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Annual Meeting April 17, 2008
March 10, 2008
Dear Shareholders:
You are invited to attend our 2008 Annual Meeting on Thursday,
April 17, 2008, at 10:00 a.m. at the Wilmington
Trust Plaza, Mezzanine Level, 301 West Eleventh
Street, Wilmington, Delaware.
The enclosed Notice of Annual Meeting and Proxy Statement
provide information about the governance of our Company and
describe the various matters to be acted upon during the
meeting. In addition, there will be a report on the state of our
Companys business and an opportunity for you to express
your views on subjects related to our operations.
The Annual Meeting gives us an opportunity to review the actions
our Company is taking to achieve our mission of maximizing
shareholder value. We appreciate your ownership of Wilmington
Trust, and I hope you will be able to join us on April 17 for
our Annual Meeting.
Sincerely,
Ted T. Cecala,
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
March 10, 2008
To the Holders of Common Stock of
Wilmington Trust Corporation
NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING
The Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Wilmington
Trust Corporation will be held on Thursday, April 17,
2008, at 10:00 a.m. local time, at the Wilmington
Trust Plaza, Mezzanine Level, 301 West Eleventh
Street, Wilmington, Delaware. The meeting will be held to
consider and act upon the election of directors, the approval of
our 2008 Employee Stock Purchase Plan and 2008 Long-Term
Incentive Plan, and other business that may properly come before
the meeting.
Holders of record of our common stock at the close of business
on February 19, 2008, are entitled to vote at the meeting.
This notice and the accompanying proxy materials are sent to you
by order of the Board of Directors.
Michael A. DiGregorio,
Secretary
2008 ANNUAL SHAREHOLDERS MEETING
PROXY STATEMENT
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Exhibit A
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Exhibit B
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Exhibit C
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GENERAL
INFORMATION
The enclosed proxy material is being sent at the request of our
Board of Directors to encourage you to vote your shares at our
Annual Shareholders Meeting (the Annual
Meeting) to be held on April 17, 2008. This proxy
statement contains information on matters that will be presented
at the Annual Meeting and is provided to assist you in voting
your shares.
Our Annual Report to Shareholders for 2007, containing
managements discussion and analysis of financial condition
and results of operations of our Company, its audited financial
statements, and this Proxy Statement are distributed together
beginning on or about March 21, 2008.
Who May
Vote
All holders of our common stock as of the close of business on
February 19, 2008 (the Record Date) are
entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting. Each share of stock is
entitled to one vote. As of the record date,
67,173,250 shares of our common stock were outstanding. A
plurality of the shares voted in person or by proxy is required
to elect directors. A majority of the shares voted in person or
by proxy is required to approve the other proposals in this
proxy statement. Abstentions and broker non-votes are not
counted in the vote.
How to
Vote
Even if you plan to attend the meeting, we encourage you to vote
by proxy. You may vote by proxy by returning the enclosed proxy
card (signed and dated) in the envelope provided.
You also may vote by telephone or by using the Internet. Please
refer to the instructions on your proxy card.
When you vote by proxy, your shares will be voted according to
your instructions. If you sign your proxy card or otherwise give
your proxy but do not specify how you want your shares to be
voted, they will be voted as the Board of Directors recommends.
You can change or revoke your proxy at any time before the polls
close at the Annual Meeting by:
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Notifying the Companys Secretary;
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Voting in person; or
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Returning a later-dated proxy card.
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You also can change or revoke your proxy at any time before
12:00 p.m., April 16, 2008, by telephone or by using
the Internet. Please refer to the instructions on your proxy
card.
If you are a present or former staff member and participate in
our Thrift Savings Plan, you will receive a voting instruction
card for shares you hold in that plan. The plan trustee will
vote according to the instructions on your proxy.
Proxy
Statement Proposals
Proposals other than to elect directors may be submitted by the
Board of Directors or shareholders to be included in our proxy
statement. To be considered for inclusion in the proxy statement
for our 2009 Annual Shareholders Meeting, shareholder
proposals must be received in writing by the Companys
Secretary no later than November 10, 2008. Those proposals
must include a brief description of the business to be brought
before the meeting, the shareholders name and address, the
number and class of shares the shareholder holds, and any
material interest the shareholder has in that business.
Shareholder
Nominations for Election of Directors
The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee recommends
nominees to the Board of Directors for election as directors at
the annual meeting. That committee will consider nominations
submitted by shareholders of record for our 2009 Annual
Shareholders Meeting and received by the Companys
Secretary by February 17, 2009. Nominations must include
the information required under Proxy Statement
Proposals above as well as the nominees name and
address, a representation that the shareholder is a recordholder
of the Companys stock or holds the Companys stock
through a broker and intends to appear in person or by proxy at
the 2009 Annual Meeting to nominate a person, information
regarding the nominee that would be required to be included in
the Companys proxy statement, a description of any
arrangement or understanding between the shareholder and that
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nominee, and the written consent of the nominee to serve as a
director if elected.
Proxies
Your completed proxy card instructs David R. Gibson, the
Companys Executive Vice President and Chief Financial
Officer, and Michael A. DiGregorio, the Companys Senior
Vice President, Secretary, and General Counsel, to vote as
instructed the shares of our stock for which they receive
proxies. In addition, your signed proxy card gives them
direction to vote on any other matter properly brought before
the Annual Meeting.
Solicitation
of Proxies
The Company will pay its costs relating to the solicitation of
proxies. We have retained Morrow and Co., Inc. to assist in
soliciting proxies at an estimated cost of $7,500 plus
reasonable expenses. Proxies may be solicited by officers,
directors, and staff members of the Company personally, by mail,
by telephone, or by other electronic means. The Company will
also reimburse brokers, custodians, nominees, and fiduciaries
for reasonable expenses in forwarding proxy materials to
beneficial owners of our stock.
Secrecy
in Voting
As a matter of policy, we hold confidential proxies, ballots,
and voting tabulations that identify individual shareholders.
These documents are available for examination only by Wells
Fargo Bank, N.A., our tabulation agents. The identity of the
vote of any shareholder is not disclosed except as may be
necessary to meet legal requirements.
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Board of
Directors
Governance
of the Company
Summary
of Corporate Governance Principles
This summary of the Companys corporate governance
principles describes certain of our Boards corporate
governance practices. These practices assist our Board in
carrying out its responsibilities effectively. The Board reviews
these Guidelines periodically and may modify them as appropriate.
The Board
Responsibility
The Board has responsibility for broad corporate policy and
overall performance of the Company through oversight of
management to enhance the Companys long-term value for our
shareholders.
Role
In addition to the general oversight of management and the
Companys business performance, the Board provides input
and perspective in evaluating alternative strategic initiatives;
reviews and, where appropriate, approves fundamental financial
and business strategies and major corporate actions; ensures
processes are in place to maintain the integrity of the
executive management team; evaluates our executive management
team; and assists in succession planning for key executive
positions.
Duties
Our directors are expected to expend sufficient time, energy,
and attention to assure diligent performance of their
responsibilities. Directors will attend meetings of the Board
and its committees on which they serve, review materials
distributed in advance of the meetings, and make themselves
available for periodic updates and briefings with management.
Leadership
The positions of Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive
Officer are held by Mr. Cecala.
Independence
The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee as well as the
Board at least annually review relationships that directors have
with the Company to determine whether there are any material
relationships that would preclude a director from being
independent. A candidate is not independent if:
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The director or any member of his or her immediate family is a
current or past executive officer of the Company;
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(a) The director is a current employee of the independent
registered public accounting firm of the Company; (b) the
director or any member of his or her immediate family is a
current partner of that firm; (c) any immediate family
member of the director is a current employee of that firm who
participates in the firms audit, assurance, or tax
compliance practice; or (d) the director or an immediate
family member was within the last three years a partner or
employee of that firm and personally worked on the
Companys audit within that time;
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The director has served as a consultant to the Company within
the last three years;
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Any of the Companys executive officers has served on the
Compensation Committee of the company by which the director is
employed within the last three years;
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Loans to the director and his or her affiliates exceed fifty
percent (50%) of the loan-to-one borrower limit of Wilmington
Trust Company, the Companys principal banking subsidiary
(WTC);
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The director or any member of his or her immediate family
received more than $100,000 in direct compensation, other than
directors fees, from the Company within any of the last
three years;
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The Companys total payments to or from a firm that employs
the director or for which his or her immediate family member is
an executive officer exceeded the greater of $1 million or
1% of the firms gross revenues within any of the last
three years; or
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The Companys contributions to a charitable organization
that employs the director exceeded $200,000 within any of the
last three years.
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These standards are consistent with the listing standards of the
New York Stock Exchange, the stock exchange on which our shares
trade. Under these standards, Mss. Burger, Krug, Rollins, and
Whiting and Messrs. du Pont, Elliott, Foley, Mears, Mobley,
Roselle, Sockwell, and Tunnell are independent. In reaching this
determination, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
considered the services the Corporation provides for
subsidiaries of ITT Corporation, of which Mr. Foley is Senior
Vice President. Accordingly, all of the members of the Audit,
Compensation, and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees
are independent.
We post these independence standards on our Web site at
www.wilmingtontrust.com under Investor
Relations Corporate Governance.
In addition, no member of the Audit Committee or his or her
immediate family may have received any consulting, advisory, or
other compensatory fee, other than directors fees, from
the Company in its most recent fiscal year.
Qualifications
Directors are selected for their integrity and character, sound,
independent judgment, breadth of experience, insight and
knowledge, and business acumen. Leadership skills, business
experience, and diversity are among the relevant criteria, which
may vary over time depending on the Boards needs. The
Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee considers
candidates with these qualifications for recommendation to the
full Board for approval.
The Board does not limit the number of other public company
boards on which a director may serve.
In general, no director may stand for reelection to the Board
after reaching age 69. The Board may in unusual
circumstances ask a director to stand for reelection after the
prescribed retirement date. A staff member director who has
served as the Chief Executive Officer retires from the Board
when retiring from employment with the Company.
Orientation
and Continuing Education
New directors are provided an orientation process to become
familiar with the Company and its strategic plans and
businesses, significant financial matters, core values and
ethics, compliance programs, corporate governance practices, and
other key policies and practices, through a review of a variety
of printed materials and meetings with senior executives. On a
periodic basis, the Board is provided with continuing education
relevant to its duties and responsibilities.
Compensation
The Board believes that compensation for outside directors
should be competitive. Our common stock is a key component, with
payment of a portion of director compensation in the form of our
stock and/or
phantom stock units. Directors also receive stock options from
the Company from time to time. The Compensation Committee
reviews the level and form of director compensation periodically
and, if appropriate, proposes changes for the Boards
consideration. See Director Compensation in 2007.
Attendance
at Annual Shareholders Meeting
All of our directors attended last years annual
shareholders meeting.
Annual
Self-Evaluation
The Board and each of the Audit, Compensation, and Nominating
and Corporate Governance Committees makes an annual
self-evaluation of its performance, with a particular focus on
overall effectiveness.
Access
to Management and Advisors
Directors have access to the Companys management, and are
encouraged to visit the Companys facilities. The Board and
its committees may retain outside legal, financial, or other
advisors.
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Interaction
with the Investment Community, Media, and Others
The Board believes that management generally should speak for
the Company and recommends that directors refer inquiries to the
Company.
Board Meetings
Selection
of Agenda Items
The Chairman of the Board prepares the initial draft of the
agenda for Board meetings. This is provided to the directors at
least one month prior to the Board meeting, and they are
encouraged to suggest items for inclusion on the agenda and may
raise subjects not specifically on the agenda.
Attendance
of Senior Executives
The Board welcomes regular attendance of the Companys
senior executives at Board meetings to participate in
discussions. Presentation of matters to be considered by the
Board are generally made by the responsible executives and their
staff.
Executive
Sessions
Board meetings regularly include an executive session of all
non-management directors. The chair of the Nominating and
Corporate Governance Committee leads these executive sessions.
Interested parties may communicate directly with the chair of
the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee as well as the
Companys other independent directors at
www.ethicspoint.com.®
All such communications are provided to the Companys
General Counsel and the chair of the Audit Committee; those
addressed to individual directors or the Board generally will be
provided directly to those directors, and those involving human
resources-related issues also are provided to the Companys
senior management.
Leadership Assessment
Succession
Planning
The Board has responsibility for selecting the Chief Executive
Officer and assisting in planning for succession of members of
the Companys executive management team. To assist the
Board, the Chief Executive Officer periodically provides the
Board with an assessment of certain of the Companys senior
executives and their potential to succeed to the position of
Chief Executive Officer. The Chief Executive Officer also
provides the Board with an assessment of potential successors to
other key positions within the Company.
Evaluation
and Compensation of the Chief Executive Officer
Through an annual process, outside directors evaluate the Chief
Executive Officers performance and the Compensation
Committee sets his compensation.
Stock
Ownership Guidelines
Each of our directors is required to own 4,000 shares of
our stock, and each of our senior officers is required to own a
number of shares of our stock with a value equal to a multiple
of his or her base salary, depending on the officers
level, within four years after first becoming a director or
senior officer. These Stock Ownership Guidelines are posted on
our Web site at www.wilmingtontrust.com under
Investor Relations Corporate Governance.
Code
of Conduct and Ethics
The Company has adopted a Code of Conduct and Ethics for all of
its directors and staff members, including its executive
officers. This Code is posted on our Web site at
www.wilmingtontrust.com under Investor
Relations Corporate Governance, and is
available in print to any shareholder who requests it. The
Company will post changes to and waivers of any provisions of
the Code of Conduct and Ethics applicable to these directors and
executive officers on its Web site promptly.
The full text of our corporate governance principles is posted
on our Web site at www.wilmingtontrust.com under
Investor Relations Corporate Governance,
and is available in print to any shareholder who
requests it.
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Committees
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Monitoring the quality and integrity of the
Companys accounting policies, financial statements,
disclosure practices, and compliance with legal and regulatory
requirements
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Overseeing the independence and performance of the
Companys internal auditor and independent registered
public accounting firm
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Reviewing reports of governmental agencies
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Perparing a report on audit matters and recommending
that that report be filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (the SEC)
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All members of the Audit Committee are independent directors.
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Overseeing our compensation philosophy
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Reviewing, evaluating, and setting compensation of
and benefits provided to our executive officers and reporting to
the Board of Directors concerning its evaluation
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Providing counsel and making recommendations to the
Chairman of the Board and the full Board of Directors with
respect to the performance of the Chairman of the Board and
Chief Executive Officer
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Administering the Companys Executive Incentive
Plan, stock purchase and stock option plans, and the
Directors Deferred Fee Plan
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Advising on compensation generally, including
salaries and employee benefits
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Recommending compensation to be paid to Wilmington
Trusts directors
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Preparing a report on executive compensation matters
and recommending to the Board of Directors that that report be
filed with the SEC
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Recommending candidates for membership on the Board
of Directors and its committees
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Overseeing succession planning for the
Companys executive management
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Each of these committees charters is posted on our Web
site at www.wilmingtontrust.com under Investor
Relations Corporate Governance, and is
available in print to any shareholder who requests it. Our Board
of Directors appoints each committees members and reviews
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Committee
Membership
The following chart provides information about Board committee
membership and the number of meetings that each committee held
in 2007.
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** Committee member through April 2007, when the
Boards committees were reappointed.
Directors fulfill their responsibilities not only by attending
Board and committee meetings, but also by communicating with the
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer and other
members of management relative to matters of mutual interest and
concern to the Company. In 2007, eight meetings of the Board of
Directors were held. Mr. Elliott attended less than 75% of
the meetings of the Board and the committees on which he served
in 2007.
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AUDIT
MATTERS
Audit Committee Report.
The Audit Committee provides the following report with respect
to the Companys audited financial statements for the
fiscal year ended December 31, 2007:
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The Audit Committee has reviewed and discussed with management
the Companys fiscal 2007 audited financial statements;
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The Audit Committee has discussed with the Companys
independent registered public accounting firm, KPMG LLP, the
matters required to be discussed by Statement on Auditing
Standard No. 114 and Staff Accounting
Bulletin No. 99;
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The Audit Committee has received the written disclosures and
letter from KPMG required by Independence Standards Board
No. 1, relating to the auditors independence from the
Company and its related entities, and has discussed with the
auditors their independence from the Company; and
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Based on the review and discussions referred to above, the Audit
Committee has recommended to the Board of Directors that the
fiscal 2007 audited financial statements be included in the
Companys Annual Report on
Form 10-K
for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007.
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Submitted by the Audit Committee of the Companys Board of
Directors:
R. Keith Elliott, Chair
Donald E. Foley
Gailen Krug
David P. Roselle
Robert W. Tunnell Jr.
All of the Committees members are independent of the
Company and are financially literate, and at least one member of
the Committee has financial management expertise. In addition,
the Companys Board of Directors has determined that
Messrs. Elliott, Foley, and Tunnell and Ms. Krug qualify as
audit committee financial experts for purposes of the Securities
and Exchange Commissions rules. However, as those rules
provide, none of those Committee members is thereby deemed to be
an expert for any purpose under the securities laws
or has any duty, obligation, or liability greater than the
duties, obligations, and liabilities he or she would have as a
member of the Audit Committee and the Board of Directors in the
absence of that designation. In addition, the designation of
those Committee members as audit committee financial experts
does not affect the duties, obligations, or liabilities of any
other member of the Audit Committee or the Board of Directors.
While the Audit Committee oversees the Companys financial
reporting process for the Board of Directors consistent with
that Committees charter, the Companys management has
primary responsibility for this process and for the preparation
of the Companys consolidated financial statements in
accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting
principles. The responsibility for the completeness and accuracy
of the Companys financial statements rests with its
management. In addition, our independent registered public
accounting firm and not the Audit Committee is responsible for
auditing those financial statements. None of the
Committees members is a certified public accountant, and
each member of the Committee is entitled to rely on the
integrity of persons and organizations within and outside the
Company from which he or she receives information and the
accuracy of the financial and other information provided to the
Committee.
The Audit Committee or the Chair of the Audit Committee
pre-approves audit, review, and attest engagements and
permissible non-audit services the Companys independent
registered public accounting firm provides, or those services
are performed in accordance with pre-approval policies and
procedures the Audit Committee has established. The
Companys policies with respect to the approval and
pre-approval of services the independent registered public
accounting firm provides are reflected in the Independent
Registered Public Accounting Firm Services Policy the Audit
Committee has adopted and which is attached to this proxy
statement as part of Exhibit A.
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Audit,
Audit-Related, Tax, and All Other Fees
The following table sets forth the aggregate fees for
professional services rendered by KPMG to the Company for
calendar years 2007 and 2006.
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2007
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2006
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$
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2,406,693
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$
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2,110,775
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Audit Related(2)
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$
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276,920
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$
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298,090
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Tax Fees(3)
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$
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49,210
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$
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20,810
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All other fees
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$
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$
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$
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2,732,823
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2,429,675
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These are fees paid for professional services rendered for the
audit of the Companys annual consolidated financial
statements and internal controls, for the reviews of the
consolidated financial statements included in the Companys
quarterly reports on
Form 10-Q,
and for services normally provided in connection with statutory
or regulatory filings or engagements.
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These are fees paid for assurance and related services and
consisted principally of: audits of financial statements of
employee benefit plans, common trust funds, and the
Companys broker-dealer and other subsidiaries.
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These are fees paid for professional services rendered for tax
advice and consulting and tax preparation work for the
Companys international subsidiaries. |
The Audit Committee has considered whether the provision of the
foregoing audit, audit-related, and tax services is compatible
with maintaining KPMGs independence, and believes that it
is.
Independence and Audit Committee Charter.
Each member of the Audit Committee is independent
under the definition of independence contained in the New York
Stock Exchanges current listing standards. The Board of
Directors has adopted a written Audit Committee Charter.
Representatives of KPMG are expected to be present at our Annual
Meeting, will have an opportunity to make a statement if they
desire to do so, and are expected to be available to respond to
appropriate questions.
PROPOSALS YOU
MAY VOTE ON
There are five nominees in the Companys Class of 2011 for
election as directors this year. Detailed information on each is
provided below. Each class of directors is elected for a
three-year term. If any director is unable to stand for
re-election, your Board may reduce its size or designate a
substitute.
If a substitute is designated, proxies voting on the original
director candidate will be cast for the substituted candidate.
Your
Board unanimously recommends a vote FOR each of these
directors.
