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January [    •    ], 2010

Dear Shareholder,

        You are invited to attend the 2010 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of Tyco Electronics Ltd., to be held on March 10, 2010 at 2:00 p.m., Central European Time (8:00 a.m., Eastern Standard Time), at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Zurich Airport, Zurich, Switzerland. Details of the business to be presented at the meeting can be found in the accompanying Invitation to Annual General Meeting of Shareholders and Proxy Statement.

        If you cannot attend, you can ensure that your shares are represented at the meeting by promptly completing, signing, and dating your proxy card and returning it in the enclosed envelope.

        We look forward to seeing you at the meeting.

Sincerely,

GRAPHIC

Frederic M. Poses
Chairman of the Board

Tyco Electronics Ltd.
Rheinstrasse 20
CH-8200 Schaffhausen, Switzerland

Tel: +41 (0)52 633 66 61
Fax: +41 (0)52 633 66 99



Contents

 

Invitation to Annual General Meeting of Shareholders

    1  

 

Proxy Statement

    4  

 

Questions and Answers About This Proxy Statement and Voting

    4  

 

Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management

    11  

 

Agenda Item No. 1—Election of Directors

    13  

 

Nominees for Election

    13  

 

Corporate Governance

    16  

 

The Board of Directors and Board Committees

    18  

 

Executive Officers

    21  

 

Compensation Discussion and Analysis

    24  

 

Management Development and Compensation Committee Report

    37  

 

Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation

    37  

 

Executive Officer Compensation

    38  

 

Compensation of Non-Employee Directors

    49  

 

Agenda Item No. 2—Approval of Annual Report and Financial Statements for the Fiscal Year Ended September 25, 2009

    52  

 

Agenda Item No. 3—Approval of a Distribution to Shareholders in the Form of a Capital Reduction

    55  

 

Agenda Item No. 4—Release the Members of the Board of Directors and Executive Officers for Activities During Fiscal Year 2009

    66  

 

Agenda Item No. 5—Approval of an Increase in the Number of Shares Available for Awards Under the Tyco Electronics Ltd. 2007 Stock and Incentive Plan

    67  

 

Certain Relationships and Related Transactions

    76  

 

Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance

    77  

 

Audit Committee Report

    77  

 

Agenda Item No. 6—Election of Auditors

    79  

 

Agenda Item No. 7—Approval of any Adjournments or Postponements of the Meeting

    82  

 

Additional Information

    83  

 

Tyco Electronics 2011 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders

    83  

 

Where You Can Find More Information

    84  

 

Agenda items to be voted upon at the meeting

       

 

Appendix A—Tyco Electronics Ltd. 2007 Stock and Incentive Plan

   
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Appendix B—Primary Talent Market Peer Group

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TYCO ELECTRONICS LTD.
Rheinstrasse 20
CH-8200 Schaffhausen, Switzerland

Invitation to Annual General Meeting of Shareholders

Time and Date:

 

2:00 p.m., Central European Time (8:00 a.m., Eastern Standard Time), on March 10, 2010

Place:

 

The Radisson Blu Hotel, Zurich Airport, Zurich, Switzerland

Agenda Items:

 

1. Election of eleven (11) directors proposed by the Board of Directors;

 

2. Approval of (i) the 2009 Annual Report of Tyco Electronics Ltd. (excluding the statutory financial statements for the period ended September 25, 2009 and the consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended September 25, 2009), (ii) the statutory financial statements of Tyco Electronics Ltd. for the period ended September 25, 2009 and (iii) the consolidated financial statements of Tyco Electronics Ltd. for the fiscal year ended September 25, 2009;

 

3. Approval of the equivalent of a dividend payment in the form of a distribution to shareholders through a reduction of the par value of our shares, such payment to be made in four equal quarterly installments on or before March 25, 2011 (the end of the second fiscal quarter of 2011);

 

4. Release of the members of the Board of Directors and executive officers of Tyco Electronics for activities during fiscal year 2009;

 

5. Approval of an increase in the number of shares available for awards under the Tyco Electronics Ltd. 2007 Stock and Incentive Plan;

 

6. Election of (i) Deloitte & Touche LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year 2010, (ii) Deloitte AG, Zurich, Switzerland, as our Swiss registered auditor until our next annual general meeting, and (iii) PricewaterhouseCoopers AG, Zurich, Switzerland, as our special auditor until our next annual general meeting;

 

7. Approval of any adjournments or postponements of the meeting; and

 

8. Transaction of any other business properly brought at the meeting.

Persons Who Will Receive Proxy Materials:

 


A copy of the proxy materials, including a proxy card, has been sent to each shareholder registered in our share register as of the close of business (Eastern Standard Time) on
January 21, 2010. A copy of the proxy materials will also be sent to any additional shareholders who are registered in our share register as shareholders with voting rights, or who become beneficial owners through a nominee registered in our share register as a shareholder with voting rights, as of the close of business (Eastern Standard Time) on February 18, 2010.

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Admission to Meeting and Persons Eligible to Vote:

 


Shareholders who are registered with voting rights in our share register as of the close of business (Eastern Standard Time) on
February 18, 2010 have the right to attend the Annual General Meeting and vote their shares, or may grant a proxy to vote on each of the agenda items in this invitation and any other matter properly presented at the meeting for consideration.

 

Shareholders who hold their shares in the name of a bank, broker or other nominee should follow the instructions provided by their bank, broker or nominee. Beneficial owners who have not obtained a proxy from their bank, broker or nominee are not entitled to vote in person at the Annual General Meeting.

Granting of Proxy:

 

Shareholders of record with voting rights who do not wish to attend the Annual General Meeting have the right to appoint as proxy the Tyco Electronics officers named in the enclosed proxy card. Alternatively, they may appoint Dr. Jvo Grundler, Ernst & Young AG, as independent proxy, pursuant to article 689c of the Swiss Code of Obligations with full rights of substitution by marking the appropriate box on and submitting the enclosed proxy card, or grant a written proxy to any person, who does not need to be a shareholder.

 

The proxies granted to the Tyco Electronics officers named in the proxy card or the independent proxy must be received no later than 5:00 p.m., Central European Time (11:00 a.m., Eastern Standard Time) on March 9, 2010. A shareholder of record who gives a proxy may revoke it at any time before it is exercised by voting in person at the meeting, or, subject to timing restrictions, by delivering a subsequent proxy or by notifying the Secretary of Tyco Electronics or the independent proxy in writing of such revocation.

 

With regard to the items listed on the agenda and without any explicit instructions to the contrary, the Tyco Electronics officers acting as proxy and the independent proxy will vote according to the recommendation of the Board of Directors of Tyco Electronics. If new agenda items (other than those on the agenda) or new proposals or motions regarding agenda items set out in the Invitation to Annual General Meeting are being put forth at the meeting, the Tyco Electronics officers acting as proxy will vote in accordance with the recommendation of the Board of Directors, as will the independent proxy.

Proxy Holders of Deposited Shares:

 


Institutions subject to the Swiss Federal Law on Banks and Savings Banks as well as professional asset managers who hold proxies for holders of record with voting rights who did not grant proxies to Tyco Electronics officers or the independent proxy must inform Tyco Electronics of the number of shares they represent by mail so that we receive notice no later than 5:00 p.m., Central European Time (11:00 a.m., Eastern Standard Time), on March 9, 2010. This information must be mailed to: Tyco Electronics Ltd., Attention: Secretary, Rheinstrasse 20, CH-8200 Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

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Date of Mailing:

 

This Invitation to Annual General Meeting of Shareholders and Proxy Statement and the enclosed proxy card are first being sent on or about [•], 2010 to each shareholder of record of Tyco Electronics registered shares at the close of business (Eastern Standard Time) on January 21, 2010.

By order of the Board of Directors,
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Harold G. Barksdale
Corporate Secretary

January [    •    ], 2010

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PROXY STATEMENT
FOR THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS OF
TYCO ELECTRONICS LTD.
TO BE HELD ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 2010


QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THIS PROXY STATEMENT AND VOTING

Why am I receiving these materials?

        Tyco Electronics' Board of Directors is soliciting your proxy to vote at the Annual General Meeting to be held at 2:00 p.m., Central European Time (8:00 a.m., Eastern Standard Time), on March 10, 2010, at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Zurich Airport, Zurich, Switzerland. The information provided in this proxy statement is for your use in determining how you will vote on the agenda items described within.

        We have sent this proxy statement and proxy card to each person who is registered as a holder of our shares in the register of shareholders (such owners are often referred to as "holders of record") as of the close of business (Eastern Standard Time) on January 21, 2010. We will also send a copy of this proxy statement and proxy card to any additional shareholders who become registered in our share register after the close of business (Eastern Standard Time) on January 21, 2010 and continue to be registered in our share register at the close of business (Eastern Standard Time) on February 18, 2010. Distribution of this proxy statement and a proxy card to shareholders is scheduled to begin on or about [    •    ], 2010.

        We have requested that banks, brokerage firms and other nominees who hold Tyco Electronics shares on behalf of the owners of the shares (such owners are often referred to, and we refer to them below, as "beneficial shareholders" or "street name holders") as of the close of business (Eastern Standard Time) on January 21, 2010 forward these materials, together with a proxy card or voting instruction card, to those beneficial shareholders. We have also requested that banks, brokerage firms and other nominees who hold Tyco Electronics shares on behalf of beneficial owners forward these materials, together with a proxy card or voting instruction card, to any additional beneficial owners who acquire their shares after January 21, 2010 and continue to hold them at the close of business (Eastern Standard Time) on February 18, 2010. We have agreed to pay the reasonable expenses of the banks, brokerage firms and other nominees for forwarding these materials. We also have provided for these materials to be sent to persons who have interests in our shares through participation in our employee share purchase plans. These individuals are not eligible to vote directly at the Annual General Meeting, but they may instruct the trustees of these plans how to vote the shares represented by their interests. The enclosed proxy card also will serve as voting instructions for the trustees of the plans.

Are proxy materials available on the Internet?

        Yes.

        Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the Annual General Meeting to be Held on March 10, 2010.

        Our proxy statement for the Annual General Meeting to be held on March 10, 2010, other proxy material and our annual report to shareholders for fiscal year 2009 is available at [    •    ].

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What agenda items are scheduled to be voted on at the meeting?

        The seven agenda items scheduled for a vote are:

What is the recommendation of the Board of Directors on each of the agenda items scheduled to be voted on at the meeting? How do the Board of Directors and executive officers intend to vote with respect to the agenda items?

        Tyco Electronics' Board of Directors recommends that you vote FOR each of the agenda items listed above. Our directors and executive officers have indicated that they intend to vote their shares in favor of each of the agenda items, except for Agenda Item No. 4 (Release the Members of the Board of Directors and Executive Officers of Tyco Electronics for Activities during Fiscal Year 2009), where they are by law precluded from voting their shares. On November 24, 2009, our directors and executive officers and their affiliates beneficially owned less than one percent of the outstanding shares.

What is the difference between being a shareholder of record and a beneficial owner?

        If your shares are registered directly in your name in our share register operated by our stock transfer agent, you are considered the "shareholder of record" of those shares.

        If your shares are held in a stock brokerage account or by a bank or other nominee on your behalf and the broker, bank or nominee is registered in our share register as a shareholder with voting rights, your broker, bank or other nominee is considered the shareholder of record and you are considered the "beneficial owner" or "street name holder" of those shares. In this case, the shareholder of record that is registered as a shareholder with voting rights has forwarded these proxy materials, and separate voting instructions, to you. As the beneficial owner, you have the right to direct the shareholder of record how to vote your shares by following the voting instructions they have provided with these

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materials. Because you are not the shareholder of record, you may not vote your shares in person at the meeting unless you receive a valid proxy from your broker, bank or other nominee that holds your shares giving you the right to vote the shares in person at the meeting.

Who is entitled to vote?

        Shareholders of record

        All shareholders registered in our share register at the close of business (Eastern Standard Time) on February 18, 2010 are entitled to vote on the matters set forth in this proxy statement and any other matter properly presented at the meeting for consideration, provided such shareholders will have become registered as shareholders with voting rights by that time. See "—I am a shareholder of record. How do I become registered as a shareholder with voting rights?"

        Beneficial owners

        Beneficial owners whose banks, brokers or nominees are shareholders registered in our share register with respect to the beneficial owners' shares at the close of business (Eastern Standard Time) on February 18, 2010 are entitled to vote on the matters set forth in this proxy statement and any other matter properly presented at the meeting for consideration, provided such banks, brokers or nominees become registered as shareholders with voting rights. See "—I am a shareholder of record. How do I become registered as a shareholder with voting rights?"

        Holders of record and beneficial owners will not be entitled to vote their shares or provide instructions to vote with respect to their shares if they hold shares at the close of business (Eastern Standard Time) on January 21, 2010 but sell or otherwise transfer those shares before the close of business (Eastern Standard Time) on February 18, 2010.

I am a shareholder of record. How do I become registered as a shareholder with voting rights?

        If you are a shareholder of record, you have been registered as a shareholder with voting rights in our share register, unless in certain circumstances (such as failure to comply with particular disclosure requirements set forth in our Articles of Association) we have specifically advised you that you are registered as a shareholder without voting rights.

How do I attend the Annual General Meeting?

        For admission to the meeting, shareholders of record with voting rights should bring the admission ticket attached to the enclosed proxy card to the check-in area, where their ownership will be verified. Those who have beneficial ownership of registered shares held by a bank, brokerage firm or other nominee which has voting rights must bring to the check-in area account statements or letters from their banks, brokers or nominees showing that they own Tyco Electronics registered shares as of the close of business (Eastern Standard Time) on February 18, 2010. Registration will begin at 1:00 p.m., Central European Time (7:00 a.m., Eastern Standard Time), and the meeting will begin at 2:00 p.m., Central European Time (8:00 a.m., Eastern Standard Time). See "—How do I vote?—At the Annual General Meeting" for a discussion of how to vote in person at the Annual General Meeting.

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How do I vote?

        You can vote in the following ways:

        At the Annual General Meeting:    If you are a shareholder of record with voting rights of Tyco Electronics registered shares who plans to attend the Annual General Meeting and wishes to vote your shares in person, we will give you a ballot at the meeting. Shareholders who own their shares in street name are not entitled to vote in person at the Annual General Meeting unless they have a proxy, executed in their favor, from the bank, broker or nominee holder of record of their shares.

        By Mail:    If you are a holder of record with voting rights, you may vote by marking, dating and signing the enclosed proxy card and returning it by mail for receipt by no later than indicated below. You may appoint the officers of Tyco Electronics named in the proxy card as your proxy. Alternatively, you may authorize the independent proxy, Dr. Jvo Grundler, Ernst & Young AG, with full rights of substitution, to vote your shares on your behalf. If you appoint officers of Tyco Electronics as your proxy, you will need to send your proxy card to Tyco Electronics Ltd., c/o BNY Mellon Shareowner Services, P. O. Box 3550, South Hackensack, NJ 07606-9250, United States of America. If you appoint the independent proxy, you will need to send your proxy card directly to the independent proxy at the following address: Dr. Jvo Grundler, Ernst & Young AG, Legal, Bleicherweg 21, P.O. Box, CH-8022, Zurich, Switzerland.

        If you hold your shares in street name, you can provide instructions to vote by following the instructions on your voting instruction card.

        If you have timely submitted a properly executed proxy card and clearly indicated your votes, your shares will be voted as indicated. If you have timely submitted a properly executed proxy card and have not clearly indicated your votes, your shares will be voted FOR all of the agenda items. If any other matters are properly presented at the meeting, the Tyco Electronics officers or the independent proxy, as applicable, will vote the shares represented by all properly executed proxies in accordance with the recommendation of the Board of Directors.

        Can I vote by telephone or via the Internet?

        If you are a shareholder of record, you cannot vote by telephone or via the Internet. If you are a beneficial owner, you may instruct your broker, bank or other nominee by telephone or via the Internet by following the instructions on your voting instruction card.

How do I appoint Tyco Electronics officers as my proxy?

        If you properly fill in your proxy card and mark the appropriate box so as to appoint officers of Tyco Electronics as your proxy, with full rights of substitution, and send it to us in time to vote, your proxy, meaning one of the individuals named on your proxy card, will vote your shares as you have directed. If you sign the proxy card but do not make specific choices, you will be deemed to appoint officers of Tyco Electronics as your proxy and your proxy will vote your shares FOR each of the agenda items listed above as recommended by the Board of Directors. Alternatively, you can grant a proxy to the independent proxy as described below.

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        If a new agenda item or a new motion or proposal for an existing agenda item is properly presented to the Annual General Meeting, the Tyco Electronics officers acting as your proxy will vote in accordance with the recommendation of our Board of Directors. At the time of printing this proxy statement, we know of no matters to be acted on at the Annual General Meeting other than those discussed in this proxy statement.

How do I appoint the independent proxy as my proxy?

