UNITED STATES

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January 24, 2020

DEAR SHAREHOLDER:

You are cordially invited to attend the Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held at 9:00 a.m. local time on Wednesday, March 11, 2020, at our offices located at 125 Summer Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02110.

At the Annual Meeting you are being asked to:

1. Elect ten members of our Board of Directors, each to serve for a term expiring at the next annual meeting of shareholders;

2. Approve a non-binding advisory proposal on the compensation of our named executive officers;

3. Approve the Analog Devices, Inc. 2020 Equity Incentive Plan; and

4. Ratify the selection of Ernst & Young LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the 2020 fiscal year.

Your Board of Directors recommends that you vote FOR the election of each of the directors named in the proxy statement and FOR items 2, 3 and 4.

Please carefully review the attached proxy materials and take the time to cast your vote.

Yours sincerely,

Ray Stata Chairman of the Board of Directors				Vincent Roche President and Chief Executive Officer

ANALOG DEVICES, INC.

ONE TECHNOLOGY WAY

NORWOOD, MASSACHUSETTS 02062-9106

NOTICE OF 2020 ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS

To Be Held On March 11, 2020

TO OUR SHAREHOLDERS:

The 2020 Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Analog Devices, Inc. will be held at our offices at 125 Summer Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02110, on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. local time. At the meeting, shareholders will consider and vote on the following matters:

The shareholders will also act on any other business that may properly come before the meeting.

We are providing access to our proxy materials over the Internet under the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s “notice and access” rules. As a result, we are mailing to our shareholders a Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials (the “Notice”) instead of a paper copy of this proxy statement and our Annual Report for the fiscal year ended November 2, 2019 (the “2019 Annual Report”). We are mailing the Notice on or about January 24, 2020, and it contains instructions on how to access those documents over the Internet. The Notice also contains instructions on how each of our shareholders can receive a paper copy of our proxy materials, including this proxy statement, our 2019 Annual Report and a form of proxy card or voting instruction card. All shareholders who do not receive the Notice, including shareholders who have previously requested to receive paper copies of proxy materials, will receive a paper copy of the proxy materials by mail unless they have previously requested delivery of proxy materials electronically. We have chosen to employ this distribution process to conserve natural resources and reduce the costs of printing and distributing our proxy materials.

Shareholders of record at the close of business on January 6, 2020 are entitled to vote at the meeting. Your vote is important no matter how many shares you own. Whether you expect to attend the meeting or not, please vote your shares by using the Internet as described in the instructions included on your Notice, by calling the toll-free telephone number, or, if you received a paper copy of the proxy materials, by completing, signing, dating and returning your proxy card or voting instruction form. Your prompt response is necessary to ensure that your shares are represented at the meeting. You can change your vote and revoke your proxy at any time before the polls close at the meeting by following the procedures described in the accompanying proxy statement.

All shareholders are cordially invited to attend the meeting.

By order of the Board of Directors,

LARRY WEISS

Secretary

Norwood, Massachusetts

January 24, 2020

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ANALOG DEVICES, INC.

ONE TECHNOLOGY WAY

NORWOOD, MASSACHUSETTS 02062-9106

NOTICE OF 2020 ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS

To Be Held On March 11, 2020

This proxy statement contains information about the 2020 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, or Annual Meeting, of Analog Devices, Inc. (which we also refer to as Analog Devices, ADI or the Company). The Annual Meeting will be held on Wednesday, March 11, 2020, at 9:00 a.m. local time, at our offices at 125 Summer Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02110. You may obtain directions to the location of the Annual Meeting by visiting our website at www.analog.com or by contacting our Investor Relations Department at Analog Devices, Inc., One Technology Way, Norwood, Massachusetts 02062; telephone: 781-461-3282.

We are furnishing this proxy statement to you in connection with the solicitation of proxies by the Board of Directors of Analog Devices for use at the Annual Meeting and at any adjournment, postponement, continuation or rescheduling of the meeting. All proxies will be voted in accordance with the instructions they contain. If you do not specify your voting instructions on the proxy that you submit for the Annual Meeting, it will be voted in accordance with the recommendation of the Board of Directors. You may revoke your proxy at any time before it is exercised at the Annual Meeting by giving our Secretary written notice to that effect.

We are providing access to our proxy materials over the Internet under the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s “notice and access” rules. As a result, we are mailing to our shareholders a Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials, or Notice, on or about January 24, 2020, and it contains instructions on how to access this proxy statement and our Annual Report for the fiscal year ended November 2, 2019, or our 2019 Annual Report, over the Internet. The Notice also contains instructions on how each of our shareholders can receive a paper copy of our proxy materials, including this proxy statement, our 2019 Annual Report and a form of proxy card or voting instruction card. All shareholders who do not receive the Notice, including shareholders who have previously requested to receive paper copies of proxy materials, will receive a paper copy of the proxy materials by mail unless they have previously requested delivery of proxy materials electronically.

Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the Annual

Meeting of Shareholders to be Held on March 11, 2020:

This proxy statement and the 2019 Annual Report to Shareholders are available for viewing, printing and downloading at www.analog.com/AnnualMeeting.

PROXY STATEMENT HIGHLIGHTS

This summary highlights information contained elsewhere in this proxy statement. This summary does not contain all the information that you should consider and you should read the entire proxy statement before voting. For more information on the 2019 financial and operating performance of the Company, please review the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended November 2, 2019 that was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on November 26, 2019.

 

 

				2020 ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
				Date:		March 11, 2020
				Time:		9:00 a.m. local time
				Place:		Analog Devices’ Offices 125 Summer Street Boston, Massachusetts 02110
				Record Date:		January 6, 2020
VOTING MATTERS AND BOARD RECOMMENDATIONS

 

Proposals				Board Recommendation		More Information
1.  Election of Ten Directors		✓		FOR each director nominee		Page 18
2.  Advisory Approval of the Compensation of the Company’s Named Executive Officers		✓		FOR		Page 39
3.  Approval of the Analog Devices, Inc. 2020 Equity Incentive Plan		✓		FOR		Page 70
4.  Ratification of the Selection of Ernst & Young LLP as Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for the Company’s Fiscal Year Ending October 31, 2020		✓		FOR		Page 82

COMPANY STRATEGY AND FISCAL 2019 BUSINESS HIGHLIGHTS

We are a leading global high-performance analog technology company dedicated to solving our customers’ toughest engineering challenges. We enable our customers to interpret the world around us by intelligently bridging the physical and digital with unmatched technologies that sense, measure, power, connect and interpret. Our strategy is to focus on challenges that our customers have in applications that matter the most, helping them to grow and adapt their offerings in complex and evolving markets. Our focus is largely on the business-to-business (B2B) markets of Industrial, Automotive and Communications and their applications, as well as a few selected consumer applications, with the goal of driving sustainable and profitable growth for Analog Devices over the long-term. As a global company, we are also passionately driven to be a leading corporate citizen, creating a better tomorrow for all our stakeholders. We believe we have a responsibility to engineer a more sustainable future and we are increasingly working to develop new solutions that restore and replenish our ecosystems and reduce the environmental impacts of our operations.

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INFORMATION ABOUT THE ANNUAL MEETING AND VOTING

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HOUSEHOLDING OF ANNUAL MEETING MATERIALS

Some banks, brokers and other nominee record holders may be participating in the practice of “householding” proxy statements and annual reports. This means that only one copy of our proxy statement and annual report to shareholders may have been sent to multiple shareholders in your household unless we have received contrary instructions from one or more shareholders. We will promptly deliver a separate copy of either document to you if you contact us at the following address, telephone number or email address: Investor Relations Department, Analog Devices, Inc., One Technology Way, Norwood, Massachusetts 02062, telephone: 781-461-3282, email: investor.relations@analog.com. If you want to receive separate copies of the proxy statement or annual report to shareholders in the future, or if you are receiving multiple copies and would like to receive only one copy per household, you should contact your bank, broker, or other nominee record holder, or you may contact us at the above address, telephone number or email address.

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SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT

The following table contains information regarding the beneficial ownership of our common stock as of January 3, 2020 (unless otherwise specified) by:

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DELINQUENT SECTION 16(A) REPORTS

Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act requires our executive officers, directors and the holders of more than 10% of our common stock to file with the SEC initial reports of ownership of our common stock and other equity securities on a Form 3 and reports of changes in such ownership on a Form 4 or Form 5. Officers, directors and 10% shareholders are required by SEC regulations to furnish us with copies of all Section 16(a) forms they file. To our knowledge, based solely on a review of our records and written representations by the persons required to file these reports, all filing requirements of Section 16(a) were satisfied on a timely basis with respect to fiscal 2019, with the exception of a late filing by Mr. Champy to report a gift of 162 shares to an educational institution.

