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Exhibit 10.88
FIRST AMENDED AND RESTATED EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT
THIS EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT ("Agreement") entered into as of the 1st day
of November, 1999 by and between IMC MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC., a Florida
corporation (the "Company"), and DENNIS J. PITOCCO ("Executive").
R E C I T A L S:
A. The Company owns and operates a mortgage banking
business and provides related services (the "Business") and is in
the process of winding down the Business;
B. The Company desires to employ Executive in the initial capacity of
Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer (the
"Position") and Executive desires to be employed by the Company in such
capacity;
C. Executive has substantial experience and expertise in the skills
required for the Position and the Company has determined that it is in the best
interest of the Company to employ Executive and to utilize his expertise and
experience; and
D. The Company believes that it is in the best interest of the Company
to assure Executive of a secure minimum compensation and to diminish the
inevitable distraction of Executive that may result from concern as to loss of
employment.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises and covenants
contained in this Agreement, the parties agree as follows:
1. RECITATIONS. The above recitations are true and correct and are
incorporated herein by this reference.
2. POSITION OF EMPLOYMENT. The Company hereby employs Executive in the
Position commencing as of the Commencement Date (as defined in Section 3.1
herein).
2.1 Performance of Duties. Executive shall perform such duties as
are usually performed by a person serving in the Position with a business
similar in size and scope as the Company and such other additional duties as may
be prescribed from time to time by the Company which are reasonable and
consistent with the Company's operations, taking into account Executive's
expertise and job responsibilities.
2.2 Devotion of Time. During the term of this Agreement, Executive
agrees to devote such of the Executive's business time and attention to the
business and affairs of the Company to discharge the responsibilities assigned
to Executive and to use
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best efforts to perform faithfully and efficiently such responsibilities. The
Parties anticipate that Executive's full business time (subject to duties
relating to PML as described below) will be required for the first two years,
75% of Executive's business time will be required for the third year and 50% of
Executive's business time required thereafter. The parties acknowledge that the
Executive also provides services for Preferred Mortgages, Limited, a company in
the United Kingdom ("PML") and serves as an officer and director of PML. The
Executive is also compensated by PML unrelated to this Agreement. Moreover, upon
termination of the operations of the Company's subsidiary, IMCC International,
Inc., which the Company anticipates immediately following the Commencement Date,
an entity owned or controlled by the Executive may enter into consulting or
management agreements with PML and be compensated therefor unrelated to this
Agreement.
3. TERM OF EMPLOYMENT.
3.1 Term of Employment. This Agreement shall begin as of the
effective date of the closing of the purchase by CitiFinancial Mortgage Company
of the Company's mortgage servicing business and loan origination platform (the
"Commencement Date") and end on December 31, 2003; provided, however, that the
term shall thereafter be automatically renewed for additional periods of one
year each unless either party gives written notice to the other of intent not to
renew no later than one hundred eighty (180) days prior to the end of the then
current term of this Agreement.
3.2 Termination of Employment by the Company for Cause. The Company
may terminate Executive's employment if such termination is for "Cause" (as
defined herein). For the purposes of this Agreement, "Cause" shall be defined as
any of the following:
(a) a default or breach by Executive of any of the provisions of
this Agreement;
(b) actions by Executive constituting fraud, embezzlement or
dishonesty;
(c) actions by Executive in intentionally furnishing materially
false, misleading, or omissive information to the Company or persons to whom the
Executive reports; or
(d) acts or omissions which constitute failure to follow
reasonable and lawful directives of the Company.
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3.3 Termination Without Cause. The Company shall have the right to
terminate this Agreement without Cause at any time upon written notice, subject
to payment by the Company of the Deferred Compensation described in Section 4.2
herein.
3.4 Termination by Executive. Executive may terminate this Agreement
upon thirty (30) days written notice after the occurrence of a material default
of this Agreement by the Company, which default is not cured within the
thirty-day notice period. Such notice shall set forth in reasonable detail the
facts underlying the default. If Executive terminates this Agreement under this
Section 3.4, Executive shall be entitled to the Deferred Compensation as
described in Section 4.2 herein. The Executive may terminate at any time without
cause on thirty days prior written notice, and upon doing so, will be paid his
Base Compensation through the date of termination, the Incentive Compensation,
and if, and only if, such termination is effective after May 31, 2001 will also
receive Deferred Compensation.