        If you are a shareholder of record with voting rights, you may authorize the independent proxy, Dr. Jvo Grundler, with full rights of substitution, to vote your shares on your behalf by marking the box corresponding to the independent proxy on the enclosed proxy card. If you authorize the independent proxy to vote your shares without giving instructions, your shares will be voted in accordance with the recommendations of the Board of Directors with regard to the items listed in the meeting invitation. If new agenda items (other than those in the meeting invitation) or new proposals or motions with respect to those agenda items set forth in the meeting invitation are properly being put forth at the Annual General Meeting, the independent proxy will vote in accordance with the recommendation of the Board of Directors. Proxy forms authorizing the independent proxy to vote shares on your behalf must be sent by mail directly to the independent proxy at the following address: Dr. Jvo Grundler, Ernst & Young AG, Legal, Bleicherweg 21, P.O. Box, CH-8022, Zurich, Switzerland. These forms must be received no later than 5:00 p.m., Central European Time (11:00 a.m., Eastern Standard Time), on March 9, 2010.

If my shares are held in "street name" by my broker, will my broker vote my shares for me?

        We recommend that you contact your broker. Your broker can give you directions on how to instruct the broker to vote your shares. If you have not provided instructions to the broker, your broker will be able to vote your shares with respect to "routine" matters but not "non-routine" matters pursuant to New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") rules. We believe the following agenda items will be considered non-routine under NYSE rules and therefore your broker will not be able to vote your shares with respect to these agenda items unless the broker receives appropriate instructions from you: Agenda Item No. 1 (Election of Directors), Agenda Item No. 3 (Approval of a Distribution to Shareholders in the Form of a Capital Reduction) and Agenda Item No. 5 (Approval of an Increase in the Number of Shares Available for Awards Under the Tyco Electronics Ltd. 2007 Stock and Incentive Plan). Because of a change in NYSE rules, we note that, unlike at our previous annual general meetings, your broker will not be able to vote your shares with respect to the election of directors if you have not provided instructions to your broker.

What if I am a proxy holder of deposited shares?

        Institutions subject to the Swiss Federal Law on Banks and Savings Banks as well as professional asset managers who hold proxies for holders of record with voting rights who did not grant proxies to Tyco Electronics officers or the independent proxy must inform Tyco Electronics of the number of shares they represent by mail so that we receive notice no later than 5:00 p.m., Central European Time (11:00 a.m., Eastern Standard Time), on March 9, 2010. This information must be mailed to: Tyco Electronics Ltd., Attention: Secretary, Rheinstrasse 20, CH-8200 Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

How many shares can vote at the Annual General Meeting?

        Our registered shares are our only class of voting stock. As of January 21, 2010, there were [    •    ] registered shares issued and outstanding and entitled to vote; however, shareholders who are not registered in our share register as shareholders as of the close of business (Eastern Standard Time) on February 18, 2010 or do not become registered as shareholders with voting rights will not be entitled to attend, vote or grant proxies to vote at, the Annual General Meeting. See "—I am a

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shareholder of record. How do I become registered as a shareholder with voting rights?" Shares duly represented at the Annual General Meeting will be entitled to one vote per share for each matter presented at the Annual General Meeting. Shareholders who are registered in our share register as of the close of business (Eastern Standard Time) on February 18, 2010 and who are registered with voting rights may vote in person at the Annual General Meeting as discussed under "—How do I vote?—At the Annual General Meeting."

What quorum is required for the Annual General Meeting?

        The presence, in person or by proxy, of at least the majority of the registered shares entitled to vote constitutes a quorum for the conduct of business at the Annual General Meeting.

What vote is required for approval of each agenda item and what is the effect of broker non-votes and abstentions?

        Agenda Item No. 1:    The election of each director nominee requires the affirmative vote of an absolute majority of the votes of registered shares with voting rights that are represented at the Annual General Meeting in person or by proxy. An absolute majority means at least half plus one additional vote represented at a general meeting of shareholders.

        Agenda Item No. 4:    The release of the members of the Board of Directors and executive officers for activities during fiscal year 2009 requires the affirmative vote of an absolute majority of the votes of registered shares with voting rights that are represented at the Annual General Meeting in person or by proxy, not counting the votes of any member of the Board of Directors or any executive officer of Tyco Electronics.

        Agenda Item No. 5:    The approval of an increase in the number of shares available for awards under the Tyco Electronics Ltd. 2007 Stock and Incentive Plan requires the affirmative vote of an absolute majority of the votes of registered shares with voting rights that are represented at the Annual General Meeting in person or by proxy. In addition, under rules of the NYSE, Agenda Item No. 5 also requires the affirmative vote of the majority of the votes cast on the agenda item, provided that the total votes cast on the agenda item represent over 50% of the voting power of the total outstanding registered shares with voting rights.

        Approval of all other agenda items requires the affirmative vote of an absolute majority of the votes of registered shares with voting rights that are represented at the Annual General Meeting in person or by proxy.

        Registered shares which are represented by broker non-votes (which occur when a broker holding shares for a beneficial owner does not vote on a particular agenda item because the broker does not have discretionary voting power for that particular item and has not received instructions from the beneficial owner) and registered shares which are cast as abstentions on any matter, are counted towards the determination of a majority required to approve such agenda item and will therefore have the effect of an AGAINST vote on that item. Abstentions and broker non-votes are counted for quorum purposes.

Who will count the votes and certify the results?

        An independent vote tabulator will count the votes. BNY Mellon Shareowner Services has been appointed by the Board of Directors as the independent Inspector of Election and will determine the existence of a quorum, validity of proxies and ballots, and certify the results of the voting.

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If I vote and then want to change or revoke my vote, may I?

        If you are a shareholder of record and have granted a proxy to designated officers of Tyco Electronics, you may revoke or change your proxy at any time before it is exercised at the meeting by submitting a later dated proxy card at or before the meeting, by notifying our Secretary in writing that you have revoked your proxy, or by attending the meeting and giving notice of revocation in person. If you wish to revoke your proxy, you must do so in sufficient time to permit the necessary examination and tabulation of the subsequent proxy or revocation before the vote is taken. Written revocations should be directed to:

        If you are a shareholder of record and have granted a proxy to the independent proxy, Dr. Jvo Grundler, you may revoke or change your proxy at any time before it is exercised at the meeting by submitting a revocation letter, and new proxy, if applicable, directly to the independent proxy so that it is received by no later than 5:00 p.m., Central European Time (11:00 a.m., Eastern Standard Time) on March 9, 2010. Written revocations should be directed to the following address: Dr. Jvo Grundler, Ernst & Young AG, Legal, Bleicherweg 21, P.O. Box, CH-8022, Zurich, Switzerland.

        Your presence without voting at the meeting will not automatically revoke your proxy, and any revocation during the meeting will not affect votes previously taken at the meeting.

        If your shares are held in a stock brokerage account or by a bank or other nominee on your behalf, follow the voting instructions provided to you with these materials to determine how you may change your vote.

Can I sell my shares before the meeting if I have voted?

        Yes. Tyco Electronics does not block the transfer of shares before the meeting. However, unless you are a shareholder of record with voting rights at the close of business (Eastern Standard Time) on February 18, 2010, your vote will not be counted.

Are shareholders permitted to ask questions at the meeting?

        During the Annual General Meeting, shareholders may ask questions or make comments relating to agenda items following the second of the motion and prior to the taking of the vote by the moderator, in addition to questions or comments relating to the review of the operations of Tyco Electronics for fiscal year 2009.

Whom may I contact for assistance?

        You should contact the following:

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SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT

        The following table sets forth the number of outstanding shares of Tyco Electronics beneficially owned as of November 24, 2009 by each current director, each executive officer named in the Summary Compensation Table and all of our executive officers and directors as a group. All current directors are nominees for director. The address of our executive officers and directors is c/o Tyco Electronics, 1050 Westlakes Drive, Berwyn, Pennsylvania 19312.

Beneficial Owner
  Number of
Shares
Beneficially
Owned(1)
 

Directors and Executive Officers:

       

Thomas J. Lynch(2)(3)(4)

    1,412,527  

Terrence R. Curtin(2)(4)

    266,568  

Robert A. Scott(2)(4)

    196,604  

Minoru Okamoto(2)(4)

    354,305  

Alan C. Clarke(2)(4)

    183,002  

Pierre R. Brondeau(3)(5)

    16,855  

Ram Charan(3)(5)

    15,360  

Juergen W. Gromer(3)(4)(5)

    601,226  

Robert M. Hernandez(3)(5)(6)

    50,360  

Daniel J. Phelan(3)(5)

    15,360  

Frederic M. Poses(3)(5)

    214,301  

Lawrence S. Smith(3)(5)(7)

    21,974  

Paula A. Sneed(3)(5)

    19,035  

David P. Steiner(3)(5)

    15,360  

John C. Van Scoter(3)(5)

    11,804  

All current directors and executive officers as a group (25 persons)(4)(5)

    4,119,736  

(1)
The number shown reflects the number of shares owned beneficially as of November 24, 2009, based on information furnished by the persons named, public filings and Tyco Electronics records. Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance with the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and generally includes voting or investment power with respect to securities. Except as otherwise indicated in the notes below and subject to applicable community property laws, each owner has sole voting and sole investment power with respect to all shares beneficially owned by such person. To the extent indicated in the notes below, shares beneficially owned by a person include shares of which the person has the right to acquire beneficial ownership within 60 days after November 24, 2009. All current directors and executive officers as a group beneficially own less than 1% of outstanding shares as of November 24, 2009.

(2)
The named person is an executive officer.

(3)
The named person is a director and nominee for director.

(4)
Includes shares issuable upon the exercise of stock options presently exercisable or exercisable within 60 days after November 24, 2009 as follows: Mr. Lynch—1,284,246; Mr. Curtin—242,611; Mr. Scott—169,820; Mr. Okamoto—333,852; Mr. Clarke—163,891; Dr. Gromer—506,934; all current directors and executive officers as a group—3,349,666. Also includes for all current directors and executive officers as a group 5,271 shares issuable upon the vesting of restricted stock units vesting within 60 days after November 24, 2009.

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(5)
Includes vested deferred stock units (DSUs) as follows: Dr. Brondeau—10,876; Dr. Charan—10,876; Dr. Gromer—16,815; Mr. Hernandez—10,876; Mr. Phelan—10,876; Mr. Poses—12,191; Mr. Smith—14,555; Ms. Sneed—13,351; Mr. Steiner—10,876; Mr. Van Scoter—5,825. Distribution of DSUs will occur upon the termination of the individual's service on the Board of Directors. Upon such termination, Tyco Electronics will issue the number of shares equal to the aggregate number of DSUs credited to the individual, including DSUs received through the accrual of dividend equivalents.

(6)
Includes 35,000 shares held in a trust over which Mr. Hernandez has dispositive power.

(7)
Includes 1,860 shares held in a trust over which Mr. Smith has dispositive power. Mr. Smith disclaims beneficial ownership of such shares.

        The following table sets forth the information indicated for persons or groups known to us to be beneficial owners of more than 5% of our outstanding shares beneficially owned as of November 24, 2009.

Name and Address of Beneficial Owner
  Number of
Shares
  Percentage
of Class
 

T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.(1)
100 East Pratt Street
Baltimore, MD 21202

    36,439,465     7.9 %

Dodge & Cox(2)
555 California Street, 40th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104

   
27,570,442
   
6.0

%

FMR LLC(3)
82 Devonshire Street
Boston, MA 02109

   
23,888,612
   
5.2

%

(1)
This information is based on a Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on February 12, 2009 by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., which reported sole voting and dispositive power as follows: sole voting power—7,148,651 and sole dispositive power—36,439,465.

(2)
This information is based on a Schedule 13G filed with the SEC on February 11, 2009 by Dodge & Cox, which reported sole and shared voting power and sole dispositive power as follows: sole voting power—26,240,692, shared voting power—68,225 and sole dispositive power—27,570,442.

(3)
The amount shown for the number of shares over which FMR LLC exercises voting power was provided to the company by FMR LLC.

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AGENDA ITEM NO. 1—ELECTION OF DIRECTORS

        At the 2010 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, upon the recommendation of the Nominating, Governance and Compliance Committee, the Board of Directors has named eleven nominees for election as directors to hold office until the 2011 Annual General Meeting. The eleven nominees are current directors of Tyco Electronics Ltd. and are listed below with brief biographies.

Vote Requirement to Elect Directors

        The approval of a majority of our shares present and voting at the meeting, whether in person or by proxy, is required for approval of the election of each of the eleven (11) nominees for director.

Recommendation

        The Board of Directors recommends a vote "FOR" the election of each of the eleven (11) nominees for director. Proxies will be so voted unless shareholders specify otherwise in their proxies.


NOMINEES FOR ELECTION

        Pierre R. Brondeau, 52, joined our Board of Directors in June 2007, immediately following our separation from Tyco International Ltd. ("Tyco International"). Dr. Brondeau has been named President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of FMC Corporation, a global chemical company, effective January 1, 2010. Prior to joining FMC Corporation, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Rohm & Haas Company, a U.S. based manufacturer of specialty materials and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Dow Chemical Company, upon the April 2009 merger of Rohm & Haas Company and Dow Chemical Company until September 2009. From 2006 to 2009, Dr. Brondeau served as Executive Vice President of electronics materials and specialty materials of Rohm & Haas Company. He also has served as Vice-President, Business Group Executive, Electronic Materials, President and Chief Executive Officer, Rohm & Haas Electronic Materials LLC, and Regional Director, Europe, from 2003 to 2006, and previously as Vice-President, Business Group Director, Electronic Materials, President and Chief Executive Officer, Shipley Company, LLC, from 1999 to 2003. Dr. Brondeau received a masters degree from Universite de Montpellier and a Doctorate from Institut National des Sciences appliquees de Toulouse.

        Ram Charan, 69, joined our Board of Directors in June 2007, immediately following our separation from Tyco International. Since 1978, Dr. Charan has served as an advisor to executives and corporate boards and provides expertise in corporate governance, global strategy and succession. Dr. Charan received a bachelor's degree from Banaras Hindu University and an MBA and a DBA from Harvard Business School.

        Juergen W. Gromer, 64, joined our Board of Directors in June 2007, immediately following our separation from Tyco International. Dr. Gromer was President of Tyco Electronics from April 1999 until he retired from that position on December 31, 2007. From September 2006 until our separation from Tyco International, he also held the position of President of the Electronic Components Business segment of Tyco International. Dr. Gromer held a number of senior executive positions over the previous 10 years with AMP Incorporated, which was acquired by Tyco International in 1999. Dr. Gromer received his undergraduate degree and doctorate in physics from the University of Stuttgart. Dr. Gromer is a Director of WABCO Holdings Inc. and Marvell Technology Group Ltd. He is also Chairman of the Board of the Society for Economic Development of the District Bergstrasse/Hessen, a member of the Advisory Board of Commerzbank, and a Director of the Board and Vice President of the American Chamber of Commerce Germany.

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        Robert M. Hernandez, 65, joined our Board of Directors in June 2007, immediately following our separation from Tyco International. Mr. Hernandez has served as Chairman of the Board of RTI International Metals, Inc., a producer of titanium mill products and fabricated metal components, from 1990 to the present. From 1994 to 2001, he served as Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of USX Corporation and prior to that served in a variety of positions during his career at USX, beginning in 1968. Mr. Hernandez received a bachelor's degree from the University of Pittsburgh and an MBA from the Wharton Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Hernandez is Lead Director of ACE Ltd., a Director of Eastman Chemical Company and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Equity-Bond Complex of the BlackRock Mutual Funds.

        Thomas J. Lynch, 55, serves on our Board of Directors and has been Chief Executive Officer of Tyco Electronics since January 2006 and was previously President of Tyco Engineered Products and Services since joining Tyco International in September 2004. Prior to joining Tyco International, Mr. Lynch was at Motorola where he was Executive Vice President and President and Chief Executive Officer, Personal Communications Sector from August 2002 to September 2004; Executive Vice President and President, Integrated Electronic Systems Sector from January 2001 to August 2002; Senior Vice President and General Manager, Satellite & Broadcast Network Systems, Broadband Communications Sector from February 2000 to January 2001; and Senior Vice President and General Manager, Satellite & Broadcast Network Systems, General Instrument Corporation from May 1998 to February 2000. Mr. Lynch holds a bachelor of science degree in commerce from Rider University. Mr. Lynch is a Director of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

        Daniel J. Phelan, 60, joined our Board of Directors in June 2007, immediately following our separation from Tyco International. Mr. Phelan has served as Chief of Staff of GlaxoSmithKline, a manufacturer of pharmaceuticals and consumer health-related products, from May 2008 to the present and previously was Senior Vice President, Human Resources from 1994. Mr. Phelan is responsible for information technology, human resources, corporate strategy and development, world wide real estate and facilities, environmental health and safety, and global security. Mr. Phelan received bachelor's and law degrees from Rutgers University and a master's degree from Ohio State University.