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ELECTION OF DIRECTORS

ELECTION PROCESS

Our entire Board of Directors is elected annually by our shareholders and currently consists of twelve directors, of whom ten are deemed to be “independent directors.” Lisa Su and Neil Novich are retiring from the Board of Directors and therefore are not standing for re-election at the Annual Meeting. Dr. Su and Mr. Novich will continue to serve as directors until their terms expire at the Annual Meeting. At the Annual Meeting, shareholders will accordingly have an opportunity to vote for each of the ten nominees listed below. The persons named in the proxy card, upon receipt of a properly executed proxy, will vote for each of these nominees, unless you instruct them to vote otherwise on the proxy card (whether executed by you or through Internet or telephonic voting). Each of the nominees has indicated his or her willingness to serve, if elected. However, if any or all of the nominees should be unable or unwilling to serve, the proxies may be voted for a substitute nominee designated by our Board of Directors or our Board of Directors may reduce the number of directors.

DIRECTOR CRITERIA, QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

The Board of Directors is committed to ensuring that it is composed of a highly capable group of directors who collectively span a broad range of leadership skills and provide a significant breadth of experience, knowledge and abilities, relevant to the Company’s strategic vision, long-term objectives and business activities to effectively represent the interests of shareholders, exercise sound judgment and reflect our corporate values of integrity, honesty and adherence to high ethical standards. Key factors that the Board of Directors and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee consider when selecting directors include:

BOARD EXPERTISE AND SKILLS

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The following paragraphs provide information as of the date of this proxy statement about each nominee. The information presented includes information each director has given us about his or her age, all positions he or she holds, his or her principal occupation and business experience, and the names of other publicly-held companies of which he or she currently serves as a director or has served as a director during the past five years. In addition to the information presented below regarding each nominee’s specific experience, qualifications, attributes and skills that led our Board of Directors to the conclusion that he or she should serve as a director, we also believe that all of our director nominees have a reputation for integrity, honesty and adherence to high ethical standards. They each have demonstrated business acumen and an ability to exercise sound judgment, as well as a commitment of service to ADI and our Board of Directors. Finally, we value their significant experience on other public company boards of directors and board committees.

Information about the number of shares of common stock beneficially owned by each director appears above under the heading “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management.” See also “Certain Relationships and Related Transactions.” There are no family relationships among any of the directors and executive officers of ADI.

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Our Board of Directors unanimously recommends that you vote FOR the election of each of the above nominees.

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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

GENERAL

We have long believed that good corporate governance is important to ensure that Analog Devices is managed for the long-term benefit of our shareholders. We periodically review our corporate governance policies and practices and compare them to those suggested by various authorities in corporate governance and the practices of other public companies. As a result, we have adopted policies and procedures that we believe are in the best interests of Analog Devices and our shareholders. In particular, we have adopted the following policies and procedures:

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You can access our bylaws, the current charters for our Audit Committee, Compensation Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, our Corporate Governance Guidelines, our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, our Related Person Transaction Policy and our Equity Award Grant Date Policy at investor.analog.com/corporate-governance.cfm or by writing to:

Investor Relations Department

Analog Devices, Inc.

One Technology Way

Norwood, Massachusetts 02062

Phone: 781-461-3282

Email: investor.relations@analog.com

ENGAGEMENT WITH OUR SHAREHOLDERS

Since our inception as a public company, we have maintained an active engagement program with our shareholders, meeting with them extensively throughout the year as part of our investor outreach efforts. In fiscal 2019, we held more than 430 meetings with our shareholders, including the majority of our top 25 shareholders, to discuss the Company’s performance and prospects, as well as trends affecting the semiconductor industry. We also continued our specific outreach effort with our institutional investors to discuss corporate governance issues affecting the Company. During fiscal 2019, we reached out to our top 25 shareholders, representing approximately 55% of our outstanding shares with an invitation to have discussions with their corporate governance teams. Of the shareholders who accepted our engagement invitation, topics covered in these meetings included:

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best meet the needs of the Company and our shareholders. Our dialogue has led to enhancements to our practices and disclosure, which our Board believes is in the best interests of our company and our shareholders. For example we:

We intend to continue our shareholder outreach efforts on an on-going basis and look forward to continuing to engage with our valued shareholders.

SUSTAINABILITY

We believe that in order to deliver solid financial results for ADI, we must, among other things, create a rewarding workplace and be a trusted partner, leading corporate citizen, environmental steward and contributor to our communities. We have a long history of leadership in corporate responsibility, and pursue corporate social responsibility and sustainability along four axes—economic, environmental, social and governance and ethics.

Economic Sustainability. ADI works to ensure that our technological innovations continue to have impact and our employees, customers, partners and investors continue to share in the success of ADI. This is executed through our best-in-class financial model, global operations and smart supply chain management. Economic sustainability considers the economic conditions of all of our stakeholders: employees, their families and communities; the communities where we operate; and world we all live in.

Environmental Sustainability. At ADI, we are passionate about our responsibility to engineer a more sustainable future. For us, this means more than simply environmental sustainability—it extends to regenerating our environment. We continue to work on developing new solutions and applications which can help restore and replenish our natural resources and ecosystems, reduce our carbon footprint and minimize the impacts of our operations to the environment. We also seek to partner with our customers and suppliers to reduce the impact they have on our shared planet.

We establish environmental performance objectives using a five-year planning horizon, and make annual updates to our objectives, targets, and programs. For example, a key operational goal for ADI is to achieve a 50% greenhouse gas emission reduction target by 2025 over our 2015 baseline, a significant step up from our previous emission reduction goals. Progress is reviewed quarterly at the corporate level and monthly at the site level and senior management allocates resources appropriately to help keep programs on plan.

Social Sustainability. ADI is committed to a work environment where employees are treated with respect and fairness. We understand that our people are the driving force of our company and keep us at the leading edge. The mission of our diversity and inclusion program is to drive a culture that values and leverages the uniqueness of each employee so that they may develop and grow at ADI. In fiscal 2019, we published our first Diversity and Inclusion report, providing a look at the state of our organization and an overview of some of the initiatives we launched over the past year to drive continued improvement across diversity and inclusion at ADI. Our focus on being a great place to work and for providing industry-leading benefits and a work culture that has led to strong employee satisfaction and pride has been recognized across the globe, including most recently the awards listed below.

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communities by living up to the highest ethical standards, pursuing socially minded business practices, providing rewarding career and employment opportunities and giving back to our communities in concert with our employees’ individual efforts.

Governance and Ethical Sustainability. Ethical behavior has been a core tenet of our Company’s values since our earliest days. Our employees, across all locations and job functions, have internalized the value of ethical behavior, routinely going beyond mere compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Our long history of leadership in the area of governance and ethics has resulted in a trusted reputation among our customers, investors and employees, as well as the communities where we operate. That is a trust that we have worked hard to earn and one we don’t take lightly.

Sustainability is infused into all aspects of how we do business, and we are proud that our sustainability commitment is routinely recognized around the globe, including most recently with the following awards:

For more information about our corporate responsibility efforts, please refer to our Sustainability and Diversity and Inclusion Reports available on the Analog Devices web site.

DETERMINATION OF INDEPENDENCE

Under applicable Nasdaq Rules, a director of Analog Devices will only qualify as an “independent director” if, in the opinion of our Board of Directors, that person does not have a relationship which would interfere with the exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of a director. Our Board of Directors has established guidelines (within our Corporate Governance Guidelines) to assist it in determining whether a director has a relationship with Analog Devices that would interfere with the exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of a director. These guidelines are posted on our website under investor.analog.com/corporate-governance.cfm. For relationships not covered by the guidelines, the determination of whether such a relationship exists is made by the members of our Board of Directors who are independent (as defined above). Our Board of Directors has determined that none of Messrs. Champy, Evans, Novich and Sicchitano, Ms. Golz and Drs. Chandrakasan, Frank, Little, Su and Wee has a relationship which would interfere with the exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of a director and that each of these directors is an “independent director” as defined under Rule 5605(a)(2) of the Nasdaq Rules. The Board of Directors has determined that Mr. Roche, our President and Chief Executive Officer, and Mr. Stata, our Chairman and founder, are not “independent” under the Nasdaq Rules because Mr. Roche is a current employee and Mr. Stata is our founder. The Board of Directors considered the Company’s annual laboratory membership and sponsorship of university research projects with MIT (of which Anantha P. Chandrakasan is the Dean of the School of Engineering and James A. Champy is a board member) and Karen Golz’s former affiliation with Ernst & Young and determined that those relationships would not interfere with the exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of a director.

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DIRECTOR CANDIDATES

Shareholders of record of Analog Devices may recommend director candidates for inclusion by the Board of Directors in the slate of nominees that the Board of Directors recommends to our shareholders for election. The qualifications of recommended candidates will be reviewed by the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. If the Board of Directors determines to nominate a shareholder-recommended candidate and recommends his or her election as a director by the shareholders, the name will be included in Analog Devices’ proxy card for the shareholders’ meeting at which his or her election is recommended.

