any successor thereto. Reference to a specific section of the Code or United States Treasury Regulation thereunder will include such section or regulation, any valid regulation or other official applicable guidance promulgated under such section, and any comparable successor provision or other provision of any future legislation or regulation amending, supplementing or superseding such section or regulation.
(f)Committee” means the committee of one or more directors appointed by the Board to administer the Plan as described in Section 13 or, in the absence of a committee, the Board.
(g)Company” means Expedia Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation, or any successor thereto.
(h)Company Transaction” has the meaning given such term in Section 12(b)(iii).
(i)Compensation” means, with respect to each Participant for each pay period: base salary, wages, overtime, and shift premium paid to such Participant by the Company or a Designated Subsidiary. Except as otherwise determined by the Committee, “Compensation” does not include: (i) any amounts contributed by the Company or a Designated Subsidiary to any pension plan, (ii) any automobile, relocation or housing allowances, or reimbursement for any expenses, including automobile, relocation or housing expenses, (iii) any amounts paid as a bonus, including a starting bonus, referral fee, annual bonus, relocation bonus,




or sales incentives or commissions, (iv) any amounts realized from the exercise of any stock options or other incentive awards, (v) any amounts paid by the Company or a Designated Subsidiary for other fringe benefits, such as health and welfare, hospitalization and group life insurance benefits, disability pay, or perquisites, or paid in lieu of such benefits, or (vi) other similar forms of extraordinary compensation.
(j)Designated Subsidiaries” means the Subsidiaries (if any) whose employees have been designated by the Board or the Committee in writing from time to time in its discretion as eligible to participate in the Plan.
(k)Effective Date” means the date described in Section 15(m).
(l)Employee” means any individual designated as an employee of the Company or a Designated Subsidiary on the payroll records thereof. Employee status shall be determined consistent with Treasury Regulation section 1.421-1(h). For purposes of clarity, the term “Employee” shall not include the following, regardless of any subsequent reclassification as an employee by the Company or a Designated Subsidiary, any governmental agency, or any court: (i) any independent contractor; (ii) any consultant; (iii) any individual performing services for the Company or a Designated Subsidiary who has entered into an independent contractor or consultant agreement with the Company or a Designated Subsidiary; (iv) any individual performing services for the Company or a Designated Subsidiary under an independent contractor or consultant agreement, a purchase order, a supplier agreement or any other agreement that the Company or a Designated Subsidiary enters into for services; (v) any individual classified by the Company or a Designated Subsidiary as contract labor (such as contractors, contract employees, job shoppers), regardless of length of service; and (vi) any leased employee. The Committee shall have discretion to determine whether an individual is an Employee for purposes of the Plan, in a manner consistent with Section 423 of the Code.
(m)Enrollment Period” means the period during which an eligible Employee may elect to participate in the Plan, with such period occurring before the Entry Date of an Exercise Period, as prescribed by the Committee.
(n)Entry Date” means the first Trading Day of each Exercise Period; provided, that in the case of an individual who becomes eligible to become a Participant under Section 3 after the first Trading Day of an Exercise Period (if applicable under the Exercise Periods established by the Committee pursuant to Section 4(b)), the term “Entry Date” shall mean the first Trading Day of the Purchase Period occurring on or after the day on which that individual becomes a Participant.
(o)ESPP Brokerage Account” has the meaning given such term in Section 9(a).
(p)Exchange Act” means the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, from time to time, or any successor law thereto, and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
(q)Exercise Date” means the last Trading Day of each Purchase Period.
(r)Exercise Period” means, subject to adjustment as provided in Section 4(b), the approximately three-month period beginning on: (i) March 1 of each year and ending the last day of May of such year, (ii) June 1 of each year and ending on the last day of August of such year, (iii) September 1 of each year and ending on the last day of November of such year or (iv) December 1 of each year and ending on the last day of February of the following year, until the Plan terminates.
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(s)Exercise Price” means the price per Share offered in a given Exercise Period determined as provided in Section 6(b).
(t)Fair Market Value” means, if the Shares are listed on a national securities exchange, as of any given date, the closing price for a Share on such date on the Applicable Exchange, or if Shares were not traded on the Applicable Exchange on such measurement date, then on the closest preceding date on which Shares are so traded, all as reported by such source as the Committee may select. If the Shares are not listed on a national securities exchange, the Fair Market Value of a Share shall mean the amount determined by the Board in good faith, and in a manner consistent with Section 423 of the Code to be the fair market value of a Share.
(u)International Plan” means the Expedia, Inc. 2013 International Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as in effect from time to time.
(v)Offering” means an offering of an option granted under the Plan during an Exercise Period as further described in Section 4. Unless otherwise determined by the Committee, each Offering to the Employees of the Company and of a Designated Subsidiary shall be deemed a separate Offering under the Plan, even if the dates and other terms of the applicable Exercise Periods of each such Offering are identical, and the provisions of the Plan will separately apply to each such Offering. The terms of separate Offerings need not be identical provided that the terms of the Plan and an Offering together satisfy Section 423 of the Code.
(w)Participant” means an Employee who is eligible to participate in the Plan under Section 3 and who has elected to participate in the Plan by enrolling as provided in Section 5 hereof.
(x)Plan” means the Expedia Group, Inc. 2013 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as amended and restated, as in effect from time to time.
(y)Plan Contributions” means, with respect to each Participant, the after-tax payroll deductions withheld from the Compensation of the Participant under the Plan and other additional payments that the Committee may permit a Participant to make, which are each contributed to the Plan for the Participant as provided in Section 7 hereof.
(z)Purchase Period” means a period of time within an Exercise Period, as may be specified by the Committee in accordance with Section 4(b), generally beginning on the first Trading Day of each Exercise Period and ending on an Exercise Date. An Exercise Period may consist of one or more Purchase Periods.
(aa)Share” means a share of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of the Company (including any new, additional or different stock or securities resulting from any change in capitalization pursuant to Section 12(b)).
(ab)Subsidiary” means any corporation of which the Company owns, directly or indirectly, 50% or more of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock, and that otherwise qualifies as a “subsidiary corporation” within the meaning of Section 424(f) of the Code.
(ac)Tax-Related Items” means any income tax, social insurance contributions, fringe benefit tax, payroll tax, payment on account or other tax-related items arising in relation to the Participant’s participation in the Plan.
(ad)Terminating Event” means a Participant ceases to be an Employee under any circumstances; provided, however, that, for purposes of the Plan, a Participant’s status as an
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Employee shall be considered to be continuing intact while such Participant is on military leave, sick leave, or other bona fide leave of absence approved by the Committee or the Participant’s supervisor; provided further, however, that if such period of leave of absence exceeds three months, and the Participant’s right to reemployment is not provided either by statute or by contract, the Participant’s status as an Employee shall be deemed to have terminated on the first day immediately following such three-month period. Unless otherwise determined by the Committee (on a uniform and nondiscriminatory basis), a transfer of a Participant’s employment between or among the Company and/or the Designated Subsidiaries of the Plan shall not be considered a Terminating Event.
(ae)Trading Day” means a day on which the Applicable Exchange is open for trading.
3.Eligibility.
(a)General Rule. Except as otherwise provided herein, all Employees shall be eligible to participate in the Plan.
(b)Certain Exceptions. Notwithstanding Section 3(a), the Committee, in its discretion, from time to time may, prior to an Entry Date for all options to be granted in one or more separate Offerings, determine on a uniform and nondiscriminatory basis that an Employee will not be eligible to participate in the Plan if he or she: (i) has not completed at least two years of service since his or her last hire date (or such lesser period of time as may be determined by the Committee in its discretion), (ii) customarily works not more than 20 hours per week (or such lesser period of time as may be determined by the Committee in its discretion), (iii) is a highly compensated employee within the meaning of Section 414(q) of the Code or (iv) is a highly compensated employee within the meaning of Section 414(q) of the Code with compensation above a certain level or who is an officer or subject to the disclosure requirements of Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act, provided the exclusion is applied with respect to each separate Offering in an identical manner to all Employees of the Designated Subsidiary participating in that Offering. In addition, notwithstanding Section 3(a), eligible Employees who are citizens or residents of a non-U.S. jurisdiction may be excluded from the Plan if (1) the grant of an option under the Plan or any Offering to a citizen or resident of the non-U.S. jurisdiction is prohibited under the laws of such jurisdiction, or (2) compliance with the laws of the non-U.S. jurisdiction would cause the Plan or the Offering to violate the requirements of Section 423 of the Code, in each case, to the extent allowed under Section 423 of the Code.
4.Exercise Periods.
(a)In General. The Plan shall generally be implemented by a series of Exercise Periods, each of which lasts approximately three months, subject to Section 4(b) below. Unless and until the Committee determines otherwise in its discretion, each Exercise Period will consist of one approximately three-month Purchase Period, which will run simultaneously with the Exercise Period.
(b)Changes by Committee. The Committee shall have the authority to make changes to the occurrence, duration and/or the frequency of Exercise Periods, including, without limitation, to establish additional or alternative sequential or overlapping Exercise Periods, a different number of Purchase Periods within an Exercise Period, a different duration for one or more Exercise Periods or Purchase Periods or different commencement or ending dates for such Exercise Periods with respect to future Exercise Periods if any such change is announced prior to the scheduled beginning of the first Exercise Period to be affected; provided that the duration of an Exercise Period may not exceed 27 months (or the expiration of such other applicable period specified under Section 423(b)(7) of the Code). To the extent that the Committee establishes
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additional or overlapping Exercise Periods, the Committee will have discretion to structure an Exercise Period so that if the Fair Market Value of a Share on the first Trading Day of the Exercise Period in which a Participant is currently enrolled is higher than the Fair Market Value of a Share on the first Trading Day of any subsequent Exercise Period, the Company will automatically enroll such Participant in the subsequent Exercise Period and will terminate his or her participation in such original Exercise Period.
5.Participation. Employees meeting the eligibility requirements of Section 3 hereof may elect to participate in the Plan commencing on any Entry Date for the applicable Exercise Period by enrolling in the manner and/or through the website designated by the Company during the Enrollment Period.

6.Grant of Option.
(a)Shares Subject to Option. On a Participant’s Entry Date, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 6(c), the Participant shall be granted an option to purchase on the subsequent Exercise Date (at the Exercise Price determined as provided in Section 6(b) below) up to a number of Shares determined by dividing such Participant’s Plan Contributions accumulated during the current Exercise Period prior to such Exercise Date and retained in the Participant’s account as of such Exercise Date by the Exercise Price; provided that the maximum number of Shares a Participant may purchase during any Exercise Period shall be that whole number of Shares determined by dividing $25,000 by the Fair Market Value of a Share on the Entry Date of such Exercise Period; provided further that such maximum number of Shares may instead be established by the Committee as a fixed number or a different predetermined formula with respect to any Exercise Period prior to the Entry Date thereof. All Participants granted options pursuant to an Exercise Period shall have the same rights and privileges within the meaning of Section 423(b)(5) of the Code. Unless otherwise determined by the Committee, no fractional Shares shall be issued or otherwise transferred upon the exercise of an option under the Plan.