        Frederic M. Poses, 67, joined our Board of Directors as Chairman in June 2007, immediately following our separation from Tyco International. Mr. Poses is Chief Executive Officer and Partner of Ascend Performance Materials, a private manufacturer of nylon related chemicals, resins and fibers for commercial and industrial products, since June 2009. He previously was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Trane Inc. (formerly American Standard Companies Inc.), a manufacturer and provider of air conditioning systems and services, vehicle control systems and bath and kitchen products, from 1999 until its acquisition by Ingersoll Rand in 2008. From 1998 to 1999, Mr. Poses was President and Chief Operating Officer of AlliedSignal, Inc., where he served in various capacities over his career, beginning in 1969. Mr. Poses holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from New York University. Mr. Poses is a Director of Raytheon Company.

        Lawrence S. Smith, 62, joined our Board of Directors in June 2007, immediately following our separation from Tyco International. Mr. Smith was named Executive Vice President in 1995 and Co-Chief Financial Officer in 2002 of Comcast Corporation, a broadband cable provider, from which he retired in March 2007. He presently consults for Comcast Corporation. He served in finance and administration positions at Comcast from 1988 to 1995. Prior to joining Comcast, Mr. Smith was the Chief Financial Officer of Advanta Corporation. He also worked for Arthur Andersen LLP for 18 years, where he was a tax partner. Mr. Smith has a bachelor's degree from Ithaca College. Mr. Smith is a Director of Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. and GSI Commerce Inc.

        Paula A. Sneed, 62, joined our Board of Directors in June 2007, immediately following our separation from Tyco International. Ms. Sneed is Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Phelps Prescott Group, LLC, a strategy and management consulting firm, since 2008. Previously she was Executive Vice

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President of Global Marketing Resources and Initiatives for Kraft Foods, Inc., a worldwide producer of branded food and beverage products, until her retirement in December 2006. She served as Group Vice President and President of Electronic-Commerce and Marketing Services for Kraft Foods North America, part of Kraft Foods, Inc., from 2000 until 2004, and Senior Vice President, Global Marketing Resources and Initiatives from December 2004 to July 2005. She joined General Foods Corporation (which later merged with Kraft Foods) in 1977 and has held a variety of management positions. Ms. Sneed received a bachelor's degree from Simmons College and an MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business. Ms. Sneed is a Director of Airgas Inc. and Charles Schwab Corporation.

        David P. Steiner, 49, joined our Board of Directors in June 2007, immediately following our separation from Tyco International. Since March 2004, Mr. Steiner has served as Chief Executive Officer and a director of Waste Management, Inc., a provider of integrated waste management services. His previous positions at Waste Management included Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 2003 to 2004, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary from 2001 to 2003 and Vice President and Deputy General Counsel from 2000 to 2001. Mr. Steiner received a bachelor's degree from Louisiana State University and a law degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. Mr. Steiner is a Director of FedEx Corporation.

        John C. Van Scoter, 48, joined our Board of Directors on December 1, 2008. Mr. Van Scoter has served as Senior Vice President of Texas Instruments Incorporated, a global semiconductor company, since 2005. During his 25 year career at Texas Instruments, he also served as General Manager of the Digital Light Processing (DLP®) Products Division and various Digital Signal Processor business units, manager of application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) product development and engineering, product engineer and technical sales engineer. Mr. Van Scoter holds a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Vermont.

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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

Governance Principles

        The Board of Directors' Governance Principles, which include guidelines for determining director independence and qualifications for directors, can be found on the company's website at http://www.tycoelectronics.com/aboutus/boardofdirectors.asp. The Principles are available in print to any shareholder upon request. Corporate governance developments are regularly reviewed by the Board in order to appropriately modify the Board's Governance Principles, committee charters and policies.

Director Independence

        Nine of the eleven directors nominated for re-election have been determined by the Board to be independent directors. For a director to be considered independent, the Board must make an affirmative determination that a director meets the stringent guidelines for independence set by the Board. These guidelines either meet or exceed the NYSE listing standards' independence requirements. The guidelines include a determination that the director has no current or prior material relationships with Tyco Electronics (either directly or as a partner, shareholder or officer of an organization that has a relationship with the company), aside from his or her directorship, that could affect his or her judgment.

        The independence guidelines also include the determination that certain limits to annual sales to or purchases from entities for which a director serves as an executive officer, and limits on direct compensation from the company for directors and certain family members (other than fees paid for board or committee service), are not exceeded and other restrictions.

        Based on the review and recommendation by the Nominating, Governance and Compliance Committee, the Board of Directors analyzed the independence of each director and determined that the following director nominees meet the standards of independence under our director independence guidelines and applicable NYSE listing standards, and that each of the following director nominees is free of any relationship that would interfere with his or her individual exercise of independent judgment: Pierre R. Brondeau, Ram Charan, Robert M. Hernandez, Daniel J. Phelan, Frederic M. Poses, Lawrence S. Smith, Paula A. Sneed, David P. Steiner and John C. Van Scoter. The Board had also determined that Sandra S. Wijnberg, who left the Board effective January 31, 2009, met the standards of independence during the period of her service on the Board.

Guide to Ethical Conduct

        All directors, officers and employees of Tyco Electronics review and affirm that they understand and are in compliance with the policies and principles contained in Tyco Electronics' code of ethical conduct set forth in the company's manual, "The Power of Integrity: Guide to Ethical Conduct." The guide is published in the Board of Directors section of Tyco Electronics' website at http://www.tycoelectronics.com/aboutus/EthicalConduct.asp and is available in print to any shareholder upon request.

        Directors are required to promptly inform the chair of the Nominating, Governance and Compliance Committee of actual or potential conflicts of interest.

        Tyco Electronics' Audit Committee has established an Office of the Ombudsman which ensures a direct, confidential and impartial avenue to raise any concern or issue with compliance or ethics, including concerns about the company's accounting, internal accounting controls or auditing matters, with the Board. The office is designed to field compliance concerns from external constituencies—investors, suppliers and customers—as well as Tyco Electronics employees.

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        Reporting directly to the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors, the Ombudsman's office is independent of functional management. It seeks the fair, timely and impartial resolution of all compliance and ethics issues. Employees have a number of vehicles to raise issues within Tyco Electronics, including a confidential, toll-free phone number and a confidential submission system via the Internet. Concerns also may be sent directly to the Board by mail.

        All concerns are received and promptly reviewed by the Ombudsman and are responded to as quickly as possible. All accounting, audit or control concerns are sent to, and will be addressed by, the Board's Audit Committee.

Communicating Concerns to Directors

        Any shareholder or interested party who wishes to contact members of the Tyco Electronics Board of Directors, including the chairman or the non-management directors as a group, may do so by mailing written communications to:

        Inquiries and concerns also can be submitted anonymously and confidentially through the Ombudsman to the Tyco Electronics Board of Directors through the Internet at http://www.tycoelectronics.com/aboutus/contact_board.asp.

Voting Standards for the Election of Directors

        Directors are elected by an affirmative vote of a majority of the votes present, in person or by proxy, at a general meeting of shareholders and serve until the next annual general meeting of shareholders. Any nominee for director who does not receive a majority of votes present at the meeting is not elected to the Board.

Voting Standards for Amendments to the Articles of Association

        The Articles of Association may be amended, in whole or in part, by the Board, subject to approval by the affirmative vote of the holders of record:

        in the case of all other articles, of an absolute majority of the votes represented, in person or by proxy, at a general meeting of shareholders.

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THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND BOARD COMMITTEES

Board of Directors

        The Board of Directors currently consists of eleven directors, all of whom are nominees for election. Frederic Poses serves as Chairman of the Board. During fiscal 2009 there were no changes in the composition of the Board, except that John Van Scoter joined the Board on December 1, 2008 and Sandra Wijnberg left the Board effective January 31, 2009. The Board held eight meetings in fiscal year 2009 and all of our current directors attended at least 75% of the total number of meetings of the Board and committees on which they served in fiscal year 2009. It is the policy of the Board that directors are expected to attend the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders. All directors attended the 2009 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders.

Board Committees

        The Board has adopted written charters for each of its three standing committees: the Audit Committee, the Management Development and Compensation Committee and the Nominating, Governance and Compliance Committee. The charters can be found on the company's website at http://www.tycoelectronics.com/aboutus/boardofdirectors.asp and are available in print to any shareholder upon request. Each Board committee reports to the Board on their activities at each regular Board meeting.

        The Board has determined that all members of the Audit, Management Development and Compensation and Nominating, Governance and Compliance Committees are independent and satisfy the relevant SEC, NYSE and Tyco Electronics additional independence requirements for the members of such committees.

Board Advisors

        Consistent with their respective charters, the Board and its committees may retain their own advisors as they determine necessary to carry out their responsibilities.

Audit Committee

        The members of the Audit Committee are directors Lawrence Smith, who chairs the committee, Pierre Brondeau and Paula Sneed. Ms. Wijnberg was chair of the committee through January 13, 2009 prior to leaving the Board effective January 31, 2009. Ms. Sneed joined the committee on January 14, 2009. The Board has determined that each of Mr. Smith and Ms. Sneed is an "audit committee financial expert," as defined under SEC rules. The Board had determined that Ms. Wijnberg was an "audit committee financial expert" for the period during which she served on the committee. The Audit Committee primarily is concerned with the quality and integrity of the company's annual and quarterly financial statements, including its financial and accounting principles, policies and practices, and its internal control over financial reporting; the qualifications, independence and performance of the company's independent auditor and lead audit partner; review and oversight of the company's internal audit function; compliance with legal and regulatory requirements; review of financial and accounting risk exposure; assisting the Board in fulfilling its oversight responsibilities regarding the company's policies and guidelines with respect to risk assessment and risk management; and procedures for handling complaints regarding accounting or auditing matters. The committee also oversees the company Ombudsman and the company's Guide to Ethical Conduct. The Audit Committee met ten times in fiscal year 2009. The committee's report appears on page 77.

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Management Development and Compensation Committee

        The members of the Management Development and Compensation Committee are directors David Steiner, who chairs the committee, Robert Hernandez and Daniel Phelan. Frederic Poses served as a member and the chair of the committee throughout fiscal year 2009 and until December 3, 2009, the date on which Mr. Steiner joined the committee and was appointed its chair. The Board determined that as a result of Mr. Poses' relationship with Ascend Performance Materials (see "Certain Relationships and Related Transactions—Related Party Transactions"), although he remained independent for NYSE purposes, he ceased to meet the additional criteria required to be an "outside director" for purposes of Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code and a "non-employee director" for purposes of Rule 16b-3 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Securities Exchange Act"), as required for service on the committee, and accepted Mr. Poses' resignation from the committee. This committee is responsible to ensure succession of senior leadership; review plans for the development of the organization; review and approve compensation, benefits and human resources policies and objectives and whether the company's officers, directors and employees are compensated in accordance with these policies and objectives; review and approve compensation of the company's executive officers other than the Chief Executive Officer and recommend the Chief Executive Officer's compensation for approval by the independent members of the Board; and review and approve management incentive compensation policies and programs and equity compensation programs for employees. This committee met seven times in fiscal year 2009. The committee's report appears on page 37. Additional information on the committee's processes and procedures for consideration of executive compensation are addressed in the Compensation Discussion and Analysis which follows.

Nominating, Governance and Compliance Committee

        The members of the Nominating, Governance and Compliance Committee are directors Frederic Poses, who chairs the committee, Ram Charan and John Van Scoter. David Steiner served as a member and the chair of the committee throughout fiscal year 2009 and until December 3, 2009, the date on which Mr. Poses joined the Committee and was appointed its chair. Mr. Van Scoter was appointed to the committee effective January 14, 2009. Paula Sneed served on the committee through January 13, 2009. This committee's responsibilities include the selection of director nominees for the Board and the development and review of our Board Governance Principles. The committee annually reviews director compensation and benefits in conjunction with the Management Development and Compensation Committee; oversees the annual self-evaluations of the Board and its committees, as well as director performance; and makes recommendations to the Board concerning the structure and membership of the Board committees. The committee also oversees our environmental, health and safety management system and compliance programs. This committee held five meetings in fiscal year 2009.

        The Nominating, Governance and Compliance Committee will consider all shareholder recommendations for candidates for the Board, which should be sent to the Nominating, Governance and Compliance Committee, c/o Harold G. Barksdale, Secretary, Tyco Electronics, Rheinstrasse 20, CH-8200 Schaffhausen, Switzerland. The general qualifications and specific qualities and skills established by the committee for directors are set forth in the "Director Candidates" section of the Board's Governance Principles, which can be found on the company's website at http://www.tycoelectronics.com/aboutus/boardofdirectors.asp. In addition to considering candidates suggested by shareholders, the committee considers candidates recommended by current directors, company officers, employees and others. The committee screens all candidates in the same manner regardless of the source of the recommendation. The committee's review is typically based on any written materials provided with respect to the candidate. The committee determines whether the candidate meets the company's general qualifications and specific qualities and skills for directors and whether requesting additional information or an interview is appropriate.

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Meetings of Non-Management Directors

        The non-management directors met without any management directors or employees present five times in fiscal year 2009. The non-executive chairman of the Board presided at these meetings.

Non-Management Directors' Compensation in Fiscal 2009

        Non-management directors' compensation is established collaboratively by the Nominating, Governance and Compliance and the Management Development and Compensation Committees. Compensation of non-management directors in fiscal year 2009 is described under "Compensation of Non-Employee Directors."

Non-Management Directors' Stock Ownership

        To help align Board and shareholder interests, directors are encouraged to own, at a minimum, Tyco Electronics' stock or stock units equal to three times their annual cash retainer (a total of $240,000, based on the current $80,000 annual cash retainer) within three years of joining the Board. Once a director satisfies the minimum stock ownership recommendation, the director will remain qualified, regardless of market fluctuations, under the guidelines as long as the director does not sell any stock. In fiscal year 2009, a majority of the directors' annual compensation was provided as equity in the form of deferred stock units which cannot be transferred until the director leaves the Board. In fiscal year 2010 and thereafter, it is anticipated that a majority of the directors' annual compensation will be provided as equity in the form of shares. Directors will normally attain the minimum guideline after two years.

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EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

        The following table presents information with respect to our executive officers as of November 24, 2009.

Name
  Age   Position(s)

Thomas J. Lynch

    55   Chief Executive Officer and Director

Mario Calastri

   
52
 

Senior Vice President and Treasurer

Alan C. Clarke

   
56
 

President, Network Solutions

Terrence R. Curtin

   
41
 

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Cuong V. Do

   
43
 

Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Business Development

Joseph B. Donahue

   
51
 

President, Global Automotive Division

Jane A. Leipold

   
49
 

Senior Vice President, Global Human Resources

Minoru Okamoto

   
60
 

President, Communications & Industrial Solutions

Robert J. Ott

   
48
 

Senior Vice President and Corporate Controller

Jeffrey G. Rea

   
44
 

President, Specialty Products Group

Eric J. Resch

   
52
 

Senior Vice President and Chief Tax Officer

Michael Robinson

   
53
 

Senior Vice President, Operations

Robert A. Scott

   
59
 

Executive Vice President and General Counsel

Robert N. Shaddock

   
51
 

Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer

Joan E. Wainwright

   
49
 

Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications

        See "Nominees for Election" for additional information concerning Mr. Lynch who is also a nominee for director.

        Mario Calastri has been Senior Vice President and Treasurer of Tyco Electronics since our separation from Tyco International in June 2007 and he served on the Tyco Electronics Board prior to the separation. He was Vice President and Assistant Treasurer of Tyco International between 2005 and June 2007. Prior to joining Tyco International, Mr. Calastri was Vice President, Finance and Planning for IBM Global Financing EMEA in 2004 and Assistant Treasurer of IBM Corporation from 1999 to 2003.

        Alan C. Clarke has been President of Network Solutions of Tyco Electronics since September 2006 and served as a Vice President of Tyco Electronics since 1999. Prior to that, Mr. Clarke worked for Raychem Corporation, which was acquired by Tyco International in 1999, for 17 years in various senior management positions.

        Terrence R. Curtin has been Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Tyco Electronics since October 2006 and he served on the Tyco Electronics Board prior to the separation. Mr. Curtin previously served as Vice President and Corporate Controller since 2001. Prior to joining Tyco Electronics, Mr. Curtin worked for Arthur Andersen LLP.

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        Cuong V. Do has been Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Business Development of Tyco Electronics since June 2009. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Lenovo, a global leader in personal computers, since December 2008. Previously, he was a director with McKinsey & Company from 1989 to 2008.

        Joseph B. Donahue has been President, Global Automotive Division, for Tyco Electronics since July 2008 and was Senior Vice President from August 2007 until then. From 2006 to August 2007, he was Group Vice President, Woodcoatings Division for Valspar Corporation, a manufacturer of commercial and industrial coating. Over the prior 16 years, Mr. Donahue held a variety of senior management roles at Tyco Electronics and AMP Incorporated, leading the North America automotive business from 2001 to 2006.

        Jane A. Leipold has been Senior Vice President, Global Human Resources for Tyco Electronics since 2006 and was previously Vice President, Global Human Resources since 2001. She has a total of 28 years of Tyco Electronics and AMP Incorporated experience and has held various human resources, purchasing and engineering positions.

