Exhibit 10.6
NON-QUALIFIED SHARE OPTION AGREEMENT
FOR NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTORS
UNDER BEIGENE, LTD.
2016 SHARE OPTION AND INCENTIVE PLAN
Name of Optionee: |
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No. of Option Shares: |
Ordinary Shares (as defined below) |
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Option Exercise Price per Share: |
$ |
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[If U.S. Taxpayers, Fair Market Value on Grant Date] |
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Grant Date: |
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Expiration Date: |
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[No more than 10 years] |
Pursuant to the BeiGene, Ltd. 2016 Share Option and Incentive Plan as amended through the date of grant (the Plan), BeiGene, Ltd., an exempted company incorporated in the Cayman Islands with limited liability, (the Company) hereby grants to the Optionee named above, who is a Non-Employee Director (as defined in the Plan), an option (the Share Option) to purchase on or prior to the Expiration Date specified above all or part of the number of ordinary shares, par value US$0.0001 per share (the Ordinary Shares), of the Company specified above at the Option Exercise Price per Share specified above subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein and in the Plan. The Ordinary Shares may be represented by American Depositary Shares (ADSs), and each ADS represents 13 Ordinary Shares. References herein to the issuance of Ordinary Shares shall also refer to the
issuance of ADSs on the same basis of one ADS for every 13 Ordinary Shares. The Option Exercise Price per ADS shall equal the Option Exercise Price per Share multiplied by 13. Capitalized terms in this Non-Qualified Share Option Agreement for Non-Employee Directors (this Agreement) shall have the meaning specified in the Plan, unless defined differently herein.
1. Exercisability Schedule. No portion of this Share Option may be exercised until such portion shall have become exercisable. Except as set forth below, and subject to the discretion of the Administrator (as described in Section 2 of the Plan) to accelerate the following exercisability schedule, this Share Option shall be exercisable in full upon the earlier of the first anniversary of the Grant Date or the first annual meeting of shareholders following the Grant Date, so long as the Optionee has served continuously as a member of the Board on such date; provided that if (i) the Optionee shall die while in the service of the Company, (ii) the Optionees service as a director of the Company terminates by reason of the Optionees disability (within the meaning of Section 409A of the Code), (iii) the Optionees service as a director of the Company terminates in connection with the consummation of a Sale Event or (iv) a Sale Event occurs and this Share Option is not assumed, continued or substituted in connection with such Sale Event, then in any such case, this Share Option shall become immediately vested and exercisable in full.