(b)Exercise Price. The Exercise Price offered to each Participant in a given Exercise Period shall be no lower than the Applicable Percentage of the lesser of (i) the Fair Market Value of a Share on the Participant’s Entry Date or (ii) the Fair Market Value of a Share on the Exercise Date. Unless otherwise determined by the Committee, the Exercise Price shall be the Applicable Percentage of the Fair Market Value of a Share on the Exercise Date; provided that any change in the Exercise Price with respect to a given Exercise Period must be established prior to the commencement of the Enrollment Period for such Exercise Period.
(c)Limitations on Options that may be Granted. Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the contrary, (i) no Employee may participate in the Plan if such Employee, immediately after the applicable Entry Date, would be deemed for purposes of Section 423(b)(3) of the Code to possess five percent or more of the total combined voting power or value of all classes of stock of the Company or of any Subsidiary or of any other related corporation for purposes of Section 423 of the Code, and (ii) no Participant shall be granted an option under the Plan which permits his or her right to purchase Shares under the Plan to accrue at a rate which, when aggregated with such Participant’s rights to purchase shares under all other employee stock purchase plans of the Company and any Subsidiary, and any other related corporation for purposes of Section 423 of the Code, which are intended to qualify under Section 423 of the Code, exceeds $25,000 in Fair Market Value (or such other limit, if any, as may be imposed by the Code) for each calendar year in which such option is outstanding at any time. For purposes of clause (ii) of the preceding sentence, the Fair Market Value of Shares purchased with respect to a given Exercise Period shall be determined as of the Entry Date for such Exercise Period. The limitations set forth in this Section 6(c) shall be applied in conformance with applicable regulations under Section 423(b)(8) of the Code.
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(d)No Rights as Stockholder. A Participant shall have no voting, dividend or other stockholder rights in the Shares covered by his or her option until such option has been exercised in accordance with the provisions of the Plan and such Shares have actually been issued to such Participant.
(e)Bookkeeping Accounts Maintained. Individual bookkeeping accounts shall be maintained for each Participant. All Plan Contributions from a Participant’s Compensation shall be credited to such Participant’s Plan account. Except as otherwise required by Applicable Law (i) all Plan Contributions made for a Participant shall be deposited in the Company’s or a Designated Subsidiary’s general corporate accounts, and no interest shall accrue or be credited with respect to a Participant’s Plan Contributions, and (ii) all Plan Contributions received or held by the Company or a Designated Subsidiary may be used by the Company or such Designated Subsidiary for any corporate purpose, and neither the Company nor such Designated Subsidiary shall be obligated to segregate or otherwise set apart such Plan Contributions from any other corporate funds.
7.Plan Contributions.
(a)Plan Contributions by Payroll Deduction. Contributions to the Plan shall be made by after-tax payroll deductions by the Company or Designated Subsidiary, unless the Committee authorizes contributions through another means, in a manner consistent with the provisions of Section 423 of the Code.
(b)Plan Contributions Election. At the time a Participant enrolls with respect to an Exercise Period in accordance with Section 5, the Participant shall authorize Plan Contributions from his or her Compensation to be made on each payroll date during the portion of the Exercise Period that he or she is a Participant in an amount not less than 1% and not more than 15% of the Participant’s Compensation on each payroll date during the portion of the Exercise Period that he or she is a Participant, or such other maximum amount as may be determined by the Committee. The amount of Plan Contributions must be a whole percentage (e.g., 1%, 2%, 3%, etc.) of the Participant’s Compensation. The amount of Plan Contributions may be adjusted to the extent required by Applicable Law.
(c)Commencement of Plan Contributions. Except as otherwise determined by the Committee under rules applicable to all Participants, Plan Contributions shall commence with the earliest administratively practicable pay date on or after the Entry Date with respect to which the Participant enrolls in accordance with Section 5, or is deemed to have elected continued participation in the Plan with respect to succeeding Exercise Periods in accordance with Section 7(d).
(d)Automatic Continuation of Plan Contributions for Succeeding Exercise Periods. With respect to each succeeding Exercise Period, a Participant shall be deemed (i) to have elected to participate in such immediately succeeding Exercise Period (and, for purposes of such Exercise Period, the Participant’s “Entry Date” shall be the first Trading Day of such succeeding Exercise Period), and (ii) to have authorized the same rate of Plan Contributions for such immediately succeeding Exercise Period as was in effect for the Participant immediately prior to the commencement of such succeeding Exercise Period, unless such Participant elects otherwise prior to the Entry Date of such succeeding Exercise Period, in accordance with Section 7(e) below or such Participant withdraws from the Plan in accordance with Section 11(a) hereof.
(e)Change of Plan Contributions Election. A Participant may not decrease or increase the rate of his or her Plan Contributions during an Exercise Period. Using the authorization process designated for this purpose by the Company in accordance with Section 5 above authorizing a change in the rate of Plan Contributions, a Participant may decrease or
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increase the rate of his or her Plan Contributions (within the limitations of Section 7(b) above) commencing with the first Exercise Period that begins after the date of such authorization. Additionally, a Participant may withdraw from an Exercise Period as provided in Section 11(a) hereof. The Committee has the authority to change the foregoing rules.
(f)Automatic Changes in Plan Contributions. The Company may decrease a Participant’s rate of Plan Contributions, but not below zero percent, at any time during an Exercise Period to the extent necessary to comply with Section 423(b)(8) of the Code or any other Applicable Law or Section 6(a) or Section 6(c). Plan Contributions shall recommence at the rate provided in the Participant’s enrollment at the beginning of the first Exercise Period beginning in the following calendar year, unless the Participant’s participation in the Plan terminates as provided in Section 11.
8.Exercise of Options and Purchase of Shares.
(a)Exercise of Options. On each Exercise Date, the option for the purchase of Shares of each Participant who has not withdrawn from the Plan and whose participation in the Exercise Period has not otherwise terminated before the Exercise Date shall be automatically exercised to purchase the number of whole Shares determined by dividing (i) the total amount of the accumulated Plan Contributions then credited to the Participant’s account under the Plan during the Exercise Period and not previously applied toward the purchase of Shares by (ii) the Exercise Price, subject to the limitations in Section 6(a) and Section 6(c) and any other limitation in the Plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Committee may permit the purchase of whole and fractional Shares upon exercise of options hereunder, commencing with the first Exercise Period that begins after the date of such Committee authorization.
(b)Pro Rata Allocation of Shares. If the aggregate number of Shares to be purchased by all Participants in the Plan and the International Plan on an Exercise Date exceeds the number of Shares available as provided in Section 12(a), the Company shall make a pro rata allocation of the remaining Shares in as uniform a manner as practicable and as the Company determines to be equitable. Unless otherwise determined by the Committee, any fractional Share resulting from such pro rata allocation to any Participant shall be disregarded and shall not be issued.
(c)Delivery of Shares. As soon as practicable after each Exercise Date, the Company shall arrange the delivery of the Shares purchased by each Participant on such Exercise Date to a broker designated by the Company that will hold such Shares for the benefit of each such Participant; provided that the Company may arrange the delivery to a Participant of a certificate representing such Shares. Shares to be delivered to a Participant under the Plan shall be registered in the name of the Participant, or, if requested by the Participant, in the name of the Participant and his or her spouse, or, if applicable, in the names of the heirs of the Participant.
(d)Return of Cash Balance. Any cash balance remaining in a Participant’s Plan account following any Exercise Date shall be refunded to the Participant as soon as practicable after such Exercise Date. However, if the cash balance to be returned to a Participant pursuant to the preceding sentence is less than the amount that would have been necessary to purchase an additional whole Share on such Exercise Date, the Company may arrange for the cash balance to be retained in the Participant’s Plan account and applied toward the purchase of Shares in the subsequent Exercise Period, as the case may be.
(e)Tax Withholding. At the time of any tax withholding event under the Plan, the Participant shall make adequate provision for the Tax-Related Items withholding obligations, if any, of the Company and/or the applicable Designated Subsidiary which arise upon such tax withholding event. The Company and/or applicable Designated Subsidiary may, but shall not be
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obligated to, withhold from the Participant’s compensation the amount necessary to meet such withholding obligations, or may use any other method of withholding they deem appropriate and take such other action as may be necessary to satisfy withholding and/or reporting obligations for Tax-Related Items.
(f)Expiration of Option. Any portion of a Participant’s option remaining unexercised after the end of the Exercise Period to which such option relates shall expire immediately upon the end of such Exercise Period.
(g)Provision of Reports to Participants. Unless otherwise determined by the Committee, each Participant who has exercised all or part of his or her option under the Plan shall receive, as soon as practicable after the Exercise Date, a report of such Participant’s Plan account setting forth the total Plan Contributions accumulated prior to such exercise, the number of Shares purchased, the Exercise Price for such Shares, the date of purchase and the cash balance, if any, remaining immediately after such purchase that is to be refunded or retained in the Participant’s Plan account pursuant to Section 8(d). The report pursuant to this Section 8(g) may be delivered in such form and by such means, including by electronic transmission, as the Company may determine.
9.ESPP Brokerage Account; Required Holding Period; Disqualifying Disposition.
(a)Deposit of Shares into ESPP Brokerage Account. Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Plan to the contrary, the Company may require that the Shares purchased on behalf of each Participant under the Plan shall be deposited directly into a brokerage account which the Company may establish for the Participant at a Company-designated brokerage firm (such an account, the “ESPP Brokerage Account”).
(b)Required Holding Period. The Shares deposited into a Participant’s ESPP Brokerage Account may not be transferred from the ESPP Brokerage Account or disposed of (whether electronically or in certificated form) or pledged until the required holding period, if any, for those Shares is satisfied. The Committee shall have discretion to determine whether a holding period shall apply with respect to Participants generally. Following expiration of any such required holding period, a Participant may sell Shares held in his or her ESPP Brokerage Account at any time (subject to the Expedia Securities Trading Policy and Applicable Law), but in the absence of any such sale, a Participant shall be required to hold such Shares in the ESPP Brokerage Account until expiration of the holdings periods specified by Section 423(a)(1) of the Code applicable to such Shares.
(c)Participant Required to Report Disqualifying Disposition. A Participant shall be required to report in writing to the Company (or a person or firm designated by the Company) any disposition of Shares purchased under the Plan prior to the expiration of the holding periods specified by Section 423(a)(1) of the Code.
10.Transferability. Neither Plan Contributions credited to a Participant’s account nor any option or rights to exercise any option or receive Shares under the Plan may be assigned, transferred, pledged or otherwise disposed of in any way (other than by will or the laws of descent and distribution). Any attempted such assignment, transfer, pledge or other disposition
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shall be without effect, except that the Company may treat such act as an election to withdraw in accordance with Section 11(a).

11.Withdrawal; Terminating Event.