        Minoru Okamoto has been President, Communications & Industrial Solutions of Tyco Electronics since November 2008. Previously, he was President, Communications, Computer and Consumer Electronics ("CC&CE") from July 2008 and was Vice President of CC&CE since March 2001. He has a total of 34 years of Tyco Electronics and AMP Incorporated experience and has held a variety of positions covering sales, marketing, operations and general management.

        Robert J. Ott has been Senior Vice President and Corporate Controller of Tyco Electronics since our separation from Tyco International in June 2007. Prior to that, he was Vice President, Corporate Audit of Tyco International from March 2003 to June 2007 and Vice President of Finance-Corporate Governance of Tyco International from August 2002 until March 2003. Prior to joining Tyco International, Mr. Ott was Chief Financial Officer of Multiplex, Inc. from 2001 to 2002 and Chief Financial Officer of SourceAlliance, Inc. from 2000 to 2001.

        Jeffrey G. Rea joined Tyco Electronics in December 2008 and has been President of the Specialty Products Group since January 1, 2009. Prior to joining Tyco Electronics, Mr. Rea was Senior Vice President, JM Building Products group for Johns Mansville, a Berkshire Hathaway company, from 2002. Prior to 2002, Mr. Rea held various leadership positions with General Electric Company where he began his career in 1987.

        Eric J. Resch has been Senior Vice President and Chief Tax Officer of Tyco Electronics since our separation from Tyco International in June 2007 and he served on the Tyco Electronics Board prior to the separation. He was Vice President, Tax Reporting of Tyco International from 2003 until June 2007. Prior to joining Tyco International, Mr. Resch was Director, Tax Reporting for United Technologies Corporation from 2001 to 2003.

        Michael Robinson has been Senior Vice President, Operations of Tyco Electronics since August 2007. Prior to that, he spent 27 years at United Technologies Corporation where he most recently was Vice President of Operations for the Residential and Light Commercial International business at Carrier Corporation.

        Robert A. Scott has been Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Tyco Electronics since 2006 and prior to that was Senior Vice President, Corporate Planning for Tyco International from January 2006 and Vice President of Strategy and Business Planning for Engineered Products and Services from May 2004 to January 2006. He also served on the Tyco Electronics Board prior to our separation from Tyco International in June 2007. Prior to joining Tyco International, Mr. Scott was Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff of Motorola's Integrated Electronics sector during 2002 and 2003 and Motorola's Senior Vice President of Business Integration in 2001. Prior to joining Motorola,

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Mr. Scott was Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of General Instrument Corporation.

        Robert N. Shaddock has been Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Tyco Electronics since September 2008. Previously, he was Senior Vice President of the Consumer Products business at Motorola from August 2007 to August 2008 and prior to that he was Chief Technology Officer for Motorola's Mobile Devices business since January 2004.

        Joan E. Wainwright has been Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications at Tyco Electronics since February 2008, and she previously was Senior Vice President, Communications and Public Affairs since joining us in June 2006. Previously, she served as Vice President, Public Affairs and Vice President, Corporate Communications for Merck & Co., Inc. from June 2000 to June 2006. Ms. Wainwright also served as Deputy Commissioner of Communications for the U.S. Social Security Administration and in the communications and public relations departments of the University Health System of New Jersey, the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the University of Delaware and Villanova University.

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COMPENSATION DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS

Introduction

        As discussed in our Compensation Discussion and Analysis ("CD&A") for the fiscal year ended September 26, 2008 ("Fiscal Year 2008"), the Management Development and Compensation Committee ("MDCC" or "Committee") has adopted an executive compensation philosophy that serves as the guiding principles in the development of executive compensation levels and programs for executive officers of Tyco Electronics Ltd. ("Tyco Electronics" or the "Company"). In addition, the Committee has established a disciplined process for the adoption of executive compensation actions, which includes Board approval of executive compensation actions for the Chief Executive Officer and Committee approval of compensation actions for all other executive officers. All proposed compensation actions are to be reviewed for alignment with the Company's executive compensation policy and with consideration of competitive market data (the Committee reviews competitive data from two separate peer groups) and other relevant factors discussed below. In considering proposed compensation actions, the Committee relies on a compensation consultant (who is independent from management) for advice, information and an objective point of view.

        As a result of the global economic downturn, our fiscal year ended September 25, 2009 ("Fiscal Year 2009") was particularly challenging from many perspectives, including the establishment of appropriate compensation levels. In Fiscal Year 2009, the Committee again conducted a comprehensive analysis of the competitive position of our executive pay levels and compensation programs relative to our two talent market peer groups. Overall, we continue to believe that our executive pay levels and compensation programs are competitive relative to our peer companies and are consistent with our executive compensation philosophy. In 2009, we:

        As we proceed into our fiscal year ending September 24, 2010 ("Fiscal Year 2010"), the Committee will continue to follow the disciplined executive compensation review process that it has established in order to assure that executive compensation levels remain competitive and meet the objectives of our executive compensation philosophy.

Executive Compensation Philosophy

        Our executive compensation philosophy is designed to deliver competitive total compensation, upon the achievement of individual and/or corporate performance objectives, which will attract, motivate and retain leaders who will drive the creation of shareholder value. The executive compensation philosophy has also been designed to align with the Company's organization-wide total rewards strategy. The Committee reviews and administers the Company's compensation and benefit programs for executive officers, including the named executive officers. (For purposes of this CD&A, "executive officer" means the Chief Executive Officer, his direct reports and any other executive officers of the Company subject to Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act.) In determining total compensation, the Committee considers the following key objectives and attributes:

        Shareholder alignment    Executive compensation programs will be designed to create shareholder value. Long-term incentive awards, which make up a significant percentage of our executives' total

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compensation, will closely align the interests of executives with the long-term interest of our shareholders.

        Performance based    Many components of our executive compensation package are linked to performance. Annual cash incentive awards are tied to overall corporate, segment or business unit measures that allow for differentiation among our highest and lowest performing business units. Long-term incentive awards, granted primarily in the form of stock options, are designed to reward our executive officers for the creation of long-term shareholder value.

        Competitive with external talent markets    Our executive compensation programs are designed to be competitive within the various talent markets in which the Company competes for executive talent. Compensation programs are designed with reference to both a general peer group of companies that compete with us for executive talent and an electronics industry peer group.

        Focus on executive stock ownership    The Company has adopted the Tyco Electronics Share Ownership and Retention Requirement Plan which, together with long-term equity awards, drives executive stock ownership.

        Simple and transparent    Our executive compensation programs are designed to be readily understood by our executives and transparent to our investors.

Role of the Management Development & Compensation Committee

        The MDCC administers the Company's compensation policies and programs for executive officers, including the named executive officers. The Committee reviews, analyzes and approves the design of the Company's executive compensation policies and programs, administers the Company's stock incentive plans (including reviewing and approving equity incentive awards for executive officers) and reviews and approves all compensation decisions relating to the named executive officers and other executive officers of the Company.

        The Committee is comprised exclusively of members who meet the independence requirements of the NYSE. Each MDCC member is also a "non-employee director" for purposes of Rule 16b-3 of the Securities Exchange Act and an "outside director" for purposes of Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code. As a result of Frederic Poses' relationship with Ascend Performance Materials (see "Certain Relationships and Related Transactions—Related Party Transactions"), the Board determined that he ceased to be a "non-employee director" for purposes of Rule 16b-3 of the Securities Exchange Act and an "outside director" for purposes of Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code, and accepted Mr. Poses' resignation from the Committee effective December 3, 2009. David Steiner was appointed as a member and chair of the Committee on that date, and the Board and the new Committee reaffirmed relevant actions of the Committee that had been taken in the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2010 prior to the Board's determination that, although he remained independent for NYSE purposes, Mr. Poses no longer met the additional criteria for service on the Committee.

Role of Management

        The MDCC has established a process with management to support the development and review of executive officer compensation, as described below.

        The MDCC will make recommendations to the independent members of the Board regarding Chief Executive Officer compensation actions. The recommendations will be based on factors deemed appropriate by the Committee, including Chief Executive Officer performance and competitive market data provided by the Committee's independent compensation consultant. The MDCC will discuss and evaluate Chief Executive Officer compensation recommendations in an executive session attended only by the Committee members, its independent compensation consultant, and the Senior Vice President

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Global Human Resources, who attends primarily to provide contextual information. The Chief Executive Officer will not attend the executive session when Chief Executive Officer compensation actions are discussed. The MDCC does not anticipate that management will have any role in the development of Chief Executive Officer compensation except for providing to the MDCC or the Committee's independent compensation consultant relevant data relating to the Chief Executive Officer's performance and compensation history.

        The Chief Executive Officer will make recommendations to the MDCC relating to compensation actions for the other executive officers. The recommendations will be made based on each executive officer's performance, as assessed by the Chief Executive Officer, competitive market data provided by the Committee's independent compensation consultant and other factors deemed relevant by the Chief Executive Officer, including but not limited to differences in the executive's responsibilities versus the role reflected in the competitive market analysis; internal pay equity and relative importance of the executive's role with the Company; individual performance and contributions to strategic initiatives; level of experience; and compensation history. The Senior Vice President, Global Human Resources also will be present for the discussion of compensation actions for the other named executive officers.

Role of Compensation Consultant

        Under its charter, the MDCC has the sole authority to retain consultants, counsel, accountants and others to assist it in the performance of its duties, including the evaluation of executive compensation levels and programs. The MDCC has engaged Towers Perrin to serve as the Committee's compensation consultant. Towers Perrin reports directly to the MDCC and provides assistance to the Committee in developing the Company's executive compensation programs and executive pay levels and generally provides advice to the Committee on executive compensation issues. The MDCC independently retained Towers Perrin and has the ability to terminate Towers Perrin's services at the Committee's discretion. Outside of the services performed for the MDCC, Towers Perrin provides no services to the Company except with prior notification to the MDCC chair. The specific Towers Perrin consultants to the Committee are precluded from any involvement in any work for management not expressly authorized by the MDCC. In Fiscal Year 2009, Towers Perrin provided no additional services to the Company outside of its services to the MDCC.

        Towers Perrin performed the following services for the MDCC in Fiscal Year 2009:

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Executive Compensation Benchmarks

        For purposes of benchmarking market practices on compensation levels for senior executives, the Company has adopted a peer group framework that includes the use of a primary talent market peer group and a secondary reference group.

        The primary talent market peer group is comprised of companies across a range of industries in which Tyco Electronics competes for executive talent—as opposed to being limited to companies only in the electronics industry. Since Tyco Electronics typically competes for executive talent with companies in industries other than the electronics industry, the Company and Committee believe that it is appropriate to establish a benchmark peer group that sufficiently covers companies in those industries. The industries included in the primary talent market peer group are aerospace and defense, electronics and scientific equipment and industrial manufacturing. The primary talent market peer group consists of approximately 80 companies, listed in Appendix B, with fiscal-annual revenues ranging from $400.3 million to $180.9 billion. Data obtained from this group is adjusted to reflect the relative size of Tyco Electronics within the group.

        The secondary reference group is comprised of companies within the electronics industry. We use the secondary reference group as a benchmark to identify any differences in compensation practices between our industry peers and the broader primary talent market peer companies. As shown below, there are currently 17 companies in the secondary industry reference group with fiscal-annual revenues ranging from $2.6 billion to $33.1 billion, with a median of $11.2 billion.

 
   
3M Company
Agilent Technologies Inc.
Amphenol Corporation
Cooper Industries, Ltd.
Corning Incorporated
Danaher Corporation
Eaton Corporation
EMC Corporation
Emerson Electric Co.
  General Dynamics Corporation
Harris Corporation
Honeywell International Inc.
ITT Corporation
Johnson Controls, Inc.
Molex Incorporated
Parker Hannifin Corporation
SPX Corporation

        The benchmark data is compiled by the Committee's consultant and is used by the MDCC as a reference to ensure that our compensation levels and programs are competitive with the compensation paid by the companies that may compete with Tyco Electronics for executive talent. As explained below, the benchmark data is just one of the factors that are used in setting executive compensation levels.

Tax Deductibility of Executive Compensation

        In evaluating compensation programs covering our executive officers, the Committee considers the potential impact on the Company of Internal Revenue Code Section 162(m). The Committee generally intends to maximize deductibility of compensation under Section 162(m) to the extent consistent with our overall compensation program objectives, while also maintaining maximum flexibility in the design of our compensation programs and in making appropriate payments to executive officers. However, the Committee reserves the right to use its independent judgment to approve nondeductible compensation, while taking into account the financial effects such action may have on the Company. Section 162(m) limits the tax deduction available to public companies for annual compensation that is paid to certain of the Company's executive officers in excess of $1 million, unless the compensation qualifies as performance-based or is otherwise exempt from Section 162(m). Annual incentive bonuses, stock options and other performance based awards made to executive officers under the Company's 2007 Stock and Incentive Plan are intended to qualify as performance-based compensation under Section 162(m).

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Compensation Overview—Process

        The Company's total compensation package for executive officers, including named executive officers, is currently comprised of the following elements:

        As discussed above, the MDCC is responsible for the review and establishment of each executive officer's compensation level, except for the Chief Executive Officer. (The MDCC makes recommendations to the Board of Directors and the independent members are responsible for decisions regarding the Chief Executive Officer's compensation.) In determining the appropriate total compensation level for each executive officer, the MDCC first determines a market reference point for the executive officer, based on the 50th percentile of our primary talent market peer group for the executive officer's particular role. (The market reference point is determined for total direct compensation and for each component of compensation—base salary, target bonus and target long-term incentive awards.) Using the reference point as the starting point in the analysis, the MDCC then considers other factors in establishing the executive's compensation level. Those factors include: differences in the executive's responsibilities versus the benchmark role; internal pay equity and relative importance of the executive's role with the Company; individual performance and contributions to strategic initiatives; level of experience; and compensation history. As a result of the consideration of all relevant factors, actual pay positioning for each executive officer may be below or above the market reference point for total compensation and/or for one or more of the component elements of total compensation.

        In addition, in order to attract highly qualified external candidates to fill critical management roles, the MDCC may approve a total compensation package and/or individual compensation components that are above the market reference point for that candidate's position.

        In addition to base pay, annual cash incentives and long-term equity incentives, executive officers in the United States receive limited perquisites (as described below). Perquisites for executive officers outside the U.S. are based on local market practice. Broad-based employee benefit programs are also provided to executive officers on the same basis as all other employees.

        In order to assist it in setting executive compensation levels, the MDCC conducts a comprehensive assessment of total compensation at least annually, with the assistance of its compensation consultant. The assessment is completed for each executive officer and analyzes current base salary, target annual incentive opportunity, target long-term incentive opportunity, target total cash compensation (base salary and target incentive), and total direct compensation (base salary, target annual incentive opportunity and target long-term incentive opportunity) in light of current market practices, which includes comparative data from the Company's primary talent market peer group. In addition to the total compensation assessment, the Committee utilizes tally sheets that are assembled for each executive officer, showing the officer's compensation history, job responsibilities and tenure with the Company. The tally sheets enable the MDCC to understand how changes in one element of an executive officer's compensation could impact the value of other elements of the executive officer's compensation. Finally, as discussed above, the Chief Executive Officer provides the Committee with a performance assessment for each executive officer and makes his recommendations concerning compensation actions.

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        With the information provided in the total compensation assessment and tally sheets as a reference, and with the input of its compensation consultant and the Chief Executive Officer (with respect to actions taken for the other executive officers), the Committee will make executive compensation determinations for our executive officers based on the analysis discussed above. The Committee and Board will follow a similar process in making determinations regarding the Chief Executive Officer's compensation.

        Differences in compensation levels between our executive officers are driven by a number of factors, including the applicable market reference points specific to each executive officer's role and consideration of the factors described above (such as differences in the executive's responsibilities versus the benchmark role, internal pay equity and relative importance of the executive's role with the Company, individual performance and contributions to strategic initiatives, level of experience and compensation history). An executive officer's compensation can change materially from year to year based on Company performance, business unit performance, individual performance, or a role change, including promotion.

        In September 2009, the Committee, with the assistance of its compensation consultant, conducted a compensation assessment to determine the competitive position of each executive officer's base salary, annual incentive target, long-term incentive value and total direct compensation relative to the Company's primary and secondary talent market peer groups. (The assessment assumed each executive officer's current base salary, target annual incentive award level and long-term incentive equity award value based on Fiscal Year 2009 award value.) The competitive assessment indicated that the compensation levels for our executive officers, including our named executive officers, fell both below and above the applicable market reference points. The Committee reviewed the compensation levels for each executive officer in light of the relevant factors discussed above—such as the executive's level of experience, the additional responsibilities of a particular executive's role versus the benchmark, individual performance considerations and the executive's compensation history—and determined that the compensation levels were reasonable and consistent with our executive compensation philosophy. The results of the September 2009 competitive compensation assessment assisted the Committee in considering whether to make base salary pay adjustments, and in setting annual and long-term incentive targets for the executive officer group for Fiscal Year 2010. As discussed below, based on the information provided to the Committee and in consideration of the volatility of current economic conditions, no named executive officer received a base salary increase in Fiscal Year 2009. In addition, the Committee determined to maintain for Fiscal Year 2010 the individual annual incentive award targets for the named executive officers, except for Mr. Lynch, and the long-term equity grant ranges that were in effect in Fiscal Year 2009 for each named executive officer. For Fiscal Year 2010, the Board approved an increase in Mr. Lynch's annual incentive award target from 100% to 125%. The Board supported and approved the increase in order to better align Mr. Lynch's annual incentive target and total cash compensation levels with peer group levels and in recognition of Mr. Lynch's strong leadership of the Company through the global economic downturn. The Board believes that the increase in the incentive award target is appropriate in light of competitive data, and is consistent with the Company's objective to have a majority of our executive officers' compensation be performance-based.