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Nominee
Biographies
Class of 2011
Voting is for this Class
Carolyn S. Burger, Age 67
Director since 1991
Ms. Burger was a principal in CB Associates, Inc., a
consulting firm specializing in legislation, technology
deployment for senior executives, and executive coaching, from
1996 through 2002. She served as President and Chief Executive
Officer of Bell Atlantic Delaware, Inc. from 1991 to
1996.
Robert V.A. Harra Jr., Age 58
Director since 1996
Mr. Harra has served as a director, President, and Chief
Operating Officer of the Company since 1996.
Rex L. Mears, Age 66
Director since 1992
Mr. Mears has served as President of Ray S. Mears and Sons,
Inc., a farming corporation, since 1967.
Robert W. Tunnell Jr., Age 53
Director since 1992
Mr. Tunnell became managing partner of Tunnell Companies,
an owner and developer of real estate, in 1981.
Susan D. Whiting, Age 51
Director since 2005
Ms. Whiting has served as Executive Vice President of the
Nielsen Company and Chairman of Nielsen Media Research, Inc.
since 2006. She previously served as President of Nielsen Media
Research, Inc. from 2001 to 2006.
The following individuals currently serve as directors in the
two other classes. Their terms will end at the annual
shareholders meetings in 2009 and 2010, respectively.
Class of
2009 One Year Term Remaining
This Class was Elected at the 2006 Annual Shareholders
Meeting
Ted T. Cecala, Age 58
Director since 1996
Mr. Cecala became a director, Chairman of the Board, and
Chief Executive Officer of the Company and WTC in 1996.
Mr. Cecala also serves as a member of the Board of Managers
of each of Cramer Rosenthal McGlynn, LLC and Roxbury Capital
Management, LLC, a member of the Board of Trustees of WT Mutual
Fund, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Federal
Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
Thomas L. du Pont, Age 59
Director since 2006
Mr. du Pont is Chairman and Publisher of DuPont Publishing,
Inc., a fully integrated publisher of specialty marketplace
magazines featuring luxury lifestyle products for sale, which
was founded in 1984.
Donald E. Foley, Age 56
Director since 2006
Mr. Foley has been Senior Vice President, Treasurer, and
Director of Taxes at ITT Corporation, a diversified manufacturer
of electrical, defense, fluid technologies, and other industrial
products, since 2003. He has served as Vice President,
Treasurer, and Director of Taxes of that company since 2000.
David P. Roselle, Age 68
Director since 1991
Mr. Roselle served as President of the University of
Delaware from 1990 through 2007. He serves as a director of
OCLC, Inc. and Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Delaware.
Class of
2010 Two Year Term Remaining
This Class was Elected at the 2007 Annual Shareholders
Meeting
R. Keith Elliott, Age 65
Director since 1997
Mr. Elliott is retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
of Hercules Incorporated. From 1991 through April 2000, he
served that company as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
President
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and Chief Executive Officer, President and Chief Operating
Officer, and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial
Officer. He is the lead director of Checkpoint Systems, Inc., a
director of QSGI, Inc., and a director of The Institute for
Defense Analyses.
Gailen Krug, Age 53
Director since 2004
Ms. Krug has served as Chief Investment Officer and Vice
President of Waycrosse, Inc., a private investment company that
oversees two globally diversified portfolios of financial
assets, since 1999.
Stacey J. Mobley, Age 62
Director since 1991
Mr. Mobley has served as Senior Vice President, General
Counsel, and Chief Administrative Officer of E.I. du Pont de
Nemours and Company since 2000.
Michele M. Rollins, Age 62
Ms. Rollins has served as Chairman of Rollins Jamaica,
Ltd., the holding company of Rose Hall, Ltd. (Rose
Hall), since 2000. Rose Hall owns a variety of hotel,
retail, and housing developments and golf courses in Jamaica.
Oliver R. Sockwell, Age 64
Mr. Sockwell most recently served as
Executive-in-Residence
at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business from 1998
to 2003. Previously, he served as President and Chief Executive
Officer of the Construction Loan Insurance Corporation and its
subsidiary Connie Lee Insurance Company, from 1987 until 1997.
He also is a director of R. R. Donnelley & Sons
Company and Liz Claiborne, Inc.
Executive
Officers Who Are Not Directors
The following contains information about the Companys
executive officers who are not directors.
Robert M. Balentine, Age 50
Executive officer since January 2008
Mr. Balentine became an Executive Vice President of the
Company in January 2008. He has also served as Chief Executive
Officer of Wilmington Trust Investment Management, LLC
(WTIM) since 2006. From 2005 to 2006, he served as
President and Chief Executive Officer of WTIM; from 2002 to
2005, he served as Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive
Officer, and Treasurer of Balentine & Company, LLC,
WTIMs predecessor.
Michael A. DiGregorio, Age 61
Executive officer since 2003
Mr. DiGregorio became a Senior Vice President, Secretary,
and General Counsel of the Company and of WTC in 2003. He
previously served as Vice President and Secretary of the Company
from 2001 to 2003.
William J. Farrell II, Age 49
Executive officer since 2005
Mr. Farrell became an Executive Vice President of the
Corporation and WTC in 2002. In 2005, he assumed oversight of
WTCs Corporate Client Services Department.
David R. Gibson, Age 50
Executive officer since 1992
Mr. Gibson became an Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer of the Company and of WTC in 2002.
Mark A. Graham, Age 46
Executive officer since January 2008
Mr. Graham became an Executive Vice President of the
Company in January 2008. He previously served as
President Mid Atlantic for Wilmington Trust FSB
from 2007 to 2008 and as President of Wilmington Trust of
Pennsylvania from 2001 to 2007.
Kevyn N. Rakowski, Age 54
Executive officer since 2006
Ms. Rakowski became a Senior Vice President and Controller
of the Company in 2006. She previously served as Vice President
and Controller of Marlin Leasing Corporation from June 2004 to
April 2006 and as Director of Accounting and Reporting for
Infrasource, Inc. from 2000 to 2004.
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Ownership
of Wilmington Trust Stock
The following table includes shares in the Company beneficially
owned by each director and nominee, each executive officer named
in the Summary Compensation Table on page 21, and by all
directors and executive officers as a group as of
January 31, 2008.
Under the SECs rules, beneficial ownership
includes shares for which an individual, directly or indirectly,
has or shares voting or investment power, whether or not the
shares are held for the individuals benefit.
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Restricted
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Amount and Nature of Beneficial Ownership
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Total
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Class
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Units(9)
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Units(10)
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Voting and/or
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Investment
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Right to
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Direct(1)
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Power(6)
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Acquire(8)
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C. S. Burger
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6,499
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23,500
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29,999
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T. T. Cecala
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374,448
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601,826
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976,274
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1.4527
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M.A. DiGregorio
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19,527
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36,000
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55,527
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T. L. du Pont
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358
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23,200
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1,000
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24,558
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R. K. Elliott
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5,743
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23,500
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29,243
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3,143
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740
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W. J. Farrell
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81,728
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177,000
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258,728
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D. E. Foley
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482
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793
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D. R. Gibson
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57,735
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96
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157,000
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214,831
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R.V.A. Harra Jr.
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337,623
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1,587
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290,000
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629,210
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G. Krug
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1,621
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500
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4,000
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6,121
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1,198
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10,345
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23,500
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35,043
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S. J. Mobley
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5,477
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23,500
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28,977
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6,819
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2,100
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M. M. Rollins
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3,000
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3,000
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D. P. Roselle
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10,166
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23,500
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33,666
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O. R. Sockwell
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R. W. Tunnell Jr.
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79,599
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345,147
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23,500
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448,246
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S. D. Whiting
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1,497
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1,497
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(20 persons)
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1,350,074
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782,395
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1,530,966
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3,633
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(1) This column includes stock held by directors and
executive officers or certain members of their immediate
families.
(2) Sixty-nine thousand four hundred six of these shares
are pledged.
(3) Forty-seven thousand six hundred fifty-three of these
shares are pledged.
(4) One hundred forty-one thousand one hundred twenty-one
of these shares are pledged.
(5) Seventy-one thousand nine-hundred forty-five of these
shares are pledged.
(6) This column includes stock for which directors or
executive officers are deemed to have sole or shared voting
power.
(7) Fifty thousand five hundred forty-three of these shares
are pledged.
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(8) This column includes shares which directors or
executive officers have the right to acquire within 60 days
after December 31, 2007.
(9) These phantom stock units were acquired in lieu of
directors fees. Their value is based on the market price
of our common stock, together with dividend equivalents on that
stock. The units can be redeemed only for cash following
termination of the individuals service as a director, and
do not have voting rights.
(10) These restricted stock units were acquired in lieu of
stock which the director was entitled to receive for his annual
retainer. They earn dividend equivalents, and can be redeemed
only for stock following termination of the individuals
service as a director.
Compensation
Discussion and Analysis
Overview
Our overall corporate strategies are to invest in businesses
that have the most potential for long-term growth or high
operating profit margins, be the market leader in each of our
businesses, and increase profitability without compromising our
overall risk profile.
Total Compensation Philosophy
To accomplish these strategies, we award compensation to
executive officers to help assure that we attract, motivate, and
retain qualified executives and provide them the opportunity to
be rewarded for superior performance. The objectives for our
compensation practices include to:
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Offer a total compensation program that is competitive with the
compensation practices of those peer companies with which we
compete for talent;
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Put a significant portion of executive compensation at risk
based upon the achievement of pre-established quantitative
corporate and qualitative individual objectives;
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Align the interests of our executive officers with those of our
shareholders through long-term incentives; and
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Provide incentives that promote retention of our executive
officers.
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We believe our total compensation philosophy best serves to
further our overall corporate objectives and rewards our
executive officers appropriately.
Elements of Compensation
We seek to attract executive talent and motivate and retain
executive officers by offering a balanced mix of pay that
incorporates the following key components:
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An annual base salary;
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A potential annual cash bonus, which is based on corporate
financial and individual performance factors;
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Longer-term awards generally consisting of stock options and
restricted stock, which are intended to retain executive
officers and align their compensation with our
shareholders interests; and
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Certain other benefits.
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We target total cash compensation at roughly an even split
between an executive officers base salary and potential
target cash bonus, but provide an opportunity for our executives
to earn even larger bonuses for performance that exceeds
expectations. We do not target any specific relation between an
executives cash and non-cash compensation, but executives
have the potential to earn a substantial portion of their total
compensation from equity compensation.
Our executive compensation program focuses our executive
officers on enhancing shareholder value through their successful
long-term strategic management. In addition to our cash bonus
program, we do this by providing executive officers with
ownership interests in our Company in the form of restricted
stock and stock options. Since the ultimate value of the stock
made available through these awards depends on our
companys success, restricted stock and stock options
provide executive officers continuing incentives to increase
stockholder value after the award is granted. Restricted stock
provides compensation to the executive if the Companys
stock maintains its value, and increased compensation if the
value of the Companys stock increases. By contrast, an
executive obtains compensation from stock options only if the
value of the Companys stock increases from the date of
grant. We believe this mix of equity compensation awards helps
us achieve an appropriate balance between short- and long-term
performance and value objectives.
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Our equity compensation awards are also structured to retain our
executives. Restricted stock awards typically vest over three or
four years after grant, thus facilitating retention of the
executive officer. Stock option awards typically vest only after
three years.
Each of our executive officers is required to own a number of
shares of our stock with a value equal to a multiple of four to
six times his or her base salary, depending on the
officers level, within four years after first becoming an
executive officer. Other senior officers are required to own a
number of shares of our stock with a value equal to three times
their base salaries, while each of our directors is required to
own 4,000 shares of our stock.
Each executive officers total compensation package further
includes benefits under our broad-based pension plan and a
supplemental executive retirement plan, as well as under
change-in-control
agreements. These benefits foster the retention and stability of
our executive management team. The supplemental plan is designed
in part to provide executive officers with benefits to which
they would otherwise be entitled under the broad-based pension
plan, but which are limited under the terms of that plan by
legislative and regulatory restrictions. Benefits under the
supplemental plan are not currently funded, generally vest over
a period of 15 years, and may be terminated upon a
termination for cause or for competing with Wilmington Trust
following termination of employment.
In addition to our pension and supplemental retirement plans, we
provide
change-in-control
severance benefits and protections under separate agreements
into which we have entered with our executive and certain other
officers. These
change-in-control
agreements require a double trigger, meaning that
our executive officers are not eligible to receive any payments
under the agreements unless there is both a
change-in-control
and, within two years of the
change-in-control,
an actual or constructive termination of the executive
officers employment by the Company. We do not have written
employment agreements with our executive officers.
Early in each year, the Compensation Committee approves
executive officers base salaries, bonus targets and
performance factors for bonuses, and long-term equity awards for
the current year, as well as bonuses earned for the prior year.
In reviewing the performance of the Companys executive
officers other than Mr. Cecala, the Compensation Committee
considers his recommendations regarding the bonus targets and
performance factors against which each executive officer other
than himself should be evaluated, his views of their performance
with respect to each element of compensation, and his views with
respect to the amount of each element of compensation to be paid
to each executive officer other than himself. Mr. Cecala
attends the meetings of the Compensation Committee except when
the Committee is determining his compensation or meeting in
executive session. The Compensation Committee can modify a
recommended amount at its discretion.
The Compensation Committee believes that the compensation
awarded to Mr. Cecala is commensurate with the compensation
awarded to our other named executive officers, taking into
consideration the level of his responsibilities as the Chairman
of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of our Company. The
Compensation Committees goals in setting
Mr. Cecalas compensation are similar to its goals for
compensation to our executive officers generally: to provide
compensation that is competitive with the compensation practices
of those peer companies with which we compete for talent; put a
significant portion of compensation at risk; align his interests
with those of our shareholders through long-term incentives; and
provide incentives that promote his retention.
Base Salaries
We determine base salaries for each executive officer by
evaluating his or her responsibilities and performance. We also
consider the competitive market for executive talent, and
compare salaries we pay our executive officers to those paid to
executive officers in comparable positions at comparable
institutions. For compensation paid to our executive officers
for 2007, the institutions against which we compared our
executives compensation included:
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Associated Bank-Corp
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BOK Financial Corporation
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Boston Private Financial Holdings, Inc
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City National Corporation
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Commerce Bancorp, Inc.
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Commerce Bancshares, Inc.
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Compass Bancshares, Inc.
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FirstMerit Corporation
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Fulton Financial Corporation
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Valley National Bancorp
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Zions Bancorporation
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We typically set executive officers base salaries at or
near the median of base salaries awarded at those institutions,
based on the executive officers duties. This is consistent
with our Companys practice in paying our staff members
generally. We believe this target best enables us to attract and
retain executive talent consistent with our shareholders
interests. We typically adjust executive officers salaries
annually to take into account our companys and the
individuals performance, as well as any changes in the
executive officers responsibilities during the most recent
year. We also consider the financial results of the business
line or area over which the executive officer has responsibility
and his or her leadership and contribution to our companys
performance. In establishing increases to base salaries for our
Named Executive Officers for 2007, the Compensation Committee
considered the same performance factors it considered in
awarding cash bonuses, stock options, and restricted stock. The
Compensation Committee considers the recommendations of
Mr. Cecala in awarding any increases in base salary other
than his. In 2007, the base salary for Mr. Cecala was
increased by $35,000; the base salary for Mr. Gibson was
increased by $125,000; the base salary for Mr. Harra was
increased by $20,000; the base salary for Mr. Farrell was
increased by $86,000; and the base salary for
Mr. DiGregorio was increased by $45,000. The base salary
increases for Messrs. Gibson and DiGregorio included
amounts the Compensation Committee determined to be appropriate
to make their compensation more competitive, while the base
salary increase for Mr. Farrell included an amount the
Compensation Committee determined to be appropriate to reward
for the successful completion of his first full year as head of
the Corporate Client Services business line.
Bonuses
We provide our executive officers incentives in the form of cash
and stock awards to recognize and reward the achievement of
individual and corporate performance goals. No bonus is
guaranteed but, if earned, executive officers can earn bonuses
under this plan ranging from 0% to up to 200% of their base
salaries. At the beginning of each year, the Compensation
Committee approves potential bonus amounts expressed as a
percentage of base salary for each executive officer. For 2007,
the bonus target for Messrs. Harra, Farrell, Gibson, and
DiGregorio was 100% of base salary and for Mr. Cecala was
200% of base salary. Officers can earn additional bonus amounts
for performance we deem outstanding.
We multiply each executive officers anticipated bonus
potential by a factor determined (1) 50% based upon the
growth in our net income against the net income of peer
institutions and (2) 50% based upon our net income against
our plan (the Corporate Performance Factor). For
2007, the percentage growth in net income of our Companys
banking business ranked fifth among the performance of a
company-constructed thirteen-member banking-oriented peer group
that includes ourselves as well as:
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Associated Bank-Corp
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BOK Financial Corporation
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Bank of Hawaii Corporation
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City National Corporation
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Commerce Bancorp, Inc.
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Commerce Bancshares, Inc.
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Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc.
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FirstMerit Corporation
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First Midwest Bancorp, Inc.
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Fulton Financial Corporation
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Valley National Bancorp
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Zions Bancorporation
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The percentage growth in net income of our Companys
fee-based businesses ranked first among the performance of a
company-constructed six-member peer group of fee-oriented banks
that includes ourselves as well as:
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The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation
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Boston Private Financial Holdings, Inc.
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Bryn Mawr Bank Corporation
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Northern Trust Corporation
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The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.
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We chose these companies as the comparator group for our banking
and fee-based businesses because they are in general similar to
our business in terms of net income growth, return on equity,
and return on assets. All institutions in the banking-oriented
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group and fee-oriented peer group are collectively referred to
as the Peer Group.
With respect to the relative performance metric (the first
metric above), target performance is achieved when the annual
growth in our net income is equal to or greater than the median
growth in the net income of the members of the Peer Group. For
2007 that median net income growth was −6.39%. With
respect to the absolute performance metric (the second metric
above), target performance is achieved when we reach the annual
net income target established by the Board of Directors in our
business plan, which was $203 million for 2007. The
difference between business plan and actual results is due
primarily to the business plan assumption for net interest
income (stable versus declining market interest rates) and a
higher provision for loan losses. Over the long-term, we believe
that these targets are achievable, although in any year our
strategic priorities, the performance of other institutions in
the Peer Group, and market forces may make achieving the targets
more challenging. When we do not reach or we exceed target
performance for either metric, bonus payouts are reduced or
increased commensurately. Based on the Corporations
performance in 2007 in terms of its net income against the Peer
Group, each officers bonus potential was increased 12.9%,
and in terms of its net income against the business plan the
bonus potential was decreased 25%, with the result that the
Corporate Performance Factor for 2007 was -12.12%.
Beginning in 2008, (1) the comparator group will include
all banks with asset sizes from 50% to 200% as large as ours at
year-end, and (2) the Corporate Performance Factor will be
determined 25% based on the Corporations performance
against its business plan and 25% based on its performance
against the performance of the new comparator group in terms of
return on assets, return on equity, and earnings per share over
the preceding three-year period.
The Compensation Committee retains discretion to increase or
decrease the size of the bonus pool available for all executive
officers based on extraordinary events such as restructuring
charges or gain or loss on disposal of a business unit. For cash
bonus awards for 2007, the bonus pool available for all
executive officers was $2,499,860. Using the bonus pool, the
Committee then determines how much of each executives
available bonus is earned based on its subjective evaluation of
his or her achievement of qualitative performance factors
established for the executive at the beginning of the prior year.
The performance factors considered in establishing
Mr. Cecalas bonus for 2007 included our net income
compared to our business plan, the change in our net income
compared to the Peer Group, and his leadership.
The performance factors considered in establishing
Mr. Gibsons bonus for 2007 included continued
monitoring of our funding strategies and balance sheet risk,
fostering the Companys long-term corporate development,
and his leadership.
The performance factors considered in establishing
Mr. Harras bonus for 2007 included expansion of the
Companys regional banking business, implementing new
technology, developing new deposit-gathering channels, and his
leadership.
The performance factors considered in establishing
Mr. Farrells bonus for 2007 included increasing the
presence of the Corporate Client Services business outside
the United States through new offices or acquisitions,
increasing sales of new products, and his leadership.
The performance factors considered in establishing
Mr. DiGregorios bonus for 2007 included his work
assisting the business lines with acquisitions, coordinating the
Companys corporate governance, working to simplify the
Companys legal structure, implementing a companywide
compliance program, and his leadership.