(a)Withdrawal. A Participant may withdraw from an Exercise Period at any time by giving written notice to the Company (or a person or firm designated by the Company) in the manner and/or through the website designated by the Company. A notice of withdrawal must be received no later than the deadline prescribed by the Company, which deadline may be changed from time to time with appropriate notice to Employees.
Plan Contributions shall cease as soon as administratively practicable after receipt by the Company of the Participant’s notice of withdrawal, and, subject to administrative practicability, no further purchases shall be made for the Participant’s account. All Plan Contributions credited to such Participant’s account, if any, and not yet used to purchase Shares, shall be returned to the Participant as soon as administratively practicable after receipt of the Participant’s notice of withdrawal. Such Participant’s unexercised options to purchase Shares pursuant to the Plan shall be automatically terminated. Plan Contributions will not resume on behalf of a Participant who has withdrawn from the Plan (a “Former Participant”) unless the Former Participant enrolls in a subsequent Exercise Period in accordance with Section 5 and subject to the restriction provided in Section 11(b), below.
(b)Effect of Withdrawal on Subsequent Participation. A Former Participant who has withdrawn from the Plan pursuant to Section 11(a) shall be eligible to participate in the Plan at the beginning of the next Exercise Period following the date the Former Participant withdrew, and the Former Participant must submit a new enrollment in accordance with Section 5 in order to again become a Participant.
(c)Terminating Event. If a Participant has a Terminating Event, (i) such individual may not make further Plan Contributions, (ii) any amount of cash then credited to his or her Plan account shall, as determined by the Committee (on a uniform and nondiscriminatory basis for all options to be granted in an Offering), either be (A) promptly returned to such individual following the date of such Terminating Event, or (B) used to purchase the number of Shares in accordance with and subject to Sections 8(a) through (c), and (e) through (g), and any cash balance remaining in such individual’s Plan account following such Exercise Date shall be promptly refunded to such individual following the Exercise Date, and (iii) all Shares held in such Participant’s ESPP Brokerage Account shall continue to be held in such ESPP Brokerage Account unless the individual sells or transfers such Shares, subject to satisfaction of both any required holding period (provided that any such required holding period shall not apply in the case of a Terminating Event due to death) and the Code Section 423(a)(1) holding period requirements, as referenced in Section 9(b). For the avoidance of doubt, in the event that the employment of a Participant is transferred, and such Participant becomes an employee of a Subsidiary that is not a Designated Subsidiary under the Plan, such Participant shall have a Terminating Event.
12.Shares Issuable under the Plan.
(a)Number of Shares. Subject to adjustment as provided in Section 12(b), the maximum number of Shares that may be issued under the Plan and the International Plan in the aggregate shall be 3,500,000 Shares, which reflects an increase of 1,000,000 over the number of Shares authorized under the Plan prior to the Effective Date. Such Shares issuable under the Plan may be authorized and unissued shares (which will not be subject to preemptive rights), Shares held in treasury by the Company, Shares purchased on the open market or by private purchase or any combination of the foregoing. Any Shares issued under the Plan shall reduce on a Share-for-
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Share basis the number of Shares available for subsequent issuance under the Plan and the International Plan. If an outstanding option under the Plan or the International Plan for any reason expires or is terminated or cancelled, the Shares allocable to the unexercised portion of such option shall again be available for issuance under the Plan or the International Plan. For avoidance of doubt, up to the maximum number of Shares reserved under this Section 12(a) may be used to satisfy purchases of Shares under the Plan and any remaining portion of such maximum number of Shares may be used to satisfy purchases of Shares under the International Plan.
(b)Adjustments Upon Changes in Capitalization; Company Transactions.
(i.)If the outstanding Shares are increased or decreased, or are changed into or are exchanged for a different number or kind of shares, including as a result of one or more mergers, reorganizations, restructurings, recapitalizations, reclassifications, stock splits, reverse stock splits, stock dividends or the like, or there occurs a separation, spin-off or other distribution of stock or property (including any extraordinary dividend, but excluding any ordinary dividends) affecting the Company and without the Company’s receipt of consideration, then appropriate adjustments shall be made to the number and/or kind of shares available for issuance in the aggregate under the Plan and the International Plan and under each outstanding option under the Plan and to the Exercise Price thereof, in each case as determined by the Committee, in its discretion, and the Committee’s determination shall be conclusive.
(ii.)In the event of any proposed dissolution or liquidation of the Company, immediately prior to the consummation of such proposed action, any outstanding Exercise Period will terminate, and any Shares held in ESPP Brokerage Accounts, and all Plan Contributions credited to Participant Plan accounts and not used to purchase Shares, shall be distributed to each applicable Participant, unless otherwise provided by the Committee.
(iii.)In the event of sale of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets, or a merger, amalgamation, consolidation, acquisition or sale or exchange of shares or similar event affecting the Company (each, a “Company Transaction”), then, as determined by the Committee, in its discretion, which determination shall be conclusive, either:
(1)each option under the Plan shall be assumed or an equivalent option shall be substituted by the Company’s successor corporation or a parent corporation (as defined in Section 424(e) of the Code) of such successor corporation, unless the Committee determines, in the exercise of its discretion, and in lieu of such assumption or substitution, to shorten the Exercise Period(s) then in progress by setting a new Exercise Date (the “New Exercise Date”). If the Committee shortens the Exercise Period(s) then in progress in lieu of assumption or substitution in the event of a Company Transaction, the Company shall notify each Participant in writing, prior to the New Exercise Date, that the Exercise Date for such Participant’s option has been changed to the New Exercise Date, and that such Participant’s option will be exercised automatically on the New Exercise Date, unless prior to such date the Participant has withdrawn from the Plan as provided in Section 11(a). For purposes of this Section 12(b), an option granted under the Plan shall be deemed to have been assumed if, following the Company Transaction, the option confers the right to purchase, for each Share subject to the option immediately prior to the Company Transaction, the consideration (whether stock, cash or other securities or property) received in the Company Transaction by holders of Shares for each Share held on the effective date of the Company Transaction (and if such holders were offered a choice of consideration, the type of consideration chosen by the holders of a majority of the outstanding Shares); provided, that if the consideration received in the Company Transaction was not
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solely common stock or Shares of the successor corporation or its parent corporation (as defined in Section 424(e) of the Code), the Committee may, with the consent of the successor corporation, provide for the consideration to be received upon exercise of the option to be solely common stock of the successor corporation or its parent corporation equal in fair market value to the per share consideration received by the holders of Shares in the Company Transaction; or
(2)the Plan shall terminate and any Shares held in ESPP Brokerage Accounts and all the Plan Contributions credited to Participant Plan accounts and not yet used to purchase Shares, shall be distributed to each applicable Participant.
(iv.)In all cases, the Committee shall have discretion to exercise any of the powers and authority provided under this Section 12, and the Committee’s actions hereunder shall be final and binding on all Participants. Unless otherwise determined by the Committee, no fractional shares of stock shall be issued under the Plan pursuant to any adjustment authorized under the provisions of this Section 12.
13.Administration.
(a)Committee as Administrator. The Plan shall be administered by the Committee. The Committee shall have all authority that may be necessary or helpful to enable it to discharge its responsibilities with respect to the Plan. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing sentences of this Section 13, subject to the express provisions of the Plan and Applicable Law, the Committee shall have full and exclusive discretionary authority to interpret and construe any and all provisions of the Plan and any agreements, forms, and instruments relating to the Plan; prescribe the forms and manner of any agreements, forms, and instruments, and all online enrollment, designation or communication, relating to the Plan; determine eligibility to participate in the Plan including which Subsidiaries shall be Designated Subsidiaries; adopt rules and regulations for administering the Plan; adjudicate and determine all disputes arising under or in connection with the Plan; determine whether a particular item is included in “Compensation;” permit Plan Contributions in excess of the amount designated by a Participant in order to adjust for administrative errors in the Company’s processing of properly submitted enrollment agreements and/or changes in contribution amounts; retain and engage such third parties as it shall determine to assist with the administration of the Plan and make all other determinations necessary or advisable for the administration of the Plan. All decisions, actions and determinations by the Committee with respect to the Plan; any agreement, form or instrument relating to the Plan; or any operation or administration of the Plan shall be final, conclusive and binding on all persons.
(b)Delegation. Subject to Applicable Law, the Committee may, in its discretion, from time to time, delegate all or any part of its responsibilities and powers under the Plan to any employee or group of employees of the Company or any Subsidiary or to any other person or body, and revoke any such delegation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Board, in its absolute discretion, may at any time and from time to time exercise any and all rights, duties and responsibilities of the Committee under the Plan, including, but not limited to, establishing procedures to be followed by the Committee.
14.Amendment, Suspension, and Termination of the Plan.
(a)Amendment of the Plan. The Board or the Committee may at any time, or from time to time, amend the Plan in any respect; provided that (i) except as otherwise provided by Section 4(b) or Section 12(b), or to comply with any Applicable Law, no such amendment may make any change in any option theretofore granted which materially adversely affects the previously accrued rights of any Participant with respect to any such option without such
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Participant’s consent, and (ii) the Plan shall not be amended in any way that will cause options issued under the Plan to fail to meet the requirements for employee stock purchase plans as defined in Section 423 of the Code. To the extent necessary to comply with Section 423 of the Code, or any other Applicable Law, regulation or rule, the Company shall obtain stockholder approval of any such amendment.
(b)Suspension of the Plan. The Board or the Committee may, at any time, suspend the Plan; provided that the Company shall provide notice to the Participants prior to the effectiveness of such suspension. The Board or the Committee may resume the operation of the Plan following any such suspension; provided that the Company shall provide notice to the Participants prior to the date of termination of the suspension period. A Participant shall remain a Participant in the Plan during any suspension period (unless he or she withdraws pursuant to Section 11(a)), however, no options shall be granted or exercised, and no Plan Contributions shall be made in respect of any Participant during the suspension period.
(c)Termination of the Plan. The Plan and all rights of Participants hereunder shall terminate on the earlier of:
(i.)the Exercise Date at which Participants become entitled to purchase a number of Shares greater than the number of Shares remaining available for issuance under the Plan and the International Plan pursuant to Section 12(a); or
(ii.)such date as is determined by the Board in its discretion.
Notwithstanding the foregoing to the contrary, (i) the Board may at any time, with notice to Participants, terminate an Exercise Period then in progress and provide, in its discretion, that the outstanding balance of Plan Contributions credited to Participant Plan accounts and not yet used to purchase Shares shall either be (x) used to purchase Shares on an early Exercise Date established by the Board, or (y) distributed to the applicable Participants, and (ii) upon any termination of the Plan, any Exercise Period then in progress shall be treated as may be determined by the Board in accordance with clause (i) of this sentence, and any Shares held in ESPP Brokerage Accounts may be distributed to the applicable Participants.
15.Miscellaneous.
(a)Notices. All notices or other communications by a Participant to the Company under or in connection with the Plan shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given when received in the form specified by the Company at the location, or by the person or agent, designated by the Company for the receipt thereof.
(b)Expenses of the Plan. All costs and expenses incurred in administering the Plan shall be paid by the Company or a Designated Subsidiary, except that any stamp duties or transfer taxes applicable to participation in the Plan may be charged to the account of such Participant by the Company.
(c)Rights of Participants.
(i.)Rights or Claims. No person shall have any rights or claims under the Plan except in accordance with the provisions of the Plan and any applicable agreement thereunder. The liability of the Company or any Designated Subsidiary under the Plan is limited to the obligations expressly set forth in the Plan, and no term or provision of the Plan may be construed to impose any further or additional duties, obligations, or costs on the Company, any Designated Subsidiary or any other affiliate thereof or the Board or the Committee not expressly set forth in the Plan. The grant of any option under the Plan
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shall not confer any rights upon the Participant holding such option other than such terms, and subject to such conditions, as are specified in the Plan as being applicable to such option, or to all options. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, neither the existence of the Plan nor anything contained in the Plan or in any agreement thereunder shall be deemed to:
(1)     give any Participant the right to be retained in the service of the Company or any Designated Subsidiary, whether in any particular position, at any particular rate of compensation, for any particular period of time or otherwise;
(2)     restrict in any way the right of the Company or any Designated Subsidiary to terminate, change or modify any Participant’s employment at any time with or without cause;
(3)constitute a contract of employment between the Company or any Designated Subsidiary and any Employee, nor shall it constitute a right to remain in the employ of the Company or any Designated Subsidiary;
(4)give any Employee of the Company or any Designated Subsidiary the right to receive any bonus, whether payable in cash or in Shares, or in any combination thereof, from the Company and/or a Designated Subsidiary, nor be construed as limiting in any way the right of the Company and/or a Designated Subsidiary to determine, in its discretion, whether or not it shall pay any Employee bonuses, and, if so paid, the amount thereof and the manner of such payment; or
(5)give any Employee any rights whatsoever with respect to any Shares or options except as specifically provided in the Plan and any applicable agreement thereunder.
(ii.)Options. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, a Participant’s right or entitlement to purchase any Shares under the Plan shall only result from continued employment with the Company or any Designated Subsidiary.
(iii.)No Effects on Benefits; No Damages. Any compensation received by a Participant under an option is not part of any (1) normal or expected compensation or salary for any purpose, as an employee or otherwise; (2) termination, indemnity, severance, resignation, redundancy, end of service payments; (3) bonuses; (4) long-service awards; (5) pension or retirement benefits or (6) similar payments under any laws, plans, contracts, policies, programs, arrangements or otherwise, in each case, otherwise payable or provided to such Participant. A Participant shall, by participating in the Plan, waive any and all rights to compensation or damages in consequence of termination of employment of such Participant for any reason whatsoever, whether lawfully or otherwise, insofar as those rights arise or may arise from such Participant ceasing to have rights under the Plan as a result of such termination of employment, or from the loss or diminution in value of such rights or entitlements, including by reason of the operation of the terms of the Plan or the provisions of any statute or law relating to taxation. No claim or entitlement to compensation or damages arises from the termination of the Plan or diminution in value of any option or Shares purchased under the Plan.
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(iv.)No Effect on Other Plans. Neither the adoption of the Plan nor anything contained herein shall affect any other compensation or incentive plans or arrangements of the Company or any Designated Subsidiary, or prevent or limit the right of the Company or any Designated Subsidiary to establish any other forms of incentives or compensation for their employees or grant or assume options or other rights otherwise than under the Plan.
(d)Participants Deemed to Accept Plan. By enrolling in the Plan and accepting any benefit thereunder, each Participant and each person claiming under or through any such Participant shall be conclusively deemed to have indicated their acceptance and ratification of, and consent to, all of the terms and conditions of the Plan and any action taken under the Plan by the Board, the Committee or the Company, in any case in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Plan.
(e)Uncertificated Shares. To the extent that the Plan provides for issuance of certificates to reflect the transfer of Shares, the transfer of such Shares may nevertheless be effected on a uncertificated basis, to the extent not prohibited by Applicable Law. Notwithstanding any contrary Plan provisions prescribing the manner and form in which stock certificates may be issued and/or Shares may be held by or on behalf of Participants, the Company and any affiliate thereof shall have the right to make such alternative arrangements as they may, in their discretion, determine, and which may include the transfer of Shares and/or the issue of stock certificates to any nominee or trust or other third party arrangement established for the benefit in whole or in part of Participants.
(f)Governing Law. The Plan and each agreement thereunder shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, excluding any conflicts or choice of law rule or principle that might otherwise refer construction or interpretation of the Plan to the substantive law of another jurisdiction. Participants are deemed to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the federal or state courts of the State of Delaware to resolve any and all issues that may arise out of or relate to the Plan or any related agreement.
(g)No Constraint on Corporate Action. Nothing contained in the Plan shall be construed to prevent the Company or any Designated Subsidiary from taking any corporate action (including the Company’s right or power to make adjustments, reclassifications, reorganizations or changes of its capital or business structure, or to merge or consolidate, or dissolve, liquidate, sell, or transfer all or any part of its business or assets) which is deemed by it to be appropriate, or in its best interest, whether or not such action would have an adverse effect on the Plan, or any rights awarded Participants under the Plan. No employee, beneficiary, or other person, shall have any claim against the Company or any Designated Subsidiary as a result of any such action.
(h)Section 16. The provisions and operation of the Plan are intended to result in no transaction under the Plan (excluding any sale of Shares acquired thereunder) being subject to (and not exempt from) the rules of Section 16 of the Exchange Act, to the extent such rules are or become applicable to the Company.
(i)Requirements of Law; Limitations on Awards.
(i.)The Plan, the granting, acceptance and exercise of options and the issuance of Shares under the Plan and the Company’s obligation to sell and deliver Shares upon the exercise of options to purchase Shares shall be subject to all Applicable Laws, and to such approvals by any governmental agencies or national securities exchanges as may be required.
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(ii.)If at any time the Committee shall determine, in its discretion, that the listing, registration and/or qualification of Shares upon any securities exchange or under any state, Federal or non-United States law, or the consent or approval of any governmental regulatory body, is necessary or desirable as a condition of, or in connection with, the sale or purchase of Shares hereunder, the Company shall have no obligation to allow the grant or exercise of any option under the Plan, or to issue or deliver evidence of title for Shares issued under the Plan, in whole or in part, unless and until such listing, registration, qualification, consent and/or approval shall have been effected or obtained, or otherwise provided for, free of any conditions not acceptable to the Committee.
(iii.)If at any time counsel to the Company shall be of the opinion that any sale or delivery of Shares pursuant to an option is or may be in the circumstances unlawful or result in the imposition of excise taxes on the Company, any Designated Subsidiary or any affiliate respectively thereof under the statutes, rules or regulations of any applicable jurisdiction, the Company shall have no obligation to make such sale or delivery, or to make any application or to effect or to maintain any qualification or registration under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or otherwise with respect to Shares or options, and the right to exercise any option under the Plan shall be suspended until, in the opinion of such counsel, such sale or delivery shall be lawful or will not result in the imposition of excise taxes on the Company, any Designated Subsidiary or any such affiliate.
(iv.)Upon termination of any period of suspension under Section 15(i)(iii), any option affected by such suspension which shall not then have expired or terminated shall be reinstated as to all Shares available before such suspension and as to the Shares which would otherwise have become available during the period of such suspension, but no suspension shall extend the term of any option.
(v.)The Committee may require each person receiving Shares in connection with any option under the Plan to represent and agree with the Company in writing that such person is acquiring such Shares for investment without a view to the distribution thereof, and/or provide such other representations and agreements as the Committee may prescribe. The Committee, in its absolute discretion, may impose such restrictions on the ownership and transferability of the Shares purchasable or otherwise receivable by any person under any option as it deems appropriate. Any such restrictions may be set forth in the applicable agreement, and the certificates evidencing such shares may include any legend that the Committee deems appropriate to reflect any such restrictions.
(j)Tax Qualification. Although the Company may endeavor to (1) qualify an option for favorable tax treatment under the laws of the United States or (2) avoid adverse tax treatment, 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. The Company shall be unconstrained in its corporate activities without regard to the potential negative tax impact on Participants under the Plan.
(k)Electronic Delivery. Any reference in the Plan or any related agreement to an agreement, document, statement, instrument or notice, whether written or otherwise, will include any agreement, document, statement, instrument or notice delivered electronically, filed publicly at www.sec.gov (or any successor website thereto) or posted on the Company’s intranet.
(l)Drafting Context; Captions. Except where otherwise indicated by the context, any masculine term used herein also shall include the feminine; the plural shall include the singular and the singular shall include the plural. The word “Section” herein shall refer to
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provisions of the Plan, unless expressly indicated otherwise. The words “include,” “includes,” and “including” herein shall be deemed to be followed by “without limitation” whether or not they are in fact followed by such words or words of similar import, unless the context otherwise requires. The headings and captions appearing herein are inserted only as a matter of convenience. They do not define, limit, construe, or describe the scope or intent of the provisions of the Plan.
(m)Effective Date. The Plan became effective on June 18, 2013 when it was approved by the stockholders of the Company at the Company’s annual meeting of stockholders. The first amendment and restatement of the Plan became effective as of December 19, 2018 upon its adoption by the Board. The second amendment and restatement of the Plan became effective as of May 15, 2020 upon its adoption by the Compensation Committee of the Board. The third amendment and restatement of the Plan was adopted by the Board on March 10, 2021 and approved by the stockholders of the Company on June 9, 2021 and became effective as of the first Trading Day of the first Exercise Period thereafter. The fourth amendment and restatement of the Plan was adopted by the Board on March 22, 2023, subject to the approval of the stockholders of the Company at the Company’s annual meeting of stockholders in 2023 and effective as of the first Trading Day of the first Exercise Period that occurs on or after the date of such 2023 stockholder approval (the “Effective Date”).

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EXHIBIT 10.3
EXPEDIA GROUP, INC.
2013 INTERNATIONAL EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN,
AS AMENDED AND RESTATED
1. Purpose. The purpose of the Plan is to provide incentive for present and future eligible Employees to acquire equity interests (or increase existing equity interests) in the Company through the purchase of Shares. The Plan is not intended to qualify as an “employee stock purchase plan” under Section 423 of the Code.
2. Definitions.
(a) “Applicable Exchange” means the Nasdaq Stock Market or such other securities exchange or inter-dealer quotation system as may at the applicable time be the principal market for the Shares.
(b) “Applicable Law” means the requirements relating to the administration of equity-based awards under state corporate laws, United States federal and state securities laws, the Code, the rules of the Applicable Exchange and the applicable laws of any non-U.S. jurisdiction where options are, or will be, granted under the Plan.