Elements of Compensation

        Base salary provides a fixed compensation for the performance of the executive's core duties and responsibilities. As reported in last year's proxy statement, a number of base salary increases were approved for named executive officers in Fiscal Year 2008. No base salary increases were granted for the named executive officers in Fiscal Year 2009 nor in Fiscal Year 2010 through the date of this proxy statement.

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        Annual incentive awards provide executive officers with a bonus opportunity if certain financial performance goals are achieved. The annual incentive program is intended to reward executive officers upon the achievement of fiscal year financial performance goals (at the corporate, segment and/or business unit level), with some limited discretion applied for individual performance. The MDCC intends the Company's annual incentive award program to provide market competitive awards relative to our talent market peer companies for performance achieved at the predetermined target levels. Award opportunities above the target award levels will be available to the extent that performance exceeds the predetermined target levels. Payments at levels below the target award levels will be awarded to the extent that performance is below the pre-determined target levels. No annual incentive payments will be made if threshold performance levels are not achieved, absent the occurrence of extenuating circumstances that, in the discretion of the Committee, merit an exception to the threshold performance requirement.

        The annual incentive awards will typically be structured as cash payments. Within 90 days of the start of each fiscal year, the Committee will establish the applicable performance criteria, which will include minimum performance thresholds required to earn an award, target performance goals required to earn a payment of 100%, and a maximum performance level required to earn the maximum bonus permitted. If the Company attains the established financial goals, executive officers will receive an award based on a target bonus percentage which will be set at the beginning of each fiscal year and expressed as a percentage of the executive's base salary. Incentive target bonus percentages for executive officers generally range from 50% to 100% of base salary. The target bonus percentages for our named officers for Fiscal Year 2009 were as follows: Mr. Lynch—100%; Mr. Scott—75%; Mr. Curtin—75%; Mr. Clarke—75%; and Mr. Okamoto—75%.

        For Fiscal Year 2009, the Company established the following financial measures for the annual incentive award program:

Measure
  Weighting  

Earnings per Share ("EPS")

    25 %

Operating Income

   
25

%

Free Cash Flow

   
25

%

Operating Income Margin ("OI Margin")

   
25

%

Measure
  Weighting  

EPS

    25 %

Business Unit Operating Income

   
25

%

Business Unit Free Cash Flow

   
25

%

Business Unit OI Margin

   
25

%

        For purposes of the annual incentive award program, all of the financial measures are adjusted financial measures that exclude the effects of events deemed not reflective of the actual performance of the eligible participants. For Fiscal Year 2009, the adjustments are as follows: (i) exclusion of gains and losses from divestitures, (ii) exclusion of pre-separation tax matters and charges and income related to pre-separation shareholder litigation, and (iii) restructuring and asset impairment charges.

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        The performance range for payouts under the Fiscal Year 2009 annual incentive award program was set at 80%-100%-120% for the EPS, Operating Income and Free Cash Flow measures. (For the OI Margin measures, the performance range was set at 90%-100%-110%.) At 80% performance against the established performance measures (90% for OI Margin), the earned payout would be 50% of target, and at 120% performance against the established performance measures (110% for OI Margin), the earned payout would be 150% of target. For performance between 80% and 120% (or 90% and 110% for OI Margin), the earned payout would be calculated ratably between 50% and 150%, with a 100% target payout being earned at 100% performance. In addition, as a result of the volatile economic environment in Fiscal Year 2009, the Committee added a new minimum performance threshold of 70% performance (80% for OI Margin), at which a 20% payout would be earned. Performance below the 70% performance level (80% for OI margin) would result in a 0% earned payout under the program. The maximum payout available under the Fiscal Year 2009 annual incentive program is 150% of target.

        For the Fiscal Year 2009 annual incentive award program, the Committee reserved the discretion to adjust individual or business unit award amounts upward or downward by up to 25% based on its subjective evaluation of the individual or business unit performance during the fiscal year. However, any discretionary adjustments would be required to net out to zero. (In other words, any such adjustment cannot increase the total earned annual incentive award pool available for payout.) In addition, as a result of the volatile economic environment, the Committee reserved an additional discretionary award pool of $13.7 million (20% of the total target annual incentive award pool amount, i.e., the total amount that would be paid if all participants received a payout at 100% of target) which, with the Committee's approval, could be used in whole or part to reward exceptional performance (at either the business unit or individual level) regardless of the performance results against the established financial measures.

        Fiscal Year 2009 performance targets, actual attainment and corresponding annual incentive award results at the corporate level and for the Communications & Industrial Solutions and Network Solutions business units (for Mr. Okamoto and Mr. Clarke, respectively) were as follows:


Corporate Level: Messrs. Lynch, Scott and Curtin

Performance Measure
  Target   Results   Performance
% to Target
  Bonus
Score
 

EPS (25%)

  $ 2.40   $ 0.84     35.0 %   0.0 %

Operating Income (25%)

  $ 1,705 M $ 643 M   37.7 %   0.0 %

Free Cash Flow (25%)

  $ 1,135 M $ 1,219 M   107.4 %   118.5 %

OI Margin (25%)

    12.8 %   6.1 %   47.7 %   0.0 %

Corporate Level Earned Award:

    29.6 %


Communications & Industrial Solutions: Mr. Okamoto

Performance Measure
  Target   Results   Performance
% to Target
  Bonus
Score
 

EPS (25%)

  $ 2.40   $ 0.84     35.0 %   0.0 %

Business Unit Operating Income (25%)

  $ 698 M $ 241 M   34.5 %   0.0 %

Business Unit Free Cash Flow (25%)

  $ 664 M $ 689 M   103.8 %   109.3 %

Business Unit OI Margin (25%)

    17.1 %   7.8 %   45.6 %   0.0 %

CIS Earned Award:

    27.3 %

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Network Solutions: Mr. Clarke

Performance Measure
  Target   Results   Performance
% to Target
  Bonus
Score
 

EPS (25%)

  $ 2.40   $ 0.84     35.0 %   0.0 %

Business Unit Operating Income (25%)

  $ 371 M $ 248 M   66.8 %   0.0 %

Business Unit Free Cash Flow (25%)

  $ 336 M $ 409 M   121.7 %   154.3 %

Business Unit OI Margin (25%)

    16.8 %   13.3 %   79.2 %   0.0 %

Network Solutions Earned Award:

    38.6 %

        No adjustments were made to the Corporate Level, Communications & Industrial Solutions or Network Solutions bonus scores in determining the final annual incentive program payouts for the named executive officers.

        The MDCC intends to use long-term incentive awards in the form of stock options, restricted stock units and other forms of equity and/or cash to deliver competitive compensation that recognizes employees for their contributions to the Company and aligns executive officers with shareholders in focusing on long-term growth and stock performance. As part of the Company's compensation philosophy, the MDCC concluded that annual grants of long-term incentive awards to executive officers typically should be competitive relative to our primary talent market peer group, but should have the ability to deliver compensation at the high end of the market for superior performance and at the low end of the market for weak performance. The Company does not have a specific policy for the allocation of long-term equity incentive awards among the different forms of equity, but determines on a year-to-year basis what forms of equity are appropriate in light of the then-current circumstances. However, consistent with its policy that a majority of an executive officer's compensation be performance-based, long-term equity incentive awards for executive officers will be weighted heavily in the form of stock options or some other form of performance-based award.

        The Committee intends that long-term equity incentive awards will be granted on an annual basis, typically in the first fiscal quarter of each year. In general, the factors used to determine the number of shares subject to long-term incentive equity awards in any year will include (i) target grant ranges established by the Committee for each executive officer and based on competitive data from our benchmark companies and other factors discussed above (internal pay equity and relative importance of the executive's role with the Company; individual performance and contributions to strategic initiatives; level of experience; and compensation history), (ii) the Company's stock price, (iii) the mix of stock options and full value shares to be granted, (iv) total share utilization and dilution, (v) the incentive and retentive value deemed appropriate for the grant, (vi) prior grant history, and (vii) anticipated equity-related expense. (As discussed above, the Committee set Fiscal Year 2010 long-term incentive target ranges based on the September 2009 competitive compensation assessment.)

        As discussed more fully in our Fiscal Year 2008 CD&A, the Company issued a Founders' Grant to executive officers and other employees on July 2, 2007 that consisted of a mix of stock options and restricted stock units. (Executive officers received an award mix of 75% stock options and 25% restricted stock units.)

        In the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2009, Fiscal Year 2009 long-term equity incentive awards were granted to executive officers and other employees. (These equity awards are reflected in the Summary Compensation and Grants of Plan-Based Awards Tables.) To support our philosophy that long-term incentive awards be performance based and be designed to reward the creation of shareholder value, the Fiscal Year 2009 long-term equity incentive awards for executive officers were made in the form of stock options (70%) and restricted stock unit awards (30%). The grant values were based on the long-term equity incentive ranges adopted by the Committee in July 2008. For purposes of establishing

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the long-term incentive ranges for the Fiscal Year 2009 long-term equity incentive awards, the Committee grouped certain executives together (except for Mr. Lynch) based on an evaluation of the importance of each executive's role to the organization and a review of competitive market data. Roles were grouped accordingly and ranges established based on the relevant market data. For example, Messrs. Scott and Curtin were grouped together in the same long-term incentive range reflecting their roles as Executive Vice Presidents of the Company. Messrs. Okamoto and Clarke were grouped together with other executives leading large business units. All grants made in Fiscal Year 2009 to the named executive officers, except for Mr. Lynch, were within the established grant ranges. In determining its annual long-term equity incentive award recommendation for Mr. Lynch, which is presented to the full Board for approval, the Committee reviews the applicable market reference data and competitive compensation analysis performed by its independent compensation consultant (and any additional input from the consultant), and also conducts an assessment of Mr. Lynch's performance. The Committee's recommendation is then presented to the full Board for its consideration. Mr. Lynch's Fiscal Year 2009 long-term equity incentive grant was based on a review of the applicable market reference data and the assessment of Mr. Lynch's performance during Fiscal Year 2008.

        The long-term incentive award values for the Fiscal Year 2009 long-term equity incentive grants for the named executive officers were as follows: Mr. Lynch—$6,700,000; Mr. Curtin—$1,600,000; Mr. Scott—$1,600,000; Mr. Okamoto—$1,300,000; and Mr. Clarke—$1,200,000.

        In the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2010, Fiscal Year 2010 long-term equity incentive awards were granted to executive officers and employees. (These equity awards are not reflected in the Summary Compensation Table because they were granted in Fiscal Year 2010.) As in Fiscal Year 2009, the Fiscal Year 2010 equity incentive awards for executive officers were made in the form of stock options (70%) and restricted stock units (30%). As discussed above, the equity grant ranges established in Fiscal Year 2009 remain unchanged for Fiscal Year 2010, and the executive groupings within the ranges were also maintained for purposes of determining the value of the Fiscal Year 2010 long-term equity incentive awards for the named executive officers. The Fiscal Year 2010 long-term equity incentive awards for the named executive officers were made at the same or lower grant values as in Fiscal Year 2009, with the exception of Mr. Curtin. The value of Mr. Curtin's Fiscal Year 2010 long-term equity incentive award was increased from $1,600,000 to $1,800,000 in recognition of Mr. Curtin's significant contributions and financial leadership during the economic downturn.

        In establishing the Fiscal Year 2010 long-term equity incentive award value for Mr. Lynch, the Committee considered Mr. Lynch's leadership of the Company through the global economic downturn and the competitive total direct compensation and long-term incentive data from the Company's two peer groups. As a result, the Committee recommended and the Board determined to set Mr. Lynch's Fiscal Year 2010 long-term equity incentive award value at the same value as his Fiscal Year 2009 award.

        The Company does not maintain a defined policy with respect to the allocation between fixed versus performance-based compensation or annual versus long-term compensation. Our mix for each named executive officer is largely driven by our stated philosophy to have compensation delivered primarily through performance-based components that align the named executive officer's interests with those of our shareholders and to deliver a competitive pay mix relative to our peer benchmark companies. Management and the MDCC periodically review our pay mix in relation to market practices and in relation to our desired objective of providing the majority of our named executive officers' compensation through performance-based components. The following table shows our mix of fixed compensation versus performance-based compensation and annual versus long-term compensation, based on the data shown in the Summary Compensation Table. As indicated by the table below, our

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actual mix is consistent with our objective to deliver the majority of executive compensation through short-term and long-term performance-based incentives.

 
  Base
Salary
  Long-Term
Incentives
  Non-Equity
Incentive
  Other
Compensation
 

Lynch

    15.9 %   75.8 %   4.7 %   3.6 %

Curtin

    29.7 %   56.1 %   6.6 %   7.6 %

Scott

    31.1 %   55.3 %   6.9 %   6.7 %

Okamoto

    30.3 %   53.5 %   6.2 %   10.0 %

Clarke

    28.5 %   61.8 %   8.2 %   1.5 %

        The Committee believes that the Company's executive compensation program has been designed to provide the appropriate level of incentives that do not encourage our executive officers to take unnecessary risks in managing their businesses. As discussed above, a majority of our executive officers' compensation is performance-based, consistent with our executive compensation policy. Our annual incentive award program is designed to reward annual financial and/or strategic performance in areas considered critical to the short and long-term success of the Company, and features a cap (150% of target in Fiscal Year 2009) on the maximum amount that can be earned in any year. Our long-term equity incentive awards are directly aligned with long-term stockholder interests through their link to our stock price and multi-year vesting schedules, and our executive stock ownership guidelines further support a long-term focus by requiring our executives to personally own significant levels of the Company's stock. In combination, the Committee believes that the various elements of our executive compensation program sufficiently tie our executives' compensation opportunities to the Company's sustained long-term performance.

        The Company maintains various retirement plans to assist our executive officers with retirement income planning and increase the attractiveness of employment with the Company.

        The Company provides a defined contribution plan, the Tyco Electronics Retirement Savings and Investment Plan ("RSIP"), that is available to all eligible United States employees, and a nonqualified supplemental retirement plan, the Tyco Electronics Supplemental Savings and Retirement Plan ("SSRP"), in which executive officers may participate.

        Under the RSIP, the Company match level is based on years of service, as follows:

Years of Service   Employee Contribution*   Company Contribution*
0–9   1%   5%
10–19   2%   6%
20–24   3%   7%
25–29   4%   8%
30 or more   5%   9%

*
Represents the percentage of the employee's compensation, which for purposes of the RSIP, generally includes base salary and annual incentive awards paid to the employee.

        Company contributions for the named executive officers are shown in the "All Other Compensation" column of the Summary Compensation Table and the related table of All Other Compensation that follow this CD&A. Executive officers are fully vested in Company matching contributions upon completion of three years of vesting service under the RSIP and SSRP.

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        Under the SSRP, executive officers may defer up to 50% of their base salary and 100% of their annual incentive awards. The Company provides matching contributions to the SSRP based on the executive officer's deferred base salary and annual incentive awards at the same rate such officer is eligible to receive matching contributions under the RSIP and on any cash compensation (i.e., base salary and annual incentive awards) the executive officer earns that year in excess of Internal Revenue Service limits. This plan was filed as an exhibit to Tyco Electronics' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 25, 2009.

        All of the Company's U.S. retirement, deferred compensation, incentive and other executive and broad-based plans are intended to comply with Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code.

        Mr. Okamoto is eligible to receive retirement benefits under the Directors' Retirement Allowance Regulation, a defined benefit pension plan maintained by the Company in Japan. Mr. Okamoto is entitled to receive either a single lump sum payment or a monthly life annuity commencing at normal retirement age 60, or upon earlier retirement after age 50 with 15 years of service. Annuities for retirement after age 60 are payable for Mr. Okamoto's lifetime, with ten years guaranteed. Annuities for earlier retirement are payable for ten years only. The lump sum is based upon the product of specified plan factors that vary by service, multiplied by the average annual pensionable salary during the ten-year period prior to termination. This amount is offset by the employee retirement lump sum previously received and increased at a specified interest rate. Death benefits will be paid to the survivor for a ten-year period upon the death of the individual who attained age 50 and 15 years of service. Projected pension benefits for Mr. Okamoto are disclosed in the Pension Benefits table that follows this CD&A.

        Mr. Clarke participates in the Tyco Electronics UK Ltd. Pension scheme on the same basis as all other eligible Tyco Electronics UK Ltd. employees. Projected pension benefits for Mr. Clarke are disclosed in the Pension Benefits table that follows this CD&A.