We do not assign specific weightings to these separate
performance factors in awarding our executive officers bonuses,
and do not set any specific standards or parameters or any
specific quantitative financial or other performance threshold
that must be reached to generate a minimum or a maximum bonus
amount for any executive officer or any threshold, target, or
maximum bonus threshold for any executive officer. Instead, the
Compensation Committee compares each executive officers
performance against the totality of performance factors
established for the executive officer at the beginning of the
year, taking into account the recommendations of Mr. Cecala
with respect to bonuses other than his own.
The Committee reviewed Mr. Cecalas performance in
2007 and considered how he fostered a culture of risk management
that enabled the Company to avoid excessive risk, successfully
completed two
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acquisitions, managed interest rate risk, and controlled
expenses for the Company. Based on the bonus target for
Mr. Cecala, the Corporate Performance Factor, and the
Committees subjective evaluation of his performance, the
Committee awarded Mr. Cecala a bonus of $842,500 for 2007.
The Committee reviewed Mr. Gibsons performance in
2007, noting in particular his contributions to the
Companys strategic objectives to implement its interest
rate risk programs to help protect its net interest margin and
earnings from fluctuations in market interest rates; and
developing the Corporations funding management function to
maximize the Companys liquidity and capital objectives;
and leadership. Based on the bonus target for Mr. Gibson,
the Corporate Performance Factor, and the Committees
subjective evaluation of his achievement of his performance
factors, the Committee awarded Mr. Gibson a bonus of
$471,500 for 2007.
The Committee reviewed Mr. Harras performance in
2007, noting in particular his contributions to the
Companys strategic objectives to expand its regional
banking footprint in the Lehigh Valley and Princeton, New Jersey
areas and especially in the Baltimore, Maryland market,
including making important staff additions in that market; and
grow its new Internet banking deposit product; and his
leadership. Based on the bonus target for Mr. Harra, the
Corporate Performance Factor, and the Committees
subjective evaluation of his achievement of his performance
factors, the Committee awarded Mr. Harra a bonus of
$451,280 for 2007.
The Committee reviewed Mr. Farrells performance in
2007, noting in particular his contributions to the
Companys strategic objectives to expand the presence of
the Corporate Client Services business line in Europe by
acquiring a corporate service provider in Luxembourg, adding
senior staff in Europe, and continuing to expand the
Companys business in Ireland and Germany; and develop the
Companys services to the collateralized debt obligation
and tender auction bond markets; and his leadership. Based on
the bonus target for Mr. Farrell, the Corporate Performance
Factor, and the Committees subjective evaluation of his
achievement of his performance factors, the Committee awarded
Mr. Farrell a bonus of $446,500 for 2007.
The Committee reviewed Mr. DiGregorios performance in
2007, noting in particular his contributions to the
Companys Board of Directors and its committees on all
aspects of corporate governance; assisting in the Companys
acquisitions of a registered investment adviser in Boston,
Massachusetts and a corporate services provider in Luxembourg;
centralizing the Corporations compliance program; and
simplifying the Corporations legal structure; and his
leadership. Based on the bonus target for Mr. DiGregorio,
the Corporate Performance Factor, and the Committees
subjective evaluation of his achievement of his performance
factors, the Committee awarded Mr. DiGregorio a bonus of
$205,920 for 2007.
The Committee believes that its process of providing bonus
targets and quantitative corporate and qualitative individual
performance objectives to each executive officer at the
beginning of the year, its subjective review of those
officers achievement of those objectives at the end of the
year relying substantially on Mr. Cecala evaluation
of each executives performance, and its award to those
officers of incentive and long-term compensation at the end of
the year based in part on corporate performance and in part on
its assessment of the totality of each executives
achievement of those objectives, provides the most appropriate
incentives to those officers to maximize returns to the
Corporations shareholders and to achieve the
Corporations long-term objectives.
Tax
Considerations
Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code and the
regulations thereunder (collectively,
Section 162(m)) prohibit companies from
deducting compensation paid to certain executive officers in
excess of $1 million unless that compensation is
performance-based. Accordingly, salary and certain
other compensation not tied to achievement of pre-established
performance goals are included in Section 162(m)s
$1 million deduction cap.
Under our bonus plan, the Company is able to award compensation
to executive officers a portion of which will be excluded from
the deduction cap under Section 162(m) of the Internal
Revenue Code (Section 162(m) Participants). In
order to be able to deduct bonuses payable to our executive
officers who qualify as Section 162(m) Participants, the
performance goals applicable to those officers are based on any
combination of one or more of the following criteria selected by
the Compensation Committee at the beginning of the applicable
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performance period: income, net income, growth in income or net
income, earnings per share, growth in earnings per share, cash
flow measures, return on equity, return on assets, return on
investment, loan loss reserves, market share, fees, growth in
fees, assets, growth in assets, stockholder return, stock price,
achievement of balance sheet or income statement objectives,
expenses, reduction in expenses, charge-offs, non-performing
assets, and overhead ratio. These goals may be company-wide or
on a departmental, divisional, regional, or individual basis.
Any goal may be measured in absolute terms, by reference to
internal performance targets, or compared to another company or
companies.
Mr. Cecala was the Companys only Section 162(m)
Participant for 2007. The performance factors on which his bonus
was based were the Companys net income against its plan
and the growth in its net income against the Peer Group. We
believe that bonuses we paid for 2007 will be deductible under
Section 162(m).
Annual bonus awards are paid in cash, except that a portion of
bonus awards granted typically is made in the form of restricted
stock; for 2007, this represented 20% of the executive
officers bonus amount plus a 15% premium to compensate for
(1) the delay in the executives receiving the award
and (2) the fact that this portion of the award is made in
stock and not in cash. This is the same allocation method
generally used to award bonuses to other senior officers of the
Company. We award restricted stock to our executive officers
annually only at the regularly scheduled meeting of the
Compensation Committee held in February of each year. Restricted
stock awards generally vest over three or four years, and are
subject to forfeiture prior to vesting. Any increase in value
that accrues to our executive officers from restricted stock is
based entirely on our stocks performance subsequent to the
date of grant, and bears a direct relationship to the value our
shareholders realize.
Our shareholders have approved the bonus plan for our executive
officers. Bonus awards for the prior fiscal year are approved at
the Compensation Committees regularly scheduled meeting
held in February of each year.
Stock Options
Under our 2005 Long-Term Incentive Plan, we can make cash-based
and stock-based awards. Stock options granted under that plan
typically vest after three years and have terms of up to ten
years, and are intended to motivate the recipients to increase
our Companys long-term value. In granting stock options to
our executive officers, we consider the number of options the
officer received previously; the officers level; changes
in his or her duties and responsibilities during the year; and
our Companys current and prospective performance. We do
not employ any formula in awarding stock options. Instead, the
Compensation Committee compares each executive officers
performance against the totality of performance factors
established for that executive officer at the beginning of the
year, taking into account the recommendations of Mr. Cecala
with respect to stock option awards other than his own. We award
stock options to our executive officers annually only at the
regularly scheduled meeting of the Compensation Committee held
in February of each year, and all stock options are granted with
exercise prices equal to the last sale price of our stock on the
date of grant. Any value that accrues to our officers from stock
options is based entirely on appreciation in our stock price
following the date of grant, and bears a direct relationship to
the value our shareholders realize. In general, we prefer
awarding executive officers stock options as incentives over
restricted stock, since with options the officers must pay the
exercise price to receive the stock and thus the only time the
officer receives value from the option is if our stock price
increases from the date of grant. In addition, although our 2005
Long-Term Incentive Plan permits the Compensation Committee to
make cash awards under that plan, it has never done so. Instead,
it has granted only stock options and restricted stock under
that plan, since we believe these types of awards most closely
align our executives officers interests with those of our
shareholders over the long term. The performance factors the
Compensation Committee considers in awarding stock options are
the same as those it considers in setting our executives
base salary and bonus awards.
Our shareholders have approved our option plans.
Perquisites
We provide country club memberships for executive and other
senior officers who have customer entertainment responsibilities.
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Compensation
Committee Report
The Compensation Committee has reviewed and discussed the
Compensation Discussion and Analysis above with management, and
has recommended to the Board of Directors that that disclosure
be included in this proxy statement.
Submitted by the Compensation Committee of the Companys
Board of Directors:
David P. Roselle, Chair
Thomas L. duPont
Gailen Krug
Rex L. Mears
Susan D. Whiting
Other
Compensation Disclosures
The Committees charter is posted on our Website at
www.wilmingtontrust.com under Investor
Relations Corporate Governance. The Committee
does not delegate its authority to any person, but, as noted
above, does consider Mr. Cecalas views in setting
compensation for executive officers other than himself.
Our Human Resources Department monitors nationally published
compensation surveys on a continuous basis, and would recommend
review at an intermediate time if national trends indicated a
need to reevaluate our competitive positioning.
Certain
Relationships and Related Transactions
Certain of our Companys subsidiaries have banking
transactions in the ordinary course of business with directors,
officers, and their associates on the same terms, including
interest rates and collateral on loans, as those prevailing at
the time for comparable transactions with others not related to
the lender and that do not involve more than the normal risk of
collectibility or present other unfavorable features.
Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation
The Compensation Committees members are David P. Roselle
(Chair), Thomas L. duPont, Gailen Krug, Rex L. Mears, and Susan
D. Whiting. No member of the Compensation Committee is a current
or past officer or employee of the Company. No executive officer
of the Company serves as a member of the compensation committee
or Board of Directors of any other company whose members include
an individual who also serves on our Board of Directors or the
Compensation Committee.
Ms. Krug and Messrs. DuPont and Mears are indebted to
WTC on the same terms and conditions as those for comparable
transactions with others not related to the lender.
Our Code of Conduct and Ethics, which we post on our Web site,
prohibits directors and executive officers from engaging in
transactions that may raise even the appearance of a conflict of
interest with our Company. Our Companys General Counsel
reviews any significant transaction a director or executive
officer proposes to have with the Company that could give rise
to a conflict of interest or the appearance of a conflict of
interest, including any transaction that would require
disclosure under Item 404(a) of
Regulation S-K.
Our policy defines such a transaction as any transaction between
our Company and designated individuals, other than transactions
available to all employees or that involve less than $5,000.
In conducting this review, the General Counsel ensures that all
such transactions are reasonable and fair to our Company and its
subsidiaries. Among the factors the General Counsel considers in
determining whether a transaction is fair to our Company and its
subsidiaries is the aggregate value of the transaction and
whether it represents an opportunity that may be equally
available to the Company itself. The Companys policies and
procedures for the review and approval of related party
transactions are in writing, posted on our Web site at
www.wilmingtontrust.com under Investor
Relations-Corporate Governance, and are available in print
to any shareholder who requests them. No transaction has been
entered into with any director or executive officer that does
not comply with those policies and procedures.
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Summary
Compensation Table
The following table shows information about compensation the
Company awarded in 2007 and 2006 to its chief executive officer,
chief financial officer, its three other most highly compensated
executive officers at December 31, 2007 (the Named
Executive Officers).
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(a)
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(b)
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(c)
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(d)
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(e)
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(f)
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(g)
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(h)(5)
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(i)
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(j)
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Change in
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Pension
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Value and
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Nonqualified
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Non-Equity
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Deferred
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Stock
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Option
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Incentive Plan
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Compensation
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All Other
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Name and
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Salary
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Bonus
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Awards
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Awards
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Compensation
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Earnings
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Compensation
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Principal Position
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Year
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($)
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($)(1)
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($)(2)(3)
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($)(3)
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($)
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($)
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($)
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Total
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Ted T. Cecala,
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2007
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$
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668,269
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$
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674,000
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$
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991,264
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(4)
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$
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662,736
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N/A
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$
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630,715
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$
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22,349
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(6)
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$
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3,649,333
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Chairman of the
Board and Chief
Executive Officer
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2006
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$
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634,400
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$
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525,120
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$
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180,356
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$
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621,964
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N/A
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$
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727,572
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$
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21,865
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(6)
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$
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2,711,277
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David R. Gibson,
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2007
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$
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370,192
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$
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377,200
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$
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124,961
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$
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166,388
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N/A
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$
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235,196
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$
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8,289
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(6)
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$
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1,282,226
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Executive Vice
President and Chief
Financial Officer
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2006
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$
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246,600
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$
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246,150
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$
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45,311
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$
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138,214
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N/A
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$
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119,129
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$
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8,366
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(6)
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$
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803,770
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Robert V.A. Harra, Jr.,
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2007
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$
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476,154
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$
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361,024
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$
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356,121
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(4)
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$
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283,627
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N/A
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$
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427,718
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$
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19,555
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(6)
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$
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1,924,199
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President and Chief
Operating Officer
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2006
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$
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456,200
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$
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317,041
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$
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121,930
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$
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276,428
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N/A
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$
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331,011
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$
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19,530
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(6)
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$
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1,522,141
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William J. Farrell II,
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2007
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$
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371,731
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$
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357,200
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$
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65,733
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$
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209,441
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N/A
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$
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220,817
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$
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8,173
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(6)
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$
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1,233,135
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Executive Vice
President
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2006
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$
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286,000
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$
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258,458
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$
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49,403
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$
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183,869
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N/A
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$
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140,711
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$
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8,405
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(6)
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$
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926,847
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Michael A. DiGregorio,
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2007
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$
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258,269
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$
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164,736
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$
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67,701
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$
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118,647
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N/A
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$
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327,985
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$
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7,890
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(6)
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$
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945,228
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Senior Vice President
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2006
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$
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211,538
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$
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153,598
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$
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24,617
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$
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104,231
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N/A
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$
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201,960
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$
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7,908
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(6)
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$
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703,853
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(1) The Named Executive Officers were awarded the following
total bonuses under the Companys Incentive Plan for
services performed during 2007 and 2006: $842,500 for 2007 and
$656,400 for 2006 for Mr. Cecala; $471,500 for 2007 and
$307,688 for 2006 for Mr. Gibson; $451,280 for 2007 and
$396,302 for 2006 for Mr. Harra; $446,500 for 2007 and
$323,072 for 2006 for Mr. Farrell; and $205,920 for 2007
and $191,997 for 2006 for Mr. DiGregorio.
Twenty percent of those amounts, together with an additional 15%
of that 20% to compensate for (a) the delay in the
executives receiving the award and (b) the fact that
this portion the award is made in stock and not cash, was made
in the form of restricted stock and will be reported in the
Summary Compensation Table of the Companys proxy statement
for future Annual Shareholders Meetings. Since it is in
the form of restricted stock, this portion of each Named
Executives Officers bonus is subject to forfeiture
prior to vesting.
(2) Three thousand four hundred fifty-four of these
restricted shares for Mr. Cecala, 1,619 of these restricted
shares for Mr. Gibson, 2,085 of these restricted shares for
Mr. Harra, and all of these restricted shares for
Messrs. Farrell and DiGregorio were issued in lieu of 20%
of the incentive compensation otherwise payable to the Named
Executive Officers, together with an additional 15% of that 20%
to compensate for (a) the delay in the executives
receiving the award and (b) the fact that this portion of
the award is made in stock and not in cash. Since it is in the
form of restricted stock, this portion of each Named Executive
Officers bonus is subject to forfeiture prior to vesting.
These restricted stock awards vest in three equal annual
installments over the three-year period beginning with the date
of the award.
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Fifteen thousand four hundred forty-six of these restricted
shares for Mr. Cecala, 6,178 of these restricted shares for
Mr. Gibson, and 3,661 of these restricted shares for
Mr. Harra vest in one installment four years after the date
of the award. These restricted shares are subject to forfeiture
prior to vesting.
The value shown includes dividends received on the restricted
stock awards in 2007 and 2006.
(3) The assumptions used in valuing these stock and option
awards are detailed in Note 19 to the consolidated
financial statements contained in our Annual Report to
Shareholders for 2007. These valuations were calculated with
respect to the amounts we expensed under Statement of Financial
Accounting Standards 123R.
(4) Because Messrs. Cecala and Harra are past the age
of early retirement, age 55, under Statement of Financial
Accounting Standards 123R restricted stock awards to them are
expensed in full in the year in which they are granted, rather
than over their three- or four-year vesting periods.
(5) The assumptions used in valuing these benefits are
detailed in Note 18 to the consolidated financial statements
contained on our Annual Report on
Form 10-K
for 2007 and our Annual Report to Shareholders for 2006. These
valuations were calculated with respect to the amounts we
expensed under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 123R.
(6) Represents: (a) the Companys contributions
to its 401-k
Thrift Savings Plan for each of Messrs. Cecala, Harra,
Gibson, and DiGregorio of $6,750 and Mr. Farrell of $6,600
in 2007; and each of Messrs. Cecala, Gibson, Harra, and
Farrell of $6,600 and Mr. DiGregorio of $6,600 in 2006; and
(b) premiums the Company paid for term life insurance for
each of Messrs. Cecala and Harra of $2,280 in 2007 and
$2,616 in 2006; Mr. Gibson of $1,539 in 2007 and $1,766 in
2006; Mr. Farrell of $1,573 in 2007 and $1,804 in 2006; and
Mr. DiGregorio of $1,140 in 2007 and $1,308 in 2006; and
(c) expense the Company recognized for country club
memberships for Mr. Cecala of $13,319 in 2007 and $12,649
in 2006 and Mr. Harra of $10,525 in 2007 and $10,314 in
2006.
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Estimated Future Payouts
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Estimated Future Payouts
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Under Non-Equity Incentive
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Under Equity Incentive
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Plan Awards
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Plan Awards
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(a)
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(b)
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(c)
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(d)
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(e)
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(f)
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(g)
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(h)
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(i)
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(j)
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(k)
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(l)
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All Other
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All Other
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Stock
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Stock
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Awards:
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Awards:
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Exercise
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Number
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Number of
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or Base
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Grant Date
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of Shares
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Securities
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Price of
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Fair Value
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of Stock
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Underlying
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Option
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of Stock and
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Grant
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Threshold
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Target
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Maximum
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Threshold
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Target
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Maximum
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or Units
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Options
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Awards
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Option
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Name
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Date
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($)
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($)
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($)
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(#)
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(#)
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(#)
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(#)(1)
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(#)
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($/Sh)
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Awards
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Ted T. Cecala
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2/13/07
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18,900
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100,000
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$
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43.70
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$
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1,761,930
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David R. Gibson
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2/13/07
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7,797
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30,000
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$
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43.70
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$
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621,529
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Robert V.A. Harra Jr.
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2/13/07
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5,746
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40,000
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$
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43.70
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$
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625,500
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William J. Farrell II
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2/13/07
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1,700
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30,000
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$
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43.70
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$
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355,090
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Michael A. DiGregorio
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2/13/07
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1,010
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20,000
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$
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43.70
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$
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231,337
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(1) Three thousand four
hundred fifty-four of these restricted stock awards for
Mr. Cecala, 1,619 of these restricted stock awards for
Mr. Gibson, 2,085 of these restricted stock awards for
Mr. Harra, and all of these restricted stock awards for
Messrs. Farrell and DiGregorio vested one-third on
February 13, 2008, and one-third will vest on each of
February 13, 2009, and February 15, 2010. This
restricted stock was received in lieu of 20% of the cash bonus
otherwise payable to the Named Executive Officers for 2007,
together with an additional 15% of that 20% to compensate for
(a) the delay in the executives receiving the award
and (2) the fact that this portion of the award is made in
stock and not in cash. Since it is in the form of restricted
stock, this portion of each Named Executive Officers bonus
is subject to forfeiture prior to vesting.
Fifteen thousand four hundred forty-six of these restricted
stock awards for Mr. Cecala, 6,178 of these restricted
stock awards for Mr. Gibson, and 3,661 of these restricted
stock awards for Mr. Harra vest on February 14, 2011.
Dividends are paid on restricted stock at the rate paid on the
Companys outstanding stock.