(c) “Applicable Percentage” means, with respect to each Exercise Period, 85% unless and until such Applicable Percentage is increased by the Committee, in its discretion, provided that any such increase in the Applicable Percentage with respect to a given Exercise Period must be established prior to the commencement of the Enrollment Period for such Exercise Period.
(d) “Board” means the Board of Directors of the Company.
(e) “Code” means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and any successor thereto. Reference to a specific section of the Code or United States Treasury Regulation thereunder will include such section or regulation, any valid regulation or other official applicable guidance promulgated under such section, and any comparable successor provision or other provision of any future legislation or regulation amending, supplementing or superseding such section or regulation.
(f) “Committee” means the committee of one or more directors appointed by the Board to administer the Plan as described in Section 13 or, in the absence of a committee, the Board.
(g) “Company” means Expedia Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation, or any successor thereto.
(h) “Company Transaction” has the meaning given such term in Section 12(b)(iii).
(i) “Compensation” means, with respect to each Participant for each pay period: base salary, wages, overtime, and shift premium paid to such Participant by the Company or a Designated Subsidiary. Except as otherwise determined by the Committee, “Compensation” does not include: (i) any amounts contributed by the Company or a Designated Subsidiary to any pension plan, (ii) any automobile, relocation or housing allowances, or reimbursement for any expenses, including automobile, relocation or housing expenses, (iii) any amounts paid as a bonus, including a starting bonus, referral fee, annual bonus, relocation bonus, or sales incentives or commissions, (iv) any amounts realized from the exercise of any stock options or other incentive awards, (v) any amounts paid by the Company or a Designated Subsidiary for other fringe benefits, such as health and welfare, hospitalization and group life insurance benefits, disability pay, or perquisites, or paid in lieu of such benefits, or (vi) other similar forms of extraordinary compensation.
(j) “Designated Countries” means the countries designated by the Board or the Committee in writing from time to time for the purposes of the Plan.
(k) “Designated Subsidiaries” means the Subsidiaries whose employees have been designated by the Board or the Committee in writing from time to time in its discretion as eligible to participate in the Plan.
(l) “Effective Date” means the date described in Section 15(m).
(m) “Employee” means any individual designated as an employee of a Designated Subsidiary on the payroll records thereof. For purposes of clarity, the term “Employee” shall not include the following, regardless of any subsequent reclassification as an employee by the Company or a Designated Subsidiary, any governmental agency, or any court: (i) any independent contractor; (ii) any consultant; (iii) any individual performing services for the Company or a Designated Subsidiary who has entered into an independent contractor or consultant agreement with the Company or a Designated Subsidiary; (iv) any individual performing services for the Company or a Designated Subsidiary under an independent contractor or consultant agreement, a purchase order, a supplier agreement or any other agreement that the Company or a Designated Subsidiary enters into for services; (v) any individual classified by the Company or a Designated Subsidiary as contract labor (such as contractors, contract employees, job



shoppers), regardless of length of service; and (vi) any leased employee. The Committee shall have discretion to determine whether an individual is an Employee for purposes of the Plan.
(n) “Enrollment Period” means the period during which an eligible Employee may elect to participate in the Plan, with such period occurring before the Entry Date of an Exercise Period, as prescribed by the Committee.
(o) “Entry Date” means the first Trading Day of each Exercise Period; provided, that in the case of an individual who becomes eligible to become a Participant under Section 3 after the first Trading Day of an Exercise Period (if applicable under the Exercise Periods established by the Committee pursuant to Section 4(b)), the term “Entry Date” shall mean the first Trading Day of the Purchase Period occurring on or after the day on which that individual becomes a Participant.
(p) “ESPP Brokerage Account” has the meaning given such term in Section 9(a).
(q) “Exchange Act” means the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, from time to time, or any successor law thereto, and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
(r) “Exercise Date” means the last Trading Day of each Purchase Period.
(s) “Exercise Period” means, subject to adjustment as provided in Section 4(b), the approximately three-month period beginning on: (i) March 1 of each year and ending the last day of May of such year, (ii) June 1 of each year and ending on the last day of August of such year, (iii) September 1 of each year and ending on the last day of November of such year or (iv) December 1 of each year and ending on the last day of February of the following year, until the Plan terminates.
(t) “Exercise Price” means the price per Share offered in a given Exercise Period determined as provided in Section 6(b).
(u) “Fair Market Value” means, if the Shares are listed on a national securities exchange, as of any given date, the closing price for a Share on such date on the Applicable Exchange, or if Shares were not traded on the Applicable Exchange on such measurement date, then on the closest preceding date on which Shares are so traded, all as reported by such source as the Committee may select. If the Shares are not listed on a national securities exchange, the Fair Market Value of a Share shall mean the amount determined by the Board in good faith.
(v) “Participant” means an Employee who is eligible to participate in the Plan under Section 3 and who has elected to participate in the Plan by enrolling as provided in Section 5 hereof.
(w) “Plan” means the Expedia Group, Inc. 2013 International Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as amended and restated, as in effect from time to time.
(x) “Plan Contributions” means, with respect to each Participant, the after-tax payroll deductions withheld from the Compensation of the Participant under the Plan and other additional payments that the Committee may permit a Participant to make, which are each contributed to the Plan for the Participant as provided in Section 7 hereof.
(y) “Purchase Period” means a period of time within an Exercise Period, as may be specified by the Committee in accordance with Section 4(b), generally beginning on the first Trading Day of each Exercise Period and ending on an Exercise Date. An Exercise Period may consist of one or more Purchase Periods.
(z) “Share” means a share of common stock, par value US$ 0.0001 per share, of the Company (including any new, additional or different stock or securities resulting from any change in capitalization pursuant to Section 12(b)).
(aa) “Subsidiary” means any corporation, partnership, joint venture or other entity in which the Company holds, directly or indirectly, an equity or voting interest of 50% or more, as determined by the Committee.
(bb) “Tax-Related Items” means any income tax, social insurance contributions, fringe benefit tax, payroll tax, payment on account or other tax-related items arising in relation to the Participant’s participation in the Plan.
(cc) Terminating Event” means a Participant ceases to be an Employee under any circumstances; provided, however, that, for purposes of the Plan, a Participant’s status as an Employee shall be considered to be continuing intact while such Participant is on military leave, sick leave, or other bona fide leave of absence approved by the Committee or the Participant’s supervisor. A transfer of a Participant’s employment between or among any Designated Subsidiaries (of the Plan or the U.S. Plan) shall be considered a Terminating Event.
(dd) “Trading Day” means a day on which the Applicable Exchange is open for trading.
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(ee) “U.S. Plan” means the Expedia Group, Inc. 2013 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, as in effect from time to time.
3. Eligibility.
(a) General Rule. Except as otherwise provided herein, all Employees shall be eligible to participate in the Plan.
(b) Exclusion. Notwithstanding Section 3(a), to the extent permitted by Applicable Law, the Committee, in its discretion, from time to time may, prior to an Entry Date determine that an Employee shall not be eligible to participate in an Exercise Period if, as of the Entry Date of such Exercise Period: (i) such Employee is an officer within the meaning of Rule 16a-1(f) or an executive officer within the meaning of Rule 3b-7, in each case under the Exchange Act, (ii) such Employee is not employed in a Designated Country or (iii) the Committee otherwise determines to exclude such Employee from eligibility to participate in the Plan.
4. Exercise Periods.
(a) In General. The Plan shall generally be implemented by a series of Exercise Periods, each of which lasts approximately three months, subject to Section 4(b) below. Unless and until the Committee determines otherwise in its discretion, each Exercise Period will consist of one approximately three-month Purchase Period, which will run simultaneously with the Exercise Period.
(b) Changes by Committee. The Committee shall have the authority to make changes to the occurrence, duration and/or the frequency of Exercise Periods, including, without limitation, to establish additional or alternative sequential or overlapping Exercise Periods, a different number of Purchase Periods within an Exercise Period, a different duration for one or more Exercise Periods or Purchase Periods or different commencement or ending dates for such Exercise Periods with respect to future Exercise Periods if any such change is announced prior to the scheduled beginning of the first Exercise Period to be affected. To the extent that the Committee establishes additional or overlapping Exercise Periods, the Committee will have discretion to structure an Exercise Period so that if the Fair Market Value of a Share on the first Trading Day of the Exercise Period in which a Participant is currently enrolled is higher than the Fair Market Value of a Share on the first Trading Day of any subsequent Exercise Period, the Company will automatically enroll such Participant in the subsequent Exercise Period and will terminate his or her participation in such original Exercise Period.
5. Participation. Employees meeting the eligibility requirements of Section 3 hereof may elect to participate in the Plan commencing on any Entry Date for the applicable Exercise Period by enrolling in the manner and/or through the website designated by the Company during the Enrollment Period. Notwithstanding the foregoing, eligible Employees who are citizens or residents of a jurisdiction may be excluded from the Plan if the grant of an option under the Plan or any offering to a citizen or resident of the jurisdiction is prohibited under the laws of such jurisdiction, or if the Committee has otherwise determined, in its sole discretion, that participation of such eligible Employee(s) is not advisable or practicable for any reason.
6. Grant of Option.
(a) Shares Subject to Option. On a Participant’s Entry Date, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 6(c), the Participant shall be granted an option to purchase on the subsequent Exercise Date (at the Exercise Price determined as provided in Section 6(b) below) up to a number of Shares determined by dividing such Participant’s Plan Contributions accumulated during the current Exercise Period prior to such Exercise Date and retained in the Participant’s account as of such Exercise Date by the Exercise Price; provided that the maximum number of Shares a Participant may purchase during any Exercise Period shall be that whole number of Shares determined by dividing US$25,000 by the Fair Market Value of a Share on the Entry Date of such Exercise Period; provided further that such maximum number of Shares may instead be established by the Committee as a fixed number or a different predetermined formula with respect to any Exercise Period prior to the Entry Date thereof. Unless otherwise determined by the Committee, no fractional Shares shall be issued or otherwise transferred upon the exercise of an option under the Plan.
(b) Exercise Price. The Exercise Price offered to each Participant in a given Exercise Period shall be no lower than the Applicable Percentage of the lesser of (i) the Fair Market Value of a Share on the Participant’s Entry Date or (ii) the Fair Market Value of a Share on the Exercise Date. Unless otherwise determined by the Committee, the Exercise Price shall be the Applicable Percentage of the Fair Market Value of a Share on the Exercise Date; provided that any change in the Exercise Price with respect to a given Exercise Period must be established prior to the commencement of the Enrollment Period for such Exercise Period.