        We provide welfare benefits to executive officers on the same basis as all other employees. These arrangements include medical, dental, life insurance and disability coverage and are offered to all our eligible U.S.-based employees. The various benefit plans are part of our overall total compensation offering and are intended to be competitive with peer companies.

        Outside of the United States, the Company provides welfare benefits based on local country practices.

        The Company's perquisite program provides for the payment to U.S. executive officers of a cash allowance equal to an additional ten percent (10%) of base salary, in lieu of perquisites typically provided by other companies. The executive is permitted to apply the allowance as he or she deems appropriate. Other than the allowance, there are no perquisites provided to U.S. executive officers.

        Outside of the United States, perquisite benefits are paid to executive officers based on local country practice. (See the Summary Compensation Table that follows this CD&A for more information on the perquisite benefits paid to our non-U.S. named executive officers.)

        The Company maintains the Tyco Electronics Severance Plan for U.S. Officers and Executives ("Severance Plan") and the Tyco Electronics Change in Control Severance Plan for Certain U.S. Officers and Executives ("CIC Plan"). These plans were filed as exhibits to Tyco Electronics' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 25, 2009. The Company believes that the

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maintenance of severance and change in control benefits is appropriate in order to attract and retain executive talent (given the fact that such benefits are standard benefits provided by peer companies), to avoid costly and potentially protracted separation negotiations, to ensure continuity of management in the event of an actual or threatened change in control and to protect our executive officers' investment in the Company. The Committee performed a competitive analysis of both plans when they were adopted in Fiscal Year 2007 and determined that the benefits provided under both plans were standard in the marketplace.

        Under the Company's Severance Plan, benefits are payable to an executive officer only upon an involuntary termination of employment for any reason other than cause, permanent disability or death, and are conditioned upon the executive officer executing a release (including confidentiality, one year non-competition, two year non-solicitation and non-disparagement covenants) in favor of the Company. Under the Severance Plan, an eligible executive will be paid cash severance upon termination of employment equal to: two times base salary plus two times target bonus for the Chief Executive Officer, one and one-half times base salary plus one and one-half times target bonus for Section 16 officers who are direct reports to the Chief Executive Officer, and one times base salary plus one times target bonus for other executive officers. Cash severance payments are made in monthly installments. In addition, the terminated executive will be eligible to receive a pro rata annual incentive payment for the year in which the termination occurs and continued health and welfare benefits for the length of the severance period. The Severance Plan does not provide any special treatment for outstanding equity awards. The severance benefits provided under the Severance Plan, including the cash severance multiples, were set by the Committee at levels deemed consistent with market practice. "Cause" is defined as substantial failure or refusal to perform duties and responsibilities of the executive's job, violation of fiduciary duty, conviction of a felony or misdemeanor, dishonesty, theft, violation of our rules or policies, or other egregious conduct that has or could have a serious and detrimental impact on Tyco Electronics and its employees.

        Severance benefits for non-U.S. executives will generally be based on local statutory requirements.

        The Company's CIC Plan incorporates a "double trigger" concept before benefits become payable. In other words, benefits are payable to an executive officer under the CIC Plan only upon an involuntary termination of employment by the Company or "good reason resignation" that occurs during a period shortly before and continuing after a change in control (a "qualifying termination") and are conditioned upon the executive officer executing a release (including confidentiality, non-competition, non-solicitation and non-disparagement covenants) in favor of the Company. For purposes of the CIC Plan, "good reason resignation" generally means assignment of duties materially inconsistent with the executive's position, a material adverse change in the executive's position, Company actions that would cause the executive to violate his or her ethical or professional obligations, relocation to a place of employment greater than 60 miles from the executive's current place of employment, a reduction in the executive's base salary or annual bonus, a reduction in the aggregate of the executive's benefits or failure by the Company to have its obligations under the CIC Plan assumed by a successor.

        No benefits are payable under the CIC Plan if the executive officer is terminated for "cause." "Cause" is defined as a violation of fiduciary duty, conviction of a felony or misdemeanor, dishonesty, theft or other egregious conduct likely to have a materially detrimental impact on Tyco Electronics and its employees.

        Under the CIC Plan, an eligible executive will be paid cash severance in the event of a qualifying termination equal to: three times base salary plus three times target bonus for the Chief Executive Officer, two times base salary plus two times target bonus for Section 16 officers who are direct reports to the Chief Executive Officer, and one and one-half times base salary plus one and one-half times target bonus for other Section 16 officers and Band 1 employees. Cash severance payments will be

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made in the form of a lump sum payment. In addition, the terminated executive will be eligible to receive a pro rata annual incentive payment for the year in which the termination occurs and continued health and welfare benefits for the length of the severance period (i.e., 36, 24 or 18 months). Outstanding equity awards will become fully vested in the event of a qualifying termination. Cash severance and other benefits payable as a result of a qualifying termination will be limited to the greater after-tax amount resulting from (i) payment of the full benefits provided under the CIC Plan and imposition of all taxes, including any applicable excise taxes under Internal Revenue Code Section 280G, or (ii) payment of the benefits capped at the Section 280G limit with no excise tax imposed. Benefits payable under the CIC Plan will not be grossed up for the imposition of Section 280G or any other taxes. The severance benefits provided under the CIC Plan, including the cash severance multiples, were set by the Committee at levels deemed consistent with market practice.

        The Company maintains a Share Ownership and Retention Requirement Plan applicable to the Company's executive officers, including the named executive officers. Under the plan, the Chief Executive Officer is required to own Tyco Electronics common shares in an amount equal to five times base salary, while the direct reports to the Chief Executive Officer are required to own shares in an amount equal to two times base salary. All covered executive officers are required to meet the share ownership requirements within five years of the effective date of the plan (July 9, 2007), or within five years of the officer's date of employment, if later. The following shares count towards the ownership requirements: wholly owned shares, shares in stock units or deferred compensation plans, shares in 401(k) plans and employee stock ownership plans, unvested restricted stock and shares held by immediate family members that are considered beneficially owned by the executive officer. As of fiscal year end 2009, four of the five named executive officers met their stock ownership requirements.


MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT AND COMPENSATION COMMITTEE REPORT

        The Management Development and Compensation Committee has reviewed the Compensation Discussion and Analysis and discussed that Analysis with management. Based on its review and discussions with management, the Committee recommended to our Board of Directors that the Compensation Discussion and Analysis be included in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 25, 2009 and the company's proxy statement for the 2010 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders. This report is provided by the following independent directors, who comprise the Committee:

The Management Development and Compensation Committee:

David P. Steiner, Chair (as of December 3, 2009)
Robert M. Hernandez
Daniel J. Phelan
Frederic M. Poses (until December 3, 2009)

December 3, 2009


COMPENSATION COMMITTEE INTERLOCKS AND INSIDER PARTICIPATION

        None of our executive officers serves as a member of the board of directors or compensation committee of any entity that has one or more of its executive officers serving as a member of our Management Development and Compensation Committee. In addition, none of our executive officers serves as a member of the compensation committee of any entity that has one or more of its executive officers serving as a member of our Board of Directors.

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EXECUTIVE OFFICER COMPENSATION

Summary Compensation Table

        The following table summarizes the compensation of the named executive officers for the fiscal year ended September 25, 2009 ("fiscal 2009"). The named executive officers are the company's principal executive officer, principal financial officer and the three other most highly compensated executives.

Name and Principal Position
(a)
  Year
(b)
  Salary(2)
($)
(c)
  Bonus(3)
($)
(d)
  Stock
Awards(4)
($)
(e)
  Option
Awards(5)
($)
(f)
  Non-Equity
Incentive
Plan
Compen-
sation(6)
($)
(g)
  Change in
Pension
Value and
Nonqualified
Deferred
Compen-
sation
Earnings(7)
($)
(h)
  All Other
Compen-
sation(8)
($)
(i)
  Total
($)
(j)
 

Thomas J. Lynch,

    2009   $ 950,000       $ 1,481,461   $ 3,044,993   $ 281,485       $ 215,673   $ 5,973,612  
 

Chief Executive Officer

    2008   $ 950,000       $ 1,865,289   $ 3,191,118   $ 1,425,000       $ 185,097   $ 7,616,504  
 

(PEO)

    2007   $ 891,375       $ 3,262,895   $ 4,051,446   $ 836,000       $ 258,437   $ 9,300,153  

Terrence R. Curtin,

    2009   $ 505,875       $ 317,216   $ 636,914   $ 112,418       $ 129,329   $ 1,701,752  
 

EVP & Chief Financial

    2008   $ 490,319       $ 344,197   $ 591,837   $ 569,109       $ 101,530   $ 2,096,992  
 

Officer (PFO)

    2007   $ 437,500   $ 325,000   $ 358,236   $ 451,556   $ 360,525       $ 103,697   $ 2,036,514  

Robert A. Scott,

    2009   $ 525,000       $ 308,830   $ 624,645   $ 116,668       $ 114,028   $ 1,689,171  
 

EVP & General Counsel

    2008   $ 512,404       $ 369,487   $ 590,444   $ 590,625       $ 146,050   $ 2,209,010  
 

    2007   $ 468,750   $ 281,250   $ 553,181   $ 577,688   $ 448,521       $ 100,235   $ 2,429,625  

Minoru Okamoto,

    2009   $ 573,803       $ 317,113   $ 697,164   $ 117,529   $ 687,866 (7) $ 189,579   $ 1,895,188  
 

President

    2008   $ 498,926       $ 412,693   $ 801,944   $ 170,621   $ 370,254 (7) $ 167,421   $ 2,051,605  
 

Communications &

    2007   $ 442,432       $ 440,006   $ 690,958   $ 221,478   $ 308,607 (7) $ 153,961   $ 1,948,835  
 

Industrial Solutions(1)

                                                       

Alan C. Clarke,

    2009   $ 394,058       $ 289,319   $ 566,472   $ 114,020   $ 8,514 (7) $ 20,311   $ 1,384,180  
 

President Network

    2008   $ 488,963       $ 511,454   $ 458,500   $ 188,651   $ 200,846 (7) $ 28,556   $ 1,676,124  
 

Solutions(1)

                                                       

(1)
Salary and bonus for Messrs. Lynch, Curtin and Scott are paid in U.S. dollars (USD). Mr. Okamoto's salary and bonus are paid in Japanese yen (JPY). Mr. Clarke's salary and bonus are paid in Great Britain pounds (GBP). To convert compensation values to USD, the average monthly conversion rates as determined by Tyco Electronics finance were used. The following are the conversion rates for the above table.

USD 0.01049: JPY 1
USD 1.55447: GBP 1

(2)
Amounts shown are not reduced to reflect the named executive officers' elections, if any, to defer receipt of salary into the SSRP.

(3)
Amounts paid to Messrs. Curtin and Scott in 2007 represent dollar amounts outside of Tyco Electronics' Annual Incentive Plan ("AIP"). Mr. Curtin's bonus represents a retention payment paid pursuant to the terms of an agreement with Tyco International entered into in order to retain Mr. Curtin's services during the transition period and prior to the time at which he was appointed Chief Financial Officer to recognize the critical role he played in the successful operation of the Tyco Electronics business during separation from Tyco International. Mr. Scott's bonus reflected the work he did on behalf of Tyco International on the separation. Both bonuses were paid shortly after July 2, 2007, after the completion of the separation. Amounts paid under the company's AIP are reported in column (g) as "Non-Equity Incentive Plan Compensation."

(4)
Represents the compensation costs of restricted stock units ("RSUs") for financial reporting purposes for fiscal 2009 under Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") 718 (Compensation—Stock Compensation), rather than an amount paid to or realized by the named executive officer. See Note 23 (Share Plans) to the notes to consolidated and combined financial statements ("Note 23") set forth in Tyco Electronics' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 25, 2009 (the "10-K") for the assumptions made in determining ASC 718 values. For grants that vest through the passage of time, the fair market value of the award at the time of the grant (grant date closing market price) is allocated as an expense over the period of vesting. There can be no assurance that the ASC 718 amounts will ever be realized.

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(5)
Represents the compensation costs of stock options for financial reporting purposes for fiscal 2009 under ASC 718, rather than an amount paid to or realized by the named executive officer. See Note 23 in the 10-K for the assumptions made in determining ASC 718 values. There can be no assurance that the ASC 718 amounts will ever be realized.

(6)
Represents amounts earned under the AIP. Amounts shown are not reduced to reflect the named executive officers' elections, if any, to defer receipt of awards into the SSRP.

(7)
Represents the aggregate change in actuarial present value of the accumulated benefits for Mr. Okamoto and Mr. Clarke under their pension plans as described in "CD&A—Elements of Compensation—Retirement and Deferred Compensation Benefits." Messrs. Lynch, Curtin and Scott do not participate in a pension plan.

(8)
See the All Other Compensation table below for amounts which include perquisites and company match on employee contributions to the employee stock purchase plan, the company's 401(k) plan and nonqualified defined contribution plan, and other amounts. The amounts reflected in the table for perquisites are the company's incremental cost. The company also provides group life, health, hospitalization and medical reimbursement plans which do not discriminate in scope, terms or operation in favor of officers and are available to all full-time employees.


All Other Compensation

Name
  Year   Perquisites
($)
  Insurance
Premiums(d)
($)
  ESPP
Company
Match(e)
($)
  Company
Contributions
to DC Plans(f)
($)
  Total
All Other
Compensation
($)
 

Thomas J. Lynch

    2009   $ 95,000 (a)     $ 3,750   $ 116,923   $ 215,673  

Terrence R. Curtin

    2009   $ 50,588 (a)         $ 78,741   $ 129,329  

Robert A. Scott

    2009   $ 52,500 (a)     $ 465   $ 61,063   $ 114,028  

Minoru Okamoto

    2009   $ 181,496 (b) $ 8,083           $ 189,579  

Alan C. Clarke

    2009   $ 20,311 (c)             $ 20,311  

(a)
Amounts reflect a cash perquisite allowance under the executive flexible perquisites allowance program which provides executives a cash allowance of 10% of base salary.

(b)
Outside of the United States, the company provides a company car to certain senior executives. Mr. Okamoto's perquisites included $40,802, which reflects the incremental cost to the company of the lease value of a company car along with any associated taxes or maintenance costs. The amounts also included a housing allowance of $139,758, annual physical exam of $716, and the cost of a club membership totaling $220, all consistent with Japanese practice.

(c)
Mr. Clarke's perquisites included $19,110, which reflects the incremental cost to the company of the lease value of a company car along with associated taxes or maintenance costs. In addition, Mr. Clarke was provided with a car allowance of $1,201.

(d)
The amount for Mr. Okamoto reflects the combination of premiums paid for ordinary accident and income indemnity insurance.

(e)
Represents the company matching contribution made under the Tyco Electronics Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

(f)
Reflects contributions made on behalf of the named executive officers under Tyco Electronics' qualified defined contribution plan and accruals on behalf of the named executive officers under the SSRP (also a defined contribution plan), as follows:

Name
  Year   Company Matching
Contribution
(Qualified Plan)
  Company Contribution
(Non-Qualified Plan)(*)
 

Mr. Lynch

    2009   $ 12,250   $ 104,673  

Mr. Curtin

    2009   $ 7,750   $ 70,991  

Mr. Scott

    2009   $ 12,250   $ 48,813  

(*)
Mr. Scott's number includes an adjustment to correct an administrative error that occurred in fiscal year 2008 (Mr. Scott was credited with an excessive company match in fiscal year 2008). The error was not discovered until fiscal year 2009 and the subsequent adjustment occurred.

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Grants of Plan-Based Awards in Fiscal 2009

        The following table discloses the actual numbers of stock options and restricted stock unit awards granted during fiscal 2009 and the grant date fair value of these awards. It also captures potential future payouts under the company's non-equity and equity incentive plans.

 
  Grant Date   Estimated Possible Payouts Under
Non-Equity Incentive Plan
Awards(1)
  All Other
Stock Awards: Number of Shares of Stock or Units(2)
  All Other
Option
Awards:
Number of
Securities
Underlying
Options(3)
  Exercise or
Base Price
of Option
Awards(4)
  Grant Date
Fair Value of
Stock and
Option
Awards(5)
 
Name
(a)
  (b)   Threshold
($)
(c)
  Target
($)
(d)
  Maximum
($)
(e)
  (#)
(i)
  (#)
(j)
  ($/Sh)
(k)
  ($)
(l)
 

Thomas J. Lynch

    11/18/08     475,000     950,000     1,425,000     97,504     820,150   $ 14.56     4,643,832  

Terrence R. Curtin

    11/17/08     189,703     379,406     569,109     23,281     195,850   $ 14.11     1,074,625  

Robert A. Scott

    11/17/08     196,875     393,750     590,625     23,281     195,850   $ 14.11     1,074,625  

Minoru Okamoto(6)

    11/17/08     215,176     430,352     645,528     18,915     159,150   $ 14.11     873,204  

Alan C. Clarke(6)

    11/17/08     147,772     295,544     443,315     17,466     146,900   $ 14.11     806,090  

(1)
The "Threshold" column represents the minimum amount payable (50% of target payout) when threshold performance is met. The "Target" column represents the amount payable (100% of target payout) if the specified performance targets are reached. The "Maximum" column represents the maximum amount payable (150% of target payout) under the plan. As discussed in "CD&A—Elements of Compensation—Annual Incentive Awards," the fiscal 2009 AIP also incorporated a special threshold performance level which would have resulted in a payout equal to 20% of target.