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Option Awards
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Stock Awards
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(a)
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(b)
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(c)
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(d)
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(e)
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(f)
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(g)
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(h)
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(i)
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(j)
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Equity
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Equity
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Incentive
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Incentive
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Plan
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Plan
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Awards:
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Awards:
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Equity
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Number
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Market or
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Incentive
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of
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Payout
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Plan
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Unearned
|
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Value of
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Awards:
|
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Number
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Market
|
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Shares,
|
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Unearned
|
|
|
Number of
|
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Number of
|
|
Number of
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|
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of Shares
|
|
Value of
|
|
Units or
|
|
Shares,
|
|
|
Securities
|
|
Securities
|
|
Securities
|
|
|
|
|
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or Units
|
|
Shares or
|
|
Other
|
|
Units or
|
|
|
Underlying
|
|
Underlying
|
|
Underlying
|
|
|
|
|
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of Stock
|
|
Units of
|
|
Rights
|
|
Other
|
|
|
Unexercised
|
|
Unexercised
|
|
Unexercised
|
|
Option
|
|
|
|
That
|
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Stock That
|
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That
|
|
Rights That
|
|
|
Options
|
|
Options
|
|
Unearned
|
|
Exercise
|
|
Option
|
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Have Not
|
|
Have Not
|
|
Have Not
|
|
Have Not
|
|
|
(#)
|
|
(#)
|
|
Options
|
|
Price
|
|
Expiration
|
|
Vested
|
|
Vested
|
|
Vested
|
|
Vested
|
Name
|
|
Exercisable
|
|
Unexercisable
|
|
(#)
|
|
($)
|
|
Date
|
|
(#)
|
|
($)
|
|
(#)
|
|
($)
|
|
Ted T. Cecala
|
|
|
21,826
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
31.50
|
|
|
|
2/18/2008
|
|
|
|
1,321
|
(4)
|
|
$
|
46,499
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
60,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
28.78125
|
|
|
|
2/17/2009
|
|
|
|
3,952
|
(5)
|
|
$
|
139,110
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
80,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
24.00
|
|
|
|
2/15/2010
|
|
|
|
3,454
|
(6)
|
|
$
|
121,581
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
80,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
30.875
|
|
|
|
2/14/2011
|
|
|
|
15,446
|
(7)
|
|
$
|
543,699
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
90,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
32.985
|
|
|
|
2/10/2012
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
90,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
27.91
|
|
|
|
2/19/2013
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
90,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
37.02
|
|
|
|
2/24/2014
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
90,000
|
(1)
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
33.90
|
|
|
|
2/20/2015
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
90,000
|
(2)
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
43.27
|
|
|
|
2/19/2016
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
100,000
|
(3)
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
43.70
|
|
|
|
2/13/2017
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
David R. Gibson
|
|
|
12,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
31.50
|
|
|
|
2/18/2008
|
|
|
|
364
|
(4)
|
|
$
|
12,813
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
20,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
28.78125
|
|
|
|
2/17/2009
|
|
|
|
947
|
(5)
|
|
$
|
33,334
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
20,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
24.00
|
|
|
|
2/15/2010
|
|
|
|
1,619
|
(6)
|
|
$
|
56,989
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
15,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
30.875
|
|
|
|
2/14/2011
|
|
|
|
6,178
|
(7)
|
|
$
|
217,466
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
30,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
32.985
|
|
|
|
2/10/2012
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
20,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
27.91
|
|
|
|
2/19/2013
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
20,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
37.02
|
|
|
|
2/24/2014
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
20,000
|
(1)
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
33.90
|
|
|
|
2/20/2015
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
20,000
|
(2)
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
43.27
|
|
|
|
2/19/2016
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
30,000
|
(3)
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
43.70
|
|
|
|
2/13/2017
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Robert V.A Harra Jr.
|
|
|
20,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
31.50
|
|
|
|
2/18/2008
|
|
|
|
1,039
|
(4)
|
|
$
|
36,573
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
30,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
28.78125
|
|
|
|
2/17/2009
|
|
|
|
2,468
|
(5)
|
|
$
|
86,874
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
40,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
24.00
|
|
|
|
2/15/2010
|
|
|
|
2,085
|
(6)
|
|
$
|
73,392
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
40,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
30.875
|
|
|
|
2/14/2011
|
|
|
|
3,661
|
(7)
|
|
$
|
128,867
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
40,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
32.985
|
|
|
|
2/10/2012
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
40,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
27.91
|
|
|
|
2/19/2013
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
40,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
37.02
|
|
|
|
2/24/2014
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
40,000
|
(1)
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
33.90
|
|
|
|
2/20/2015
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
40,000
|
(2)
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
43.27
|
|
|
|
2/19/2016
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
40,000
|
(3)
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
43.70
|
|
|
|
2/13/2017
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
William J. Farrell Jr. Jr.
|
|
|
12,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
31.50
|
|
|
|
2/18/2008
|
|
|
|
339
|
(4)
|
|
$
|
11,933
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
20,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
28.78125
|
|
|
|
2/17/2009
|
|
|
|
1,226
|
(5)
|
|
$
|
43,155
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
25,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
24.00
|
|
|
|
2/15/2010
|
|
|
|
1,700
|
(6)
|
|
$
|
59,840
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
25,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
30.875
|
|
|
|
2/14/2011
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
25,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
32.985
|
|
|
|
2/10/2012
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
20,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
27.91
|
|
|
|
2/19/2013
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
20,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
37.02
|
|
|
|
2/24/2014
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
33.90
|
|
|
|
2/20/2015
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
30,000
|
(1)
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
43.27
|
|
|
|
2/19/2016
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
30,000
|
(2)
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
43.70
|
|
|
|
2/13/2017
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
30,000
|
(3)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
24
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Option Awards
|
|
Stock Awards
|
(a)
|
|
(b)
|
|
(c)
|
|
(d)
|
|
(e)
|
|
(f)
|
|
(g)
|
|
(h)
|
|
(i)
|
|
(j)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Equity
|
|
Equity
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Incentive
|
|
Incentive
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Plan
|
|
Plan
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Awards:
|
|
Awards:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Equity
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Number
|
|
Market or
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Incentive
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
of
|
|
Payout
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Plan
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Unearned
|
|
Value of
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Awards:
|
|
|
|
|
|
Number
|
|
Market
|
|
Shares,
|
|
Unearned
|
|
|
Number of
|
|
Number of
|
|
Number of
|
|
|
|
|
|
of Shares
|
|
Value of
|
|
Units or
|
|
Shares,
|
|
|
Securities
|
|
Securities
|
|
Securities
|
|
|
|
|
|
or Units
|
|
Shares or
|
|
Other
|
|
Units or
|
|
|
Underlying
|
|
Underlying
|
|
Underlying
|
|
|
|
|
|
of Stock
|
|
Units of
|
|
Rights
|
|
Other
|
|
|
Unexercised
|
|
Unexercised
|
|
Unexercised
|
|
Option
|
|
|
|
That
|
|
Stock That
|
|
That
|
|
Rights That
|
|
|
Options
|
|
Options
|
|
Unearned
|
|
Exercise
|
|
Option
|
|
Have Not
|
|
Have Not
|
|
Have Not
|
|
Have Not
|
|
|
(#)
|
|
(#)
|
|
Options
|
|
Price
|
|
Expiration
|
|
Vested
|
|
Vested
|
|
Vested
|
|
Vested
|
Name
|
|
Exercisable
|
|
Unexercisable
|
|
(#)
|
|
($)
|
|
Date
|
|
(#)
|
|
($)
|
|
(#)
|
|
($)
|
|
Michael A DiGregorio
|
|
|
6,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
32.985
|
|
|
|
2/10/2012
|
|
|
|
242
|
(4)
|
|
$
|
8,530
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
15,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
37.02
|
|
|
|
2/24/2014
|
|
|
|
578
|
(5)
|
|
$
|
20,346
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
15,000
|
(1)
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
33.90
|
|
|
|
2/20/2015
|
|
|
|
1,010
|
(6)
|
|
$
|
35,552
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
15,000
|
(2)
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
43.27
|
|
|
|
2/19/2016
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
20,000
|
(3)
|
|
|
|
|
|
$
|
43.70
|
|
|
|
2/13/2017
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1) These options vest on
2/25/2008
and expire ten years after grant.
(2) These options vest on
2/23/2009
and expire ten years after grant.
(3) These options vest on
2/15/2010
and expire ten years after grant.
(4) Restricted stock will
vest on
2/25/2008.
(5) Restricted stock will
vest in equal annual installments on
2/22/2008
and
2/23/2009.
(6) Restricted stock will
vest in equal installments on
2/13/2008,
2/13/2009,
and
2/15/2010.
(7) Restricted stock will
vest on February 14, 2011.
Option
Exercises and Stock Vested in 2007
The following table provides information about stock options
exercised by and restricted stock vested for each Named
Executive Officer during 2007:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Option Awards
|
|
Stock Awards
|
(a)
|
|
(b)
|
|
(c)
|
|
(d)
|
|
(e)
|
|
|
Number of Shares
|
|
Value Realized on
|
|
Number of Shares
|
|
Value Realized on
|
|
|
Acquired on Exercise
|
|
Exercise
|
|
Acquired on Vesting
|
|
Vesting
|
Name
|
|
(#)
|
|
($)
|
|
(#)
|
|
($)
|
|
Ted T. Cecala
|
|
|
15,606
|
|
|
$
|
281,064
|
|
|
|
4,539
|
|
|
$
|
200,272
|
|
David R. Gibson
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,145
|
|
|
$
|
50,521
|
|
Robert V.A. Harra Jr.
|
|
|
15,000
|
|
|
$
|
320,400
|
|
|
|
3,086
|
|
|
$
|
136,164
|
|
William J. Farrell II
|
|
|
5,000
|
|
|
$
|
94,900
|
|
|
|
1,235
|
|
|
$
|
54,520
|
|
Michael A. DiGregorio
|
|
|
12,000
|
|
|
$
|
128,028
|
|
|
|
620
|
|
|
$
|
27,389
|
|
25
Pension
Benefits as of December 31, 2007
The following table provides information about benefits under
our Pension Plan and Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan
(SERP), for the Named Executive Officers at
December 31, 2007:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(a)
|
|
(b)
|
|
(c)
|
|
(d)
|
|
(e)
|
|
|
|
|
Number of Years
|
|
Present Value of
|
|
Payments During
|
|
|
|
|
Credited Services
|
|
Accumulated Benefit
|
|
Last Fiscal Year
|
Name
|
|
Plan Name
|
|
(#)
|
|
($)
|
|
($)
|
|
Ted T. Cecala
|
|
Pension Plan
|
|
|
28.4
|
|
|
$
|
607,864
|
(1)
|
|
|
N/A
|
|
|
|
Supplemental
Executive
Retirement Plan
|
|
|
28.4
|
|
|
$
|
5,554,719
|
(2)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
David R. Gibson
|
|
Pension Plan
|
|
|
24.7
|
|
|
$
|
238,889
|
(1)
|
|
|
N/A
|
|
|
|
Supplemental
Executive
Retirement Plan
|
|
|
24.7
|
|
|
$
|
893,070
|
(2)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Robert V.A. Harra Jr.
|
|
Pension Plan
|
|
|
36.6
|
|
|
$
|
689,913
|
(1)
|
|
|
N/A
|
|
|
|
Supplemental
Executive
Retirement Plan
|
|
|
36.6
|
|
|
$
|
3,911,625
|
(2)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
William J. Farrell II
|
|
Pension Plan
|
|
|
31.6
|
|
|
$
|
240,806
|
(1)
|
|
|
N/A
|
|
|
|
Supplemental
Executive
Retirement Plan
|
|
|
31.6
|
|
|
$
|
1,144,204
|
(2)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Michael A. DiGregorio
|
|
Pension Plan
|
|
|
20.8
|
|
|
$
|
424,964
|
|
|
|
N/A
|
|
|
|
Supplemental
Executive
Retirement Plan
|
|
|
20.8
|
|
|
$
|
809,085
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1) Based on the American
Academy of Actuaries 1983 Group Annuity Mortality (Male) table
and an assumed interest rate of 6.5%.
(2) Based on the American
Academy of Actuaries 1983 Group Annuity Mortality (Male) table
and an assumed interest rate of 6.5%.
Pension
Plan and SERP
Our Pension Plan is designed to provide retirement benefits to
the Companys staff members, including the Named Executive
Officers. The SERP is designed to provide retirement benefits
that would not be permitted to be paid under the Pension Plan by
the Internal Revenue Code. The Company does not grant extra
years of credited service under the Pension Plan or the SERP.
The normal annual retirement benefit from the Pension Plan is
the greater of:
|
|
(a) |
1.5% of the Named Executive Officers average annual
earnings for the five-year period ending December 31, 1993,
multiplied by years of service as of December 31,
1993; or
|
|
|
(b) |
(1) (a) 1.5% of the Named Executive Officers average
annual earnings for the five-year period ending
December 31, 1987; (b) less 1.25% of the Social
Security Primary Insurance Amount as of December 31, 1987;
(c) all multiplied by years of service as of
December 31, 1987; plus
|
(2) 1.0% of the Named Executive Officers earnings
during 1988 up to one-half of the 1988 Social Security taxable
wage base, plus 1.8% of earnings during 1988 in excess of
one-half of the Social Security taxable wage base; plus
(3) For each year after 1988, (a) 1.25% of the Named
Executive Officers earnings in that year up to one-half of
the Social Security taxable wage base for that year, plus
(b) 1.6% of
26
earnings during that year in excess of one-half of the SSTWB.
For purposes of determining amounts to which participants are
entitled under the Pension Plan, for years before 1994, earnings
include base salary and amounts paid under our Profit-Sharing
Bonus Plan (the Profit-Sharing Bonus Plan), but do
not include bonus or incentive payments. The Profit-Sharing
Bonus Plan was terminated in 2003. For years after 1993,
earnings also include bonus and incentive payments. Benefits
under the Pension Plan vest in full after five years of
participation in the plan. The normal form of pension provided
under the Pension Plan is a single life annuity or a 50% joint
and survivor benefit. The Pension Plan also provides for an
actuarially-equivalent joint and survivor annuity with a
survivor benefit of
662/3%
or 100%, as selected by the participant.
The normal monthly retirement benefit from the SERP is 60% of
the Named Executive Officers average monthly earnings for
the 60-month
period ending with his or her retirement date, multiplied by a
fraction the numerator of which is the Named Executive
Officers years of credited service at retirement and the
denominator of which is 30. All such amounts are reduced by
benefits payable from the Pension Plan.
For purposes of determining amounts to which participants are
entitled under the SERP, average monthly earnings include base
salary and amounts paid under the Profit-Sharing Bonus Plan and
bonus and incentive plans. The SERP pays a monthly pension,
beginning at the same time the Named Executive Officer begins to
receive his or her Pension Plan benefit, in the form of a single
life annuity or a 50% joint and survivor annuity. Benefits under
the SERP begin to vest after five years participation in
the plan at the rate of one-fifteenth per year, but accelerate
and vest in full (a) upon reaching 55 with ten years
participation or (b) in the event of a Change in
Control as that term is defined in the change in control
agreements discussed below.
Messrs. Cecala, Harra, and DiGregorio are eligible for
early retirement under the Pension Plan and the SERP. Each plan
provides for a reduction in benefits in the event of early
retirement. The maximum reduction is 40% of the benefit
available on the normal retirement date if retirement is seven
years before that date.
The assumptions used in valuing the benefits reflected in the
table above are detailed in Note 18 to the consolidated
financial statements contained in our Annual Report to
Shareholders for 2007. Those benefits are not subject to
deduction of Social Security or other offset amounts.
Other
Post-Termination Benefits
Under
change-in-control
agreements certain of the Companys subsidiaries have
entered into with certain of their officers, including the Named
Executive Officers, those subsidiaries pay severance pay and a
continuation of certain benefits if (a) a Change in
Control occurs and (b) the officers employment
is terminated involuntarily, either actually or constructively,
without cause within two years after that Change in Control. In
general, the agreements deem a Change in Control to
have occurred if any of the following happens:
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The Company or the subsidiary consolidates or merges with a
third party;
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The Company or the subsidiary transfers substantially all assets
to a third party or completely liquidates or dissolves;
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A third party acquires any combination of beneficial ownership
of and voting proxies for more that 15% of the Companys or
the subsidiarys voting stock or the ability to control the
election of the Companys directors or its management or
policies;
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The persons serving as the Companys directors on
February 29, 1996, and those replacements or additions
subsequently nominated by that Board or by persons nominated by
them, are no longer at least a majority of the Companys
Board; or
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A regulatory agency determines that a change in control of the
Company has occurred.
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Under these agreements, the Named Executive Officer is entitled
to severance pay in a lump sum of 115% times three years
of the Named Executive Officers (1) highest base
salary in the 12 months preceding the termination of his or
her employment and (2) bonus and incentive payments for the
preceding calendar year, all discounted to present value at a
discount rate of the rate paid on the termination date on
U.S. Treasury bills with maturities of one and one-half
years. In addition, the Named Executive Officer generally would
receive medical, life, disability, and
health-and-accident
benefits at the subsidiarys expense for three years. The
Compensation Committee concluded that, following a
change-in-control
and termination of an executive officers employment or a
diminution of his or her duties, payment of three years of
the executive officers base salary and bonus payments for
the preceding year discounted to present value, together with
medical, life, disability, and health coverage for three years,
is consistent with
change-in-control
payments offered to executive officers at other institutions.
The Compensation Committee believes that these benefits further
our corporate goals to provide incentives that promote the
retention to our executive officers and further our overall
corporate objectives to compensate our executive officers
appropriately.
In addition, the Named Executive Officers unvested stock
options and restricted stock awards vest automatically upon a
Change in Control. Those payments and the value of thoese
benefits upon a Change in Control at December 31, 2007
would have been: Mr. Cecala $4,440,452;
Mr. Gibson $2,108,176;
Mr. Harra $2,703,426;
Mr. Farrell $1,972,921; and
Mr. DiGregorio $1,293,608. These amounts assume
the costs of the Named Executive Officer receiving family
coverage for medical, dental, and vision benefits for three
years after termination of employment.
The vesting of unvested stock options and restricted stock
awards accelerates upon a staff members disability or
retirement. The value of the unvested stock options and
restricted stock awards that would accelerate upon the
disability or retirement on December 31, 2007 of
Mr. Cecala was $967,890; Mr. Gibson was $346,602;
Mr. Harra was $377,706; Mr. Farrell was $153,928; and
Mr. DiGregorio was $83,928.
In addition, the vesting of unvested restricted stock awards
accelerates upon a staff members death. The value of the
unvested restricted stock awards that would accelerate upon the
death on December 31, 2007 of Mr. Cecala was $850,890;
Mr. Gibson was $320,602; Mr. Harra was $325,706;
Mr. Farrell was $114,928; and Mr. DiGregorio was
$64,428.
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These amounts are independent of retirement benefits payable to
these officers.
Nonqualifed
Deferred Compensation As of December 31, 2007
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(a)
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(b)
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(c)
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(d)
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(e)
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(f)
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Executive
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Registrant
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Aggregate
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Aggregate
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Aggregate
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Contributions in
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Contributions in
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Earnings in
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Withdrawals/
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Balance at
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Last FY
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Last FY
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Last FY
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Distributions
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Last FYE
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($)
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($)
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($)
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($)
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($)
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Ted T. Cecala
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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David R. Gibson
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Robert V.A. Harra Jr.
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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William J. Farrell II
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Michael A. DiGregorio
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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Director
Compensation in 2007
The following table provides information about compensation paid
to our directors in 2007:
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(a)
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(b)
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(c)
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(d)(3)
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(e)
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(f)
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Change in
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Pension
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Value and
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Non-Equity
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Nonqualified
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(g)
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Fees Earned or
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Incentive Plan
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Deferred
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All Other
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(h)
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Paid in Cash
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Stock Awards
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Option Awards
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Compensation
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Compensation
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Compensation
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Total
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Name
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($)
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($)
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($)
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($)
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Earnings
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($)
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($)
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Carolyn S. Burger
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$
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38,021
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$
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14,979
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$
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22,052
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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$
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75,052
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Charles S. Crompton Jr.
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$
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9,621
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$
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14,979
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$
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22,052
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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$
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46,652
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Thomas L. duPont
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$
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34,321
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$
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14,979
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$
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6,192
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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$
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55,492
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R. Keith Elliott(2)
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$
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37,321
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$
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14,979
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$
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22,052
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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$
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74,352
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Donald E. Foley(1)(2)
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$
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18,441
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$
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29,959
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$
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6,308
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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$
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54,708
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Gailen Krug
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$
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26,841
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$
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29,959
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$
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19,428
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N/A
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N/A
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$
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76,228
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Rex L. Mears
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$
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37,921
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$
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14,979
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$
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22,052
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N/A
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N/A
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$
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74,952
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Stacey J. Mobley(1)(2)
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$
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18,141
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$
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29,959
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$
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22,052
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N/A
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N/A
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$
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70,152
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Michele M. Rollins
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$
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21,000
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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$
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21,000
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David P. Roselle
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$
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41,421
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$
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14,979
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22,052
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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$
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78,452
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H. Rodney Sharp III
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$
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9,621
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$
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14,979
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$
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22,052
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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$
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46,652
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Oliver R. Sockwell
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$
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23,000
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$
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$
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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$
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23,000
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Robert W. Tunnell Jr.