(c) Limitations on Options that may be Granted. Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the contrary, (i) no Employee may participate in the Plan if such Employee, immediately after the applicable Entry Date, would
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be deemed for purposes of Section 423(b)(3) of the Code to possess five percent or more of the total combined voting power or value of all classes of stock of the Company or of any Subsidiary or of any other related corporation for purposes of Section 423 of the Code, and (ii) no Participant shall be granted an option under the Plan which permits his or her right to purchase Shares under the Plan to accrue at a rate which, when aggregated with such Participant’s rights to purchase shares under all other employee stock purchase plans of the Company and any Subsidiary, and any other related corporation for purposes of Section 423 of the Code, which are intended to qualify under Section 423 of the Code, exceeds US$25,000 in Fair Market Value (or such other limit, if any, as may be imposed by the Code) for each calendar year in which such option is outstanding at any time. For purposes of clause (ii) of the preceding sentence, the Fair Market Value of Shares purchased with respect to a given Exercise Period shall be determined as of the Entry Date for such Exercise Period. The limitations set forth in this Section 6(c) shall be applied in conformance with applicable regulations under Section 423(b)(8) of the Code.
(d) No Rights as Stockholder. A Participant shall have no voting, dividend or other stockholder rights in the Shares covered by his or her option until such option has been exercised in accordance with the provisions of the Plan and such Shares have actually been issued or otherwise transferred to such Participant or to an appointed nominee.
(e) Bookkeeping Accounts Maintained. Individual bookkeeping accounts shall be maintained for each Participant. All Plan Contributions from a Participant’s Compensation shall be credited to such Participant’s Plan account in the currency in which paid by the Designated Subsidiary until converted into U.S. dollars. Except as otherwise required by Applicable Law (i) all Plan Contributions made for a Participant shall be deposited in the general corporate accounts of the Company or the applicable Designated Subsidiary and may be used for any corporate purpose, and (ii) no interest shall accrue or be credited with respect to a Participant’s Plan Contributions, and neither the Company nor any Designated Subsidiary shall be obligated to segregate or otherwise set apart such Plan Contributions from any other corporate funds.
(f) Conversion into U.S. Dollars. For purposes of determining the number of Shares purchasable by a Participant, the Plan Contributions credited to such Participant’s Plan account during each Exercise Period shall be converted into U.S. dollars on the Exercise Date of each applicable Purchase Period for such Exercise Period on the basis of the exchange rate in effect on such date. The Committee shall have the discretion to determine the applicable exchange rate to be in effect for each Exercise Date by any reasonable method (including, without limitation, the exchange rate actually used by the Company for its intercompany financial transactions for the month of such purchase). Any changes or fluctuations in the exchange rate at which Plan Contributions are converted into U.S. dollars on each Exercise Date shall be borne solely by each applicable Participant.
7. Plan Contributions.
(a) Plan Contributions by Payroll Deduction. Contributions to the Plan shall be made by after-tax payroll deductions by the applicable Designated Subsidiary, unless the Committee authorizes contributions through another means.
(b) Plan Contributions Election. At the time a Participant enrolls with respect to an Exercise Period in accordance with Section 5, the Participant shall authorize Plan Contributions from his or her Compensation to be made on each payroll date during the portion of the Exercise Period that he or she is a Participant in an amount not less than 1% and not more than 15% of the Participant’s Compensation on each payroll date during the portion of the Exercise Period that he or she is a Participant, or such other maximum amount as may be determined by the Committee. The amount of Plan Contributions must be a whole percentage (e.g., 1%, 2%, 3%, etc.) of the Participant’s Compensation. The amount of Plan Contributions may be adjusted to the extent required by Applicable Law.
(c) Commencement of Plan Contributions. Except as otherwise determined by the Committee under rules applicable to all Participants, Plan Contributions shall commence with the earliest administratively practicable pay date on or after the Entry Date with respect to which the Participant enrolls in accordance with Section 5, or is deemed to have elected continued participation in the Plan with respect to succeeding Exercise Periods, in accordance with Section 7(d).
(d) Automatic Continuation of Plan Contributions for Succeeding Exercise Periods. With respect to each succeeding Exercise Period, a Participant shall be deemed (i) to have elected to participate in such immediately succeeding Exercise Period (and, for purposes of such Exercise Period, the Participant’s “Entry Date” shall be the first Trading Day of such succeeding Exercise Period), and (ii) to have authorized the same rate of Plan Contributions for such immediately succeeding Exercise Period as was in effect for the Participant immediately prior to the commencement of such succeeding Exercise Period, unless such Participant elects otherwise prior to the Entry Date of such succeeding Exercise Period, in accordance with Section 7(e) below or such Participant withdraws from the Plan in accordance with Section 11(a) hereof.
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(e) Change of Plan Contributions Election. A Participant may not decrease or increase the rate of his or her Plan Contributions during an Exercise Period. Using the authorization process designated for this purpose by the Company in accordance with Section 5 above authorizing a change in the rate of Plan Contributions, a Participant may decrease or increase the rate of his or her Plan Contributions (within the limitations of Section 7(b) above) commencing with the first Exercise Period that begins after the date of such authorization. Additionally, a Participant may withdraw from an Exercise Period as provided in Section 11(a) hereof. The Committee has the authority to change the foregoing rules.
(f) Automatic Changes in Plan Contributions. The Company may decrease a Participant’s rate of Plan Contributions, but not below zero percent, at any time during an Exercise Period to the extent necessary to comply with any Applicable Law or Section 6(a) or Section 6(c). Plan Contributions shall recommence at the rate provided in the Participant’s enrollment at the beginning of the first Exercise Period beginning in the following calendar year, unless the Participant’s participation in the Plan terminates as provided in Section 11.
8. Exercise of Options and Purchase of Shares.
(a) Exercise of Options. On each Exercise Date, the option for the purchase of Shares of each Participant who has not withdrawn from the Plan and whose participation in the Exercise Period has not otherwise terminated before the Exercise Date shall be automatically exercised to purchase the number of whole Shares determined by dividing (i) the total amount of the accumulated Plan Contributions, as converted into U.S. dollars, then credited to the Participant’s account under the Plan during the Exercise Period and not previously applied toward the purchase of Shares by (ii) the Exercise Price, subject to the limitations in Section 6(a) and Section 6(c) and any other limitation in the Plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Committee may permit the purchase of whole and fractional Shares upon exercise of options hereunder, commencing with the first Exercise Period that begins after the date of such Committee authorization.
(b) Pro Rata Allocation of Shares. If the aggregate number of Shares to be purchased by all Participants in the Plan and the U.S. Plan on an Exercise Date exceeds the number of Shares available as provided in Section 12(a), the Company shall make a pro rata allocation of the remaining Shares in as uniform a manner as practicable and as the Company determines to be equitable. Unless otherwise determined by the Committee, any fractional Share resulting from such pro rata allocation to any Participant shall be disregarded and shall not be issued.
(c) Delivery of Shares. As soon as practicable after each Exercise Date, the Company shall arrange the delivery of the Shares purchased by each Participant on such Exercise Date to a broker designated by the Company that will hold such Shares for the benefit of each such Participant; provided that the Company may arrange the delivery to a Participant of a certificate representing such Shares. Shares to be delivered to a Participant under the Plan shall be registered in the name of the Participant, or, if requested by the Participant, in the name of the Participant and his or her spouse, or, if applicable, in the names of the heirs of the Participant.
(d) Return of Cash Balance. Any cash balance remaining in a Participant’s Plan account following any Exercise Date shall be refunded, in the currency in which collected by the Designated Subsidiary, to the Participant as soon as practicable after such Exercise Date. However, if the cash balance to be returned to a Participant pursuant to the preceding sentence is less than the amount that would have been necessary to purchase an additional whole Share on such Exercise Date, the Company may arrange for the cash balance to be retained in the Participant’s Plan account and applied toward the purchase of Shares in the subsequent Exercise Period, as the case may be.
(e) Tax Withholding / Social Security. The Company, the Participant’s employer, any other Designated Subsidiary or affiliate of the Company, an applicable administrator, or any trustee of an applicable employee benefit trust may withhold any amount or make any arrangements which it considers necessary to satisfy any liability for Tax-Related Items which may arise from the grant, exercise, assignment, release or cancellation of options granted to Participant pursuant to the terms of the Plan. These arrangements may include the sale of Shares on behalf of the Participant, withholding from the Participant’s compensation or withholding by such other method deemed appropriate by the Company or applicable Designated Subsidiary.
(f) Expiration of Option. Any portion of a Participant’s option remaining unexercised after the end of the Exercise Period to which such option relates shall expire immediately upon the end of such Exercise Period.
(g) Provision of Reports to Participants. Unless otherwise determined by the Committee, each Participant who has exercised all or part of his or her option under the Plan shall receive, as soon as practicable after the Exercise Date, a report of such Participant’s Plan account setting forth the total Plan Contributions accumulated prior to such exercise, the number of Shares purchased, the Exercise Price for such Shares, the date of purchase and the cash balance, if any, remaining immediately after such purchase that is to be refunded or retained in the Participant’s Plan account pursuant to Section 8(d). The report pursuant to this Section 8(g) may be delivered in such form and by such means, including by electronic transmission, as the Company may determine.
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9. ESPP Brokerage Account; Required Holding Period.
(a) Deposit of Shares into ESPP Brokerage Account. Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Plan to the contrary, the Company may require that the Shares purchased on behalf of each Participant under the Plan shall be deposited directly into a brokerage account which the Company may establish for the Participant at a Company-designated brokerage firm (such an account, the “ESPP Brokerage Account”).
(b) Required Holding Period. The Shares deposited into a Participant’s ESPP Brokerage Account may not be transferred from the ESPP Brokerage Account or disposed of (whether electronically or in certificated form) or pledged until the required holding period, if any, for those Shares is satisfied. The Committee shall have discretion to determine whether a holding period shall apply with respect to Participants generally. Following expiration of any such required holding period, the Participant may sell Shares held in his or her ESPP Brokerage Account at any time (subject to the Expedia Securities Trading Policy and Applicable Law).
10. Transferability. Neither Plan Contributions credited to a Participant’s account nor any option or rights to exercise any option or receive Shares under the Plan may be assigned, transferred, pledged or otherwise disposed of in any way (other than by will or the laws of descent and distribution). Any attempted such assignment, transfer, pledge or other disposition shall be without effect, except that the Company may treat such act as an election to withdraw in accordance with Section 11(a).
11. Withdrawal; Terminating Event.
(a) Withdrawal. A Participant may withdraw from an Exercise Period at any time by giving written notice to the Company (or a person or firm designated by the Company) in the manner and/or through the website designated by the Company. A notice of withdrawal must be received no later than the deadline prescribed by the Company, which deadline may be changed from time to time with appropriate notice to Employees. Plan Contributions shall cease as soon as administratively practicable after receipt by the Company of the Participant’s notice of withdrawal, and, subject to administrative practicability, no further purchases shall be made for the Participant’s account. All Plan Contributions credited to such Participant’s account, if any, and not yet used to purchase Shares, shall be returned, in the currency in which collected by the Designated Subsidiary, to the Participant as soon as administratively practicable after receipt of the Participant’s notice of withdrawal. Such Participant’s unexercised options to purchase Shares pursuant to the Plan shall be automatically terminated. Plan Contributions will not resume on behalf of a Participant who has withdrawn from the Plan (a “Former Participant”) unless the Former Participant enrolls in a subsequent Exercise Period in accordance with Section 5 and subject to the restriction provided in Section 11(b), below.