(2)
This column shows the number of RSUs granted in fiscal 2009 to the named executive officers. The grants made in November 2008 vest equally over four years starting on the first anniversary date. Any dividend equivalents issued in fiscal 2009 as a result of this grant have been included in the number of units reflected above.

(3)
This column shows the number of stock options granted in fiscal 2009 to the named executive officers. Stock options issued in November 2008 have a ten-year term and vest ratably over a four-year period, with 25% becoming vested and exercisable on each anniversary of the grant date.

(4)
This column shows the exercise price for the stock options granted, which was the closing price of Tyco Electronics common shares on November 17, 2008 or November 18, 2008, as applicable, the dates the options were granted.

(5)
This column shows the full grant date fair value of RSUs and stock options under ASC 718 granted to the named executive officers in fiscal 2009. Generally, the full grant date fair value is the amount that the company would expense in its financial statements over the award's vesting schedule. For additional information on the valuation assumptions, see Note 23 in the 10-K. These amounts reflect the company's accounting expense, and do not correspond to the actual value that will be recognized by the named executive officers. The difference in the values shown in this column and the long-term incentive award values approved by the Committee/Board (and described under "CD&A—Elements of Compensation—Long-Term Incentive Awards") is due to the stock value used in determining the number of stock option shares and restricted stock units to be awarded to each named executive officer. In determining the number of stock options and restricted stock units that are awarded to eligible equity award participants, including each named executive officer, the company follows an established policy under which it uses the average daily closing price in the month preceding grant as the applicable value. For purposes of the Fiscal Year 2009 equity awards reflected in the Table above, the applicable stock value used to determine the number of stock option shares and restricted stock units awarded to each named executive officer was $21.18 per share. The value of the award shown in this column, however, is based on the grant date closing price, $14.56 per share or $14.11 per share, as applicable.

(6)
In calculating estimated possible payouts under non-equity incentive plan award numbers, the foreign currency translation rates were used as described in footnote (1) to the Summary Compensation Table.

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Outstanding Equity Awards at 2009 Fiscal Year-End

        The following table shows the number of Tyco Electronics shares covered by exercisable and unexercisable options and unvested RSUs held by the company's named executive officers on September 25, 2009. Each equity grant is shown separately for each named executive officer. The vesting schedule for each grant is shown following the table, based on the option or stock award grant date.

 
  Option Awards   Stock Awards  
 
   
  Number of Securities Underlying
Unexercised Options
   
   
   
  Number of
Shares or
Units of Stock
That Have
Not Vested(1)(2)
(#)
(g)
  Market Value
of Shares or
Units of Stock
That Have
Not Vested(3)
($)
(h)
 
 
   
  Option
Exercise
Price
($)
(e)
   
   
 
 
   
  Option
Expiration
Date
(f)
   
 
Name
(a)
  Grant Date   Exercisable
(#)
(b)
  Unexercisable(1)
(#)
(c)
  Grant
Date
 

Thomas J. Lynch

    09/27/04     359,007     0   $ 34.48     09/26/14                    

    03/10/05     173,015     0   $ 41.38     03/09/15                    

    11/22/05     121,111     0   $ 33.52     11/21/15                    

    11/21/06     108,134     108,135   $ 35.03     11/20/16     11/21/06     48,988   $ 1,105,169  

    07/02/07     263,875     263,875   $ 39.97     07/01/17     07/02/07     59,227   $ 1,336,161  

    11/18/08     0     820,150   $ 14.56     11/17/18     11/18/08     97,504   $ 2,199,690  

Terrence R. Curtin

   
03/26/01
   
17,301
   
0
 
$

51.75
   
03/25/11
                   

    07/12/01     17,301     0   $ 58.38     07/11/11                    

    10/01/01     17,301     0   $ 51.67     09/30/11                    

    03/26/04     14,360     0   $ 32.13     03/25/14                    

    03/10/05     21,626     0   $ 41.38     03/09/15                    

    11/22/05     17,301     0   $ 33.52     11/21/15                    

    11/21/06     23,789     23,790   $ 35.03     11/20/16     11/21/06     10,776   $ 243,107  

    07/02/07     52,775     52,775   $ 39.97     07/01/17     07/02/07     11,848   $ 267,291  

    11/17/08     0     195,850   $ 14.11     11/16/18     11/17/08     23,281   $ 525,219  

Robert A. Scott

   
05/03/04
   
22,387
   
0
 
$

32.25
   
05/02/14
                   

    03/10/05     7,462     0   $ 41.38     03/09/15                    

    11/22/05     5,795     0   $ 33.52     11/21/15                    

    11/21/06     21,626     21,627   $ 35.03     11/20/16     11/21/06     9,797   $ 221,020  

    07/02/07     52,775     52,775   $ 39.97     07/01/17     07/02/07     11,848   $ 267,291  

    11/17/08     0     195,850   $ 14.11     11/16/18     11/17/08     23,281   $ 525,219  

Minoru Okamoto

   
10/18/99
   
25,952
   
0
 
$

47.62
   
10/17/09
                   

    01/10/00     6,488     0   $ 42.08     01/09/10                    

    10/03/00     31,142     0   $ 58.57     10/02/10                    

    07/12/01     31,142     0   $ 58.38     07/11/11                    

    10/01/01     34,603     0   $ 51.67     09/30/11                    

    02/05/02     34,603     0   $ 27.55     02/04/12                    

    03/26/04     35,814     0   $ 32.13     03/25/14                    

    03/10/05     35,814     0   $ 41.38     03/09/15                    

    11/22/05     18,166     0   $ 33.52     11/21/15                    

    11/21/06     14,879     14,879   $ 35.03     11/20/16     11/21/06     6,734   $ 151,919  

    07/02/07     43,975     43,975   $ 39.97     07/01/17     07/02/07     9,869   $ 222,645  

    11/17/08     0     159,150   $ 14.11     11/16/18     11/17/08     18,915   $ 426,722  

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  Option Awards   Stock Awards  
 
   
  Number of Securities Underlying
Unexercised Options
   
   
   
  Number of
Shares or
Units of Stock
That Have
Not Vested(1)(2)
(#)
(g)
  Market Value
of Shares or
Units of Stock
That Have
Not Vested(3)
($)
(h)
 
 
   
  Option
Exercise
Price
($)
(e)
   
   
 
 
   
  Option
Expiration
Date
(f)
   
 
Name
(a)
  Grant Date   Exercisable
(#)
(b)
  Unexercisable(1)
(#)
(c)
  Grant
Date
 

Alan C. Clarke

    01/10/00     8,650     0   $ 42.08     01/09/10                    

    04/18/00     17,301     0   $ 50.43     04/17/10                    

    10/03/00     16,550     0   $ 58.57     10/02/10                    

    10/03/00     750     0   $ 58.57     10/03/10                    

    11/21/06     20,761     20,761   $ 35.03     11/20/16     11/21/06     9,429   $ 212,718  

    07/02/07     52,775     52,775   $ 39.97     07/01/17     07/02/07     11,848   $ 267,291  

    11/17/08     0     146,900   $ 14.11     11/16/18     11/17/08     17,466   $ 394,033  

(1)
Option and stock vesting schedule:

Grant Date
  Option Vesting Schedule   Restricted Stock Awards Vesting Schedule
  11/21/06   1/4 vesting each year starting on 1st anniversary   1/3 vesting each year starting on 2nd anniversary
  07/02/07   1/4 vesting each year starting on 1st anniversary   1/2 vesting each year starting on 3rd anniversary
  11/17/08   1/4 vesting each year starting on 1st anniversary   1/4 vesting each year starting on 1st anniversary
  11/18/08   1/4 vesting each year starting on 1st anniversary   1/4 vesting each year starting on 1st anniversary
(2)
Any dividend equivalents issued have been included in the number of units reflected above.

(3)
Value represents the market value of Tyco Electronics common shares (based on the closing price of $22.56 per share on September 25, 2009).

Option Exercises and Stock Vested in Fiscal 2009

        The following table sets forth certain information regarding Tyco Electronics options and stock awards exercised and vested, respectively, during fiscal 2009 for the named executive officers.

 
  Option Awards   Stock Awards  
Name
(a)
  Number of Shares
Acquired on
Exercise
(#)
(b)
  Value Realized on
Exercise
($)
(c)
  Number of Shares
Acquired on
Vesting
(#)
(d)
  Value Realized on
Vesting(1)
($)
(e)
 

Thomas J. Lynch

            65,271   $ 1,302,779  

Terrence R. Curtin

            11,162   $ 210,989  

Robert A. Scott

            8,869   $ 142,190  

Minoru Okamoto

            9,556   $ 192,834  

Alan C. Clarke

            17,284   $ 330,467  

(1)
We computed the aggregate dollar amount realized upon vesting by multiplying the number of units vested by the market value of the underlying shares on the vesting date.

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Pension Benefits for Fiscal 2009

        The following table provides details regarding the present value of accumulated benefits under the plans described in "CD&A—Elements of Compensation—Retirement and Deferred Compensation Benefits" for the named executive officers in fiscal 2009.

Name(1)
(a)
  Plan Name
(b)
  Number of Years
Credited Service(2)
(#)
(c)
  Present Value of
Accumulated
Benefit(3)
($)
(d)
  Payments During
Last Fiscal Year
($)
(e)
 

Minoru Okamoto

 

AMP Japan Plan for Directors

   
12.5
 
$

2,773,056
   
 

Alan C. Clarke

 

Tyco Electronics UK Pension Scheme

   
28.2
 
$

2,039,927
   
 

(1)
Messrs. Lynch, Curtin and Scott do not participate in any pension plan sponsored by Tyco Electronics.

(2)
In calculating Mr. Okamoto's pension benefit, the number of years credited service reflects the number of years since Mr. Okamoto's appointment as a director, and eligibility to receive retirement benefits under the Directors' Retirement Allowance Regulation in Japan.

(3)
The present value of accumulated benefit amounts has been measured as of September 25, 2009 (the measurement date was changed to match the fiscal year-end reporting date, where in previous years the measurement date was August 31st) and are based on a number of assumptions, including:

Nonqualified Deferred Compensation for Fiscal 2009

        The following table discloses contributions, earnings and balances to each of the named executive officers in the table under the SSRP (Supplemental Savings and Retirement Plan) that provides for compensation deferral on a non-tax-qualified basis. See "CD&A—Elements of Compensation—Retirement and Deferred Compensation Benefits" for information regarding the plan. Pursuant to the SSRP, executive officers may defer up to 50% of their base salary and 100% of their annual bonus. We provide matching contributions based on the executive's deferred base salary and bonus the executive earns in excess of the Internal Revenue Code Section 401(a)(17) limit ($245,000 in 2009) as follows: $5 for every $1 the executive officer contributes up to the first 1% of the executive officer's eligible pay or, if the executive officer is credited with more than ten years of service, $6 for every $1 the executive officer contributes up to the first 2% of the executive officer's eligible pay. The SSRP is offered only in

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the U.S., so that Mr. Okamoto and Mr. Clarke did not participate in the SSRP, nor did they have any deferred compensation for fiscal 2009.

Name
(a)
  Executive
Contributions in
Last FY(1)
($)
(b)
  Registrant
Contributions in
Last FY(2)
($)
(c)
  Aggregate
Earnings in
Last FY(3)(4)
($)
(d)
  Aggregate
Withdrawals/
Distributions
($)
(e)
  Aggregate
Balance at Last
FYE(4)
($)
(f)
 

Thomas J. Lynch

  $ 347,116   $ 104,673   $ (109,138 )     $ 1,607,755  

Terrence R. Curtin

  $ 381,807   $ 70,991   $ 82,154       $ 1,022,243  

Robert A. Scott

  $ 56,959   $ 48,813   $ (22,611 )     $ 454,653  

(1)
The amounts shown in column (b) represent deferrals of cash and bonuses by the named executive officers under the SSRP, the amounts of which are included in the Summary Compensation Table in the Salary or Non-Equity Incentive Plan Compensation column, as applicable.

(2)
The amounts shown in column (c) represent matching contributions by the company, the amounts of which are included in the Summary Compensation Table in the All Other Compensation column.

(3)
No portion of these earnings shown in column (d) were included in the Summary Compensation Table because the SSRP does not provide for "above-market" or preferential earnings as defined in applicable SEC rules.

(4)
For Messrs. Curtin and Scott, the balance shown includes amounts credited under the Tyco Electronics Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan, the predecessor to the SSRP that was frozen to new contributions effective December 31, 2004. The SSRP became effective on January 1, 2005.

Termination and Change in Control Payments

        The table below outlines the potential payments to our Chief Executive Officer and other named executive officers upon the occurrence of certain termination triggering events. For the purpose of the table, below are definitions generally applicable for the various types of terminations under the Tyco Electronics Severance Plan for U.S. Officers and Executives (referred to in this proxy statement as the "Severance Plan") and/or the Tyco Electronics Change in Control Severance Plan for Certain U.S. Officers and Executives (referred to in this proxy statement as the "CIC Plan"). See "CD&A—Elements of Compensation—Change in Control and Termination Payments" for information regarding the terms of the plans.

"Voluntary Resignation" means any retirement or termination of employment that is not initiated by the company or any subsidiary other than a Good Reason Resignation (defined below).

"Good Reason Resignation" means any retirement or termination of employment by a participant that is not initiated by the company or any subsidiary and that is caused by any one or more of the following events which occurs during the period beginning 60 days prior to the date of a Change in Control (defined below) and ending two years after the date of such Change in Control:

        (1)   without the participant's written consent, the company (a) assigns or causes to be assigned to the participant any duties inconsistent in any material respect with his or her position as in effect immediately prior to the Change in Control, (b) makes or causes to be made any material adverse change in the participant's position (including titles and reporting relationships and level), authority, duties or responsibilities, or (c) takes or causes to be taken any other action which, in the reasonable judgment of the participant, would cause him or her to violate his or her ethical or professional obligations (after written notice of such judgment has been provided by the participant to the Management Development and Compensation Committee and the company has been given a 15-day

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period within which to cure such action), or which results in a significant diminution in such position, authority, duties or responsibilities;

        (2)   without the participant's written consent, the participant's being required to relocate to a principal place of employment more than 60 miles from his or her existing principal place of employment;

        (3)   without the participant's written consent, the company (a) reduces the participant's base salary or annual bonus, or (b) reduces the participant's retirement, welfare, stock incentive, perquisite and other benefits, taken as a whole; or

        (4)   the company fails to obtain a satisfactory agreement from any successor to assume and agree to perform the company's obligations to the participant under the CIC Plan.

"Involuntary Termination" means a termination of the participant initiated by the company or a subsidiary for any reason other than Cause (defined below), Permanent Disability (defined below) or death, subject to the conditions specified in the applicable plan.

"Cause" means any misconduct identified as a ground for termination in company policy or other written policies or procedures, including among other things, misconduct, dishonesty, criminal activity, or egregious conduct that has or could have a serious and detrimental impact on the company and its employees.

"Permanent Disability" means that a participant has a permanent and total incapacity from engaging in any employment for the employer for physical or mental reasons. A "Permanent Disability" will be deemed to exist if the participant meets the requirements for disability benefits under the employer's long-term disability plan or under the requirements for disability benefits under the U.S. social security laws (or similar laws outside the United States, if the participant is employed in that jurisdiction) then in effect, or if the participant is designated with an inactive employment status at the end of a disability or medical leave.

"Change in Control" means any of the following events:

        (1)   any "person" (as defined in Section 13(d) and 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act), excluding for this purpose, (i) the company or any subsidiary company (wherever incorporated) of the company, or (ii) any employee benefit plan of the company or any such subsidiary company (or any person or entity organized, appointed or established by the company for or pursuant to the terms of any such plan that acquires beneficial ownership of voting securities of the company), is or becomes the "beneficial owner" (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act) directly or indirectly of securities of the company representing more than 30 percent of the combined voting power of the company's then outstanding securities; provided, however, that no Change in Control will be deemed to have occurred as a result of a change in ownership percentage resulting solely from an acquisition of securities by the company;

        (2)   persons who, as of July 1, 2007 (the "effective date"), constitute the Board (the "Incumbent Directors") cease for any reason (including without limitation, as a result of a tender offer, proxy contest, merger or similar transaction) to constitute at least a majority thereof, provided that any person becoming a director of the company subsequent to the effective date shall be considered an Incumbent Director if such person's election or nomination for election was approved by a vote of at least 50 percent of the Incumbent Directors; but provided further, that any such person whose initial assumption of office is in connection with an actual or threatened proxy contest relating to the election of members of the Board or other actual or threatened solicitation of proxies or consents by or on behalf of a "person" (as defined in Section 13(d) and 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act) other than the Board, including by reason of agreement intended to avoid or settle any such actual or threatened contest or solicitation, shall not be considered an Incumbent Director;

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        (3)   consummation of a reorganization, merger or consolidation or sale or other disposition of at least 80 percent of the assets of the company (a "Business Combination"), in each case, unless, following such Business Combination, all or substantially all of the individuals and entities who were the beneficial owners of outstanding voting securities of the company immediately prior to such Business Combination beneficially own directly or indirectly more than 50 percent of the combined voting power of the then outstanding voting securities entitled to vote generally in the election of directors, as the case may be, of the company resulting from such Business Combination (including, without limitation, a company which, as a result of such transaction, owns the company or all or substantially all of the company's assets either directly or through one or more subsidiary companies (wherever incorporated) of the company) in substantially the same proportions as their ownership, immediately prior to such Business Combination, of the outstanding voting securities of the company; or

        (4)   approval by the stockholders of the company of a complete liquidation or dissolution of the Company.