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$
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21,041
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$
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29,959
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$
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22,753
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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$
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73,753
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Susan Whiting
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$
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18,041
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$
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29,959
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$
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13,605
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N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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$
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61,605
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(1) Messrs. Foley and
Mobley deferred receipt of cash earned for 2007 until retirement.
(2) Messrs. Elliott,
Foley, and Mobley deferred receipt of shares for 2007 until
retirement.
(3) The assumptions used in
valuing these stock and option awards are detailed in
Note 7 to the consolidated financial statements contained
in our
Form 10-K
for 2007. The grant date fair value of stock options awarded in
2007 to each of Mss. Burger, Krug, and Whiting and Messrs.
duPont, Elliott, Foley, Mears, Mobley, Roselle, and Tunnell
computed in accordance with FAS 123R was $6.14. These stock
and option awards were made under our 2005 Long-Term Incentive
Plan.
As of December 31, 2007, 31,000 nonstatutory stock options
were outstanding to each of Ms. Burger and Messrs, Elliott,
Mears, Mobley, Roselle, and Tunnell; 11,500 nonstatutory stock
options were outstanding to Ms. Krug; 7,500 nonstatutory
stock options were outstanding to Ms. Whiting; 4,500
nonstatutory stock options were outstanding to Mr. DuPont;
3,500 nonstatutory stock options were outstanding to
Mr. Foley; and no stock options were outstanding to
Ms. Rollins or Mr. Sockwell.
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We pay our outside directors an annual retainer of $30,000 and a
$2,000 fee for each Board meeting they attend. We also pay them
a $1,200 fee for each committee meeting they attend and $500 for
any telephonic meeting of any Board or Committee meeting in
which they participate. The Chairpersons of the Compensation
Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
receive an additional $2,500 annually; the Chairperson of the
Audit Committee receives an additional $5,000 annually.
Directors receive the first half of their annual retainer in our
Companys common stock. Each director may elect to receive
the second half of the annual retainer either in cash or our
Companys common stock. Directors can elect each year to
defer receipt of the cash
and/or stock
portion of their directors fees until they are no longer a
director.
If a director elects to defer receipt of any cash portion of his
or her directors fees, he or she may elect to earn a yield
on the deferred portion based on (1) yields WTC pays on
certain of its deposit products
and/or
(2) changes in the price of our Companys common
stock, together with dividends on that stock at the rate earned
on our Companys outstanding stock. If a director elects to
defer receipt of any stock portion of his or her directors
fees, the deferred portion will accrue dividend equivalents at
the rate earned on our Companys outstanding stock until
paid.
Under our Companys 2005 Long-Term Incentive Plan,
directors also are entitled to receive stock options. Those
stock options are granted only at the regularly scheduled
meeting of the Compensation Committee held in February of each
year. The exercise price of any options granted to our
Companys directors is the last sale price of our stock on
the date of grant. Options in respect of shares remain available
for grant under our 2005 Long-Term Incentive Plan.
Directors who are also officers of the Company do not receive
any fees or other compensation for service on any committee.
Section 16(a)
Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance
Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act requires the
Companys directors, certain officers, and others to file
reports of their ownership of our stock with the SEC.
After reviewing copies of those forms it has received and
written representations, the Company believes that all required
filings were made on a timely basis, except that a sale of one
share by Mr. Farrell and a grant of restricted stock to
Ms. Rakowski inadvertently were reported late in 2007.
Availability
of
Form 10-K
The Company will file with the SEC an Annual Report on
Form 10-K
for 2007. The Company will provide a copy of that report on
written request without charge to any person whose proxy it is
soliciting. Please address your request to Ellen J. Roberts,
Vice President, Investor Relations, Wilmington
Trust Corporation, Rodney Square North, 1100 North Market
Street, Wilmington, Delaware 19890.
Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy
Materials for the Shareholders Meeting to be Held on
April 17, 2008
This proxy statement and information about directions to our
shareholders meeting are available at
www.wilmingtontrust.com under Investor
Relations Financial Information.
As noted elsewhere in the proxy statement, the following
materials are available on our Web site at
www.wilmingtontrust.com under Investor
Relations Corporate Governance:
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Form 10-K
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Proxy Statement
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Code of Conduct and Ethics
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Corporate Governance Principles
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Audit Committee Charter
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Compensation Committee Charter
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Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee Charter
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Director Independence Standards
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30
PROPOSAL TWO
APPROVAL OF THE 2008 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN
General
Provisions
On February 28, 2008, your Board of Directors adopted the
2008 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the Stock Purchase
Plan) to encourage wider ownership of our stock by our
employees. The Stock Purchase Plan is designed to replace our
2004 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, which expires in 2008. The
plans provisions are similar to those of the 2004 Employee
Stock Purchase Plan. The following summary is qualified in its
entirety by reference to the Stock Purchase Plan, which is
attached as Exhibit B to this proxy statement. The Stock
Purchase Plan will be adopted and become effective only when and
if approved by our shareholders at the Annual Shareholders
Meeting. Accordingly, no options or other awards have been
granted under the plan.
A maximum of 800,000 shares of our common stock may be
issued under the Stock Purchase Plan. These may be authorized
but unissued shares, or issued shares that we have reacquired
and hold in treasury. We anticipate that this number of shares
will be adequate for the plan for the next four years. On the
first day of each plan year, each participating employee will be
offered options to purchase a number of shares (to be chosen by
the employee, but with a minimum of five shares) of our common
stock at a price per share equal to 85% or such grater
percentage as the committee administering the Stock Purchase
Plan may determine of the last sale price of our common stock
that day. That initial option price will be funded by payroll
deductions, which will be credited to an interest-bearing
account. On the last day of the plan year, shares of our common
stock will be purchased at the initial option price. The shares
of common stock will be issued to participating employees
promptly after the end of the plan year.
Eligibility
All regular employees of the Company and its designated
subsidiaries on the payroll and with one month of continuous
service on the first day of the plan year will be eligible to
participate in the offering under the Stock Purchase Plan for
that plan year. An employee may terminate participation in the
Stock Purchase Plan at any time.
Limitations
The maximum permissible payroll deduction for any employee under
the Stock Purchase Plan may not exceed the lesser of 10% of the
employees base salary or $21,250. In addition, no employee
may be granted an option under the plan if he or she would own
and/or hold
outstanding options to purchase five percent or more of the
total number of shares of our common stock which are outstanding.
Administration
of Plan
The Stock Purchase Plan will be administered by a committee the
Board of Directors appoints. Members of the committee must
either be directors, officers, or employees of the Company or
one of our subsidiaries, and that committee will have authority
to make, administer, and interpret rules it deems necessary to
administer the plan.
Amendment
or Termination
The Board of Directors may amend or terminate the Stock Purchase
Plan at any time. Any options previously granted will not be
effected by a termination or amendment. No amendment may be made
without prior approval of our shareholders if it would permit
the issuance of more than 800,000 shares of our common
stock, permit payroll deductions at a rate in excess of 10% of
an employees base salary, or otherwise be required by law.
Tax
Implications
The following is a brief summary of the principal federal income
tax consequences of transactions under the Stock Purchase Plan
based on current federal income tax law. This summary is not
intended to be exhaustive and, among other things, does not
describe state, local, or foreign tax consequences.
A participant will not recognize taxable income in purchasing
shares of common stock under the Stock Purchase Plan at the time
he or she purchases those shares. The federal income tax
treatment to a participant who sells stock acquired under the
plan will depend in part on how long the participant
holds it.
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If a participant disposes of stock acquired under the Stock
Purchase Plan more than two years after the first day of the
applicable offering period in respect of which the participant
acquired it, the participant will recognize long-term capital
gain (or loss) in an amount equal to the difference between the
amount realized on the disposition and the participants
tax basis in the stock. However, if a participant acquired that
stock at less than 100 percent of its fair market value on
the first day of the applicable offering period, upon the sale
of that stock, the participant will also recognize as ordinary
income an amount equal to the lesser of (1) the difference
between 15% or such lesser percentage as the committee
administering the Stock Purchase Plan may determine of the last
sale price of the stock on the first day of the applicable
offering period and the price the participant paid for the stock
or (2) the difference between the fair market value of the
stock on the date it is sold and the price the participant paid
for it.
If a participant disposes of stock acquired under the Stock
Purchase Plan before the end of the two-year holding period
described in the preceding paragraph (a
disqualifying disposition), he or she will recognize
ordinary income in an amount equal to the difference between
(1) the fair market value of that stock at the time it was
purchased (determined by reference to the New York Stock
Exchange price on the last day of the applicable offering
period) and (2) the price the participant paid for the
stock. A participant will recognize this amount of ordinary
income even if the amount realized on the disposition is less
than the value of the stock on the date the participant
purchased it. If the amount realized on the disqualifying
disposition exceeds the value of the stock as of the date it was
purchased, the participant also will recognize short-term or
long-term capital gain, depending upon how long the stock was
held, in an amount equal to that excess.
We are entitled to a tax deduction for any ordinary income
participants recognize.
Your Board unanimously recommends a vote FOR the Stock
Purchase Plan.
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PROPOSAL THREE
APPROVAL OF THE 2008 LONG-TERM INCENTIVE PLAN
Your Board of Directors adopted the 2008 Long-Term Incentive
Plan on February 28, 2008. Under that plan, we can award
both cash-based and stock-based awards. In addition,
non-employee directors will receive payment of the first half,
and may elect to receive payment of the second half, of their
annual retainers in our common stock.
The 2008 Long-Term Incentive Plans primary purpose is to
assist the Corporation in attracting and retaining highly
competent officers, other key staff members, directors, and
advisory board members of the Corporation and its subsidiaries
and affiliates. The plan will act as an incentive in motivating
key officers, staff members, and directors to achieve our
long-term business objectives, while providing the flexibility
to tailor individual awards to meet changing business and tax
strategies.
Our shareholders approved our 2005 Long-Term Incentive Plan on
April 21, 2005. Awards in respect of 807,405 shares
remain available for grant under the 2005 plan. Your Board
recommends that shareholders approve the 2008 Long-Term
Incentive Plan as a successor to that plan. The provisions of
the 2008 plan are similar in many respects to the provisions of
the 2005 plan. The 2008 plan is summarized below. That summary
is qualified by reference to the 2008 plan, which is attached to
this proxy statement as Exhibit C.
We are seeking shareholder approval of the 2008 Long-Term
Incentive Plan in part to preserve our ability to deduct
compensation paid to executive officers under the plan.
Shareholder approval of the plan is a condition to our ability
to grant awards under the plan.
General
Provisions
Duration
of the 2008 Long-Term Incentive Plan; Share
Authorization
The 2008 Long-Term Incentive Plan will remain effective until
the fourth anniversary after shareholders approve it, unless the
Board of Directors terminates it earlier. The maximum number of
shares with respect to which awards may be granted under the
plan is 4,000,000 shares. We may not (1) grant any
person options or other awards in respect of more than
500,000 shares in any year during the plans term,
(2) re-price options or other awards under the plan after
they have been granted, nor (3) grant awards other than
options in respect of more than a total of 1,000,000 shares
during the plans term. The amount of awards payable to
participants under the 2008 Long-Term Incentive Plan cannot be
predicted with accuracy because those awards are contingent on
the selection by the Compensation Committee or the Select
Committee (consisting of either or both of our two employee
directors) (the Select Committee) (the Compensation
Committee and the Select Committee are sometimes referred to as
the Committee) of participants from time to time and
determining the size of awards. The shares to be issued under
the plan will be authorized but unissued shares or issued shares
that we have re-acquired and hold in treasury.
Shares covered by any unexercised portions of terminated
options, shares forfeited by participants, and shares subject to
any awards a participant otherwise surrenders without receiving
any payment or other benefit may again be subject to new awards
under the plan. If a participant pays the purchase price of an
option in whole or part by delivering our shares, the number of
shares issuable in connection with the exercise of the option
will not again be available for awards under the plan. Shares
used to measure the amount payable to a participant in respect
of an earned performance award will not again be available for
awards. Shares issued in payment of performance awards that are
denominated in cash amounts are not again available for awards.
Long-Term
Incentive Plan Participants
The Committee will administer the 2008 Long-Term Incentive Plan
and select persons eligible to receive awards under the plan. In
addition, non-employee directors will receive payment of the
first half, and may elect to receive payment of the second half,
of their annual retainers in shares of our stock. Twelve
non-employee directors, the 47 members of the advisory boards of
our banking subsidiaries, and all staff members of the
Corporation and its subsidiaries and affiliates currently are
eligible for consideration to participate in the plan.
Awards
Available Under Long-Term Incentive Plan
The Committee may grant awards under the 2008 Long-Term
Incentive Plan in the form of stock
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options, performance awards, and other stock-based and
cash-based awards. Awards under the plan may be granted alone or
in combination with other awards.
Stock
Options
The Committee may grant stock options meeting the requirements
of Section 422 of the Code (Incentive Stock
Options) and stock options that do not meet those
requirements (Nonstatutory Stock Options). The
Committee will determine the term of each option, but no option
will be exercisable more than ten years after grant. The
Committee also may impose restrictions on exercise. The exercise
price for options must at least equal 100% of the fair market
value of our common stock on the date of grant. The exercise
price is payable in cash or, if the Committee permits in the
award agreement, in shares of our stock or other property, by
reducing the number of shares issuable on the options
exercise, or by cashless exercise with an optionees broker.
Options and other awards granted under the plan are not
transferable except by will or the laws of descent and
distribution or, in certain circumstances, pursuant to a
qualified domestic relations order. If a participants
employment terminates due to death, disability, or retirement,
unexercised options previously granted under the plan that have
vested may be exercised by the participant or his or her
beneficiary, as the case may be, until the earlier of the
options expiration or three years after the termination of
the participants employment. In addition, in the case of a
participants retirement or disability, a portion of the
options that have not previously vested will, based upon the
length of the optionees service since the date of grant,
at the optionees election vest immediately. If a
participants employment terminates for other reasons,
unexercised options previously granted under the plan generally
terminate on that termination.
Performance
Awards
The Committee also may grant performance awards under the plan.
These awards are earned by recipients if specified performance
targets the Committee sets are met. The awards may be paid in
cash or shares of our stock. The performance targets can be
based on financial performance criteria, such as net income or
earnings per share, individual performance criteria, or a
combination of both. The amount of the award can be a fixed
dollar amount or a payment based on the increase in the value of
our common stock over a specified award period. When
circumstances occur that cause the performance targets to be an
inappropriate measure of achievement, the Committee may adjust
the targets. The Committee will determine the appropriate award
period for each performance award.
A participant has no right to receive a performance award on the
termination of his or her employment before the end of a
performance award period, except in the case of death,
disability, or retirement. If a participants employment
terminates due to death, disability, or retirement before the
end of a performance award period, the Committee may award the
participant or his or her beneficiary, as the case may be, a
pro rata portion of the performance award.
Other
Stock-Based Awards
The Committee may grant any other type of award valued in whole
or in part by reference to the value of our common stock. The
Committee will determine the terms and conditions of any such
awards.
Retainers
for Non-Employee Directors
While the 2008 Long-Term Incentive Plan is in effect, each
non-employee director will receive payment of the first half,
and may elect to receive payment of the second half, of his or
her annual retainer in shares of our common stock. Before the
time when the annual retainer is earned, each director will be
required to elect the form of payment of the second half of his
or her annual retainer. If no election is made, the second half
of the annual retainer will automatically be paid in cash.
For the portion of the annual retainer payable in shares of our
stock, we will issue shares having a fair market value equal to
the fees payable. We will pay cash in lieu of any fractional
shares.
The awards payable to non-employee directors under the plan in
respect of their annual retainers cannot be determined because
those awards are contingent on the amount of the annual retainer
and the election each director makes each year regarding the
second half of his or her annual retainer.
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Section 162(m)
If the Compensation Committee desires to structure any award
under the plan so that the compensation payable thereunder will
qualify as performance based under
Section 162(m), it may establish objective performance
goals as the basis for that award. Those performance goals will
be based on any combination the Compensation Committee selects
of income, net income, growth in income or net income, earnings
per share, growth in earnings per share, cash flow measures,
return on equity, return on assets, return on investment, loan
loss reserves, market share, fees, growth in fees, assets,
growth in assets, stockholder return, stock price, achievement
of balance sheet or income statement objectives, expenses,
reduction in expenses, chargoffs, nonperforming assets, market
share, and overhead ratio. Those goals may be company-wide or on
a departmental, divisional, regional, or individual basis. Any
goal may be measured in absolute terms, by reference to internal
performance targets, or as compared to another company or
companies, and may be measured by the change in that performance
target compared to a previous period. The goals may be different
each year, and will be established with respect to a particular
year by the latest date permitted by Section 162(m).
Change in
Control
Upon a change in control of Wilmington Trust, all options under
the 2008 Long-Term Incentive Plan will become exercisable
immediately, and all performance targets for performance awards
will be deemed to have been met. A change in control for
purposes of the plan has the same meaning as for the change in
control agreements described on page 28 of this proxy
statement.
Termination, Amendment, and ERISA Status
The Board may amend or terminate the 2008 Long-Term Incentive
Plan, and the Committee may amend or alter awards. No action may
impair a participants rights under any award granted
previously without the participants consent. The Board may
not make any amendment to the plan without shareholder approval
if that amendment would require shareholder approval under the
Code or other applicable law.
The 2008 Long-Term Incentive Plan is not subject to ERISA.
Antidilution Provisions
The number of shares of our stock authorized to be issued under
the 2008 Long-Term Incentive Plan and subject to outstanding
awards, the purchase or exercise price, and the number of shares
that may be granted to any recipient may be adjusted to prevent
dilution or enlargement of rights in the event of any stock
dividend, reorganization, reclassification, recapitalization,
stock split, combination, merger, consolidation, or other
relevant change in our capitalization.
Certain Federal Income Tax Consequences
The following is a brief summary of the principal federal income
tax consequences of awards under the 2008 Long-Term Incentive
Plan. This summary is not intended to be exhaustive. It does not
describe state, local, or foreign tax consequences.
Incentive
Stock Options
A participant in the 2008 Long-Term Incentive Plan generally is
not subject to federal income tax either at the time of grant or
at the time an Incentive Stock Option is exercised. However,
upon exercise, the difference between the fair market value of
the shares underlying the option and the exercise price is
includable in the participants alternative minimum taxable
income. If a participant does not dispose of shares acquired
upon exercise of an Incentive Stock Option within one year after
receipt of those shares (and within two years after the date the
option is granted), he or she will be taxed only on the sale of
those shares, and that tax will be at the capital gains rate.
We will not receive any tax deduction on exercise of an
Incentive Stock Option or, if the holding requirements are met,
on the sale of the shares underlying that option. If a
disqualifying disposition occurs (e.g. , one of the
holding requirements mentioned above is not met), the
participant will be treated as receiving compensation subject to
ordinary income tax in the year of the disqualifying
disposition. We will be entitled to a deduction equal to the
amount the participant includes in income. The tax generally
will be imposed on the difference between the fair market value
of the shares at the time of exercise and the exercise price or,
if less, the gain the participant realized on the sale. Any
appreciation in value after exercise will be taxed as capital
gain and not result in any deduction by us.
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Nonstatutory
Stock Options
There are no federal income tax consequences to a participant at
the time we grant a Nonstatutory Stock Option. On exercise of
the option, the participant must pay tax at ordinary income
rates on an amount equal to the difference between the exercise
price and the fair market value of the underlying shares on the
date of exercise. We will receive a commensurate tax deduction
at the time of exercise. Any appreciation in value after
exercise will be taxed as capital gain and not result in any
deduction by us.
Performance
and Other Stock-Based Awards
The grant of performance awards is not a taxable event for
federal income tax purposes at grant. A participant will be
required to pay ordinary income tax when the award vests in an
amount equal to the amount of cash and the value of any shares
included in the distribution. In some circumstances, a
participant may be able to file a Section 83(b)
election and accelerate his or her ordinary income tax
liability. We will have a commensurate tax deduction.