(b) Effect of Withdrawal on Subsequent Participation. A Former Participant who has withdrawn from the Plan pursuant to Section 11(a) shall be eligible to participate in the Plan at the beginning of the next Exercise Period following the date the Former Participant withdrew, and the Former Participant must submit a new enrollment in accordance with Section 5 in order to again become a Participant.
(c) Terminating Event. If a Participant has a Terminating Event, (i) such individual may not make further Plan Contributions, (ii) any amount of cash then credited to his or her Plan account shall, as determined by the Committee, either be (A) promptly returned, in the currency in which it was collected by the Designated Subsidiary, to such individual following the date of such Terminating Event, or (B) used to purchase the number of Shares in accordance with and subject to Sections 8(a) through (c), and (e) through (g), and any cash balance remaining in such individual’s Plan account following such Exercise Date shall be promptly refunded, in the currency in which it was collected by the Designated Subsidiary, to such individual following the Exercise Date, and (iii) all Shares held in such Participant’s ESPP Brokerage Account shall continue to be held in such ESPP Brokerage Account unless the individual sells or transfers such Shares, subject to satisfaction of any required holding period as referenced in Section 9(b), provided that any such required holding period shall not apply in the case of a Terminating Event due to death. For the avoidance of doubt, in the event that the employment of a Participant is transferred, and such Participant becomes an employee of the Company or another Subsidiary (whether or not such Subsidiary is a Designated Subsidiary), such Participant shall have a Terminating Event.
12. Shares Issuable under the Plan.
(a) Number of Shares. Subject to adjustment as provided in Section 12(b), the maximum number of Shares that may be issued under the Plan and the U.S. Plan in the aggregate shall be 3,500,000 Shares, which reflects an increase of 1,000,000 over the number of Shares authorized under the Plan prior to the Effective Date. Such Shares issuable under the Plan may be authorized and unissued shares (which will not be subject to preemptive rights), Shares held in treasury by the Company, Shares purchased on the open market or by private purchase or any combination of the foregoing. Any Shares issued under the Plan shall reduce on a Share-for-Share basis the number of Shares available for subsequent issuance under the Plan and the U.S. Plan. If an outstanding option under the Plan
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or the U.S. Plan for any reason expires or is terminated or cancelled, the Shares allocable to the unexercised portion of such option shall again be available for issuance under the Plan or the U.S. Plan.
(b) Adjustments Upon Changes in Capitalization; Company Transactions.
(i) If the outstanding Shares are increased or decreased, or are changed into or are exchanged for a different number or kind of shares, including as a result of one or more mergers, reorganizations, restructurings, recapitalizations, reclassifications, stock splits, reverse stock splits, stock dividends or the like, or there occurs a separation, spin-off or other distribution of stock or property (including any extraordinary dividend, but excluding any ordinary dividends) affecting the Company, and without the Company’s receipt of consideration, then appropriate adjustments shall be made to the number and/or kind of shares available for issuance in the aggregate under the Plan and the U.S. Plan and under each outstanding option under the Plan and to the Exercise Price thereof, in each case as determined by the Committee, in its discretion, and the Committee’s determination shall be conclusive.
(ii) In the event of any proposed dissolution or liquidation of the Company, immediately prior to the consummation of such proposed action, any outstanding Exercise Period will terminate, and any Shares held in ESPP Brokerage Accounts, and all Plan Contributions credited to Participant Plan accounts and not used to purchase Shares, shall be distributed to each applicable Participant, unless otherwise provided by the Committee.
(iii) In the event of sale of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets, or a merger, amalgamation, consolidation, acquisition or sale or exchange of shares or similar event affecting the Company (each, a “Company Transaction”), then, as determined by the Committee, in its discretion, which determination shall be conclusive, either:
(A) each option under the Plan shall be assumed or an equivalent option shall be substituted by the Company’s successor corporation or a parent corporation (as defined in Section 424(e) of the Code) of such successor corporation, unless the Committee determines, in the exercise of its discretion, and in lieu of such assumption or substitution, to shorten the Exercise Period(s) then in progress by setting a new Exercise Date (the “New Exercise Date”). If the Committee shortens the Exercise Period(s) then in progress in lieu of assumption or substitution in the event of a Company Transaction, the Company shall notify each Participant in writing, prior to the New Exercise Date, that the Exercise Date for such Participant’s option has been changed to the New Exercise Date, and that such Participant’s option will be exercised automatically on the New Exercise Date, unless prior to such date the Participant has withdrawn from the Plan as provided in Section 11(a). For purposes of this Section 12(b), an option granted under the Plan shall be deemed to have been assumed if, following the Company Transaction, the option confers the right to purchase, for each Share subject to the option immediately prior to the Company Transaction, the consideration (whether stock, cash or other securities or property) received in the Company Transaction by holders of Shares for each Share held on the effective date of the Company Transaction (and if such holders were offered a choice of consideration, the type of consideration chosen by the holders of a majority of the outstanding Shares); provided, that if the consideration received in the Company Transaction was not solely common stock or Shares of the successor corporation or its parent corporation (as defined in Section 424(e) of the Code), the Committee may, with the consent of the successor corporation, provide for the consideration to be received upon exercise of the option to be solely common stock of the successor corporation or its parent corporation equal in fair market value to the per share consideration received by the holders of Shares in the Company Transaction; or
(B) the Plan shall terminate and any Shares held in ESPP Brokerage Accounts and all the Plan Contributions credited to Participant Plan accounts and not yet used to purchase Shares, shall be distributed to each applicable Participant.
(iv) In all cases, the Committee shall have discretion to exercise any of the powers and authority provided under this Section 12, and the Committee’s actions hereunder shall be final and binding on all Participants. Unless otherwise determined by the Committee, no fractional shares of stock shall be issued under the Plan pursuant to any adjustment authorized under the provisions of this Section 12.
13. Administration
(a) Committee as Administrator. The Plan shall be administered by the Committee. The Committee shall have all authority that may be necessary or helpful to enable it to discharge its responsibilities with respect to the Plan. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing sentences of this Section 13, subject to the express provisions of the Plan and Applicable Law, the Committee shall have full and exclusive discretionary authority to interpret and construe any and all provisions of the Plan and any agreements, forms, and instruments relating to the Plan; prescribe the forms and manner of any agreements, forms, and instruments, and all online enrollment, designation or communication, relating to the Plan; determine eligibility to participate in the Plan including which Subsidiaries shall be Designated Subsidiaries; adopt rules and regulations for administering the Plan, including in accordance with Section 13(b) hereof; adjudicate and determine all disputes arising under or in connection with the Plan;
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determine whether a particular item is included in “Compensation;” permit Plan Contributions in excess of the amount designated by a Participant in order to adjust for administrative errors in the Company’s processing of properly submitted enrollment agreements and/or changes in contribution amounts; retain and engage such third parties as it shall determine to assist with the administration of the Plan and make all other determinations necessary or advisable for the administration of the Plan. All decisions, actions and determinations by the Committee with respect to the Plan; any agreement, form or instrument relating to the Plan; or any operation or administration of the Plan shall be final, conclusive and binding on all persons.
(b) Non-U.S. Offerings. 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, regarding, without limitation, eligibility to participate, the definition of Compensation, handling of Plan Contributions, making of Plan Contributions (including, without limitation, in forms other than payroll deductions), establishment of bank or trust accounts to hold Plan Contributions, payment of interest, conversion of local currency, obligations to pay payroll tax, withholding procedures and handling of Share issuances, which may vary according to local requirements.
(c) Delegation. Subject to Applicable Law, the Committee may, in its discretion, from time to time, delegate all or any part of its responsibilities and powers under the Plan to any employee or group of employees of the Company or any Subsidiary or to any other person or body, and revoke any such delegation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Board, in its absolute discretion, may at any time and from time to time exercise any and all rights, duties and responsibilities of the Committee under the Plan, including, but not limited to, establishing procedures to be followed by the Committee.
14. Amendment, Suspension, and Termination of the Plan.
(a) Amendment of the Plan. The Board or the Committee may at any time, or from time to time, amend the Plan in any respect; provided that except as otherwise provided by Section 4(b) or Section 12(b), or to comply with any Applicable Law, no such amendment may make any change in any option theretofore granted which materially adversely affects the previously accrued rights of any Participant with respect to any such option without such Participant’s consent. To the extent necessary to comply with any Applicable Law, regulation or rule, the Company shall obtain stockholder approval of any such amendment.
(b) Suspension of the Plan. The Board or the Committee may, at any time, suspend the Plan; provided that the Company shall provide notice to the Participants prior to the effectiveness of such suspension. The Board or the Committee may resume the operation of the Plan following any such suspension; provided that the Company shall provide notice to the Participants prior to the date of termination of the suspension period. A Participant shall remain a Participant in the Plan during any suspension period (unless he or she withdraws pursuant to Section 11(a)), however no options shall be granted or exercised, and no Plan Contributions shall be made in respect of any Participant during the suspension period.
(c) Termination of the Plan. The Plan and all rights of Participants hereunder shall terminate on the earlier of:
(i) the Exercise Date at which Participants become entitled to purchase a number of Shares greater than the number of Shares remaining available for issuance under the Plan and the U.S. Plan pursuant to Section 12(a); or
(ii) such date as is determined by the Board in its discretion.
Notwithstanding the foregoing to the contrary, (i) the Board may at any time, with notice to Participants, terminate an Exercise Period then in progress and provide, in its discretion, that the outstanding balance of Plan Contributions credited to Participant Plan accounts and not yet used to purchase Shares shall either be (x) used to purchase Shares on an early Exercise Date established by the Board, or (y) distributed to the applicable Participants, and (ii) upon any termination of the Plan, any Exercise Period then in progress shall be treated as may be determined by the Board in accordance with clause (i) of this sentence, and any Shares held in ESPP Brokerage Accounts may be distributed to the applicable Participants.
15. Miscellaneous.
(a) Notices. All notices or other communications by a Participant to the Company under or in connection with the Plan shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given when received in the form specified by the Company at the location, or by the person or agent, designated by the Company for the receipt thereof.
(b) Expenses of the Plan. All costs and expenses incurred in administering the Plan shall be paid by the Company or a Designated Subsidiary, except that any stamp duties or transfer taxes applicable to participation in the Plan may be charged to the account of such Participant by the Company.
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(c) Rights of Participants.
