SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SonicWALL, Inc.
(Nasdaq: SNWL), a leading secure network infrastructure company, today
announced that on July 8, 2008 the Compensation Committee of the company's
Board of Directors approved the grants of options to purchase up to 9,100
shares of common stock with an exercise price equal to the fair market value
on the grant date to a total of seven (7) new employees of the company.
Each option is a non-qualified stock option and has an exercise price
equal to the fair market value of the underlying shares as of the grant date.
The options vest as to 25% of the covered shares on the first anniversary of
the grant date and as to 1/48 of the covered shares each moth thereafter, so
as to be 100% vested on the fourth anniversary of the grant date, subject to
the employee's continued service. The options have a maximum term of seven (7)
years.
The options were granted as inducements material to employment under the
company's 2008 Inducement Equity Incentive Plan in accordance with NASDAQ
Marketplace Rule 4350(i)(l)(A)(iv).
SOURCE SonicWALL, Inc.
Jens Kordetzky of SonicWALL, Inc., +1-408-752-7925, jkordetzky@sonicwall.com