Annual
Retainers
Non-employee directors will recognize ordinary income equal to
the fair market value of the shares of our stock they receive in
payment of their annual retainers. We will be entitled to a
deduction in the same amount.
Vote Required
The affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the shares
of stock issued and outstanding on the Record Date is required
to approve this proposal.
Your Board unanimously recommends a vote FOR the 2008
Long-Term Incentive Plan.
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Independent
Registered Public Accounting Firm Services Policy
The Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of Wilmington
Trust Corporation and its subsidiaries (collectively, the
Company) reviews regularly all services provided to
the Company by its independent registered public accounting firm
(the Auditor). In light of recent public concerns
regarding non-audit services provided to companies by their
Auditor and requirements imposed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the
Securities and Exchange Commission, and the New York Stock
Exchange, the Audit Committee of the Companys Board of
Directors has adopted the following policy regarding services
provided by the Auditor.
The Audit Committee has agreed that the following services may
be procured from the Auditor without further prior approval of
the Audit Committee:
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Annual consolidated and subsidiary financial statement audits,
including reviews of unaudited quarterly consolidated financial
statements and procedures developed in response to new or
pending pronouncements by governing authorities, such as the
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the Financial
Accounting Standards Board, the American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants, the Securities and Exchange Commission, or
the New York Stock Exchange;
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Statement of Auditing Standards No. 70 Report of the
Companys Corporate Retirement and Custody Services
Division and Wealth Advisory Services Business Line;
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Annual financial statements audits of the Companys defined
benefit, defined contribution and other employee benefit plans,
and common and short-term trust funds;
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Review of audits of the Companys affiliates;
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Tax compliance assistance in preparing the Companys
federal and state income tax returns;
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Tax planning research;
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Reports on the effectiveness of internal controls required by
FDICIA
and/or the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act; and
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Consents and comfort letters required for the Companys
filings under the 1933 Securities Act and the 1934 Securities
and Exchange Act.
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All such services provided by the Auditor shall be reported to
the Audit Committee at its next meeting. It is the intent of the
Audit Committee to adhere to these listed services being
provided by the Auditor. However, the Audit Committee is willing
to consider a recommendation by the Companys management as
to a specific service if management believes that the provision
of such services would not compromise the Auditors
independence.
Any engagement of the Auditor for the performance of
consulting services other than the services listed
above shall be reviewed by the Audit Committee prior to
engagement. Situations requiring urgency may be authorized by
the Committee Chair. In no circumstance will the Auditor be
engaged to provide services prohibited by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
or its implementing regulations, including financial information
systems design and implementation, or to prepare personal tax
returns of any of the Companys executive officers.
EXHIBIT A
WILMINGTON
TRUST CORPORATION
The purpose of Wilmington Trust Corporations amended
2008 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the Plan) is to
provide all regular employees of Wilmington
Trust Corporation (the Company) and those of
its subsidiaries that may be designated as participating
companies by the Companys Board of Directors from time to
time an opportunity to purchase shares of the Companys
common stock, par value $1 per share (Common Stock),
through annual offerings to be made from time to time for the
duration of the Plan; and to foster interest in the
Companys success, growth, and development. The Company
intends that the Plan qualify as an Employee Stock
Purchase Plan within the meaning of Section 423 of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the
Code). Accordingly, the Plans provisions shall
be construed to extend and limit participation in a manner
consistent with the requirements of that section of the code.
a. Any Employee shall be eligible to participate in the
Plan as of the beginning of the Plan year coincident with or
next following the completion of at least one month of
continuous service with one or more Employers, subject to the
limitations imposed by Section 423(b) of the Code.
b. Any provision of the Plan to the contrary
notwithstanding, no Employee shall be granted an option:
(1) If, immediately after that grant, the Employee would
own shares,
and/or hold
outstanding options to purchase shares, possessing 5% or more of
the total combined voting power or value of all classes of stock
of the Company or of any subsidiary of the Company; or
(2) That permits an Employee rights to purchase shares
under all employee stock purchase plans of the Company and its
subsidiaries to accrue at a rate that exceeds $25,000 of the
fair market value of the shares (determined at the time that
option is granted) for each calendar year in which those stock
options are outstanding at any time.
The Company will make one or more annual offerings to Employees
to purchase stock hereunder. The terms and conditions of each
such offering shall specify the number of shares that may be
purchased thereunder. The fixed term of any offering shall
include a Purchase Period of specified duration, during which
(or during that period thereof during which an Employee may
elect to participate) the amounts received by an Employee as
Base Salary shall constitute the measure of that Employees
participation in the offering.
An Employee who is, on the effective date of any offering,
eligible to participate in that offering, may participate by
completing and forwarding the information requested at Benefits
Online on the Companys ICON site. Payroll deductions for a
Participant shall commence on the date when the authorization
for a payroll deduction becomes effective and end on the
termination date of the offering to which that authorization
applies, unless terminated sooner by the Participant in
accordance with Paragraph 8 below.
A Participants payroll deduction authorization shall
authorize deductions each payday during a Purchase Period at a
rate not to exceed 10% of the Participants Base Salary at
the beginning of that Purchase Period but, at a minimum, at a
rate that will accumulate an amount equal to the offering price
of at least five shares by the end of the Purchase Period.
a. All payroll deductions made for a Participant shall be
credited to a bookkeeping account under the Plan. A Participant
may not make separate cash payments into that account.
b. A Participant may at any time prospectively decrease the
amount authorized to be deducted per period, provided the
minimum deduction required above is maintained. That change may
not become effective sooner than the next pay
EXHIBIT B
period ending after receipt of the form by the appropriate
payroll location. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained herein, a Participant may reduce payroll deductions
hereunder only once during any Purchase Period.
c. A Participant may discontinue participation in the Plan
in accordance with Paragraph 8 below.
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Granting of an Option.
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a. In any offering hereunder, each Participant shall be
granted an option, on the Date of Offering, for as many full
shares of Common Stock as he or she elects to purchase with the
payroll deductions credited to the Participants account
during the Purchase Period, based on the option price for the
Purchase Period, as described in Subparagraph 6(b) below.
b. The option price per share of shares purchased with
payroll deductions made for a Participant during any Purchase
Period shall be eighty-five percent or such greater percentage
as the Committee may determine in its sole discretion of the
last sale price of the Common Stock on the first day of the
Purchase Period or, if there was no such reported sale of Common
Stock on that date, on the next preceding date on which there
was such a reported sale.
a. As of the last day of the Purchase Period for any
offering, the account of each Participant shall be totaled and
the option price determined. If a Participant has sufficient
funds (including interest credited on his or her account at the
rate computed in accordance with Paragraph 9 below) to
purchase five or more full shares at the option price, that
Participant shall be deemed to have exercised the option to
purchase the number of shares for which he or she has subscribed
at that price, and his or her account shall be charged for the
number of shares so purchased.
b. Participation in an offering will not bar an Employee
from participating in any subsequent offering hereunder. Payroll
deductions may be made under each offering to the extent the
Employee authorizes, subject to the maximum and minimum
limitations for that offering imposed hereby. A separate account
shall be maintained for each Participant with respect to each
offering. Any unused balance in a Participants account at
the end of a Purchase Period shall be refunded, with interest
computed in accordance with Paragraph 9 below.
c. If a Participant does not accumulate sufficient funds in
his or her account to purchase at least five shares during a
Purchase Period, the Participant thereupon shall be deemed to
have withdrawn from that offering, and his or her account will
be refunded, with interest computed in accordance with
Paragraph 9 below.
d. The shares of Common Stock purchased by a Participant
upon the exercise of his or her option in accordance herewith
shall not include fractional shares. Amounts credited to a
Participants account which would have been used to
purchase fractional shares shall be refunded to the Participant,
with interest computed in accordance with Paragraph 9 below.
a. A Participant may withdraw all payroll deductions
credited to an account hereunder at any time before the end of a
Purchase Period by giving the Company written notice. All
payroll deductions credited to that account shall be paid to the
Participant, with interest computed in accordance with
Paragraph 9 below, promptly after receipt of notice of
withdrawal, and no further payroll deductions shall be made for
that Participant in respect of that offering.
b. Except as provided in the following sentence, an
Employees withdrawal from the Plan shall not have any
effect upon his or her eligibility to participate in any
succeeding offering hereunder; provided that Section 16
Officers who make withdrawals or otherwise cease participation
in the Plan during any Purchase Period shall be precluded from
re-participation in the Plan until the next Purchase Period that
begins at least six months after that withdrawal or cessation of
participation.
c. If an Employee retires or otherwise terminates
employment, no payroll deduction shall be made from any pay due
and owing at
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that time, and the balance in the Employees account shall
be paid to the Employee, with interest computed in accordance
with Paragraph 9 below or, at the Employees election,
used to purchase Common Stock in accordance with
Paragraph 7 above.
d. If an Employee dies, that Employees beneficiary
may elect to withdraw the balance in his or her account, with
interest computed in accordance with Paragraph 9 below, or
apply it to the purchase of the appropriate number of full
shares of Common Stock at a price determined in accordance with
Paragraph 6 above, using the date of death as though it
were the last day of the Purchase Period. Any balance in that
account remaining after that purchase shall be paid, with
interest computed in accordance with Paragraph 9 below, to
the person or persons entitled thereto in accordance with
Paragraph 12 below.
Each Participants account shall be credited with interest
at the rate in effect from time to time on statement savings
accounts of Wilmington Trust Company that may not be
accessed by check.
a. The shares to be sold to Participants hereunder are to
be authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock, or issued
shares of Common Stock that the Company has reacquired and holds
in its treasury. The maximum number of shares that shall be made
available for sale hereunder during all offerings shall be
800,000 shares, subject to adjustment upon changes in the
Companys capitalization as provided in Paragraph 14
below.
b. None of the rights or privileges of a stockholder of the
Company shall exist with respect to shares purchased hereunder
until the end of the Purchase Period with respect to which those
shares were acquired.
c. If in any offering Employees subscribe for more shares
than remain available under the Plan, the shares in that
offering shall be allocated pro rata among
employees by multiplying the number of shares remaining under
the Plan by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of
shares the Employee subscribed for in that offering and the
denominator of which is the number of shares all Employees
subscribed for in that offering.
d. Shares to be delivered to an Employee hereunder will be
registered in the Employees name or, if directed by
written notice to Wilmington Trust Companys Human
Resources Department before the end of a Purchase Period, in the
names of the Employee and one other person, as joint tenants
with rights of survivorship, to the extent permitted by
applicable law.
The Plan shall be administered by a committee (the
Committee) consisting of not less than three members
who shall be appointed by the Companys Board of Directors.
Each member of the Committee shall be either a director, an
officer, or an Employee of an Employer. The Committee shall be
vested with full authority to make, administer, and interpret
rules and regulations that it deems necessary or desirable to
administer the Plan. Any determination, decision,
interpretation, administration, or application hereof shall be
final, conclusive, and binding upon all Participants and any and
all persons claiming under or through any Participant.
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Designation of Beneficiary.
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A Participant may designate a beneficiary to Wilmington
Trust Companys (WTCs) Human
Resources Department who is to receive any shares
and/or cash
for the Participants credit hereunder in the event of that
Participants death before the delivery of those shares
and/or cash.
The Participant may change that designation at any time by
providing notice to WTCs Human Resources Department. Upon
the death of a Participant and receipt by WTCs Human
Resources Department of proof of the Participants death
and the identity and existence of a beneficiary validly
designated hereunder, the Company shall deliver those shares
and/or that
cash to the executor or administrator of the Participants
estate. If no such executor or administrator has been appointed
to the Companys knowledge, the Company may, in its
discretion and in such form as the Committee may prescribe,
deliver those shares
and/or that
cash to the Participants
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spouse or to any one or more dependents or relatives of the
Participant. If no spouse, dependent or relative is known to the
Company, then the Company may, in its discretion and in such
form as the Committee may prescribe, deliver those shares
and/or that
cash to such other person as the Committee may designate. No
such designated beneficiary shall, before the death of the
Participant by whom the beneficiary has been designated, acquire
any interest in the shares
and/or cash
credited to the Participant hereunder.
No rights with respect to the exercise of any option or to
receive shares hereunder may be assigned, transferred, pledged,
or otherwise disposed of by an Employee. Options granted
hereunder are not transferable by an Employee otherwise than by
will or the laws of descent and distribution, and are
exercisable during an Employees lifetime only by the
Employee.
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Changes in Capitalization.
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The number and kind of shares subject to outstanding options
hereunder, the purchase price of those options, and the number
and kind of shares available for options subsequently made
available hereunder shall be adjusted appropriately to reflect
any stock dividend, stock split, combination, or exchange of the
Companys shares, merger, consolidation, or other change in
the Companys capitalization with a similar substantive
effect upon the Plan or options granted or to be granted
hereunder. The Committee shall have the power and sole
discretion to determine the nature and amount of the adjustment
to be made in each case.
All payroll deductions received or held by an Employer hereunder
may be used by the Employer for any corporate purpose, and the
Employer shall not be obligated to segregate those payroll
deductions.
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Government Regulations.
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The Companys obligations to sell and deliver the
Companys stock hereunder are subject to the approval of
any governmental authority required in connection with the
authorization, issuance, or sale of that stock. The
Companys Board of Directors may, in its discretion,
require as conditions to the exercise of any option granted
hereunder that the shares of Common Stock reserved for issuance
upon the exercise of the option have been duly listed, upon
official notice of issuance, on a stock exchange or the National
Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System,
and that either:
a. A Registration Statement with respect to those shares is
effective under the Securities Act of 1933; or
b. The Participant has represented at the time of purchase,
in form and substance satisfactory to the Company, that he or
she intends to purchase those shares for investment and not for
resale or distribution.
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Amendment or Termination.
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Unless terminated sooner by the Companys Board of
Directors, the Plan shall terminate automatically as of
May 31, 2013. The Companys Board of Directors may
terminate or amend the Plan at any time. No such termination
shall affect options previously granted hereunder. No such
amendment may make any change in any option theretofore granted
hereunder that would adversely affect the rights of any
Participant, nor be made without the prior approval of a
majority of the shares of the Companys outstanding stock
if that approval would be required by law, including if that
amendment would:
a. Permit the sale of more shares than are authorized under
Paragraph 10 above; or
b. Permit payroll deductions at a rate in excess of 10% of
a Participants Base Salary.
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No Employment Rights.
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The Plan does not, directly or indirectly, create any right for
the benefit of any Employee or class of Employees to purchase
any shares hereunder, or create in any Employee or class of
Employees any right with respect to continuation of employment
by the Company or any direct or indirect subsidiary thereof. The
Plan shall not be deemed to interfere in any way with the right
of the Company or any direct or indirect subsidiary thereof to
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terminate, or otherwise modify, an Employees employment at
any time.
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Governing Law. Delaware law, other than the
conflict-of-laws provisions of that law, shall govern all
matters relating to the Plan, except as that law is superseded
by the laws of the United States.
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Definitions.
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Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms used herein
shall have the following meanings:
a. Base Salary means regular straight-time
earnings, excluding payments for overtime, incentive
compensation, bonuses, and other special payments except to the
extent the Committee specifically approves including any such
item.
b. Committee means the committee established
pursuant to Paragraph 11 above to administer the Plan.
c. Date of Offering shall be the first day of
each Purchase Period.
d. Employee shall mean any person, including an
officer, who is customarily employed by an Employer for
15 hours or more per week and for more than five months in
a calendar year.
e. Employer means the Company and any
subsidiary company designated as a participating company by the
Companys Board of Directors, 15% or more of the voting
stock of which is owned directly or indirectly by the Company.
f. Participant means an Employee who has agreed
to participate in an offering and has met the requirements of
Paragraph 4 above.
g. Purchase Period means each of the periods
during which a Participant may purchase Common Stock pursuant to
any particular offering hereunder.
h. Section 16 Officers means officers of
the Company, or of any subsidiary of the Company 25% or more of
the voting stock of which is owned directly or indirectly by the
Company, designated as Section 16 Officers by resolution of
the Board of Directors of the Company from time to time.
WILMINGTON
TRUST CORPORATION
The 2008 Long-Term Incentive Plan (the Plan) of
Wilmington Trust Corporation (Wilmington Trust)
is designed to encourage and facilitate ownership of stock by,
and provide additional incentive compensation based on
appreciation of that stock to, key staff members and directors
and advisory board members of Wilmington Trust and other
entities to whom the Committee grants Awards. Wilmington Trust
hopes thereby to provide a potential proprietary interest as
additional incentive for the efforts of those individuals in
promoting Wilmington Trusts continued growth and the
success of its business. The Plan also will aid Wilmington Trust
in attracting and retaining professional and managerial
personnel.
The Plan shall be administered by the Corporations
Compensation Committee, consisting solely of non-staff member
directors, the Corporations Select Committee, consisting
of either or both of its two staff member directors, or any
other committee of the Corporations Board of Directors
that the Board may appoint from time to time to administer the
Plan (all such committees are hereinafter sometimes collectively
referred to as the Committee). The Compensation
Committee shall have sole authority to grant Awards to a
Participant who is, at the Date of Grant of the Award, either a
covered employee as defined in Section 162(m)
or subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act. The
Compensation Committee also shall have authority to grant Awards
to other Participants. The Select Committee shall have authority
to grant Awards to Participants who are not, at the Date of
Grant of the Award, either covered employees as
defined in Section 162(m) or subject to Section 16 of
the Exchange Act.
The Committee shall have the power and authority to administer
the Plan in accordance with this Section 2. Wilmington
Trusts Board may appoint members of the Committee from
time to time in substitution for those members who previously
were appointed and may fill vacancies in the Committee, however
caused.
The Committee shall have exclusive and final authority in each
determination, interpretation, or other action affecting the
Plan and the Participants. The Committee shall have the sole and
absolute discretion to interpret the Plan, establish and modify
administrative rules for the Plan, select persons to whom Awards
may be granted, determine the terms and provisions of Award
Agreements (which need not be identical), determine all claims
for benefits hereunder, impose conditions and restrictions on
Awards it determines to be appropriate, and take steps in
connection with the Plan and Awards it deems necessary or
advisable. In the event of a conflict between determinations
made by the Compensation Committee and the Select Committee, the
determination of the Compensation Committee shall control.
A majority of the Compensation Committees members shall
constitute a quorum thereof, and action by a majority of a
quorum shall constitute action by the Compensation Committee.
Compensation Committee members may participate in meetings by
conference telephone or other similar communications equipment
by means of which all members participating in the meeting can
hear each other. Any decision or determination reduced to
writing and signed by all of the Compensation Committees
members shall be as effective as if that action had been taken
by a vote at a meeting of the Committee duly called and held.
The Committee shall not authorize issuance of more than a total
of 4,000,000 shares hereunder, except as otherwise provided
in Section 9(i) below. These may either be authorized and
unissued shares or previously issued shares Wilmington Trust has
reacquired. The shares covered by any unexercised portions of
terminated Options granted under Section 5 and shares
subject to any Awards the Participant otherwise surrenders
without receiving any payment or other benefit may again be
subject to new Awards hereunder. If a Participant pays the
purchase price of an Option or tax liability associated with
that exercise in whole or part by delivering Wilmington
Trust Stock, the number of shares issuable in connection
with
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the Options exercise shall not again be available for the
grant of Awards. Shares used to measure the amount payable to a
Participant in respect of Performance Awards or Other Awards
shall not again be available for the grant of Awards. Shares
issued in payment of Performance Awards denominated in cash
amounts shall not again be available for the grant of Awards.
The Committee shall designate Participants from time to time in
its sole and absolute discretion. Those Participants may include
officers, other key staff members, and directors and advisory
board members of, and consultants to, Wilmington Trust or its
subsidiaries or affiliates. In making those designations, the
Committee may take into account the nature of the services the
officers, key staff members, directors, advisory board members,
and consultants render, their present and potential
contributions to Wilmington Trust, and other factors the
Committee deems relevant in its sole and absolute discretion.