(i) Rights or Claims. No person shall have any rights or claims under the Plan except in accordance with the provisions of the Plan and any applicable agreement thereunder. The liability of the Company or any Designated Subsidiary under the Plan is limited to the obligations expressly set forth in the Plan, and no term or provision of the Plan may be construed to impose any further or additional duties, obligations, or costs on the Company, any Designated Subsidiary or any other affiliate thereof or the Board or the Committee not expressly set forth in the Plan. The grant of any option under the Plan shall not confer any rights upon the Participant holding such option other than such terms, and subject to such conditions, as are specified in the Plan as being applicable to such option, or to all options. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, neither the existence of the Plan nor anything contained in the Plan or in any agreement thereunder shall be deemed to:
 
 (A)give any Participant the right to be retained in the service of the Company or any Designated Subsidiary, whether in any particular position, at any particular rate of compensation, for any particular period of time or otherwise;
 
 (B)restrict in any way the right of the Company or any Designated Subsidiary to terminate, change or modify any Participant’s employment at any time with or without cause;
 
 (C)constitute a contract of employment between the Company or any Designated Subsidiary and any Employee, nor shall it constitute a right to remain in the employ of the Company or any Designated Subsidiary;
 
 (D)give any Employee of the Company or any Designated Subsidiary the right to receive any bonus, whether payable in cash or in Shares, or in any combination thereof, from the Company and/or a Designated Subsidiary, nor be construed as limiting in any way the right of the Company and/or a Designated Subsidiary to determine, in its discretion, whether or not it shall pay any Employee bonuses, and, if so paid, the amount thereof and the manner of such payment; or
 
 (E)give any Employee any rights whatsoever with respect to any Shares or options except as specifically provided in the Plan and any applicable agreement thereunder.
(ii) Options. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, a Participant’s right or entitlement to purchase any Shares under the Plan shall only result from continued employment with the Company or any Designated Subsidiary.
(iii) No Effects on Benefits; No Damages. Any compensation received by a Participant under an option is not part of any (1) normal or expected compensation or salary for any purpose, as an employee or otherwise; (2) termination, indemnity, severance, resignation, redundancy, end of service payments; (3) bonuses; (4) long-service awards; (5) pension or retirement benefits or (6) similar payments under any laws, plans, contracts, policies, programs, arrangements or otherwise, in each case, otherwise payable or provided to such Participant. A Participant shall, by participating in the Plan, waive any and all rights to compensation or damages in consequence of termination of employment of such Participant for any reason whatsoever, whether lawfully or otherwise, insofar as those rights arise or may arise from such Participant ceasing to have rights under the Plan as a result of such termination of employment, or from the loss or diminution in value of such rights or entitlements, including by reason of the operation of the terms of the Plan or the provisions of any statute or law relating to taxation. No claim or entitlement to compensation or damages arises from the termination of the Plan or diminution in value of any option or Shares purchased under the Plan.
(iv) No Effect on Other Plans. Neither the adoption of the Plan nor anything contained herein shall affect any other compensation or incentive plans or arrangements of the Company or any Designated Subsidiary, or prevent or limit the right of the Company or any Designated Subsidiary to establish any other forms of incentives or compensation for their employees or grant or assume options or other rights otherwise than under the Plan.
(d) Participants Deemed to Accept Plan. By enrolling in the Plan and accepting any benefit thereunder, each Participant and each person claiming under or through any such Participant shall be conclusively deemed to have indicated their acceptance and ratification of, and consent to, all of the terms and conditions of the Plan and any action taken under the Plan by the Board, the Committee or the Company, in any case in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Plan.
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(e) Uncertificated Shares. To the extent that the Plan provides for issuance of certificates to reflect the transfer of Shares, the transfer of such Shares may nevertheless be effected on a uncertificated basis, to the extent not prohibited by Applicable Law. Notwithstanding any contrary Plan provisions prescribing the manner and form in which stock certificates may be issued and/or Shares may be held by or on behalf of Participants, the Company and any affiliate thereof shall have the right to make such alternative arrangements as they may, in their discretion, determine, and which may include the transfer of Shares and/or the issue of stock certificates to any nominee or trust or other third party arrangement established for the benefit in whole or in part of Participants.
(f) Governing Law. The Plan and each agreement thereunder shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware, excluding any conflicts or choice of law rule or principle that might otherwise refer construction or interpretation of the Plan to the substantive law of another jurisdiction. Participants are deemed to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the federal or state courts of the State of Delaware to resolve any and all issues that may arise out of or relate to the Plan or any related agreement.
(g) No Constraint on Corporate Action. Nothing contained in the Plan shall be construed to prevent the Company or any Designated Subsidiary from taking any corporate action (including the Company’s right or power to make adjustments, reclassifications, reorganizations or changes of its capital or business structure, or to merge or consolidate, or dissolve, liquidate, sell, or transfer all or any part of its business or assets) which is deemed by it to be appropriate, or in its best interest, whether or not such action would have an adverse effect on the Plan, or any rights awarded Participants under the Plan. No employee, beneficiary, or other person, shall have any claim against the Company or any Designated Subsidiary as a result of any such action.
(h) Section 16. The provisions and operation of the Plan are intended to result in no transaction under the Plan (excluding any sale of Shares acquired thereunder) being subject to (and not exempt from) the rules of Section 16 of the Exchange Act, to the extent such rules are or become applicable to the Company.
(i) Requirements of Law; Limitations on Awards.
(i) The Plan, the granting, acceptance and exercise of options and the issuance of Shares under the Plan and the Company’s obligation to sell and deliver Shares upon the exercise of options to purchase Shares shall be subject to all Applicable Laws, and to such approvals by any governmental agencies or national securities exchanges as may be required.
(ii) If at any time the Committee shall determine, in its discretion, that the listing, registration and/or qualification of Shares upon any securities exchange or under any state, Federal or non-United States law, or the consent or approval of any governmental regulatory body, is necessary or desirable as a condition of, or in connection with, the sale or purchase of Shares hereunder, the Company shall have no obligation to allow the grant or exercise of any option under the Plan, or to issue or deliver evidence of title for Shares issued under the Plan, in whole or in part, unless and until such listing, registration, qualification, consent and/or approval shall have been effected or obtained, or otherwise provided for, free of any conditions not acceptable to the Committee.
(iii) If at any time counsel to the Company shall be of the opinion that any sale or delivery of Shares pursuant to an option is or may be in the circumstances unlawful or result in the imposition of excise taxes on the Company, any Designated Subsidiary or any affiliate respectively thereof under the statutes, rules or regulations of any applicable jurisdiction, the Company shall have no obligation to make such sale or delivery, or to make any application or to effect or to maintain any qualification or registration under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or otherwise with respect to Shares or options, and the right to exercise any option under the Plan shall be suspended until, in the opinion of such counsel, such sale or delivery shall be lawful or will not result in the imposition of excise taxes on the Company, any Designated Subsidiary or any such affiliate.
(iv) Upon termination of any period of suspension under Section 15(i)(iii), any option affected by such suspension which shall not then have expired or terminated shall be reinstated as to all Shares available before such suspension and as to the Shares which would otherwise have become available during the period of such suspension, but no suspension shall extend the term of any option.
(v) The Committee may require each person receiving Shares in connection with any option under the Plan to represent and agree with the Company in writing that such person is acquiring such Shares for investment without a view to the distribution thereof, and/or provide such other representations and agreements as the Committee may prescribe. The Committee, in its absolute discretion, may impose such restrictions on the ownership and transferability of the Shares purchasable or otherwise receivable by any person under any option as it deems appropriate. Any such restrictions may be set forth in the applicable agreement, and the certificates evidencing such shares may include any legend that the Committee deems appropriate to reflect any such restrictions.
(j) Code Section 409A; Tax Qualification.
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(i) Code Section 409A. Options granted under the Plan are intended to be exempt from the application of Section 409A of the Code under the “short-term deferral” exception and any ambiguities shall be construed and interpreted in accordance with such intent. Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan to the contrary, if the Committee determines that an option granted under the Plan may be subject to Section 409A of the Code or that any provision of the Plan would cause an option under the Plan to be subject to Section 409A of the Code, the Committee may amend the terms of the Plan and/or of an outstanding option granted under the Plan, or take such other action the Committee determines is necessary or appropriate, in each case, without the Participant’s consent, to exempt any outstanding option or future option that may be granted under the Plan from or to allow any such options to comply with Section 409A of the Code, but only to the extent any such amendments or action by the Committee would not violate Section 409A of the Code. The Company will have no liability to a Participant or any other party if an option under the Plan 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 Committee with respect thereto.
(ii) Tax Qualification. Although the Company may endeavor to (1) qualify an option for favorable tax treatment or (2) avoid adverse tax treatment (including 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 15(j)(i) hereof. The Company shall be unconstrained in its corporate activities without regard to the potential negative tax impact on Participants under the Plan.
(k) Electronic Delivery. Any reference in the Plan or any related agreement to an agreement, document, statement, instrument or notice, whether written or otherwise, will include any agreement, document, statement, instrument or notice delivered electronically, filed publicly at www.sec.gov (or any successor website thereto) or posted on the Company’s intranet.
(l) Drafting Context; Captions. Except where otherwise indicated by the context, any masculine term used herein also shall include the feminine; the plural shall include the singular and the singular shall include the plural. The word “Section” herein shall refer to provisions of the Plan, unless expressly indicated otherwise. The words “include,” “includes,” and “including” herein shall be deemed to be followed by “without limitation” whether or not they are in fact followed by such words or words of similar import, unless the context otherwise requires. The headings and captions appearing herein are inserted only as a matter of convenience. They do not define, limit, construe, or describe the scope or intent of the provisions of the Plan.
(m) Effective Date. The Plan became effective on June 18, 2013 when it was approved by the stockholders of the Company at the Company’s annual meeting of stockholders. The first amendment and restatement of the Plan became effective as of December 19, 2018 upon its adoption by the Board. The second amendment and restatement of the Plan became effective as of May 15, 2020 upon its adoption by the Compensation Committee of the Board. The third amendment and restatement of the Plan was adopted by the Board on March 10, 2021 and approved by the stockholders of the Company on June 9, 2021 and became effective as of the first Trading Day of the first Exercise Period thereafter. The fourth amendment and restatement of the Plan was adopted by the Board on March 22, 2023, subject to the approval of the stockholders of the Company at the Company’s annual meeting of stockholders in 2023 and effective as of the first Trading Day of the first Exercise Period that occurs on or after the date of such 2023 stockholder approval (the “Effective Date”).
(o) Country Appendices. Notwithstanding any provision in the Plan to the contrary, the Board may determine that options shall be subject to special terms and provisions for each Designated Country. If the Participant relocates to a different Designated Country, the special terms and conditions for such country will apply to such Participant, to the extent the Company determines that the application of such terms and conditions is necessary or advisable to comply with local law or facilitate the administration of the Plan and provided the imposition of the term or condition will not result in any adverse accounting expense with respect to the option (unless the Company specifically determines to incur such expense).
(p) Imposition of other Requirements. The Company reserves the right to impose other requirements on each Participant’s participation in the Plan, and on any Shares acquired under the Plan, to the extent the Company determines it is necessary or advisable in order to comply with local law or facilitate the administration of the Plan, and to require Participant to sign any additional agreements or undertakings that may be necessary to accomplish the foregoing.
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