Shareholders may recommend individuals for the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee to consider as potential director candidates by submitting their names and background and a statement as to whether the shareholder or group of shareholders making the recommendation has beneficially owned more than 5% of Analog Devices’ common stock for at least one year as of the date the recommendation is made, to the “Analog Devices Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee,” c/o Larry Weiss, Secretary, Analog Devices, Inc., One Technology Way, Norwood, Massachusetts 02062. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee will consider a recommendation only if appropriate biographical information and background material is provided on a timely basis.

The process followed by the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee to identify and evaluate candidates includes requests to Board members and others for recommendations, meetings from time to time to evaluate biographical information and background material relating to potential candidates and interviews of selected candidates by members of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and the Board of Directors. From time to time, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee may also seek input from director search firms for identification and evaluation of candidates. Assuming that appropriate biographical and background material is provided for candidates recommended by shareholders on a timely basis, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee will evaluate director candidates recommended by shareholders by following substantially the same process, and applying substantially the same criteria, as it follows for director candidates submitted by Board members.

Shareholders also have the right to directly nominate director candidates, without any action or recommendation on the part of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee or the Board of Directors, by following the procedures set forth in our bylaws and described in the response to the question “How and when may I submit a shareholder proposal, including a shareholder nomination for director, for the 2021 annual meeting of shareholders?” above.

In considering whether to recommend any candidate for inclusion in the Board of Directors’ slate of recommended director nominees, including candidates recommended by shareholders, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee will apply the criteria set forth in our Corporate Governance Guidelines. These criteria include the candidate’s integrity, business acumen, experience, commitment, and diligence; the presence of any conflicts of interest and the ability of the candidate to act in the interests of all shareholders. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee seeks nominees with a broad diversity of experience, professions, skills, geographic representation and backgrounds. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee does not assign specific weights to particular criteria and no particular criterion is necessarily applicable to all prospective nominees. Analog Devices believes that the backgrounds and qualifications of the directors, considered as a group, should provide a significant composite mix of experience, knowledge and abilities that will allow the Board of Directors to fulfill its responsibilities. While we do not have a policy regarding Board diversity, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee includes gender, racial and ethnic diversity as part of its search criteria, consistent with the requirement for relevant and diverse experience, skills and industry familiarity.

COMMUNICATIONS FROM SHAREHOLDERS AND OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES

The Board of Directors will give appropriate attention to written communications on issues that are submitted by shareholders and other interested parties, and will respond if and as appropriate. Absent unusual circumstances or as contemplated by committee charters, the Chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee will, with the assistance of Analog Devices’ General Counsel, (1) be

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primarily responsible for monitoring communications from shareholders and other interested parties and (2) provide copies or summaries of such communications to the other directors as he considers appropriate.

Communications will be forwarded to all directors if they relate to substantive matters and include suggestions or comments that the Chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee considers to be important for the directors to review. In general, communications relating to corporate governance and long-term corporate strategy are more likely to be forwarded than communications relating to personal grievances, commercial solicitations and matters as to which Analog Devices tends to receive repetitive or duplicative communications.

Shareholders and other interested parties who wish to send communications on any topic to the Board of Directors (including the Presiding Director or the independent directors as a group) should address such communications to James A. Champy, Presiding Director, c/o Secretary, Analog Devices, Inc., One Technology Way, Norwood, Massachusetts 02062.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS LEADERSHIP STRUCTURE

Our Corporate Governance Guidelines provide that the roles of Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors should be separate, unless otherwise determined by a majority of the Board of Directors, and we currently separate these roles. Our Chief Executive Officer is responsible for setting the strategic direction for the Company and the day-to-day leadership and performance of the Company, while our Chairman of the Board of Directors provides guidance to the Chief Executive Officer, sets the agenda for Board meetings and presides over meetings of the full Board of Directors. Because our Board of Directors has determined that Mr. Stata, our Chairman and founder, is not an independent director under the Nasdaq Rules, our Board of Directors has appointed James A. Champy as Presiding Director to preside at all executive sessions of directors without management present. The Board of Directors meets in executive session at each regular meeting.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETINGS AND COMMITTEES

The Board of Directors has responsibility for reviewing our overall performance, rather than day-to-day operations. The Board of Directors’ primary responsibility is to oversee the management of the Company and, in so doing, serve the best interests of the Company and its shareholders. The Board of Directors provides for the succession of the Chief Executive Officer, nominates for election at annual shareholder meetings individuals to serve as directors of Analog Devices, and elects individuals to fill any vacancies on the Board of Directors. It reviews corporate objectives and strategies, and evaluates and approves significant policies and proposed major commitments of corporate resources. It participates in decisions that have a potential major economic impact on Analog Devices. Management keeps the directors informed of Company activity through regular written reports and presentations at Board and committee meetings.

The Board of Directors met nine times in fiscal 2019 (including by telephone conference). During fiscal 2019, each of our directors attended 75% or more of the total number of meetings of the Board of Directors and the committees on which he or she served. The Board of Directors has standing Audit, Compensation, and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees. All members of all three committees are independent, non-employee directors. Each committee has a charter that has been approved by the Board of Directors and is reviewed annually. In addition, each Committee conducts an annual self-evaluation of its own performance and the performance of its members in accordance with its respective Committee charter. Each director also undertakes an evaluation of the Board more generally. Our Lead Director, who is also currently the Chair of our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, working with outside counsel, also has conversations with each Board member designed to assess the competencies and skills each director brings to the Board. Summaries of the evaluations are presented to the Board. Mr. Roche is the only current director who is, or has been in the past three years, an employee of Analog Devices. Messrs. Roche and Stata do not serve on any standing Board committee and do not participate in the portion of any Board or committee meeting during which their compensation is evaluated. The independent directors met in executive session without Messrs. Stata or Roche at each in-person Board meeting in fiscal 2019.

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Our Corporate Governance Guidelines set forth our policy that directors are expected to attend annual meetings of shareholders. All of our then-serving directors attended the 2019 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.

Audit Committee

The current members of our Audit Committee are Messrs. Sicchitano (Chair), Evans and Novich and Ms. Golz. Dr. Little also served on the Audit Committee during fiscal 2019. The Board of Directors has determined that each of Messrs. Sicchitano, Evans and Novich and Ms. Golz qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert” under the rules of the SEC and is independent as defined under the Nasdaq Rules and the independence requirements under Rule 10A-3(b)(1) of the Exchange Act. In addition, our Board of Directors has determined that each member of the Audit Committee is able to read and understand financial statements, including the Company’s consolidated balance sheet and its consolidated statements of income, comprehensive income, shareholders’ equity and cash flows and related notes as required under the Nasdaq Rules. The Board of Directors has certified that it has at least one member of the Audit Committee who has past employment experience in finance or accounting as required by the Nasdaq Rules. None of Messrs. Sicchitano, Evans and Novich or Ms. Golz serves on the audit committees of more than two other public companies.

The primary purpose of the Audit Committee is to assist the Board of Directors’ oversight of (i) the integrity of our financial statements and the Company’s systems of internal control over financial reporting and disclosure controls and procedures, (ii) the qualifications and independence of our independent registered public accounting firm, and (iii) the performance of our internal audit function and independent registered public accounting firm. The Audit Committee has the authority to engage any independent legal, accounting and other advisors that it deems necessary or appropriate to carry out its responsibilities. These independent advisors may be the regular advisors to the Company. The Audit Committee is empowered, without further action by the Board of Directors, to cause the Company to pay the compensation of those advisors as established by the Audit Committee. The Audit Committee selected and appointed Ernst & Young LLP, our independent registered public accounting firm, and did not retain any other advisors during fiscal 2019. The Audit Committee met ten times during fiscal 2019 (including by telephone conference). The responsibilities of our Audit Committee and its activities during fiscal 2019 are described in the Report of the Audit Committee below.

Compensation Committee

The current members of our Compensation Committee are Drs. Frank (Chair), Little, Su and Wee. Mr. Novich also served on the Compensation Committee during fiscal 2019.    The Board of Directors has determined that each of Drs. Frank, Little, Su and Wee is independent as defined under the Nasdaq Rules and the independence requirements under Rule 10C-1 of the Exchange Act. The Compensation Committee evaluates and sets the compensation of our Chief Executive Officer and our other executive officers, and makes recommendations to our Board of Directors regarding the compensation of our directors. The Compensation Committee oversees the evaluation of senior management. In connection with its oversight and administration of ADI’s cash and equity incentive plans, the Compensation Committee authorizes the granting of stock options, RSUs and other stock incentives (within guidelines established by our Board of Directors and in accordance with our Stock Option and Stock-Based Award Grant Date Policies) to our officers. In accordance with the terms of our Amended and Restated 2006 Stock Incentive Plan, which we refer to as the 2006 Stock Incentive Plan, the Amended and Restated 2005 Equity Incentive Plan, which we refer to as the 2005 Plan, and the Amended and Restated 2010 Equity Incentive Plan, which we refer to as the 2010 Plan (the latter two of which were assumed by us in the Linear Technology acquisition), the Compensation Committee has delegated to our Chief Executive Officer the power to grant and modify options, RSUs and other stock awards to employees who are not executive officers, other senior vice presidents who report to the Chief Executive Officer or directors, subject to specified thresholds, parameters and applicable law. Our Compensation Committee held ten meetings (including by telephone conference) during fiscal 2019.

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necessary or appropriate to carry out its responsibilities. The Compensation Committee is empowered, without further action by the Board of Directors, to cause the Company to pay the compensation of these advisors as established by the Compensation Committee. The Compensation Committee retained Pearl Meyer and Partners, or Pearl Meyer, an independent compensation consultant, during fiscal 2019. Pearl Meyer reports directly to the Compensation Committee and assists the Compensation Committee in evaluating and designing our executive and director compensation program and policies. For fiscal 2019, the Compensation Committee instructed Pearl Meyer to assist in the following matters:

In connection with its work for the Compensation Committee, Pearl Meyer is invited to attend the Compensation Committee’s meetings and, upon request of the Compensation Committee, attends executive sessions of the Compensation Committee. Pearl Meyer is retained only by the Compensation Committee and does not provide any other consulting services to Analog Devices. The Compensation Committee also solicits advice from time to time from our outside counsel, WilmerHale. The Compensation Committee assesses the independence of its advisors on an annual basis. The Compensation Committee requested and received an independence letter from each of Pearl Meyer and WilmerHale providing information to assist the Compensation Committee in selecting and receiving advice from such advisor after considering the independence factors that are identified in the Nasdaq rules. The Compensation Committee determined that the engagement of these advisors did not raise any conflicts of interest for all work performed for the Compensation Committee during fiscal 2019. The activities of our Compensation Committee and the services Pearl Meyer performed for the Compensation Committee during fiscal 2019 are further described in “INFORMATION ABOUT EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION—Compensation Discussion and Analysis” below.

Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee

The current members of our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee are Mr. Champy (Chair) and Dr. Chandrakasan. The Board of Directors has determined that each of Mr. Champy and Dr. Chandrakasan is independent as defined under the Nasdaq Rules. The primary responsibility of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee is to identify individuals qualified to become Board members consistent with criteria approved by the Board of Directors, recommend to the Board of Directors the persons to be nominated by the Board of Directors for election as directors at any meeting of shareholders and the persons to be elected by the Board to fill any vacancies on the Board, recommend to the Board of Directors the directors to be appointed to each committee of the Board of Directors, develop and recommend to the Board of Directors a set of corporate governance principles and oversee the evaluation of the Board of Directors. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee also leads the Board of Directors’ succession planning efforts with respect to senior executives and oversight of our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee has the authority to engage any independent legal and other advisors it deems necessary or appropriate to carry out its responsibilities. These independent advisors may be the regular advisors to the Company. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee is empowered, without further action by the Board of Directors, to cause the Company to pay the compensation of these advisors as established by the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. For information relating to nominations of directors by our shareholders, see “— Director Candidates” above. Our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee held five meetings during fiscal 2019 (including by telephone conference).

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THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ ROLE IN RISK OVERSIGHT

The following table summarizes management’s and the Board of Directors’ role in risk management and oversight:

REPORT OF THE AUDIT COMMITTEE

The Audit Committee of the Board of Directors assisted the Board of Directors’ oversight of (i) the integrity of our financial statements and the Company’s systems of internal control over financial reporting and disclosure controls and procedures, (ii) the qualifications and independence of our independent registered public accounting firm, and (iii) the performance of our internal audit function and independent registered public accounting firm. The Audit Committee also met privately with our independent registered public accounting firm and our Director of Internal Audit to discuss our financial statements and disclosures, accounting policies and their application, internal control over financial reporting, and other matters of importance to the Audit Committee, the independent registered public accounting firm and the internal auditors. Management has the primary responsibility for the financial statements and the reporting process, including the system of internal control over financial reporting. In fulfilling its oversight responsibilities, the Audit Committee reviewed and discussed with management the audited financial statements contained in our Annual Report on Form 10-K and the quarterly financial statements during fiscal 2019, including the specific disclosures in the section titled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.” These discussions also addressed the quality, not just the acceptability, of the accounting principles, the reasonableness of significant judgments, and the clarity of disclosures in the financial statements. The Audit Committee reported on these meetings to our Board of Directors. The Audit Committee also selected and appointed our independent registered public accounting firm, reviewed the performance of the independent registered public accounting firm during the annual audit and on

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assignments unrelated to the audit, assessed the independence of the independent registered public accounting firm and reviewed and approved the independent registered public accounting firm’s fees. The Audit Committee also has adopted policies and procedures for the pre-approval of audit and non-audit services for the purpose of maintaining the independence of our independent registered public accounting firm. The Audit Committee operates under a written charter adopted by our Board of Directors.

The Audit Committee reviewed with our independent registered public accounting firm, who are responsible for expressing an opinion on the conformity of the audited financial statements with generally accepted accounting principles, their judgments as to the quality, not just the acceptability, of our accounting principles and such other matters as are required to be discussed with the Audit Committee under generally accepted auditing standards. In addition, the Audit Committee has discussed with the independent registered public accounting firm (i) the matters required to be discussed by the applicable requirements of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) and the SEC and (ii) the independent registered public accounting firm’s independence from Analog Devices and its management, including the matters in the written disclosures and the letter we received from the independent registered public accounting firm required by applicable requirements of the PCAOB regarding the independent registered public accounting firm’s communications with the Audit Committee concerning independence. The Audit Committee considered the appropriateness of the provision of non-audit services by the independent registered public accounting firm relative to their independence.

Based on its review and discussions referred to above, the Audit Committee recommended to our Board of Directors (and the Board of Directors approved) that our audited financial statements be included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended November 2, 2019. The Audit Committee also selected Ernst & Young LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending October 31, 2020.

Audit Committee

Kenton J. Sicchitano, Chairman

Bruce R. Evans

Karen M. Golz

Neil Novich

INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM FEES AND OTHER MATTERS

The following table presents the aggregate fees billed for services rendered by Ernst & Young LLP, our independent registered public accounting firm, for fiscal 2019 and the fiscal year ended November 3, 2018, or fiscal 2018.

Audit Fees. These are fees related to professional services rendered in connection with the audit of our consolidated financial statements, the audit of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, the reviews of our interim financial statements included in each of our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, international statutory audits, assistance with registration statements and other periodic filings, and accounting consultations that relate to the audited financial statements and are necessary to comply with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

Audit-Related Fees. These are fees for assurance and related services and consisted primarily of audits of employee benefit plans, accounting matters not related to the annual audit, and attestation services that are not required by statute or regulation.

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Tax Fees. These are fees for tax advice and services, including services relating to the acquisition of Linear Technology, professional services related to tax return preparation services for our expatriates, international tax returns, tax advice and planning and assistance with international tax audits. Included in this amount are fees of $439,000 in fiscal 2019, and $376,000 in fiscal 2018, for tax compliance services for our international affiliates and tax return preparation services for our expatriate employees on international assignments. Ernst & Young LLP does not provide tax services to any person in a financial reporting oversight role at Analog Devices.

Audit Committee’s Pre-Approval Policy and Procedures

The Audit Committee of our Board of Directors has adopted policies and procedures for the pre-approval of audit and non-audit services for the purpose of maintaining the independence of our independent registered public accounting firm. We may not engage our independent registered public accounting firm to render any audit or non-audit service unless either the service is approved in advance by the Audit Committee or the engagement to render the service is entered into pursuant to the Audit Committee’s pre-approval policies and procedures. On an annual basis, the Audit Committee may pre-approve services that are expected to be provided to Analog Devices by the independent registered public accounting firm during the following 12 months. At the time the pre-approval is granted, the Audit Committee must (1) identify the particular pre-approved services in a sufficient level of detail so that management will not be called upon to make a judgment as to whether a proposed service fits within the pre-approved services and (2) establish a monetary limit with respect to each particular pre-approved service, which limit may not be exceeded without obtaining further pre-approval under the policy. At regularly scheduled meetings of the Audit Committee, management or the independent registered public accounting firm must report to the Audit Committee regarding each service actually provided to Analog Devices.

If the cost of any service exceeds the pre-approved monetary limit, that service must be approved (1) by the entire Audit Committee if the cost of the service exceeds $100,000 or (2) by the Chairman of the Audit Committee if the cost of the service is less than $100,000 but greater than $10,000. If the cost of any service exceeds the pre-approved monetary limit, individual items with a cost of less than $10,000 each do not require further pre-approval, provided that the total cost of all individual items does not exceed $40,000 and an update of all items in this category is provided to the Audit Committee at each quarterly scheduled meeting. However, if the cost of all the individual items will exceed $40,000, the Chairman of the Audit Committee must receive a summary of those items with a request for approval of any amounts to be incurred in excess of $40,000.

The Audit Committee has delegated authority to the Chairman of the Audit Committee to pre-approve any audit or non-audit services to be provided to Analog Devices by the independent registered public accounting firm for which the cost is less than $100,000. During fiscal 2019 and fiscal 2018, all services provided to Analog Devices by Ernst & Young LLP were pre-approved in accordance with the pre-approval policies and procedures described above.

DIRECTOR COMPENSATION

Our non-employee director compensation program is designed to attract and retain experienced and knowledgeable directors and to provide equity-based compensation to align the interests of our directors with those of our shareholders. Each non-employee director receives an annual cash retainer and an annual equity award in the form of RSUs. To reflect their additional responsibilities, the Chairs and members of all committees receive an additional cash retainer. The Presiding Director also receives an additional cash retainer. Mr. Roche, as an employee director, does not receive any additional compensation for his services as director.

The Board of Directors has delegated to the Compensation Committee the responsibility to review and recommend to the Board of Directors any proposed changes to non-employee director compensation. Annually, the Compensation Committee reviews with Pearl Meyer, the Compensation Committee’s independent compensation consultant, non-employee director compensation information for our peer group to check the alignment of our non-employee director compensation package with market practice and

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current trends. The Compensation Committee then makes recommendations to the full Board with respect to compensation of our non-employee directors, and the full Board reviews these recommendations and makes a final determination.

In fiscal 2019 we granted 100% of the value of the annual equity award to each of our non-employee directors in the form of time-based RSUs. These RSUs vest in full on the earlier of the first anniversary of the date of grant or the date of the Company’s next annual meeting. On March 13, 2019, we granted each non-employee director 2,035 RSUs for services to be provided during fiscal 2019. In addition, on February 15, 2019, Dr. Chandrakasan, who joined the Board in January 2019, was granted 450 RSUs for services to be provided during fiscal 2019.

The following table details the total compensation earned by our non-employee directors in fiscal 2019.

2019 DIRECTOR COMPENSATION

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The following table includes the assumptions, rounded to the nearest hundredth, which we used to calculate the grant date fair value amounts included in the “Stock Awards” column for fiscal 2019 Director Compensation.

The grant date fair value of RSUs represents the value of our common stock on the date of grant, reduced by the present value of dividends expected to be paid on our common stock prior to vesting. For a more detailed description of the assumptions used for purposes of determining grant date fair value, see Note 3 to the Consolidated Financial Statements and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations — Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates — Stock-Based Compensation,” included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended November 2, 2019.

We also reimburse our directors for travel to Board meetings and other related expenses.

Stock Ownership Guidelines for Non-Employee Directors

Under our stock ownership guidelines, the target share ownership level for non-employee directors is at least four times the directors’ annual cash retainer. Directors have four years to achieve their targeted level. Shares subject to unexercised options, whether or not vested, and any shares that have been pledged as collateral for a loan will not be counted for purposes of satisfying these guidelines. Unvested RSUs are

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counted for purposes of satisfying the guidelines. All of our non-employee directors were in compliance with our stock ownership guidelines as of the end of fiscal 2019.

Equity Award Policy for Non-Employee Directors

During fiscal 2019, our equity award grant policy for non-employee directors provided for the following:

For fiscal 2019, RSUs granted to our non-employee directors under the 2006 Stock Incentive Plan vest on the earlier of the date of the Annual Meeting and the first anniversary of the date of grant, subject to acceleration as described below. The RSU awards vest in full upon the occurrence of a Change in Control Event (as defined in the 2006 Stock Incentive Plan) or the director’s death. If the director ceases to serve as a director by reason of his or her disability, as determined by the Board of Directors, each outstanding and unvested RSU will vest in full at the time he or she ceases to be a director. In addition, upon the occurrence of a Change in Control Event or in the event of the director’s death, disability or retirement after age 60, each vested option will continue to be exercisable for the balance of its term.

CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS

Transactions with Related Persons

During fiscal 2019, Mr. Stata, our founder and Chairman of the Board, received a cash retainer for service on the Board of $250,000. Following his retirement as an employee in 2012, the Company agreed to provide medical and dental benefits to Mr. Stata and his spouse during their lifetimes on the same basis as provided to U.S. employees of the Company. The value of those medical and dental benefits in 2019 was $14,924. On March 13, 2019, we granted 2,035 RSUs to Mr. Stata. This award is identical to the award granted to our other non-employee directors on March 13, 2019 and vests on the earlier of the date of the Annual Meeting or the first anniversary of the grant date.

The Company contributes annually to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to fund university research projects. In fiscal 2019, the Company made approximately $3.0 million in total contributions to MIT of which $120,000 funded a graduate student working in Dr. Chandrakasan’s laboratory.

Policies and Procedures for Related Person Transactions

Our Board of Directors has adopted written policies and procedures for the review of any transaction, arrangement or relationship in which Analog Devices is a participant, the amount involved exceeds $120,000, and one of our executive officers, directors, director nominees or 5% shareholders (or their immediate family members), each of whom we refer to as a “related person” has a direct or indirect material interest.

If a related person proposes to enter into such a transaction, arrangement or relationship, which we refer to as a “related person transaction,” the related person must report the proposed related person transaction to our General Counsel. The policy calls for the proposed related person transaction to be reviewed and, if deemed appropriate, approved by the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Whenever practicable, the reporting, review and approval will occur prior to entry into the transaction. If our

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General Counsel determines that advance review and approval is not practicable, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee will review, and, in its discretion, may ratify the related person transaction at the next meeting of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. The policy also permits the Chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee to review and, if deemed appropriate, approve proposed related person transactions that arise between committee meetings, subject to ratification by the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee at its next meeting. Any related person transactions that are ongoing in nature will be reviewed annually.

A related person transaction reviewed under the policy will be considered approved or ratified if it is authorized by the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee after full disclosure of the related person’s interest in the transaction. As appropriate for the circumstances, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee will review and consider:

The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee may approve or ratify the transaction only if the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee determines that, under all of the circumstances, the transaction is in Analog Devices’ best interests. The Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee may, in its sole discretion, impose any conditions on us or the related person in connection with approval of the related person transaction.

In addition to the transactions that are excluded by the instructions to the SEC’s related person transaction disclosure rule, the Board of Directors has determined that the following transactions do not create a material direct or indirect interest on behalf of related persons and, therefore, are not related person transactions for purposes of this policy:

The policy provides that the transactions involving compensation of executive officers shall be reviewed and approved by the Compensation Committee in the manner specified in its charter.

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ADVISORY VOTE ON THE COMPENSATION OF OUR NAMED EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

We are requesting shareholder approval of the compensation of the executive officers named in our Summary Compensation Table below, who we refer to as our “named executive officers” or “NEOs.” We are required to provide our shareholders with the opportunity to vote to approve, on an advisory (non-binding) basis, the compensation of our NEOs as disclosed in this proxy statement in accordance with the SEC’s rules. At the 2017 annual meeting of shareholders, our shareholders voted in favor of holding future “say on pay” votes every year. In accordance with the results of that vote, our Board of Directors determined to submit “say on pay” proposals to our shareholders every year.

Our Board of Directors is asking shareholders to approve the following non-binding advisory resolution:

RESOLVED, that the compensation paid to the Company’s NEOs, as disclosed pursuant to Item 402 of Regulation S-K, including the Compensation Discussion and Analysis, compensation tables and accompanying narrative disclosures in this proxy statement, is hereby approved.

As required by the Dodd-Frank Act, this is an advisory vote, which means that this proposal is not binding on us. Our Compensation Committee, however, values the opinions expressed by our shareholders and will carefully consider the outcome of the vote when making future compensation decisions for our NEOs. You may vote for, against or abstain from voting on this matter. At our 2019 annual meeting of shareholders, our compensation program for our NEOs received the support of 95.3% of the total votes cast. In light of the support received, our Compensation Committee did not make significant changes to our executive compensation program. The Compensation Committee did introduce another form of performance-based equity to increase the total target mix of performance-based restricted stock units to approximately 50% of the target value of equity awarded to our NEOs.

As described in detail in the “Compensation Discussion and Analysis” section of this proxy statement, ADI’s executive compensation program is significantly performance-based and designed to attract, retain and motivate strong executives to lead our complex, global organization and to align their interests with those of our shareholders. We seek to provide total compensation to our executives that is competitive with our peers, and we believe that our executive compensation program is designed to encourage the most talented individuals to grow their careers at ADI.

ADI has a longstanding philosophy and practice of paying executives for performance. In order to align our pay practices with shareholder interests, we tie a significant percentage of each executive’s compensation to the Company’s performance, in the form of variable cash incentive bonus payments, and equity awards that are subject to performance vesting and rise in value only if our stock price increases. ADI delivered solid financial results in fiscal 2019 against a backdrop of challenging macroeconomic conditions. We exceeded our profitability target but did not meet our revenue growth target under our executive performance incentive bonus plan, which resulted in aggregate payments under the plan made at 95% of target, compared to 183% in fiscal 2018 and 248% in the fiscal year ended October 28, 2017, or fiscal 2017.

We believe that our executive compensation program is working as intended and appropriately aligns executive pay with Company performance.

Our Board of Directors unanimously recommends that you vote FOR approval of the compensation of our named executive officers as disclosed in this proxy statement.

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INFORMATION ABOUT EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

COMPENSATION DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS

We intend to provide compensation for our executives that is competitive with our peers, with an opportunity for increased compensation if the Company’s performance warrants. We have designed our compensation program to make a substantial percentage of our executive pay variable, subject to increase when corporate targets are overachieved and reduction when corporate targets are not reached. The elements of our executives’ total compensation are base salary, variable cash incentive awards, long-term equity compensation awards and retirement and other employee benefits.

This Compensation Discussion and Analysis, or CD&A, and the tables and narrative that follow provide important information about our executive officer compensation program for fiscal 2019. In this proxy statement, the terms “named executive officers” or “NEOs” refer to the following individuals who served as executive officers during fiscal 2019:

Compensation Processes and Philosophy

Our executive compensation program is designed to attract and retain top executive talent and align the interests of our executives and our shareholders. We accomplish this through the following steps:

Our Chief Executive Officer’s compensation is described in more detail below under “—Chief Executive Officer Compensation.” Our other NEOs’ compensation is described in more detail below under “—Compensation for Other Named Executive Officers.”

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Pay and Governance Practices

Our pay and governance practices are designed to align our executives’ interests with our shareholders. For example:

Pay for Performance

A significant portion of the total target compensation for our executives is in the form of variable, performance-based incentive compensation, with only a small portion of the total target compensation provided in the form of “fixed” compensation. We believe this provides our executives an opportunity to earn above peer average compensation if ADI delivers strong results, and conversely, if the Company delivers weaker results, our executives would earn less compensation. The target pay mix for our NEOs for fiscal 2019 is shown below:

The pay mix charts above are based on target compensation consisting of the annual rate of base salary and short-term and long-term incentive targets approved by the Compensation Committee. The pay mix for the “other NEOs” in the chart above excludes the equity award granted to Mr. Pietkiewicz in June

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2019 as the final portion of the alignment of the compensation programs of our legacy ADI and Linear Technology employees. Taking that equity award into account, the percentage of performance-based incentives would increase for Mr. Pietkiewicz. For more information about the components of the performance and incentive pay mix for our Named Executive Officer Compensation, see “Compensation Discussion and Analysis—Components of Executive Compensation.”

Variable Cash Incentive Bonus Payments. For fiscal 2019, we linked a significant portion of our executives’ cash compensation to ADI’s performance, measured by our operating profit before taxes as a percentage of revenue, or OPBT margin and year-over-year revenue growth on a quarterly basis, through our executive performance incentive plan. For fiscal 2019, the Compensation Committee set target percentages of 150% of base salary for our Chief Executive Officer and between 90%-100% of base salary for our remaining NEOs. The Compensation Committee selected these target bonus percentages to ensure that a substantial portion of each executive’s cash compensation is directly linked to our business performance.

In setting performance targets for our executive performance incentive plan, multiple factors are considered including our actual past business results, estimates of multi-year performance from our long-term strategic planning, and the performance of market competitors. Based on our evaluation of these factors, we develop a range of performance scenarios and then set goals at threshold, target and maximum performance levels. Based on analyses of our peer group performance over the past three years, as presented by our Compensation Committee’s independent consultant, Pearl Meyer, our OPBT margin target of 39% was well above our peer group median performance, while our year-over-year revenue growth target of 5% was well aligned with our peer group median performance. Our fiscal 2019 OPBT margin and year-over-year revenue growth targets were the same as compared to the third and fourth quarters of fiscal 2018 and align with our long-term financial model, which we announced at our Investor Day in June 2017.

Equity Awards. We also link pay and performance by providing a significant amount of our executives’ compensation in the form of equity awards, the value of which is directly tied to our stock price performance over the long term. In fiscal 2019, approximately 72% of the average total target compensation of our NEOs was in the form of equity. In fiscal 2019, the form and mix of equity awards delivered as part of our annual equity award program for our NEOs was as follows:

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Benchmarking

In making its compensation determinations, including base salary, cash incentive bonus award targets and long-term equity compensation, the Compensation Committee annually reviews the total compensation that each of our executives is eligible to receive against the compensation levels of comparable positions of a peer group of companies. The composition of the peer group is also reviewed annually by the Compensation Committee. In fiscal 2018, the Compensation Committee engaged Pearl Meyer to conduct a review of the composition of the Company’s peer group for fiscal 2019. The Compensation Committee has sought to select peer companies that are publicly traded, are headquartered in the United States, compete with us for talent, and are similar to ADI in their product and services offerings, business model, revenue size and market capitalization. As a result of rapid consolidation in the semiconductor industry over the last several years, in addition to companies that meet the criteria outlined above, the peer group for 2019 included companies outside of the semiconductor industry. These additional companies are similar in size and have similar gross margins and research and development spend as the Company, include peers of peers and peers of other companies in our sector, and often compete with the Company for talent.

The peer group used by the Compensation Committee in fiscal 2019 to evaluate executive compensation consisted of the following companies:

For officers in positions for which the fiscal 2019 peer group companies do not publicly disclose compensation data, the Compensation Committee reviewed data collected from Radford’s Global Technology Survey. This survey depicts executive compensation levels across a wide spectrum of technology sector companies comparable in annual revenue size.

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Components of Executive Compensation

For fiscal 2019, compensation for our executive officers consisted of the following principal elements:

Base Salary

We use salaries for similar positions within our peer group as an important factor in setting a base salary that can attract and retain talent. When setting the fiscal 2019 base salary for each individual NEO, the Compensation Committee also considered other factors, including the scope of the role and the performance and experience of the individual.

Fiscal 2019 Executive Performance Incentive Plan

In September 2018, the Compensation Committee approved the terms of our executive performance incentive plan for fiscal 2019. In February 2019, the Compensation Committee approved the terms of the amended and restated executive performance incentive plan to clarify the methodology for measuring OPBT margin. No other changes were made to the plan. The plan is designed to be variable, depending on ADI’s operating results.

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All executive officers, including our NEOs, participated in our fiscal 2019 executive performance incentive plan. We calculated and paid bonuses under the fiscal 2019 plan as follows:

Individual Target Bonus Percentage. For fiscal 2019, the Compensation Committee set target percentages of 150% of base salary for our Chief Executive Officer and between 90%-100% of base salary for our other NEOs. The Compensation Committee selected these target bonus percentages to ensure that a substantial portion of each NEO’s cash compensation is performance-based and linked directly to our business performance, and to ensure that total compensation is competitive with those in similar positions within our peer group. Setting our Chief Executive Officer’s target at 150% also ties the majority of his cash compensation directly to Company performance.

Bonus Payout Factor. For fiscal 2019, we based the Bonus Payout Factor for the applicable quarterly bonus period on our OPBT margin and year-over-year revenue growth compared to the same quarter in the prior year. While our executive performance incentive plan contains quarterly performance targets, the Compensation Committee designed this plan to drive long-term performance. The targets are directly linked to our long-term corporate strategy of profitable growth, which drives shareholder value. We believe this combination ensures that we encourage a long-term focus on our business objectives, while measuring and rewarding progress against those objectives on a quarterly basis.

The Compensation Committee may adjust the OPBT margin and year-over-year revenue growth metrics in its sole discretion to exclude special items such as (but not limited to) restructuring-related expense, acquisition-related expense, amortization of intangibles, gain or loss on disposition of businesses, non-recurring royalty payments, and other similar non-cash or non-recurring items. The Compensation Committee may, in its discretion, exclude these items in order to prevent payments under the plan from being adversely or advantageously affected by special items. For purposes of determining the Bonus Payout Factor for each quarter of fiscal 2019, OPBT margin was adjusted to exclude acquisition-related expenses, acquisition-related transaction costs and restructuring-related expenses, consistent with the non-GAAP adjustments included in our fiscal 2019 quarterly earnings releases. When calculating year-over-year revenue growth in the first quarter of fiscal 2019, the Compensation Committee also normalized the financial results of the first quarter of fiscal 2018, which was a 14-week quarter, to a 13-week quarter.

Until fiscal 2019, we measured revenue on a sell-through basis (also called POS). Commencing in fiscal 2019, pursuant to the adoption of ASC 606, we report revenue on a sell-in basis (also called POA). Because fiscal 2019 was a transition year, we continued to use sell-through revenue to measure year-over-year revenue growth for the 2019 executive performance incentive plan, as well as the fiscal 2019 incentive plan for other eligible employees. For fiscal 2020, the Compensation Committee determined that the executive performance incentive bonus plan and the employee performance incentive plan would be aligned with our sell-in revenue reported under ASC 606. The Company manages its inventory closely and thus the Compensation Committee believes using sell-in versus sell-through does not have a major impact on the bonuses paid and aligns the incentive plan results with the Company’s reported results.

The Compensation Committee reviews and approves our performance targets, and historically these targets have not been re-set during the performance period, regardless of Company performance or economic conditions. We believe that this approach fosters accountability for our business results and is in keeping with our core belief that variable compensation expense, which increases when our performance is good and contracts when it is poor, gives us maximum flexibility to operate our business. While the OPBT margin and year-over-year revenue growth targets are typically set annually, we measure performance against those targets on a quarterly basis, applying the corresponding Bonus Payout Factor to base salary for that quarter, and pay the bonus amounts on a semi-annual basis following the end of the second and fourth quarters.

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In setting performance targets for our executive performance incentive plan, multiple factors are considered including our actual past business results, estimates of multi-year performance from our long-term strategic planning, and the performance of market competitors. During fiscal 2018, our Compensation Committee, in conjunction with its independent consultant, Pearl Meyer, reviewed the Company’s historical OPBT margin and revenue growth as well as those for our peers to inform our incentive goal-setting process. The analyses also reviewed historical payout results and included scenario modeling to understand what historical payouts would have been under different goal structures. The Compensation Committee determined quarterly performance targets were sufficiently rigorous and consistent with the Company’s long-term financial model. Based on our evaluation of these factors, the Compensation Committee implemented the following targets for the second half of fiscal 2018 as well as for fiscal 2019:

We also have a floor on the OPBT margin target so that profitability below 36% will result in no bonus payments for that performance period, regardless of revenue growth levels.

Fiscal 2019 was a year in which we met or exceeded our quarterly profitability targets, exceeded our year-over-year revenue growth target in the first quarter, but did not meet our year-over-year revenue growth targets for the remainder of the year amidst significant macroeconomic uncertainty. For a summary of our fiscal 2019 financial results, see page 49 of this proxy statement. For fiscal 2019, the calculated OPBT Margin, Year-Over-Year Revenue Growth and Bonus Payout Factor under our executive performance incentive program for each quarter were as follows:

Aggregate payments under our executive performance incentive plan were made at 95% of target, compared to 183% in fiscal 2018 and 248% in fiscal 2017.

Equity Compensation

Our equity compensation program is a broad-based, long-term employee rewards program that is intended to attract, retain and motivate our employees, officers and directors and to align their interests with those of our shareholders. We believe that our equity program is critical to our efforts to hire and retain the best talent in the extremely competitive analog semiconductor industry. All equity awards granted to our executive officers are made under the Company’s 2006 Equity Incentive Plan.

For fiscal 2019, the value of our annual equity awards to our NEOs was comprised of four equity vehicles, each approximately 25% of the target value delivered to each NEO: two forms of performance-based RSUs, or PRSUs, (relative total shareholder return, or TSR, PRSUs and financial metric PRSUs), options and time-based RSUs.

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PRSUs. For fiscal 2019, approximately 50% of our annual equity awards to our NEOs was in the form of PRSUs. Our fiscal 2019 equity compensation program includes two types of PRSUs for our executives, relative TSR PRSUs and financial metric PRSUs, to ensure that a direct link exists between the value of our long-term incentives and the value that is created for our shareholders.

Relative TSR PRSUs. The number of shares of ADI common stock received by an executive officer following vesting of the relative TSR PRSUs will range from 0% to a maximum of 200% of the target amount based on ADI’s TSR performance measured against the median TSR of an established comparator group over a three-year period, capped at a maximum of 100% of the initial number of PRSUs granted if the Company’s TSR is negative. For fiscal 2019, the performance parameters established by the Compensation Committee were equal to 100% plus or minus one and one-half times the difference between the Company’s TSR and the comparator group median TSR. Attainment among performance parameters is subject to interpolation on a linear basis.

The relative TSR PRSUs granted on March 9, 2016 had a three-year performance period that ended on March 9, 2019. The comparative peer group consisted of companies represented in the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (SOX Index) as of the grant date that are included in the SOX Index for the entire performance period. On a three-year cumulative basis, our TSR performance was 74.53%, compared to the median comparative peer group TSR of 79.04%. The median comparative peer group TSR performance exceeded the Company’s TSR performance, which resulted in a payout percentage of 90.98% of target.

The comparator group designated by the Compensation Committee for the relative TSR PRSUs granted in fiscal 2019 once again consisted of the companies represented in the SOX Index as of the grant date that are included in the SOX Index for the entire performance period. The Compensation Committee chose this comparator group because it consists of publicly traded companies, which compete in the semiconductor industry, are representative of likely alternative investment opportunities for our investors, compete with us for talent, and are similar to ADI in their product and services offerings and business models. Consistent with our Compensation Committee’s desire to tie pay to performance, the value of each of these awards is directly linked to the long-term performance of our stock price.

Financial Metric PRSUs. New to our executive equity compensation program for fiscal 2019, the Compensation Committee included financial metric PRSUs, based on non-GAAP operating profit in dollars, for our executives to incentivize long-term profitable growth measured over one-year, two-year cumulative and three-year cumulative time periods. The Compensation Committee selected this metric because it is a key measure that executives use both internally to drive business decisions and externally when speaking to investors about Company results and progress against execution of the Company’s strategy. The number of shares of ADI common stock received by an executive officer following vesting of the financial metric PRSUs will range from 0% to a maximum of 200% of the target amount based on the Company’s one-year, two-year cumulative and three-year cumulative non-GAAP OPBT targets set by the Compensation Committee, measured as a dollar value. The Compensation Committee will determine the level of achievement of each tranche of financial metric PRSUs after the completion of each of the one-year, two-year cumulative and three-year cumulative performance periods. After such determination, the number of shares of ADI common stock earned by an executive remains subject to a time-based service requirement and will vest on the third anniversary of the grant date, subject to the executive’s employment through such date. In December 2019, the Compensation Committee determined that the one-year non-GAAP operating profit threshold set at the beginning of fiscal 2019 relating to the financial metric PRSUs granted in March 2019 had not been met, which resulted in zero shares being earned by the Company’s executives under this incentive compensation vehicle for that period.

Stock Options. We use stock options as a way to reward long-term value creation.

Time-Based RSUs. In a volatile stock market, time-based RSUs continue to provide value when stock options may not, which the Compensation Committee believes will be useful in retaining talented executives and employees in uncertain economic times. In this way, we use time-based RSUs as a retention tool and to enable our executives to accumulate stock ownership in the Company.

We set a goal each year to keep the shareholder dilution related to our equity compensation program to a certain percentage, calculated as the total number of shares of common stock underlying new equity

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grants made during the year, divided by the total number of outstanding shares of our common stock at the beginning of the year. Our gross and net dilution rate have been consistently lower than that of our peers over the past several years. For fiscal 2019, our gross dilution percentage was 0.5%, compared to an average of 1.4% for our peer group, and our net dilution percentage was 0.3%, compared to an average of 1.2% for our peers. For the last five years, our gross dilution percentage was 0.8% on average, compared to 1.4% on average for our peer group, and our net dilution percentage was 0.6% on average, compared to 0.9% on average for our peer group. For the fiscal year ending October 31, 2020, our Board of Directors set the maximum aggregate number of shares of common stock with respect to which awards may be granted under the Company’s shareholder approved equity plans, in the aggregate, at 3.7 million shares, which equals approximately 1.0% of our outstanding common stock at the end of fiscal 2019.

Executive Stock Ownership Guidelines

Under our guidelines, the target stock ownership levels are two times annual base salary for the Chief Executive Officer and one times annual base salary for other executive officers. The Chief Executive Officer has four years from the date of his appointment as CEO to achieve his targeted level. Executive officers other than the CEO have five years from the date he or she becomes an executive officer to achieve their targeted level. Shares subject to unexercised options, whether or not vested, and unvested PRSUs whose performance has not yet been certified by the Compensation Committee will not be counted for purposes of satisfying these guidelines. RSUs (whether or not vested) and unvested PRSUs whose performance has been certified by the Compensation Committee are counted for purposes of satisfying the guidelines. All of our executive officers were in compliance with our stock ownership guidelines as of the end of fiscal 2019.

Retirement and Other Employee Benefits

We maintain broad-based benefits for all employees, including health and dental insurance, life and disability insurance and retirement plans. Executives are eligible to participate in all of our employee benefit plans on the same basis as our other employees. The retirement and other employee benefit component of our executive compensation program is designed to attract excellent candidates by providing financial protection and security, and reward our executives for the total commitment we expect from them in service to ADI.

We maintain a Deferred Compensation Plan, or DCP, under which our executive officers and directors, along with a group of highly compensated management and engineering employees, are eligible to defer receipt of some or all of their cash compensation. This plan offers many of the same investment options as our 401(k) plan. Under our DCP, we provide all participants (other than non-employee directors) with Company contributions equal to 8% of eligible deferred contributions.

In the United States during fiscal 2019, we contributed to our 401(k) plan on behalf of all eligible employees, including our NEOs, amounts equal to 5% of the employee’s eligible compensation, plus matching contributions up to an additional 3%, subject to Internal Revenue Service, or IRS, limits. For those employees who also participated in the DCP described above, any compensation that was deferred under that plan was not considered eligible compensation for purposes of our Company contributions under the 401(k) plan. We also provided employees who are eligible to participate in the 401(k) plan but whose compensation is greater than the amount that may be taken into account in any plan year as a result of IRS limits ($280,000 for fiscal 2019), with a taxable payment equal to 8% of the employee’s 401(k)-eligible compensation in excess of the IRS limit.

Limited Perquisites

We do not award extensive perquisites to our executive officers. In fiscal 2019, we provided a voluntary health services benefit to executives and reimbursement for financial and tax planning services of up to $15,000 for the Chief Executive Officer and up to $10,000 for the other executive officers. These items are detailed in the Summary Compensation Table below.

We also maintain an expatriate program that provides certain benefits to our employees who accept expatriate assignments. Our executive officers are entitled to the same benefits under the Company’s expatriate program as other Company employees. Under the Company’s expatriate program, such benefits include providing gross-ups on taxable foreign assignment assistance and making tax equalization

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payments on behalf of (or to) expatriate employees who, as a result of their expatriate assignment, incur tax liabilities in excess of what they would have incurred had they not accepted the expatriate assignment.

On occasion, and with the approval of our CEO, an officer or director may have his or her family members accompany him or her on the Company’s leased airplane when traveling on business. The executive or director may incur taxable income for any such travel in accordance with applicable tax rules. We do not gross-up or in any way compensate the officer or director for any income tax owed for any such travel. No such travel occurred in fiscal 2019.

Compensation Recovery

Under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, in the event of misconduct that results in a financial restatement that would have reduced a previously paid incentive amount, we can recoup those improper payments from our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer. We will implement a broader clawback policy that is compliant with the regulations mandated under the Dodd-Frank Act when the regulations are adopted by the SEC and corresponding listing standards become effective.

Fiscal 2019 Financial Results and Shareholder Value Creation

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Chief Executive Officer Compensation

Mr. Roche has served as our Chief Executive Officer since May 2013. Under his leadership, the Company has successfully executed its financial, strategic and operational objectives intended to drive long-term profitable growth and increase shareholder value. In 2019, ADI delivered solid financial results against a backdrop of challenging macroeconomic conditions and ongoing trade uncertainty. Importantly, we made progress positioning ADI for continued long-term success through deepening our customer engagements, continuing to invest in our business to drive innovation, extracting value from recent acquisitions and capitalizing on secular trends to drive addressable markets and drive diversified growth. We also demonstrated our commitment to deliver strong shareholder returns during fiscal 2019, returning approximately $1.4 billion to our shareholders in the form of dividends and share buybacks.

In determining Mr. Roche’s compensation as Chief Executive Officer for fiscal 2019, the Compensation Committee considered all elements of Mr. Roche’s compensation and compared his total target compensation to the median of Chief Executive Officer compensation within our peer companies. They also considered Mr. Roche’s experience, tenure, and performance executing the Company’s strategy and driving long-term shareholder value. The design of Mr. Roche’s fiscal 2019 compensation provided incentives that linked realized compensation with Company performance and was comprised of the following:

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Compensation for Other Named Executive Officers

Base Salary and Individual Target Bonus Percentages

During fiscal 2019, the Compensation Committee authorized base salaries and target bonus percentages for our NEOs (other than our Chief Executive Officer), as specified in the table below:

In March 2018, effective May 2018, the Compensation Committee increased the base salaries of Messrs. Mahendra-Rajah, Cotter, Hassett and Pietkiewicz and the individual target bonus for Mr. Cotter after consideration of factors including their performance, tenure, job responsibilities and market data, including benchmark information from our peer group.

Equity Awards

In fiscal 2019, the Compensation Committee authorized grants of equity awards to our NEOs (other than our Chief Executive Officer), as follows:

In granting awards to Messrs. Mahendra-Rajah, Cotter, Hassett and Pietkiewicz, the Compensation Committee considered the executive’s individual responsibilities and other factors including their performance, tenure and market data, including benchmark information from our peer group. The time-based RSUs granted by the Compensation Committee to Mr. Pietkiewicz include 3,849 RSUs granted in June 2019 as part of the alignment of the compensation of our executives and legacy ADI and Linear Technology employees and is the final award granted to Mr. Pietkiewicz in connection with such alignment.

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Severance, Retention and Change in Control Benefits

Change in Control Benefits

We have entered into change in control retention agreements with each of our executive officers and other key employees. Among other things, these retention agreements provide for severance benefits if the employee’s service with us is terminated within 24 months after a change in control (as defined in each agreement) that was approved by our Board of Directors.

We designed the change in control retention agreements to help ensure that our executive team is able to evaluate objectively whether a potential change in control transaction is in the best interests of ADI and our shareholders, despite possible risks to their future employment. We believe that retaining the services of our key executives during a change in control scenario is critical. These agreements help ensure the continued services of our executive officers throughout the change in control transaction by giving them incentives to remain with us rather than seeking alternative employment or being recruited to a competitor during a highly uncertain time. The Compensation Committee reviewed prevalent market practices in determining the severance amounts and the events that trigger payments under the agreements. The Compensation Committee determined that the amounts and triggering events were appropriate and designed to encourage decision-making that is in the best interests of ADI. In fiscal 2019, the Compensation Committee asked Pearl Meyer, its independent compensation consultant, to review our severance, retention and change in control arrangements and Pearl Meyer determined that those arrangements were competitive with existing market practice in the semiconductor industry and that it was appropriate to maintain the program for fiscal 2019. Change in control retention agreements entered into between the Company and eligible employees since 2009 do not contain excess parachute payment tax gross-up provisions.

Under our 2006 Stock Incentive Plan, in the event of a change in control, all of our employees, including our NEOs, if they remain employed by ADI, would have one-half of the shares of common stock subject to their then outstanding unvested options accelerate and become immediately exercisable and one-half of their unvested RSUs would vest. The remaining one-half of their unvested options and RSUs would continue to vest in accordance with the original vesting schedules, and any remaining unvested options and RSUs would vest if, on or prior to the first anniversary of the change in control, his or her employment is terminated without “cause” or for “good reason” (as defined in the plan). We have provided more detailed information about these benefits, along with estimates of their value under various circumstances, under the caption “—Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control” below.

Severance Benefits

When the employment of an executive officer terminates in a situation that does not involve a change in control, the officer is entitled to receive the same benefits as any other terminated employee in that geographical location.

Equity Award Grant Date Policy

Our Compensation Committee has adopted specific policies regarding the grant dates of stock options, RSUs and other stock-based awards for our executive officers and employees. In each case, the exercise price of stock options equals the closing price of our common stock on the grant date.

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We describe the equity award grant date policy for our non-employee directors above under “Corporate Governance—Director Compensation.”

Tax and Accounting Considerations

Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code, generally disallows a tax deduction to public companies for compensation in excess of $1 million paid to certain of the Company’s executives. Pursuant to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, or Tax Act, for fiscal years beginning after December 31, 2017, the group of executives whose compensation is subject to the deduction limitation is broader than under prior law. Prior to the effectiveness of the Tax Act, the deduction limit did not apply to “performance-based compensation” satisfying the requirements of Section 162(m). For fiscal 2019 and future tax years, subject to the transition rules, all compensation in excess of $1 million paid to the specified executives will not be deductible.

Mr. Roche has a change in control retention agreement that contains provisions regarding Section 280G of the Internal Revenue Code. Since 2009, any new executive compensation arrangements for new executives do not contain tax gross up provisions for excess parachute payments.

We expense in our financial statements the compensation that we pay to our executive officers, as required by U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. As one of many factors, the Compensation Committee considers the financial statement impact in determining the amount of, and allocation among the elements of, compensation. We account for stock-based compensation under our 2006 Stock Incentive Plan and the 2005 Plan and the 2010 Plan (the latter two of which we assumed in the Linear Technology acquisition), as well as all predecessor plans, in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

Risk Considerations in Our Compensation Program

In fiscal 2019, our Compensation Committee reviewed our incentive compensation programs, discussed the concept of risk as it relates to our compensation program, considered various mitigating factors and reviewed these items with its independent consultant, Pearl Meyer. In addition, our Compensation Committee asked Pearl Meyer to conduct an independent risk assessment of our executive compensation program. Based on these reviews and discussions, the Compensation Committee does not believe that any risks arising from our employee compensation policies and practices are reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on our company. Our Compensation Committee believes that any such risks are mitigated by the following factors, among others:

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SUMMARY COMPENSATION TABLE

The following table contains certain information about the compensation that our named executive officers earned in fiscal 2019, fiscal 2018 and fiscal 2017.