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10-K/A
HRG GROUP, INC. filed this Form 10-K/A on 01/27/2017
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Specified Payments”) in consideration for Executive’s release of claims against the Company Releasees (as defined below) and Executive’s agreeing to the covenants and obligations set forth in this Agreement:
(i) cash severance pay in the gross amount of $500,000, payable in a lump sum on the date that is ten (10) days following the Final Release Date; provided that in the event the consideration and revocation period applicable to the Second Release spans two calendar years and the Final Release Date occurs before December 22 of the first calendar year, payment will be made on January 1 of the second calendar year (for the avoidance of doubt, the payment specified in this Section 3(a)(i) shall only be paid if a Specified Event shall have occurred prior thereto; and no such payment shall be made if the Executive terminates his employment without Good Reason and/or the Company terminates Executive’s employment with the Company with Cause prior to the date the payment of the amounts specified in this Section 3(a)(i) are due);
(ii)    reimbursement for the cost of health insurance continuation coverage under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (“COBRA”), in excess of the cost of such benefits that active employees of the Company are required to pay, for a period of 12 months after the Final Release Date (or until Executive obtains individual or family coverage through another employer, if earlier) (the “COBRA Period”); provided that Executive elects COBRA coverage and subject to the conditions that: (A) Executive is responsible for promptly notifying the Company if Executive obtains alternative insurance coverage, (B) Executive will be responsible for the entire COBRA premium amount after the end of the COBRA Period; (C) if Executive declines COBRA coverage, then the Company will not make any alternative payment to Executive in lieu of paying for COBRA premiums, and (D) such COBRA reimbursement payments shall be paid on an after tax basis as additional taxable compensation to the Executive; provided, further, that the Company may elect at any time to pay any remaining COBRA reimbursement payments to Executive in a lump sum (for the avoidance of doubt, the payment specified in this Section 3(a)(ii) shall only be paid if a Specified Event shall have occurred; and no such payment shall be made if the Executive terminates his employment without Good Reason and/or the Company terminates Executive’s employment with the Company with Cause prior to the date the payment of the amounts specified in this Section 3(a)(ii) are due);
(iii) The 2016 Vesting Awards shall vest and settle on their own terms without requiring a Release or a Second Release from Executive (1) provided the Executive remains continuously employed with the Company through the vesting date specified in such Award, or (2) if vesting accelerates because of a Specified Event or (3) if vesting accelerates because of a Change in Control occurring prior to the vesting date specified in such Award. The 2017 Vesting Awards shall vest on the earliest to occur of (i) March 31, 2017, provided the Executive has been continuously employed until such date and has not been terminated for Cause by the Company and/or resigned his employment with the Company without Good Reason, and (ii) a Specified Event or (iii) a Change in Control, provided the Executive has been employed until such date and has not been terminated for Cause by the Company and/or resigned his employment with the Company without Good Reason prior to such date. It is acknowledged and agreed that Executive has elected to cause the Company, and the Company has agreed, to withhold or repurchase shares otherwise issuable or deliverable to Executive with respect to the 2016 Vesting Awards and the 2017 Vesting Awards with a Fair Market Value (as defined in the Equity Plan) equal to the statutory minimum tax withholding levels, subject to the Debt Limitations.
(iv)    a bonus for the Company’s 2016 fiscal year equal to eight million ($8,000,000) dollars, payable entirely in cash, within ten (10) days following the Initial Release Date;
(v)    a bonus for the Company’s 2017 fiscal year in an amount up to six million ($6,000,000) dollars, as follows:
(I) three million ($3,000,000) dollars payable on the earlier of (i) March 31, 2017 and (ii) the Announcement Date (as defined below) (for the avoidance of doubt, the payment specified in this Section 3(a)(v)(I) shall only be paid if the Executive remains continuously employed with the Company through such date or a Specified Event shall have occurred prior thereto; provided that no such payment shall be made if the Executive terminates his employment without Good Reason and/or the Company terminates the Executive’s employment with the Company with Cause prior to the date the payment of the amounts specified in this Section 3(a)(v)(I) are due);
(II) three million ($3,000,000) dollars (or, at the Company's sole discretion, more than three million ($3,000,000) dollars) (such payment, the “Transaction Bonus”) which Transaction Bonus shall vest on the earlier of (i) a Specified Event or (ii) the Transaction Bonus Payment Date; provided that the Company has not terminated

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