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Exhibit 10.2
SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
2001 SHARE OPTION PLAN
AMENDED AND RESTATED: December 5, 2002
APPROVED BY SHAREHOLDERS: December 3, 2002
LAST AMENDED AND RESTATED: July 3, 2010
TERMINATION DATE: February 1, 2011
1.
PURPOSES.
(a) Eligible Share Award Recipients . The persons eligible to receive Options are the Employees, Directors and Consultants of
the Company and its Affiliates.
(b) Available Share Awards
. The purpose of the Plan is to provide a means by which eligible recipients of Options may be given
an opportunity to benefit from increases in value of the Ordinary Shares through the granting of either (i) Incentive Stock Options or
(ii) Nonstatutory Share Options.
(c) General Purpose . The Company, by means of the Plan, which is an amended and restated version of the Company’s 2001
Share Option Plan (“Predecessor Plan”), seeks to provide incentives for the group of persons eligible to receive Options to exert maximum
efforts for the success of the Company and its Affiliates. Options granted under the Predecessor Plan shall continue to be governed by the terms
of the Predecessor Plan in effect on the date of grant of such award.
2.
DEFINITIONS.
(a) “Affiliate”
means generally with respect to the Company, any entity directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries,
controlling or controlled by (but not under common control with) the Company. Solely with respect to the granting of any Incentive Stock
Options, Affiliate means any parent corporation or subsidiary corporation of the Company, whether now or hereafter existing, as those terms are
defined in Sections 424(e) and (f), respectively, of the Code.
(b) “Board” means the Board of Directors of the Company.
(c) “Code” means the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
(d) “Committee” means a committee of one or more members of the Board (or other individuals who are not members of the
Board to the extent allowed by law) appointed by the Board in accordance with subsection 3(c).