4. COMPENSATION.
4.1 Salary. In consideration for the services to be provided by
Executive pursuant to this Agreement Company shall pay to Executive the sum of
the following:
(a) Base Salary: As "Base Salary," the annual sums as follows
which amount will automatically increase effective as of each annual anniversary
of the Commencement Date by the "COLA Adjustment" (as defined below):
Period Annual Base Salary
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Commencement to Dec. 31, 2001 $250,000
Jan. 1, 2002 - Dec. 31, 2002 $187,500
Jan. 1, 2003 - Thereafter $125,000
as that amount in increased from time to time in the sole discretion of
the Company. Base Salary shall be payable in installments consistent with the
Company's normal payroll schedule, in effect from time to time, subject to
applicable withholding and other taxes;
"COLA Adjustment" means an annual increase equal to the percentage
increase, if any, of the consumer price index for Urban Wage Earning and
Clerical Workers (Greater
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Metropolitan Tampa Area, all items) issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of
the U.S. Department of Labor using the year 1967 as a base of 100 (the "Index")
from the prior year using the Commencement Date as the anniversary date for such
calculation. In the event the Index ceases to be published during the term of
this Agreement or any extension thereof, the parties shall use a mutually
acceptable comparable statistical index on the cost of living in the United
States as shall then be computed and published by an agency of the United
States.
(b) Quarterly Bonus Compensation. As "Quarterly Bonus
Compensation" the following amounts paid (if Executive is still employed at the
end the calendar quarter with respect to which the Quarterly Bonus in being
paid): $25,000
(c) Incentive Compensation. As "Incentive Compensation" the
"Incentive Percent" (as defined below) of any one or more of the following
whenever such should occur after the date hereof and whether or not Executive is
then still employed hereunder (collectively, the "Common Stock Payments") (i)
all distributions by the Company to all holders of common stock of the Company,
(ii) the amounts paid by a the Company in redemption of its common stock, and
(iii) all amount paid by any single third party (or related group of third
parties) to acquire the company's common stock in a tender offer or other series
of related transactions not in open market transactions. The Incentive Percent
shall be based upon the length of Executive's employment hereunder as follows:
Termination Occurs Incentive Percent
Before 12/31/00 1.5385%
1/1/01 - 12/31/01 3.0769%
1/1/02 - 12/31/02 4.2308%
1/1/03 - Thereafter 5.0000%
The Incentive Compensation will be calculated at the highest Incentive
Percent to which the Executive is entitled at the time of his termination of
employment regardless of when the event occurs giving rise to the payment of
Incentive Compensation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Incentive
Compensation shall be reduced by all payment which the Executive has received as
Quarterly Bonus in excess of $12,500 per calendar quarter.
4.2 Deferred Compensation.
(a) When Due. Executive (or his estate as the case may be) shall
be entitled to the Deferred Compensation hereto in the event that Executive's
employment is terminated for any of the following ("Deferred Compensation
Events"): (i) death or disability
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("disability" is a determination by a physician licensed in Florida that the
Executive has become unable by reason of mental or physical illness to perform
his duties and that such condition will continue for the foreseeable future) of
Executive; (ii) termination by the Company without cause pursuant to Section
3.3; (iii) termination by Executive upon default by the Company pursuant to
Section 3.4; (iv) termination by the Executive effective after June 1, 2001, for
any reason or for no reason; or (v) the occurrence of any event which would
constitute a dissolution or bankruptcy of the Company, termination of the
then-current Intercreditor/Standstill Agreements other than as a result of the
payment in full of the creditors who are parties to such agreements, or a
distribution of the assets of the Company in liquidation of the company.
(b) Amount. The Deferred Compensation shall be the amount ("Base
Deferred Compensation" plus "Quarterly Bonus Compensation") which is equal to
twelve months Base Compensation at the then current rate of Base Compensation
(and the cost of employee benefits) and Quarterly Bonus Compensation due over
the ensuing twelve months..
(c) Payment of Deferred Compensation. The Deferred Compensation
shall be paid in immediately available funds within fifteen (15) days following
the Deferred Compensation Event.
(C) Sole Remedy. The Executive agrees that the payment to
the Executive of the Deferred Compensation provided herein is the Executive's
sole remedy for any termination of Executive's employment hereunder prior to the
Initial Termination Date regardless of whether or not such termination was by
the company without Cause; provided, however, that such Deferred Compensation
payment will not terminate Executive's rights to receive any Incentive
Compensation to which Executive is thereafter due.
4.3 Additional Benefits.
(a) Vacation. Executive shall be entitled to paid vacation and
paid holidays during each twelve-month period during the term of this Agreement
in accordance with the Company's normal policy in effect from time to time.
