Item 5.02
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Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
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(d)
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Appointment of New Member of the Board of Directors
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On August 11, 2017,
the Board of Directors (the Board) of Altaba Inc. (the Company) appointed Richard L. Kauffman to fill a vacancy, and serve as a director of Altaba, effective immediately. The Board also appointed Mr. Kauffman as a member
of the Audit Committee of the Board, replacing Catherine J. Friedman.
There are no arrangements or understandings between
Mr. Kauffman and any other persons pursuant to which he was selected as a director, and Mr. Kauffman has no direct or indirect material interest in any transaction required to be disclosed pursuant to Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
Mr. Kauffman will participate in the Companys director compensation arrangements applicable to non-employee directors (except
that he is not currently eligible to participate in the Companys Long-Term Deferred Compensation Incentive Plan). Under the terms of those arrangements, Mr. Kauffman will receive a retainer of $350,000 per year for service on the Board
and an additional $20,000 per year for service on the Audit Committee of the Board, and Mr. Kauffman has committed to donating his director compensation to charity for as long as he continues to serve as an employee of the State of New York.
The Company will enter into its standard form of indemnification agreement with Mr. Kauffman.
The Company issued a press release on
August 15, 2017 announcing the appointment of Richard L. Kauffman to the Companys Board. A copy of the press release is attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this report.
(e)
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Long-Term Deferred Compensation Incentive Plan
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On August 9, 2017, the Board
approved the Altaba Inc. Long-Term Deferred Compensation Incentive Plan (the Plan), upon the recommendation of the Compensation Committee of the Board (the Compensation Committee), subject to stockholder approval. The Board
has determined to solicit stockholder approval of the Plan at the Companys 2017 annual stockholders meeting.
The Plan is
intended to attract, retain and appropriately incentivize the Companys executive officers and other key employees by providing them with grants of incentive cash awards and the non-employee members of the Board by providing them with the
opportunity to defer director fees into a deferral account under the Plan, in each case, as determined by the Compensation Committee pursuant to the terms of the Plan. The value of these incentive awards and deferral accounts under the Plan will be
determined based on measurement of the change in the Companys trading discount relative to the pre-tax value of the Companys net assets, as adjusted to eliminate any impact from share price movements of ordinary shares of Alibaba Group
Holding Limited and shares of common stock of Yahoo Japan Corporation, against certain targeted performance levels with resulting payout multipliers to be established by the Compensation Committee. Assuming the maximum payout multiplier applicable
to incentive
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awards, the maximum amount that may become payable to a participant in any fiscal year of the Company is $24,000,000 and the maximum amount that may become payable with respect to all awards
granted to participants under the Plan is $60,000,0000. Awards granted under the Plan are intended to qualify as performance-based compensation under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. The Plan will be administered
by the Compensation Committee.
On August 9, 2017, the Compensation Committee approved the grant of incentive awards to certain
executive officers and other key employees designated as participants under the Plan, subject to stockholder approval of the Plan, including Thomas J. McInerney (Chief Executive Officer), Arthur Chong (General Counsel and Secretary), Alexi A.