If the Committee designates a Participant to receive an Award in
any year, it need not designate that person to receive an Award
in any other year. In addition, if the Committee designates a
Participant to receive an Award under one portion hereof, it
need not include that Participant under any other portion
hereof. The Committee may grant more than one type of Award to a
Participant at one time or at different times.
a. Grant of Options. The Committee shall
designate the form of Options and additional terms and
conditions not inconsistent with the Plan. The Committee may
grant Options either alone or in addition to other Awards. The
terms and conditions of Option Awards need not be the same with
respect to each Participant. The Committee may grant to
Participants one or more incentive stock options
(Incentive Stock Options) that meet the requirements
of Section 422 of the Code, stock options that do not meet
those requirements (Nonstatutory Stock Options), or
both. To the extent any Option does not qualify as an Incentive
Stock Option, whether because of its provisions, the time or
manner of its exercise, or otherwise, that Option or the portion
thereof that does not so qualify shall constitute a separate
Nonstatutory Stock Option.
b. Incentive Stock Options. Each
provision hereof and in any Award Agreement the Committee
designates as an Incentive Stock Option shall be interpreted to
entitle the holder to the tax treatment afforded by
Section 422 of the Code, except in connection with the
exercise of Options: (1) following a Participants
Termination of Employment; (2) in accordance with the
Committees specific determination with the consent of the
affected Participant; or (3) to the extent Section 9
would cause an Option to no longer be entitled to that
treatment. If any provision herein or the Award Agreement is
held not to comply with requirements necessary to entitle that
Option to that tax treatment, then except as otherwise provided
in the preceding sentence: (x) that provision shall be
deemed to have contained from the outset the language necessary
to entitle the Option to that tax treatment; and (y) all
other provisions herein and in that Award Agreement shall remain
in full force and effect. Except as otherwise specified in the
first sentence of this Section 5(b), if any Award Agreement
covering an Option the Committee designates to be an Incentive
Stock Option does not explicitly include any term required to
entitle that Option to that tax treatment, all those terms shall
be deemed implicit in the designation of that Option, and that
Option shall be deemed to have been granted subject to all of
those terms.
c. Option Price. The Committee shall
determine the per share exercise price of each Option. That
price shall be at least the greater of (1) the par value
per share of Wilmington Trust Stock and (2) 100% of
the last sale price of Wilmington Trust Stock on the Date
of Grant.
d. Option Term. The Committee shall fix
the term of each Option, but no Option shall be exercisable more
than ten years after the date the Committee grants it.
e. Exercisability. The Committee may at
the time of grant determine performance targets, waiting
periods, exercise dates, and other
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restrictions on exercise and designate those in the Award
Agreement.
f. Method of Exercise. Subject to any
waiting periods that may apply under Section 5(e) above, a
Participant may exercise Options in whole or in part at any time
during the period of time, if any, set forth in the Award
Agreement during which that Option or portion thereof is
exercisable by giving Wilmington Trust written notice specifying
the number of shares to be purchased. The Participant must
accompany that notice by payment in full of the purchase price
in a form the Committee may accept. If the Committee determines
in its sole discretion at or after grant, a Participant also may
make payment in full or in part in the form of shares of
Wilmington Trust Stock already owned
and/or in
the form of shares otherwise issuable upon exercise of the
Option. In either case, the value of that stock shall be based
on the Market Value Per Share of Wilmington Trust Stock
tendered on the date the Option is exercised.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the right to pay the purchase
price of an Incentive Stock Option in the form of already-owned
shares or shares otherwise issuable upon exercise of the Option
may be authorized only at the time of grant. No shares shall be
issued until payment therefor has been made as provided herein,
except as otherwise provided herein. In general, a Participant
shall have the right to dividends and other rights of a
shareholder with respect to Wilmington Trust Stock subject
to the Option only when certificates for shares of that stock
are issued to the Participant.
g. Acceleration or Extension of Exercise
Time. The Committee may, in its sole and absolute
discretion, on or after the Date of Grant, permit shares subject
to any Option to become exercisable or be purchased before that
Option would otherwise become exercisable under the Award
Agreement. In addition, the Committee may, in its sole and
absolute discretion, on or after the Date of Grant, permit any
Option granted hereunder to be exercised after its expiration
date, subject to the limitation in Section 5(d) above. Any
extension of the expiration date of an Option under this
Section 5(g) must result in the Option complying with or
being exempt from the requirements of Section 409A of the
Code.
h. Termination of Employment. Unless the
Committee provides otherwise in an Award Agreement or after
granting an Option, if the employment of a Participant who has
received an Option terminates on other than: (1) the
Participants Normal Retirement Date; (2) the
Participants Other Retirement Date; (3) the
Participants death; or (4) the Participants
Disability, all Options previously granted to that Participant
but not exercised before that Termination of Employment shall
expire as of that date.
i. Death, Disability, or Retirement of a
Participant. If a Participant dies while employed
by the employer he or she was employed with when he or she was
last granted Options, an Option theretofore granted to that
Participant shall not be exercisable after the earlier of the
expiration of that Option or three years after the date of that
Participants death, and only (1) by the person or
persons to whom the Participants rights under that Option
passed under the Participants will or by the laws of
descent and distribution and (2) if and to the extent the
Participant was entitled to exercise that Option at the date of
his or her death.
If a Participants employment with the employer he or she
was employed with when he or she was last granted Options
terminates due to Disability or on the Participants Normal
Retirement Date or Other Retirement Date, an Option theretofore
granted to that Participant shall not be exercisable after the
earlier of the expiration date of the Option or three years
after the date of the Disability or retirement. If the
Participant has died before then, an Option theretofore granted
to that Participant shall be exercisable (1) only by the
person or persons to whom the Participants rights under
the Option passed under the Participants will or by the
laws of descent and distribution and (2) if and to the
extent the Participant was entitled to exercise that Option on
the date of his or her death.
a. Grant of Performance Awards. The
Committee also may grant awards payable in
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cash or shares or a combination of both at the end of a
specified performance period (Performance Awards)
hereunder. These shall consist of the right to receive payment
measured by (1) a specified number of shares at the end of
an Award Period, (2) the Market Value Per Share of a
specified number of shares at the end of an Award Period,
(3) the increase in the Market Value Per Share of a
specified number of shares during an Award Period, or (4) a
fixed cash amount payable at the end of an Award Period,
contingent on the extent to which certain pre-determined
performance targets are met during the Award Period. The
Committee shall determine the Participants, if any, to whom
Performance Awards are awarded, the number of Performance Awards
awarded to any Participant, the duration of the Award Period
during which any Performance Award will be vested, and other
terms and conditions of Performance Awards.
b. Performance Targets. The Committee may
establish performance targets for Performance Awards in its sole
and absolute discretion. These may include individual
performance standards or specified levels of revenues from
operations, earnings per share, return on shareholders
equity,
and/or other
goals related to the performance of Wilmington Trust or any of
its subsidiaries or affiliates. The Committee may, in its sole
and absolute discretion, in circumstances in which events or
transactions occur to cause the established performance targets
to be an inappropriate measure of achievement, change the
performance targets for any Award Period before the final
determination of a Performance Award.
c. Earned Performance Awards. In granting
a Performance Award, the Committee may prescribe a formula to
determine the percentage of the Performance Award to be earned
based upon the degree performance targets are attained. The
degree of attainment of performance targets shall be determined
as of the last day of the Award Period.
d. Payment of Earned Performance
Awards. Wilmington Trust shall pay earned
Performance Awards granted under Section 6(a)(2) or 6(a)(3)
above in cash or shares based on the Market Value Per Share of
Wilmington Trust Stock on the last day of an Award Period,
or a combination of cash and shares, at the Committees
sole and absolute discretion. Wilmington Trust shall normally
make payment as soon as practicable after an Award Period.
However, the Committee may permit deferral of payment of all or
a portion of a Performance Award payable in cash upon a
Participants request made on a timely basis in accordance
with rules the Committee prescribes. Those deferred amounts may
earn interest for the Participant under the conditions of a
separate agreement the Committee approves and the Participant
executes. In its sole and absolute discretion, the Committee may
define in the Award Agreement other conditions on paying earned
Performance Awards it deems desirable to carry out the purposes
hereof.
e. Termination of Employment. Unless the
Committee provides otherwise in the Award Agreement or as
otherwise provided below, in the case of a Participants
Termination of Employment before the end of an Award Period, the
Participant will not be entitled to any Performance Award.
f. Disability, Death, or
Retirement. Unless the Committee provides
otherwise in the Award Agreement or after the grant of a
Performance Award, if a Participants Disability Date or
the date of a Participants Termination of Employment due
to death or retirement on or after his or her Normal Retirement
Date or Other Retirement Date occurs before the end of an Award
Period, the Participant or the Participants Beneficiary
shall be entitled to receive a pro-rata share of his or her
Award in accordance with Section 6(g) below.
g. Pro-Rata Payment. The amount of any
payment Wilmington Trust makes to a Participant or that
Participants Beneficiary under circumstances described in
Section 6(f) above shall be determined by multiplying the
amount of the Performance Award that would have been earned,
determined at the end of the Performance Award Period, if that
Participants employment had not been terminated, by a
fraction, the numerator of which is the number of whole months
the Participant was employed during the Award Period and the
denominator of which is the total number of months in the
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Award Period. That payment shall be made as soon as practicable
after the end of that Award Period, and shall relate to
attainment of the applicable performance targets over the entire
Award Period.
h. Other Events. Notwithstanding anything
to the contrary contained in this Section 6, the Committee
may, in its sole and absolute discretion, determine to pay all
or any portion of a Performance Award to a Participant who has
terminated employment before the end of an Award Period under
certain circumstances, including a material change in
circumstances arising after the date the Performance Award is
granted, and subject to terms and conditions the Committee deems
appropriate.
i. Code
Section 409A. Notwithstanding any other
provision of this Section 6, each Performance Award
constituting deferred compensation within the meaning of
Section 409A of the Code shall comply with the requirements
of Section 409A.
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a. Grant of Other Awards. The Committee
may grant other Awards under this Section 7 (Other
Awards), valued in whole or in part by reference to, or
otherwise based on, shares of Wilmington Trust Stock.
Subject to the provisions hereof, the Committee shall have the
sole and absolute discretion to determine the persons to whom
and the time or times at which those Awards are made, the number
of shares to be granted pursuant thereto, if any, and all other
conditions of those Awards. Any Other Award shall be confirmed
by an Award Agreement. The Award Agreement shall contain
provisions the Committee determines necessary or appropriate to
carry out the intent hereof with respect to the Award.
b. Terms of Other Awards. In addition to
the terms and conditions specified in the Award Agreement, Other
Awards made under this Section 7 shall be subject to the
following:
(1) Any shares subject to Other Awards may not be sold,
assigned, transferred, pledged, or otherwise encumbered before
the date on which those shares are issued or, if later, the date
on which any applicable restriction, performance, or deferral
period lapses;
(2) If specified in the Award Agreement, the recipient of
an Other Award shall be entitled to receive, currently or on a
deferred basis, dividends or dividend equivalents with respect
to the shares covered by that Award, and the Committee may, in
its sole and absolute discretion, provide in the Award Agreement
that those amounts be reinvested in additional shares;
(3) The Award Agreement shall contain provisions dealing
with the disposition of the Award in the event of the
Participants Termination of Employment before the
exercise, realization, or payment of the Award. The Committee
may, in its sole and absolute discretion, waive any of the
restrictions imposed with respect to any Other Award; and
(4) Shares issued as a bonus pursuant to this
Section 7 shall be issued for the consideration the
Committee determines is appropriate, in its sole and absolute
discretion, but rights to purchase shares shall be priced at at
least 100% of the Market Value Per Share on the date the Other
Award is granted.
a. Payment of Annual Retainer. During the
term hereof, each non-employee director of each company the
Compensation Committee designates to participate in this
Section 8 shall be paid the first half of his or her Annual
Retainer in Wilmington Trust Stock. Each director also may
elect to receive the second half of his or her Annual Retainer
in cash or Wilmington Trust Stock, or a combination of
both. The Compensation Committee shall establish rules with
respect to electing the form of payment provided for in the
preceding sentence to facilitate compliance with
Rule 16b-3.
The number of shares to be issued to a non-employee director who
receives shares pursuant to this Section 8(a) shall be the
dollar amount of the portion of the Annual Retainer payable in
shares divided by the Market Value Per Share of a share of
Wilmington Trust Stock on the business day immediately
preceding the date that installment of the Annual Retainer is
otherwise paid to that companys directors. Wilmington
Trust shall not be required to issue
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fractional shares. Whenever under this Section 8 a
fractional share would otherwise be required to be issued,
Wilmington Trust shall pay an amount in lieu thereof in cash
based upon the Market Value Per Share of that fractional share.
b. Deferral of Payment of Annual Retainer.
(1) Except as provided below, a director may irrevocably
elect to defer receipt of all or any number of the shares of
stock representing the Annual Retainer payable for a calendar
year and receive a credit under his or Stock Unit Account of an
equivalent number of Stock Units. Any such deferral election
must be made in a time period the Committee may designate from
time to time, provided that such period shall not end later than
December 31 of the calendar year prior to the calendar year with
respect to which the deferral election is made. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, in the case of the first year in which a director
becomes eligible to defer receipt of an Annual Retainer under
this Plan, the director may make an initial deferral election
within 30 days after the date the director becomes eligible
to participate in the Plan with respect to any Annual Retainer
earned later that same calendar year.
(2) A directors Stock Unit Account shall be credited
with a number of Stock Units equal in value to the amount of any
cash dividends or stock distributions that would be payable with
respect to those Stock Unit if those Stock Units had been
outstanding shares of Wilmington Trust Stock
(dividend equivalents). The number of Stock Units
credited with respect to cash dividends shall be determined by
dividing the amount of cash dividends that would be payable by
the Fair Market Value of Wilmington Trust Stock as of the
date those cash dividends would be payable.
(3) The Stock Units in a directors Stock Unit Account
shall be distributed, or commence to be distributed, to the
Participant only in the form of Wilmington Trust Stock
(with fractional shares being payable in cash) upon that
directors separation from service (within the
meaning of Section 409A of the Code) in a lump sum payment
or in periodic payments over time, as elected by the director at
the time specified in Section 8(b)(1) above in accordance
with procedures the Committee may establish. A director shall be
entitled to receive a distribution of one share of Wilmington
Trust Stock for each Stock Unit credited to his or her
Stock Unit Account and cash equal to the Fair Market Value of
any fractional Stock Unit credited to his or her Stock Unit
Account.
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a. Effect of Change in Control. Upon a
Change in Control:
(1) Any and all Options shall become exercisable
immediately; and
(2) The target values attainable under all Performance
Awards and Other Awards shall be deemed to have been fully
earned for the entire Award Period as of the effective date of
the Change in Control.
b. Limitations.
(1) No person may be granted Awards in respect of more than
500,000 shares in any calendar year during the term hereof;
(2) No Awards other than options can be made hereunder in
respect of more than a total of 1,000,000 shares of
Wilmington Trust Stock during the Plans term; and
(3) No Options or other Awards can be re-priced after they
have been granted.
c. Plan Provisions Control Award
Terms. The terms of the Plan govern all Awards
granted hereunder. The Committee shall not have the power to
grant a Participant any Award that is contrary to any provision
hereof. If any provision of an Award conflicts with the Plan as
it is constituted on the date the Award is granted, the terms of
the Plan shall control. Except as provided in Sections 6(b)
and 9(i) of the Plan, or unless the Committee provides otherwise
in its sole and absolute discretion in the Award Agreement, the
terms of any Award granted hereunder may not be changed after
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the date it is granted to materially decrease the value of the
Award without the express written approval of the holder
thereof. No person shall have any rights with respect to any
Award until Wilmington Trust and the Participant have executed
and delivered an Award Agreement or the Participant has received
a written acknowledgement from Wilmington Trust that constitutes
an Award Agreement.
d. Limitations on Transfer. A Participant
may not transfer or assign his or her rights or interests with
respect to Awards except by will, the laws of descent and
distribution, or, in certain circumstances, pursuant to a
qualified domestic relations order, as defined by the Code,
Title I of ERISA, or the rules thereunder. Except as
otherwise specifically provided herein, a Participants
Beneficiary may exercise the Participants rights only to
the extent they were exercisable hereunder at the date of the
Participants death and are otherwise currently exercisable.
e. Taxes. If the Committee deems it
necessary or desirable, Wilmington Trust shall be entitled to
withhold (or secure payment from a Participant in lieu of
withholding) the amount of any withholding or other tax required
by law to be withheld or that Wilmington Trust pays
(1) with respect to any amount payable
and/or
shares issuable under that Participants Award,
(2) with respect to any income recognized upon the lapse of
restrictions applicable to an Award, or (3) upon a
disqualifying disposition of shares received upon the exercise
of any Incentive Stock Option. Wilmington Trust may defer
payment or issuance of the cash or shares upon the grant,
exercise, or vesting of an Award unless indemnified to its
satisfaction against any liability for that tax. The Committee
or its delegate shall determine the amount of that withholding
or tax payment. The Participant shall make that payment at the
time the Committee determines. In each Award Agreement, the
Committee shall prescribe one or more methods by which the
Participant may satisfy his or her tax withholding obligation.
This may include the Participants paying Wilmington Trust
cash or shares of Wilmington Trust Stock or Wilmington
Trusts withholding from the Award, at the appropriate
time, a number of shares sufficient to satisfy those tax
withholding requirements, based on the Market Value Per Share of
those shares. In its sole and absolute discretion, the Committee
may establish rules and procedures relating to any withholding
methods it deems necessary or appropriate. These may include
rules and procedures relating to elections by Participants who
are subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act to have
shares withheld from an Award to meet those withholding
obligations.
f. Awards Not Includable for Benefit
Purposes. Income a Participant recognizes
pursuant to the provisions hereof shall not be included in
determining benefits under any employee pension benefit plan, as
that term is defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA, group
insurance, or other benefit plan applicable to the Participant
that the Participants employer maintains, except if those
plans or the Committee provide otherwise.
g. Compliance with
Rule 16b-3
and Section 162(m).
(1) If the Compensation Committee desires to structure any
Award so that the compensation payable thereunder will qualify
as performance based under Section 162(m), the
Compensation Committee may establish objective performance goals
as the basis for that Award. Those performance goals will be
based on any combination the Compensation Committee selects of
income, net income, growth in income or net income, earnings per
share, growth in earnings per share, cash flow measures, return
on equity, return on assets, return on investment, loan loss
reserves, market share, fees, growth in fees, assets, growth in
assets, stockholder return, stock price, achievement of balance
sheet or income statement objectives, expenses, reduction in
expenses, chargeoffs, nonperforming assets, market share, and
overhead ratio. Those goals may be company-wide or on a
departmental, divisional, regional, or individual basis. Any
goal may be measured in absolute terms, by reference to internal
performance targets, or as compared to another company or
companies, and may be measured by the change in that performance
target compared to a previous period. The goals may be different
each year, and will be established with respect to a particular
year by the latest date permitted by
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Section 162(m). No payment under such an Award will be made
under the plan to a Section 162(m) Participant unless the
pre-established performance goals are met or exceeded.
(2) It is intended that the Plan be applied and
administered in compliance with
Rule 16b-3
and Section 162(m). If any provision of the Plan would be
in violation of Section 162(m) if applied as written, that
provision shall not have effect as written and shall be given
effect so as to comply with Section 162(m) as the
Compensation Committee determines in its sole and absolute
discretion. Wilmington Trusts Board of Directors is
authorized to amend the Plan, and the Compensation Committee is
authorized to make any such modifications to Award Agreements,
to comply with
Rule 16b-3
and Section 162(m), as they may be amended from time to
time, and to make any other amendments or modifications deemed
necessary or appropriate to better accomplish the purposes of
the Plan in light of any amendments to
Rule 16b-3
or Section 162(m). Notwithstanding the foregoing,
Wilmington Trusts Board of Directors may amend the Plan so
that it (or certain of its provisions) no longer comply with
either or both of
Rule 16b-3
or Section 162(m) if the Board concludes that compliance is
no longer desired. The Compensation Committee may grant Awards
that do not comply with
Rule 16b-3
and/or
Section 162(m) if it determines, in its sole and absolute
discretion, that it is in Wilmington Trusts interest to do
so.
h. Amendment and Termination.
(1) Wilmington Trusts Board of Directors shall have
complete power and authority to amend the Plan at any time it
deems it necessary or appropriate. However, those directors
shall not, without the affirmative approval of Wilmington
Trusts shareholders, make any amendment that requires
shareholder approval under
Rule 16b-3,
the Code, or any other applicable law or rule of any exchange on
which Wilmington Trusts shares are listed unless the
directors determine that compliance with
Rule 16b-3,
the Code, or those laws or rules is no longer desired. No
termination or amendment hereof may, without the consent of the
Participant to whom any Award has been granted, adversely affect
the right of that individual under that Award. However, the
Committee may make provision in the Award Agreement for
amendments it deems appropriate in its sole and absolute
discretion.
