Avoid Triggering $100K Limit on an M&A

If you hold ISOs and your company is acquired, then you may trigger the 100K Limit Rule if your option agreement has an acceleration feature. Suddenly vesting all or more of your unvested options will increase the total number of options you vest for the year. Although your original grant was designed to stay under the 100K Limit, you may suddenly exceed it unintentionally.  As a result, some of your ISOs will be [epq-quote align="alig