(b) Reimbursement of Expenses. Executive is authorized to incur
reasonable traveling and other expenses in connection with the Business and in
performance of his duties under this Agreement. Executive shall be reimbursed by
the Company for all Business expenses which are reasonably incurred by
Executive. All
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reimbursable travel expenses shall be in accordance with the Company's
reasonable policies in effect from time to time.
(c) Participation in Executive Benefit Plans. Executive shall be
entitled to participate, subject to eligibility and other terms generally
established by the Board of Directors, in any Executive benefit plan (including
but not limited to life insurance plans, group hospitalization, health, dental
care, which health insurance shall also cover Executive's dependents) as may be
adopted or amended by the Company from time to time and applicable generally to
Executives of the Company in the same level as the Position.
5. REPRESENTATION BY EXECUTIVE. Executive hereby represents to the
Company that he is physically and mentally capable of performing his duties
hereunder and he has no knowledge of any present or past physical or mental
condition which would cause him not to be able to perform his duties hereunder.
6. CONFIDENTIALITY AND NON-DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION.
6.1 Confidentiality. Executive shall not, during the term of this
Agreement or at any time thereafter, divulge, furnish or make accessible to
anyone, without the Company's prior written consent, any knowledge or
information with respect to any confidential or secret aspect of the Business
which if disclosed could reasonably be expected to have an adverse affect on the
Business ("Confidential Information").
6.2 Ownership of Information. Executive recognizes that all
Confidential Information and copies or reproductions thereof, relating to the
Company's operations and activities made or received by Executive in the course
of his employment are the exclusive property of the Company and Executive holds
and uses same as trustee for the Company and subject to the Company's sole
control and will deliver same to the Company at the termination of his
employment, or earlier if so requested by the Company in writing. All of such
Confidential Information, which if lost or used by Executive outside the scope
of his employment, could cause irreparable and continuing injury to the
Company's Business for which there may not be an adequate remedy at law.
7. REMEDIES. Executive hereby acknowledges, covenants and agrees that
in the event of a material default or breach under this Agreement:
7.1 Company may suffer irreparable and continuing damages as a
result of such breach and its remedy at law will be inadequate. Executive agrees
that in the event of a violation or breach of this Agreement, in addition to any
other remedies available to it, Company shall be entitled to an injunction
restraining any such default or any other appropriate decree of specific
performance, with the requirement to prove actual damages or to post any bond or
any other security and to any other equitable relief the court deems proper; and
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7.2 Any and all of Company's remedies described in this Agreement
shall not be exclusive and shall be in addition to any other remedies which
Company may have at law or in equity including, but not limited to, the right to
monetary damages.
8. INDEMNITY. To induce Executive to accept the Positions described
above as well as any other or additional positions as may be mutually agreed
upon by the Company and Executive, the Company hereby covenants and agrees with
Executive, as follows:
8.1 Definitions. For purposes of this Agreement:
(A) "Affiliate" means any corporation, subsidiary, or other
entity controlled by, controlling or under common control with the Company which
now exists or may hereafter be formed or acquired.
(B) "Expenses" include all expenses actually and reasonably
incurred with respect to a Proceeding, including, without limitation, fees,
expenses and disbursements of attorneys, accountants, financial consultants and
other professionals.
(C) "Liabilities" means all liabilities, and/or obligations,
including, without limitation, obligations to pay a judgment, settlement,
penalty, fine or tax (including, without limitation, any withholding or
employment tax and any excise tax assessed with respect to the Company, any
Affiliate, any employee benefit plan or any other enterprise as to which
Executive is or was serving in an Official Capacity), together with any
obligation to pay interest thereon.
(D) "Proceeding" includes any threatened, asserted, pending or
completed claim, action, suit or other type of proceeding, whether civil,
criminal, administrative or investigative, whether formal or informal,
including, without limitation, any arbitration or mediation proceeding or other
proceeding for the resolution of any claim or dispute and any privately
conducted negotiations, and including, without limitation, any settlement,
hearing, trial or appeal of any of the foregoing.
(E) "Serving in an Official Capacity" includes (i) serving as a
director, officer, advisor or agent of the Company or any Affiliate or (ii)
serving at the request of the Company or any Affiliate as a director, officer,
advisor or agent of, or in any other capacity for, another corporation,
partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including any employee
benefit plan.
