Merrill Lynch is the exclusive global broker you’ll use when exercising your stock options or stock appreciation rights (SARs).
If you received stock options or SARs that are still outstanding, you will have limited periods of time to exercise vested stock options and SARs after you leave HPE. In general, vested stock options and SARs may be exercised within three months after your termination of employment, or by the original expiration date if earlier. Because it takes up to 72 hours to set up your Merrill Lynch brokerage account before you can exercise your grants, you should review and understand what’s required before your last day of work at HPE. The treatment of your stock options and SARs upon termination (including any post-termination exercise period) will depend on the following factors:
Guidelines concerning outstanding grants may vary depending on where you were employed when you received them and the reason for and timing of your termination. For more information, see Outstanding stock options and SARs.
Note: If you have a grant outstanding under an assumed plan, please contact Merrill Lynch with any questions that you may have regarding your equity grant(s).
If an outstanding grant was made while you were located outside the U.S., there may be different treatment due to local laws. Please review your grant agreement, which may contain country-specific rules, or contact Merrill Lynch with any questions you may have.