(2) Wilmington Trusts Board of Directors may
terminate the Plan at any time. No Award shall be granted
hereunder after that termination. However, that termination
shall not have any other effect. Any Award outstanding at the
termination hereof may be exercised or amended after that
termination at any time before the expiration of that Award to
the same extent that that Award would have been exercisable or
could have been amended if the Plan had not terminated.
i. Changes in Wilmington Trusts Capital
Structure. The existence of outstanding Awards
shall not affect the right of Wilmington Trust or its
shareholders to make or authorize any and all adjustments,
recapitalizations, reclassifications, reorganizations, and other
changes in Wilmington Trusts capital structure, Wilmington
Trusts business, any merger or consolidation of Wilmington
Trust, any issue of bonds, debentures, or preferred stock,
Wilmington Trusts liquidation or dissolution, any sale or
transfer of all or any part of Wilmington Trusts assets or
business, or any other corporate act or proceeding, whether of a
similar nature or otherwise.
The number and kind of shares subject to outstanding Awards, the
purchase or exercise price of those Awards, the number and kind
of shares available for Awards subsequently granted, and the
limitation in Section 9(b) hereof shall be adjusted
appropriately to reflect any stock dividend, stock split,
combination or exchange of shares, merger, consolidation, or
other change in capitalization with a similar substantive effect
on the Plan or Awards granted hereunder. The Committee shall
have the power and sole and absolute discretion to determine the
nature and amount of the adjustment to be made in each case.
However, in no event shall any adjustment be made under the
provisions of this Section 9(i) to any outstanding Award if
an adjustment has been made or will be made to the shares of
Wilmington Trust Stock awarded to a
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Participant in that persons capacity as a shareholder.
If Wilmington Trust is merged or consolidated with another
entity and Wilmington Trust is not the surviving entity, or if
Wilmington Trust is liquidated or sells or otherwise disposes of
all or substantially all of its assets to another entity while
unexercised Awards remain outstanding, then (1) subject to
the provisions of Section 9(i)(2) below, after the
effective date of that merger, consolidation, liquidation, or
sale, each holder of an outstanding Award shall be entitled to
receive, upon exercise of that Award in lieu of shares, other
stock or securities as the holders of shares of Wilmington
Trust Stock received in the merger, consolidation,
liquidation, or sale; and (2) the Committee may cancel all
outstanding Awards as of the effective date of that merger,
consolidation, liquidation, or sale, provided that
(x) notice of that cancellation has been given to each
holder of an Award and (y) in addition to any rights he or
she may have under Section 9(a) above, each holder of an
Award shall have the right to exercise that Award in full,
without regard to any limitations set forth in or imposed
pursuant to Section 5, 6, or 7 above, during a
30-day
period preceding the effective date of the merger,
consolidation, liquidation, or sale. The exercise
and/or
vesting of any Award that was permissible solely because of this
Section 9(i)(2)(y) shall be conditioned on consummation of
the merger, consolidation, liquidation, or sale. Any Awards not
exercised as of the date of the merger, consolidation,
liquidation, or sale shall terminate as of that date.
If Wilmington Trust is consolidated or merged with another
entity under circumstances in which Wilmington Trust is the
surviving entity, and its outstanding shares are converted into
shares of a third entity, a condition to the merger or
consolidation shall be that the third entity succeed to
Wilmington Trusts rights and obligations hereunder, and
that the Plan be administered by a committee of the Board of
that entity.
Comparable rights shall accrue to each Participant in the event
of successive reorganizations, mergers, consolidations, or other
transactions similar to those described above.
Except as expressly provided herein, Wilmington Trusts
issuance of shares or any other securities for cash, property,
labor, or services, either upon direct sale, the exercise of
rights or warrants to subscribe therefor, or conversion of
shares or obligations of Wilmington Trust convertible into
shares or other securities shall not affect, and no adjustment
by reason thereof shall be made with respect to, the number,
class, or price of shares then subject to Awards outstanding.
After any reorganization, merger, or consolidation in which
Wilmington Trust or one of its subsidiaries or affiliates is a
surviving entity, the Committee may grant substituted Awards
replacing old options or other awards granted under a plan of
another party to the reorganization, merger, or consolidation
whose stock subject to the old options or awards may no longer
be issued following that reorganization, merger, or
consolidation. The Committee shall determine the foregoing
adjustments and the manner in which the foregoing provisions are
applied in its sole and absolute discretion. Any of those
adjustments may provide for eliminating any fractional shares of
Wilmington Trust Stock that might otherwise become subject
to any Options or other Awards.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Award Agreements with respect to
Awards that constitute deferred compensation (within the meaning
of Section 409A of the Code) may contain provisions
contrary to the foregoing provisions of this Section 9(i)
to the extent necessary for those Award Agreements to comply
with the requirements of Section 409A of the Code.
j. Period of Approval and Term of
Plan. The Plan shall be submitted to Wilmington
Trusts shareholders at their annual meeting scheduled to
be held on April 17, 2008 or any adjournment or
postponement thereof. The Plan shall be adopted and become
effective only when approved by Wilmington Trusts
shareholders. Awards may be granted hereunder at any time up to
and including April 30, 2011, at which time the Plan will
terminate, except with respect to Awards then
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outstanding. Those shall remain in effect until their exercise,
expiration, or termination in accordance herewith.
k. Compliance with Law and Approval of Regulatory
Bodies. No Award shall be exercisable, and no
shares shall be delivered hereunder, except in compliance with
all applicable federal and state laws and regulations, the rules
of the New York Stock Exchange, and all other stock exchanges on
which Wilmington Trust Stock is listed. Any certificate
evidencing shares issued hereunder may bear legends the
Committee deems advisable to ensure compliance with federal and
state laws and regulations. No Award shall be exercisable, and
no shares shall be delivered hereunder, until Wilmington Trust
has obtained consent or approval from federal and state
regulatory bodies that have jurisdiction over matters as the
Committee deems advisable.
If a Participants Beneficiary exercises an Award, the
Committee may require reasonable evidence regarding the
ownership of the Award and consents, rulings, or determinations
from taxing authorities the Committee deems advisable.
l. No Right of Employment. Neither the
adoption of the Plan nor its operation, nor any document
describing or referring to the Plan or any part hereof, shall
confer upon any Participant any right to continue in the employ
of the Participants employer, nor in any other way affect
the employers right or power to terminate the
Participants employment at any time, to the same extent as
might have been done if the Plan had not been adopted.
m. Use of Proceeds. Funds Wilmington
Trust receives on the exercise of Awards shall be used for its
general corporate purposes.
n. Severability. Whenever possible, each
provision hereof and of every Award granted hereunder shall be
interpreted in a manner as to be effective and valid under
applicable law. If any provision hereof or of any Award granted
hereunder is held to be prohibited by or invalid under
applicable law, then (1) that provision shall be deemed
amended to accomplish the provisions objectives as
originally written to the fullest extent permitted by law and
(2) all other provisions hereof and of every other Award
granted hereunder shall remain in full force and effect.
o. Construction of the Plan. The place of
administration of the Plan shall be in Delaware, and the
validity, construction, interpretation, administration, and
effect hereof, its rules and regulations, and rights relating
hereto shall be determined solely in accordance with Delaware
law, other than the conflict of law provisions of those laws,
and except as that law is superseded by federal law.
p. Interpretation of the Plan. Headings
are given to the sections hereof solely as a convenience for
reference. Those headings and the numbering and paragraphing
hereof shall not be deemed in any way material or relevant to
the construction of any provision hereof. The use of a singular
shall also include within its meaning the plural, and vice
versa, where appropriate.
q. No Strict Construction. No rule of
strict construction shall be implied against Wilmington Trust,
the Committee, or any other person interpreting any term of the
Plan, any Award granted under the Plan, or any rule or procedure
the Committee establishes.
r. Costs and Expenses. Wilmington Trust
shall bear all costs and expenses incurred in administering the
Plan.
s. Unfunded Plan. The Plan shall be
unfunded. Wilmington Trust shall not be required to establish
any special or separate fund or otherwise segregate assets to
assure payment of any Award.
t. Surrender of Awards. Any Award granted
to a Participant may be surrendered to Wilmington Trust for
cancellation on terms the Committee and the Participant approve.
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capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein have the
following meanings:
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a. Annual Retainer means the payment(s) the
Board of Directors of each company the Compensation Committee
designates to participate in Section 8 determines from time
to time to be the annual retainer payable each year to each
non-employee director thereof.
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b. Award means (1) any grant to a
Participant of any one or a combination of Incentive Stock
Options, Nonstatutory Stock Options, Performance Awards, or
Other Awards or (2) shares of Wilmington Trust Stock
received with respect to an Annual Retainer pursuant to
Section 8.
c. Award Agreement means a written agreement
between Wilmington Trust and a Participant or a written
acknowledgement from Wilmington Trust specifically setting forth
the terms and conditions of an Award granted to a Participant
under the Plan.
d. Award Period means, with respect to an
Award, the period of time, if any, set forth in the Award
Agreement during which specified performance goals must be
achieved or other conditions set forth in the Award Agreement
must be satisfied.
e. Beneficiary means an individual, trust, or
estate who or that, by will or the laws of descent and
distribution, succeeds to a Participants rights and
obligations under the Plan and an Award Agreement upon the
Participants death.
f. Cause means, with respect to a Participant
who is a staff member of Wilmington Trust or one of its
subsidiaries or affiliates or who is a consultant, termination
for, as the Committee determines in its sole and absolute
discretion, the Participants personal dishonesty, willful
misconduct, breach of fiduciary duty involving personal profit,
intentional failure to perform stated duties, willful violation
of any law, rule, or regulation (other than traffic violations
or similar offenses), or a final
cease-and-desist
order.
g. Change in Control means any of the events
described below, directly or indirectly or in one or more series
of transactions. However, the Committee may, in its sole and
absolute discretion, specify in any Award Agreement a more
restrictive definition of Change in Control. In that event, the
definition of Change in Control set forth in that Award
Agreement shall apply to the Award granted thereunder:
(1) Approval by Wilmington Trust Companys
(WTCs) or Wilmington Trusts shareholders
of a consolidation or merger of WTC or Wilmington Trust with any
Third Party, unless WTC or Wilmington Trust is the entity
surviving that merger or consolidation;
(2) Approval by WTCs or Wilmington Trusts
shareholders of a transfer of all or substantially all of the
assets of WTC or Wilmington Trust to a Third Party or of a
complete liquidation or dissolution of WTC or Wilmington Trust;
(3) Any person, entity, or group that is a Third Party,
without prior approval of WTCs or Wilmington Trusts
Board of Directors, by itself or through one or more persons or
entities:
(a) Acquires beneficial ownership of 15% or more of any
class of WTCs or Wilmington Trusts Voting Stock;
(b) Acquires irrevocable proxies representing 15% or more
of any class of WTCs or Wilmington Trusts Voting
Stock;
(c) Acquires any combination of beneficial ownership of
Voting Stock and irrevocable proxies representing 15% or more of
any class of WTCs or Wilmington Trusts Voting Stock;
(d) Acquires the ability to control in any manner the
election of a majority of WTCs or Wilmington Trusts
directors; or
(e) Acquires the ability to directly or indirectly exercise
a controlling influence over the management or policies of WTC
or Wilmington Trust;
(4) Any election occurs of persons to Wilmington
Trusts Board of Directors that causes a majority of that
Board of Directors to consist of persons other than
(a) persons who were members of that Board of Directors on
February 29, 1996 (the Effective Date)
and/or
(b) persons who were nominated for election as members of
that Board of Directors by Wilmington Trusts Board of
Directors (or a committee thereof) at a time when the majority
of that Board of Directors (or that committee) consisted of
persons who
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were members of Wilmington Trusts Board of Directors on
the Effective Date. However, any person nominated for election
by Wilmington Trusts Board of Directors (or a committee
thereof), a majority of whom are persons described in
clauses (a) and/or (b), or are persons who were themselves
nominated by that Board of Directors (or a committee thereof),
shall be deemed for this purpose to have been nominated by a
Board of Directors composed of persons described in
clause (a) above.
A Change in Control shall not include any of the events
described above if they (x) occur in connection with the
appointment of a receiver or conservator for WTC or Wilmington
Trust, provision of assistance under Section 13(c) of the
Federal Deposit Insurance Act (the FDI Act), the
approval of a supervisory merger, a determination that WTC is in
default as defined in Section 3(x) of the FDI Act,
insolvent, or in an unsafe or unsound condition to transact
business, or, with respect to any Participant, the suspension,
removal,
and/or
temporary or permanent prohibition by a regulatory agency of
that Participant from participating in WTCs or Wilmington
Trusts business or (y) are the result of a Third
Party inadvertently acquiring beneficial ownership or
irrevocable proxies or a combination of both for 15% or more of
any class of WTCs or Wilmington Trusts voting stock,
and that Third Party as promptly as practicable thereafter
divests itself of the beneficial ownership or irrevocable
proxies for a sufficient number of shares so that the Third
Party no longer has beneficial ownership or irrevocable proxies
or a combination of both for 15% or more of any class of
WTCs or Wilmington Trusts Voting Stock.
h. Code means the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended from time to time, or any successor thereto.
References to a section of the Code shall include that section
and any comparable section or sections of any future legislation
that amends, supplements, or supersedes that section.
i. Date of Grant means the date designated by
the Plan or the Committee as the date as of which an Award is
granted. The Date of Grant shall not be earlier than the date on
which the Committee approves the granting of the Award.
J. Disability means any physical or mental
injury or disease of a permanent nature that renders a
Participant incapable of meeting the requirements of the
employment or other work the Participant performed immediately
before that disability commenced. The Committee shall make the
determination of whether a Participant is disabled and when the
Participant becomes disabled in its sole and absolute discretion.
k. Disability Date means the date which is six
months after the date on which a Participant is first absent
from active employment or work due to a Disability.
l. ERISA means the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974, as amended.
m. Exchange Act means the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended.
n. Market Value Per Share of a share of
Wilmington Trust Stock means, as of any date, the last sale
price of a share of Wilmington Trust Stock on that date on
the principal national securities exchange on which Wilmington
Trust Stock is then traded. If Wilmington Trust Stock
is not then traded on a national securities exchange,
Market Value Per Share shall mean the last sale
price or, if none, the average of the bid and asked prices of
Wilmington Trust Stock on that date as reported on the
National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation
System (NASDAQ). However, if there were no sales
reported as of that date, the Market Value Per Share shall be
computed as of the last date preceding that date on which a sale
was reported. If any such exchange or quotation system is closed
on any day on which the Market Value Per Share is to be
determined, the Market Value Per Share shall be determined as of
the first date immediately preceding that date on which that
exchange or quotation system was open for trading.
o. Normal Retirement Date means the date on
which a Participant terminates active employment with the
employer he or she was
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employed with when he or she was last granted Awards on or after
attaining age 65, but does not include termination for
Cause.
p. Option means any option to purchase
Wilmington Trust stock the Committee grants to a Participant
under Section 5.
q. Other Retirement Date means a date, on or
after a Participant attains age 55 but earlier than the
Participants Normal Retirement Date, that the Committee in
its sole and absolute discretion specifically approves and
designates in writing to be the date upon which a Participant
retires for purposes hereof, but does not include termination
for Cause.
r. Participant means any staff member, director
(including, without limitation, a director who receives some or
all of an Annual Retainer in shares of Wilmington
Trust Stock), or advisory board member of or consultant to
Wilmington Trust or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates whom
the Committee selects to receive Options, Performance Awards, or
Other Awards.
s. Rule 16b-3
means
Rule 16b-3
promulgated by the SEC under Section 16 of the Exchange Act
and any successor rule. t. SEC means the Securities
and Exchange Commission.
u. Section 162(m) means
Section 162(m) of the Code and its regulations.
v. Section 162(m) Participant means a
Participant a portion of whose compensation would be subject to
Section 162(m) and that Wilmington Trust desires to deduct.
w. Stock Unit means a unit of value, equal at
any relevant time to the Fair Market Value of a share of
Wilmington Trust Stock, established by the Committee as a
means of measuring the value of a directors Stock Unit
Account.
x. Stock Unit Account means the bookkeeping
account maintained by the Committee or its delegate on behalf of
each Participant who is credited with Stock Units and divided
equivalents thereon pursuant to Section 8(b).
y. Subsidiary means a company more than 50% of
the equity interests of which Wilmington Trust beneficially
owns, directly or indirectly.
z. Termination of Employment means, with
respect to a staff member Participant, the voluntary or
involuntary termination of the Participants employment
with Wilmington Trust or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates
for any reason (including, without limitation, death,
Disability, retirement, or as the result of the sale or other
divestiture of the Participants employer or any similar
transaction in which the Participants employer ceases to
be Wilmington Trust or one of its subsidiaries or affiliates).
With respect to a consultant, Termination of Employment means
termination of the Participants services as a consultant
to Wilmington Trust or one of its subsidiaries or affiliates.
aa. Third Party includes a person or entity or
a group of persons or entities acting in concert not
wholly-owned by Wilmington Trust or WTC, directly or indirectly.
bb. Voting Stock means the classes of stock of
Wilmington Trust or WTC entitled to vote generally in the
election of directors of Wilmington Trust or WTC, as the case
may be.
cc. Wilmington Trust Stock means
Wilmington Trusts common stock, par value $1 per share.
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WILMINGTON TRUST CORPORATION
ANNUAL SHAREHOLDERS MEETING
Thursday, April 17, 2008
10:00 a.m.
Wilmington Trust Plaza
Mezzanine Level
301 West Eleventh Street
Wilmington, Delaware
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This proxy is solicited by the Board of Directors for use at the Annual Meeting on April 17, 2008.
The shares of stock you hold in your account or in a dividend reinvestment account will be voted as
you specify on the reverse side.
If no choice is specified, the proxy will be voted FOR Items 1, 2, and 3.
By signing the proxy or voting by telephone or the Internet, you revoke all prior proxies and
appoint David R. Gibson and Michael A. DiGregorio, and each of them, acting in the absence of the
other, with full power of substitution, to vote your shares on the matter shown on the reverse side
and any other matters which may come before the Annual Meeting and all adjournments.
See reverse for voting instructions.
To Our Shareholders,
You are cordially invited to attend our Annual Shareholders Meeting, to be held at the Wilmington
Trust Plaza, Mezzanine Level, 301 West Eleventh Street, Wilmington, Delaware, at 10:00 A.M. on
Thursday, April 17, 2008.
At the Annual Meeting, we will review our performance and answer any questions you may have. The
enclosed proxy statement provides you with more details about items that will be addressed at the
Annual Meeting. After reviewing the proxy statement, please sign, date, and indicate your vote for
the items listed on the proxy card below and return it in the enclosed, postage-paid envelope
whether or not you plan to attend the Annual Meeting.
Thank you for your prompt response.
Sincerely,
Ted T. Cecala
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
There are three ways to vote your Proxy
Your telephone or Internet vote authorizes the named proxies to vote your shares in the same manner
as if you marked, signed, and returned your proxy card.
VOTE BY PHONE TOLL FREE 1-800-560-1965
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12:00 p.m. (CT) on April 16, 2008. |
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Please have your proxy card and the last four digits of your Social Security Number
or Tax Identification Number available. Follow the simple instructions the voice provides
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VOTE BY INTERNET www.eproxy.com/wl
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Please have your proxy card and the last four digits of your Social Security Number
or Tax Identification Number available. Follow the simple instructions to obtain your
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VOTE BY MAIL
Mark, sign, and date your proxy card and return it in the postage-paid envelope we have provided or
return it to Wilmington Trust Corporation, c/o Shareowner ServicesSM, P.O. Box 64873, St. Paul, MN
55164-0873.
If you vote by telephone or Internet, please do not mail your proxy card
Wilmington Trust Corporation Rodney Square North 1100 North Market Street Wilmington, DE 19890-0001
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The Board of Directors Recommends a Vote FOR Items 1, 2, and 3.
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THIS PROXY WHEN PROPERLY EXECUTED WILL BE VOTED AS DIRECTED OR, IF NO DIRECTION IS GIVEN, WILL BE VOTED
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Please sign exactly as your name(s) appears
on your proxy card. If held in joint
tenancy, all persons must sign. Trustees,
administrators, etc., should include title
and authority. Corporations should provide
full name of corporation and title of
authorized officer signing the proxy. |