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8.2 Statutory Indemnification. The Company hereby agrees to
indemnify and hold harmless Executive to the fullest extent permitted or
required by the provisions of the laws of Florida and the laws of the state of
Company's formation, if different from Florida and to cause any Affiliate to
indemnify and hold harmless Executive to the fullest extent permitted or
required by the laws of the State of Florida or the laws of its state of
formation (if different from Florida) against any Liability or Expense incurred
by Executive by reason of the fact that he is or was Serving in an Official
Capacity. The Company agrees that such obligation shall be to the fullest extent
required or permitted by any subsequent amendment to any of such provisions of
the Florida Statutes or the laws of its state of formation (if different from
Florida) or by the any other statutory provisions permitting or requiring such
indemnification which are adopted after the date of this Agreement (but in the
case of any amendment or subsequent statutory provisions, only to the extent
that such amendment or provisions permit or require broader or more extensive
indemnification rights than prior thereto).
8.3 Additional Indemnification. Subject only to the exclusions set
forth in this Section 8.3, the Company further agrees to indemnify and hold
harmless and to cause any Affiliate to indemnify and hold harmless Executive
against any and all Liabilities and/or Expenses incurred by Executive in
connection with any Proceeding to which Executive is or was a party or is
threatened to be made a party by reason of the fact that Executive is or was
Serving in an Official Capacity. Executive shall not be entitled to any
indemnification pursuant to this Section 3 if a judgment or other final
adjudication establishes that any act or omission of Executive was material to
the cause of action so adjudicated and that such act or omission constituted an
act or omission for which Company is prohibited by applicable law from providing
an indemnity.
8.4 Advance of Expenses. The Company shall advance or cause any
Affiliate to advance Expenses incurred by Executive in defending any Proceeding
for which Executive may be entitled to indemnification hereunder, provided that
the Company or any Affiliate shall not be required to advance any sums for such
Expenses if the Board of Directors of the Company or the Board of Directors or
similar managing body of any Affiliate, as the case may be, makes a preliminary
good faith determination that Executive engaged in willful misconduct or acted
with a conscious disregard for the best interests of the Company or any
Affiliate, as the case may be (but no such determination by the Board of
Directors of any Affiliate alone shall have any effect upon the obligations of
the Company under this Agreement without such a determination by the Board of
Directors of the Company). Executive hereby agrees to repay any such advances of
Expenses made hereunder with respect to a matter if Executive is ultimately
found not to be entitled to indemnification hereunder with respect to such
matter.
8.5 Obligations of Company and Affiliate; Separate Obligations. It
is the intention of the parties that Executive be entitled to indemnification to
the broadest
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possible extent allowed by law. Accordingly, any ambiguity in this Agreement
shall be construed in favor of indemnification. Furthermore, in the event that
applicable law would not permit or require indemnification as to a Liability or
Expense but Florida law would, or vice versa, or in the event that a Liability
or Expense would be indemnifiable under both laws but the law of one would
permit or require broader indemnification than the other, Executive shall be
indemnified pursuant to the law that will provide maximum indemnification. The
obligations of the Company under this Agreement are separate, independent and
primary obligations of the Company, and may be enforced directly against the
Company without any necessity for joining any Affiliate or any other enterprise
as to which Executive is or was Serving in an Official Capacity, for recovering
or seeking to enforce any judgment against any Affiliate or such other
enterprise, or for otherwise seeking to recover from or out of the assets of any
Affiliate or any such other enterprise, whether or not any Affiliate or any such
other enterprise has assets sufficient for such recovery.
8.6 Notification of Defense of Claim. Promptly after receipt by
Executive of the notice of any Proceeding (including any threat thereof) as to
which Executive may be entitled to indemnification hereunder, Executive shall
notify the Company in writing thereof. Failure to so notify the Company shall
not relieve the Company from any obligation hereunder except to the extent that
it may suffer material prejudice by reason of such failure. With respect to any
such Proceeding as to which Executive notifies the Company thereof:
(A) The Company shall be entitled to participate therein at its
own expense.
(B) Except as otherwise provided below, the Company shall be
entitled to assume the defense thereof on behalf of Executive, with counsel
satisfactory to Executive, acting reasonably. Executive shall have the right to
employ his own separate counsel in such Proceeding, and the fees, expenses and
disbursements of Executive's own separate counsel incurred after written notice
from the Company to Executive of its assumption of the defense thereof and after
the full assumption of such defense by counsel engaged by the Company and
satisfactory to Executive, acting reasonably, shall be the expense of Executive
except ((1) if the employment of counsel by Executive has been authorized by the
Company, or ((2) if Executive shall have reasonably concluded that there may be
a conflict of interest between Executive and the Company with respect to the
defense of such action, or (iii) if any fees, expenses and disbursements of
Executive's own separate counsel are incurred in connection with familiarizing
or providing assistance to counsel employed by the Company, in which case the
fees, expenses and disbursements of Executive's own separate counsel shall be
paid by the Company. The Company shall not be entitled to assume the defense of
any Proceeding
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brought by or on behalf of the Company or as to which Executive shall have made
the conclusion provided for in (ii) above.