Wellman (Chief Financial and Accounting Officer) and DeAnn Fairfield Work (Chief Compliance Officer) with initial values equal to $6,000,000, $3,000,000, $1,500,000 and $1,000,000, respectively. Each incentive award vests over a three year period,
commencing on June 13, 2017 (the vesting commencement date), with 20%, 30% and 50% of the incentive award vesting on the first, second and third anniversaries of the vesting commencement date, respectively, subject to the
participants continued employment with the Company on each such date. No amounts will vest on either of the first two anniversaries of the vesting commencement date unless the payout multiplier (as described below) on each such date is at
least 2.0. In the event of a qualifying termination of the participants employment (either by the Company without cause or by the participant for good reason) or the occurrence of a change in control, any unvested portion of the incentive
award will fully accelerate and become payable in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Plan and the applicable award agreement. The amount of an incentive award that may become payable to a participant is subject to the achievement of a
reduction in the Companys trading discount (if any) and resulting payout multipliers and will be measured on the applicable vesting date, the date of the occurrence of a change in control or, in the case of a qualifying termination, the
greater of the amount measured as of the date of termination or the first anniversary of such date of termination, by reference to the table below:
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Current
Trading
Discount^
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Change from
Trading
Discount a/o
8/11/17
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Trading Discount
Reduction from
Baseline (27.2%)
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Payout
Multiplier*
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Trading Discount as of 8/11/17
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30.3
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%
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-3.1
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%
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28.0
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%
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2.3
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%
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-0.8
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%
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Baseline
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27.2
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3.1
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0.0
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%
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Threshold
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25.6
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%
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4.7
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%
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1.6
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%
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0.50
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23.4
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%
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6.9
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%
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3.8
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%
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1.00
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21.2
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%
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9.1
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%
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6.0
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%
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1.50
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19.0
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%
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11.3
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%
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8.2
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%
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2.00
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16.4
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%
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13.9
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%
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10.8
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%
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3.00
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14.5
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%
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15.8
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%
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12.7
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%
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3.50
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Maximum
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12.5
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17.8
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%
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14.7
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%
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4.00
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As defined in the Plan.
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*
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The payout multiplier is applied towards the vested portion of each participants initial award value. The payout multiplier is capped at 4.0 if the trading discount reduction from Baseline level is at least 14.7%.
If the trading discount reduction is less than 1.6% from Baseline level, the payout multiplier will be equal to zero. If the trading discount reduction falls between any two scheduled levels, the payout multiplier will be calculated using straight
line interpolation between such levels.
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Incentive awards, to the extent vested, will generally be paid to the participant
within thirty (30) days following the earlier to occur of the first anniversary of each applicable vesting date or a change in control, unless otherwise deferred in accordance with the Plan (as described below). Under certain conditions, a
participant may
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also be entitled to a catch-up payment if the participant is either employed with the Company as of a change in control or has experienced a qualifying termination within 12 months prior to such
change in control or, in the absence of a change in control, the fourth anniversary of the Plans effective date and each six-month anniversary thereafter, in each case, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Plan and the applicable award
agreement. A participant will also be entitled to receive interest credit (based on the applicable prime rate of interest reported in the Wall Street Journal) on any incentive awards that are paid more than 30 days following an applicable vesting
date. Each participant may elect to defer payment of his or her incentive award, to the extent vested, to the occurrence of the participants separation from service in lieu of receiving payment on the first anniversary of each vesting date.
Each independent director who is designated as a participant under the Plan shall be required to defer a portion of not less than 50% and
up to 100% of his or her director fees payable in cash for services rendered by such director during the period commencing as of the date of deferral and ending on the date of the third anniversary of the first regularly scheduled annual meeting of
the Companys stockholders. The amount of director fees so deferred will be credited to the participants deferral account under the Plan as of the regularly scheduled payment date of such fees. The participant will be fully vested in his
or her deferral account. The value of the participants deferral account will be subject to increase or decrease based on the achievement of a reduction in the Companys trading discount (if any) against Baseline level and resulting payout
multipliers as set forth in the deferral agreement entered into between the director and the Company and which will be measured on the applicable payment date. Distribution of the participants deferral account, as adjusted pursuant to the
terms of the Plan, will be made to the participant in a single lump sum cash payment upon the earlier to occur of (i) the participants separation from service for any reason or (ii) a change in control of the Company.
As previously disclosed, the Company informally submitted a draft no-action letter request to the staff (the Staff) of the
Securities and Exchange Commission. The Staff has informed the Company that it will not be providing formal guidance in the form of a no-action letter, without approving or dis-approving of the Plan. Accordingly, the Company has structured the Plan
with the advice of legal counsel in a manner designed to comply with the requirements of the Investment Company Act of 1940.
The
disclosure contained herein is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Plan, the forms of Grant Notice and Award Agreement for employees, and the Deferral Election Form for directors, copies of which are filed as Exhibit 10.1,
Exhibit 10.2 and Exhibit 10.3 hereto, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference.