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Compensation Arrangements | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2011
Compensation Arrangements [Abstract] |
Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Text Block] | Compensation Arrangements. Compensation arrangements of our Investment Management and Automotive segments that are included in our consolidated financial statements are discussed below. Investment Management Effective January 1, 2008, the General Partners amended employment agreements with certain of their employees whereby such employees have been granted rights to participate in a portion of the special profits interest allocations (in certain cases, whether or not such special profits interest is earned by the General Partners) and incentive allocations earned by the General Partners, typically net of certain expenses and generally subject to various vesting provisions. The vesting period of these rights is generally between two and seven years, and such rights expire at the end of the contractual term of each respective employment agreement. The unvested amounts and vested amounts that have not been withdrawn by the employee generally remain invested in the Investment Funds and earn the rate of return of these funds, before the effects of any special profits interest allocations or incentive allocations, which are waived on such amounts. Accordingly, these rights are accounted for as liabilities and are remeasured at fair value each reporting period until settlement. Pursuant to certain compensation agreements entered into during fiscal 2010, certain employees may earn compensation (such amounts referred to as "profit-sharing amounts") that reference a portfolio of securities that is funded by the Investment Funds. The vesting period of these profit-sharing amounts is three years. The profit-sharing amounts are determined by the performance of the portfolio of securities. Accordingly, these profit-sharing amounts are accounted for as liabilities and are remeasured at fair value each reporting period until settlement. The General Partners reversed an accrual of $2 million and accrued $3 million of compensation expense for the three months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010, respectively. The General Partners recorded compensation expense of $5 million and $3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010, respectively. Compensation expense is included in selling, general and administrative in our consolidated statements of operations. Compensation expense arising from grants in special profits interest allocations and incentive allocations and profit-sharing amounts in respect of the portfolio of securities funded by the Investment Funds are recognized in our consolidated financial statements over the vesting period. Grants in respect of special profits interest allocations and incentive allocations will no longer be made after March 31, 2011. Unvested balances of special profits interest allocations, incentive allocations and profit-sharing amounts in respect of the portfolio of securities funded by the Investment Funds are not reflected in our consolidated financial statements. Unvested amounts not yet recognized as compensation expense were $5 million and $8 million as of September 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010, respectively. Unvested amounts are expected to be recognized over a weighted average of 2.0 years as of September 30, 2011. Cash paid to settle amounts that had been withdrawn for the nine months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010 was $5 million and $10 million, respectively. Automotive On March 23, 2010, Federal-Mogul entered into the Second Amended and Restated Employment Agreement, which extended Mr. Alapont's employment with Federal-Mogul for three years. Also on March 23, 2010, Federal-Mogul amended and restated the Stock Option Agreement by and between Federal-Mogul and Mr. Alapont dated as of February 15, 2008 (the “Restated Stock Option Agreement”). The Restated Stock Option Agreement removed Mr. Alapont's put option to sell stock received from a stock option exercise to Federal-Mogul for cash. The Restated Stock Option Agreement provides for payout of any exercise of Mr. Alapont's stock options in stock or, at the election of Federal-Mogul, in cash. The awards were previously accounted for as liability awards based on the optional cash exercise feature; however, the accounting impact associated with this modification is that the stock options are now considered an equity award as of March 23, 2010. Federal-Mogul revalued the four million stock options granted to Mr. Alapont at March 23, 2010, resulting in a revised fair value of $27 million. This amount was reclassified from accounts payable, accrued expenses and other liabilities to partners' equity due to their equity award status. As these stock options were fully vested as of March 23, 2010, no further expense related to these stock options will be recognized. These options had no intrinsic value as of September 30, 2011 and an intrinsic value of $5 million as of December 31, 2010. These options expire on December 27, 2014. None of the stock options have been exercised or forfeited as of September 30, 2011. Federal-Mogul revalued the deferred compensation agreement, which was also amended and restated on March 23, 2010, resulting in a revised fair value of $8 million at September 30, 2011. The amended and restated agreement did not include any provisions that impacted the accounting for this agreement. Since the amended and restated agreement continues to provide for net cash settlement at the option of Mr. Alapont, it continues to be treated as a liability award as of September 30, 2011 and through its eventual payout. The amount of the payout shall be equal to approximately $10 million (500,000 shares of Federal-Mogul's common stock multiplied by the March 23, 2010 stock price of $19.46), offset by 75% of the intrinsic value of any exercise by Mr. Alapont of two million of the options noted above ("options connected to deferred compensation"). During the three months ended September 30, 2011, Federal-Mogul recognized $2 million in expense associated with Mr. Alapont's deferred compensation agreement and an immaterial amount of income during the three months ended September 30, 2010. During the nine months ended September 30, 2011, Federal-Mogul recognized $1 million in expense associated with Mr. Alapont's deferred compensation agreement. During the nine months ended September 30, 2010, Federal-Mogul recognized $7 million in expense associated with Mr. Alapont's stock options and deferred compensation agreement. The deferred compensation agreement had intrinsic values of $10 million and $8 million as of September 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010, respectively. The intrinsic value of $8 million at December 31, 2010 was derived under the assumption that the two million options connected to deferred compensation had been exercised as of that date because the market price of Federal-Mogul's common stock was greater than the exercise price of the options on December 31, 2010. The deferred compensation fair value at September 30, 2011 was estimated using the Monte Carlo valuation model with the following assumptions:
Exercise price | N/A |
Expected volatility | 65 | %
Expected dividend yield | — | %
Risk-free rate over the estimated expected option life | 0.21 | %
Expected life (in years) | 1.62 |
Expected volatility is based on the average of five-year historical volatility and implied volatility for a group of auto industry comparator companies as of the measurement date. Risk-free rate is determined based upon U.S. Treasury rates over the estimated expected life. Expected dividend yield is zero as Federal-Mogul has not paid dividends to holders of its common stock in the recent past nor does it expect to do so in the future. Expected life is equal to one-half of the time to the end of the term.

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