(C) The Company shall not be obligated to indemnify Executive
under this Agreement for any amounts paid in settlement of any Proceeding
effected without its written consent, not to be unreasonably delayed or
withheld. The Company shall not settle any action or claim in any manner which
would impose any penalty, limitation, Liability or Expense on Executive for
which Executive is not entitled to indemnification hereunder without Executive's
written consent.
8.7 Insurance. The Company shall maintain in force directors and
officers liability insurance in amounts and with coverage substantially the same
as that currently in effect and upon termination of Executive's employment
hereunder will obtain extended reporting period ("tail coverage") for not less
than an additional three years. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to
require indemnification of Executive to the extent that insurance proceeds under
any policy or policies of insurance carried by the Company, or any other person
or entity are available to satisfy any Liability or Expense incurred by
Executive by reason of the fact that he is or was Serving in an Official
Capacity.
9. SEVERABILITY. The invalidity of any one or more of the words,
phrases, sentences, clauses, sections, subdivisions, or subparagraphs contained
in this Agreement shall not affect the enforceability of the remaining portions
of this Agreement or any part thereof, all of which are inserted conditionally
on their being legally valid. In the event that one or more of the words,
phrases, sentences, clauses, sections, subdivisions, subparagraphs, or articles
are determined to be unenforceable and if such invalidity shall be caused by the
length of any period of time or the size of any area set forth in any part
hereof, such period of time or such area, or both, shall be considered to be
reduced to a period or area which would cure such invalidity.
10. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. This Agreement shall be binding upon the
parties hereto and their successors and assigns; provided, however, that this
Agreement shall be non-assignable by the Executive without the written consent
of the Company, it being understood that the Executive's obligations and
performance of this Agreement are personal in nature.
11. NOTICE. Any notices or other communications to any party pursuant
to or relating to this Agreement must be in writing and shall be deemed to have
been given or delivered when (i) hand-delivered, (ii) mailed through the U.S.
Postal Service via certified mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, or
(iii) delivered through a nationally recognized overnight courier,, to the party
at their addresses below:
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Company: IMC Mortgage Company
5901 East Fowler Avenue
Tampa, FL 33617-2211
Attn: Member of Board of Directors
Executive: Mr. Dennis J. Pitocco
4311 Round Lake Court
Tampa, FL 33624-5313
or such other address given by such party to the other party at any time
hereafter.
12. MISCELLANEOUS.
12.1 Amendment. No amendment, waiver or modification of this
Agreement or any provisions of this Agreement shall be valid unless in writing
and duly executed by both parties.
12.2 Binding Agreement. This Agreement shall be binding upon and
inure to the benefit of the parties and their respective heirs, legal
representatives, successors and assigns.
12.3 Waiver. Any waiver by any party of any breach of any provision
of this Agreement shall not be considered as or constitute a continuing waiver
or waiver of any other breach of any provision of this Agreement. EACH PARTY
HERETO HEREBY WAIVES TRIAL BY JURY OF ANY MATTER ARISING OUR OF OR RELATING TO
THIS AGREEMENT OR THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP OF EXECUTIVE AND COMPANY.
12.4 Captions. Captions contained in this Agreement are inserted
only as a matter of convenience or for reference and in no way define, limit,
extend, or describe the scope of this Agreement or the intent of any provisions
of this Agreement.
12.5 Attorneys' Fees. In the event of any litigation arising out of
this Agreement, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover its attorneys'
fees and costs, including attorneys' fees and costs incurred on appeal.
12.6 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of
the State of Florida.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the
day and year first above written.
COMPANY:
IMC MORTGAGE COMPANY
By: /s/ Robert Melone
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Robert Melone, Vice President
and Assistant General Counsel
By: /s/ Kris Hood
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Kris Hood, Vice President
and Corporate Secretary
EXECUTIVE:
/s/ Dennis J. Pitocco
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Dennis J. Pitocco
Address:
4311 Roundlake Court
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Tampa, FL 33624-5313
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