Item 5.02.
Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
Award of Restricted Stock Units and Performance Stock Units
On March 7, 2019, the Board of Directors (the Board) for Midstates Petroleum Company, Inc. (the Company) approved long-term incentive awards to David J. Sambrooks, Richard W. McCullough, Scott C. Weatherholt and Amelia K. Harding pursuant to the Companys 2016 Long Term Incentive Plan (the LTIP) and based upon recommendation from the Compensation Committee of the Board. These awards include (i) the grant of 30,959, 8,661, 18,612 and 12,439 restricted stock units (RSUs) to Messrs. Sambrooks, McCullough and Weatherholt and Ms. Harding, respectively, and (ii) the grant of 72,236, 20,209, 43,428 and 29,024 performance stock units (PSUs) to Messrs. Sambrooks, McCullough and Weatherholt and Ms. Harding, respectively.
The RSUs and PSUs are governed by a form of Restricted Stock Unit Agreement (the RSU Award Agreement) and a form of Performance Stock Unit Agreement (the PSU Award Agreement, and together with the RSU Award Agreement, the Award Agreements) entered into with each of Messrs. Sambrooks, McCullough and Weatherholt and Ms. Harding. The RSUs will generally vest, if at all, in full (100%) on March 1, 2021, and the PSUs will vest, if at all, based on the Companys trading price of common stock for the performance period of January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2020.
Each of the RSUs and PSUs are subject to partial accelerated vesting in the event the executive grantees employment is terminated prior to the vesting date by the Company without Cause or by the executive grantee with Good Reason (each, as defined in the LTIP) or due to such executive grantees death or disability. In the event of a Change in Control (as defined in the LTIP), the RSUs are subject to full accelerated vesting, and the PSUs have the potential to receive full accelerated vesting or other alternative benefits, subject to the sole discretion of the Compensation Committee.
The descriptions of the Award Agreements in this Current Report on Form 8-K are qualified in their entirety by reference to the full text of the form of Award Agreements, which are filed as Exhibit 10.1 and Exhibit 10.2 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and are incorporated by reference into this Item 5.02.