"Change in Control Termination" means a participant's Involuntary Termination or Good Reason Resignation that occurs during the period beginning 60 days prior to the date of a Change in Control and ending two years after the date of such Change in Control.

        No named executive officer is entitled to a payment in connection with an Involuntary Termination for Cause.

Executive Benefits and Payments Upon Termination
  Retirement(8)   Total
Permanent
Disability
or Death
  Involuntary
Termination—
Not For Cause
  Involuntary
Termination—
Change in
Control
 

Thomas J. Lynch

                         

Compensation

                         
 

Severance(1)

              $ 3,800,000   $ 5,700,000  
 

Short-Term Incentive(2)

              $ 950,000   $ 950,000  
 

Long-Term Incentives

                         
 

•    Stock Options (Unvested and Accelerated or
     Continued Vesting)(3)

  $ 0   $ 6,561,200         $ 6,561,200  
 

•    Restricted Stock Units (Unvested and
     Accelerated or Continued Vesting)(3)

  $ 2,441,330   $ 4,641,021         $ 4,641,021  

Benefits and Perquisites(4)

                         
 

Health and Welfare Benefits Continuation(5)

              $ 22,500   $ 33,700  
 

Outplacement(6)

                    $ 26,000  

Terrence R. Curtin

                         

Compensation

                         
 

Severance(1)

              $ 1,327,922   $ 1,770,563  
 

Short-Term Incentive(2)

              $ 379,406   $ 379,406  
 

Long-Term Incentives

                         
 

•    Stock Options (Unvested and Accelerated or
     Continued Vesting)(3)

  $ 0   $ 1,654,933         $ 1,654,933  
 

•    Restricted Stock Units (Unvested and
     Accelerated or Continued Vesting)(3)

  $ 510,397   $ 1,035,617         $ 1,035,617  

Benefits and Perquisites(4)

                         
 

Health and Welfare Benefits Continuation(5)

              $ 16,900   $ 22,500  
 

Outplacement(6)

                    $ 9,300  

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Executive Benefits and Payments Upon Termination
  Retirement(8)   Total
Permanent
Disability
or Death
  Involuntary
Termination—
Not For Cause
  Involuntary
Termination—
Change in
Control
 

Robert A. Scott

                         

Compensation

                         
 

Severance(1)

              $ 1,378,125   $ 1,837,500  
 

Short-Term Incentive(2)

              $ 393,750   $ 393,750  
 

Long-Term Incentives

                         
 

•    Stock Options (Unvested and Accelerated or
     Continued Vesting)(3)

  $ 0   $ 1,654,933         $ 1,654,933  
 

•    Restricted Stock Units (Unvested and
     Accelerated or Continued Vesting)(3)

  $ 488,311   $ 1,013,531         $ 1,013,531  

Benefits and Perquisites(4)

                         
 

Health and Welfare Benefits Continuation(5)

              $ 16,900   $ 22,500  
 

Outplacement(6)

                    $ 9,300  

Minoru Okamoto

                         

Compensation

                         
 

Severance(1)

              $ 190,846   $ 190,846  
 

Short-Term Incentive

                         
 

Long-Term Incentives

                         
 

•    Stock Options (Unvested and Accelerated or
     Continued Vesting)(3)

  $ 0   $ 1,344,818         $ 1,344,818  
 

•    Restricted Stock Units (Unvested and
     Accelerated or Continued Vesting)(3)

  $ 374,564   $ 801,286         $ 801,286  

Benefits and Perquisites(4)

                         
 

Health and Welfare Benefits Continuation(5)

                         
 

Outplacement(6)

                         
 

Pension Value(7)

              $ 0   $ 0  

Alan C. Clarke

                         

Compensation

                         
 

Severance(1)

              $ 272,809   $ 272,809  
 

Short-Term Incentive

                         
 

Long-Term Incentives

                         
 

•    Stock Options (Unvested and Accelerated or
     Continued Vesting)(3)

  $ 0   $ 1,241,305         $ 1,241,305  
 

•    Restricted Stock Units (Unvested and
     Accelerated or Continued Vesting)(3)

  $ 480,009   $ 874,042         $ 874,042  

Benefits and Perquisites(4)

                         
 

Health and Welfare Benefits Continuation(5)

                         
 

Outplacement(6)

                         

(1)
Severance is calculated as follows under Involuntary Termination—Not for Cause for U.S.-based executives: Mr. Lynch—two times base salary plus two times target bonus, Messrs. Curtin and Scott—one and one-half times base salary plus one and one-half times target bonus; and as follows under Involuntary Termination—Change in Control for U.S.-based executives: Mr. Lynch—three times base salary plus three times target bonus, Messrs. Curtin and Scott—two times base salary plus two times target bonus. If the "parachute payment" (severance plus value of accelerated equity) is greater than three times the average W-2 reported compensation for the preceding five years, then an "excise tax" is imposed on the portion of the parachute payment that exceeds the average W-2 reported compensation for the preceding years. In this case, the participant will

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(2)
Assumes the effective date of termination is September 25, 2009 and that the pro rata payment under the 2009 AIP is equal to 12/12ths of the target award.

(3)
Assumes the effective date of termination is September 25, 2009 and the price per Tyco Electronics common share on the date of termination equals $22.56. Under Involuntary Termination—Change in Control, all outstanding stock options that are vested and exercisable as of the termination date, as well as the options that vest as a result of the acceleration, will be exercisable for the greater of the period specified in the option agreement or twelve months from the termination date. In no event, however, will an option be exercisable beyond its original expiration date. Amounts disclosed for stock options only reflect options that are in-the-money as of September 25, 2009. Restricted stock units and options granted on November 17, 2008 and November 18, 2008 will be forfeited if the retirement date is prior to the achievement of the grants' one year anniversary date. However, the one-year employment requirement is not applicable in the case of death or permanent disability.

(4)
Payments associated with benefits and perquisites are limited to the items listed. No other benefits or perquisite continuation occurs under the termination scenarios listed.

(5)
Health and welfare benefits continuation is calculated as follows under Involuntary Termination—Not for Cause: Mr. Lynch—24 months, Messrs. Curtin and Scott—18 months; and as follows under Involuntary Termination—Change in Control: Mr. Lynch—36 months, Messrs. Curtin and Scott—24 months. Annual amount is an approximation. In the event that provision of any of the benefits would adversely affect the tax status of the applicable plan or benefits, the company, in its sole discretion, may elect to pay to the participant cash in lieu of such coverage in an amount equal to the company's premium or average cost of providing such coverage.

(6)
Outplacement is calculated as the cost of services for the participant for a period of twelve months from the participant's termination date under Involuntary Termination—Change in Control. The company offers twelve month coverage totaling $26,000 for the Chief Executive Officer and provides $9,300 for executives under the executive program for outplacement services. The company has the right and sole discretion to pay outplacement services under Involuntary Termination—Not for Cause, but is not required to provide such benefits.

(7)
Mr. Okamoto has termination provisions within his pension plan. In the event of an involuntary termination or change in control (termination before attainment of age 60), he will receive an enhanced pension benefit. The amount shown in the table is the value of the enhancement. There is no longer any additional enhancement as Mr. Okamoto attained age 60 during the fiscal year.

(8)
Mr. Okamoto is entitled to the payments listed in the table in connection with a voluntary termination for retirement, as he was the only one to attain retirement age in the fiscal year.

Assumes that all performance based units that were converted to time based awards at separation will have fully vested prior to any officer's retirement and that as a result no awards will be forfeited.

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COMPENSATION OF NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTORS

        Fiscal 2009 compensation of each director who is not a salaried employee of the company or its subsidiaries was set at $200,000 per annum, payable $80,000 in cash and $120,000 in Tyco Electronics Ltd. deferred stock units ("DSUs"). The chair of the Audit Committee received an additional $25,000 cash retainer and the chairs of the Management Development and Compensation Committee and Nominating, Governance and Compliance Committee received an additional $15,000 cash retainer. The chairman of the Board received an additional $100,000 cash retainer. Audit Committee members, including the chair, each received an additional $10,000 in cash compensation. Directors who are employees of the company or its subsidiaries do not receive any compensation for their services as directors.

        Each DSU vested immediately upon grant, and will be paid in common shares within 30 days following a non-employee director's termination (subject to the previously-existing option of deferring the payout as described below). Dividend equivalents or additional DSUs are credited to a non-employee director's DSU account when dividends or capital reduction distributions are paid on our common shares.

        Through December 31, 2008, the company maintained the Tyco Electronics Director Deferred Compensation Plan, under which each non-employee director had the opportunity to make an election to defer some or all of his or her cash remuneration through that period. Non-employee directors also had the opportunity to elect to defer payout of their DSUs to a date later than termination. Each non-employee director had the opportunity to receive a distribution of the amounts credited to his or her deferred compensation account either in a lump sum cash payment or in installments not to exceed ten years with payment made (or commencing) at termination of service or at a fixed date selected by the non-employee director. Two non-employee directors elected to defer their compensation through December 31, 2008. As a result of recent U.S. tax law changes, no deferral elections were permitted after December 31, 2008.

        Commencing in fiscal year 2010, each non-employee director will receive the equity component of their compensation in the form of common shares of Tyco Electronics Ltd., with the exception of Dr. Gromer. The issuance of common shares in lieu of DSUs in the compensation program is due to recent U.S. tax law changes. (Under the new tax law, our directors can no longer defer any portion of their compensation, including DSUs, and therefore, U.S. directors will be issued common shares (which will be immediately taxable) in lieu of DSUs. Because Dr. Gromer is a German citizen, he will continue to receive his equity compensation in the form of DSUs.

        Additionally, for fiscal year 2010, the basic director fee was increased to $215,000 (with the additional $15,000 to be added to the director's equity compensation) and the retainer fee for the chairman of the Board was increased to $130,000 (with the additional $30,000 to be added to the chairman's equity compensation). All other elements of non-employee directors' compensation will remain the same for fiscal year 2010.

        The company reimburses its Board members for expenses incurred in attending Board and committee meetings or performing other services for the company in their capacities as directors. Such expenses include food, lodging and transportation.

        Tyco Electronics and Dr. Gromer had entered into a Consulting Agreement on January 15, 2008, under which Dr. Gromer received a set monthly consulting fee of EUR 11,340 ($14,997, using a three-month average for October—December 2008, when payments were received, of the monthly USD:EUR income statement foreign currency translation rates of $1.32248:1). The agreement with Dr. Gromer ended on December 31, 2008.

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        The following table discloses the cash and equity awards paid to each of the company's non-management directors during the fiscal year ended September 25, 2009.

Name
(a)
  Fees Earned or
Paid in Cash(1) ($) (b)
  Stock Awards(2)
($)
(c)
  All Other
Compensation
($)
(g)
  Total
($)
(h)
 

Pierre R. Brondeau

  $ 90,000   $ 82,555       $ 172,555  

Ram Charan

  $ 80,000   $ 82,555       $ 162,555  

Juergen W. Gromer

  $ 80,000   $ 82,555       $ 162,555  

Robert M. Hernandez

  $ 80,000   $ 82,555       $ 162,555  

Daniel J. Phelan

  $ 80,000   $ 82,555   $ 4,500 (3) $ 167,055  

Frederic M. Poses

  $ 195,000   $ 82,555       $ 277,555  

Lawrence S. Smith

  $ 111,875   $ 82,555       $ 194,430  

Paula A. Sneed

  $ 87,500   $ 82,555   $ 4,900 (3) $ 174,955  

David P. Steiner

  $ 95,000   $ 82,555       $ 177,555  

John C. Van Scoter(4)

  $ 66,667   $ 90,833     9,775 (3) $ 167,275  

Sandra S. Wijnberg(5)

  $ 76,250           $ 76,250  

(1)
The amounts shown in column (b) represent the amount of cash compensation earned in fiscal 2009 for Board and committee services. Mr. Poses received additional fees for his work as the Board chair and as the chair of the Management Development and Compensation Committee. Mr. Steiner and Ms. Wijnberg each received additional fees for their roles as chair of the Nominating, Governance and Compliance Committee and the Audit Committee, respectively. Mr. Brondeau and Mr. Smith each received for the full year the additional Audit Committee cash retainer for serving on the committee, while Ms. Wijnberg received a pro-rated amount for her time while serving on the committee. Upon Ms. Wijnberg's departure, Ms. Sneed, who joined the Audit Committee in the beginning of January 2009, started to receive the additional Audit Committee cash retainer. After Ms. Wijnberg's departure, Mr. Smith took over the role as Audit Committee chair. Mr. Smith received half of the chair fee in the first quarter as a result of transitioning into the role and starting in the second quarter began to receive the full chair fee. Ms. Wijnberg was awarded a one time special retainer payment of $40,000 for her work on the Board during fiscal year 2009, as she did not receive the fiscal year 2009 DSU award. Mr. Van Scoter's cash compensation was pro-rated for fiscal 2009 for the time he served as a non-employee director after joining the Board. The amount in the table reflects the USD equivalent for fees earned as Dr. Gromer is paid in euros.

(2)
On November 18, 2008, each director (other than Ms. Wijnberg) received a grant of 5,670 DSUs. In determining the number of DSUs to be issued, the Company used the average daily closing price in the month preceding grant ($21.18 per share), the same methodology used to determine employee equity awards. The grant date fair value of these DSUs, as shown above, was calculated by using the closing price of the common shares on the date of grant ($14.56 per share). At the next Board meeting following Mr. Van Scoter's appointment to the Board of Directors, Mr. Van Scoter also received a grant of 5,670 DSUs. The grant date fair value of these DSUs was $16.02 per share, calculated by using the closing price of the common shares on the date of grant. The DSUs vested immediately and non-employee directors receive dividend equivalents in connection with these awards. The amounts shown in column (c) represent the compensation costs of DSUs for financial reporting purposes for the 2009 fiscal year under ASC 718, rather than an amount paid to or realized by the non-employee director. See Note 23 in the 10-K for the assumptions made in determining ASC 718 values. The fair value of DSUs has been determined based on the market value on the grant date. There can be no assurance that the ASC 718 amount will ever be realized.

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(3)
Amounts shown represent amounts reimbursed to Mr. Phelan, Ms. Sneed and Mr. Van Scoter for expenses incurred by them in attending continuing education courses. Tyco Electronics Board Governance Principles encourage directors to attend certain continuing education courses that are related to their duties as directors, and provide that Tyco Electronics will reimburse the costs associated with attending one educational course every two years.

(4)
Mr. Van Scoter joined the Board effective December 1, 2008.

(5)
Ms. Wijnberg left the Board effective January 31, 2009.

Charitable Contributions

        Our board governance principles require that the Board approve all charitable donations by Tyco Electronics to organizations associated with a director. The amount of any such donation is limited to an amount that is less than one percent of that organization's annual charitable receipts and is less than one percent of Tyco Electronics' annual charitable contributions.

        Any matching donation by Tyco Electronics to organizations associated with a director is limited to an amount that is no greater than the amount contributed by the director and is required to be made in a manner consistent with Tyco Electronics' employee matching gift program.

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AGENDA ITEM NO. 2—APPROVAL OF ANNUAL REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Agenda Item No. 2.1    Approval of the 2009 Annual Report of Tyco Electronics Ltd. (excluding the statutory financial statements for the period ended September 25, 2009 and the consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended September 25, 2009)

Agenda Item

        Our Board of Directors proposes that the 2009 Annual Report of Tyco Electronics Ltd. (excluding the statutory financial statements for the period ended September 25, 2009 and the consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended September 25, 2009) be approved.

Explanation

        Our 2009 Annual Report, which accompanies this proxy statement, includes the statutory financial statements of Tyco Electronics Ltd. (which do not consolidate the results of operations for our subsidiaries) for the period ended September 25, 2009 and the Tyco Electronics Ltd. consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended September 25, 2009 and contains the reports of our Swiss registered auditor and our independent registered public accounting firm, as well as information on our business, organization and strategy. Copies of our 2009 Annual Report and this proxy statement are available on the Internet at http://www.tycoelectronics.com.

        Under Swiss law, certain portions of our annual report must be submitted to shareholders for approval or disapproval at each annual general meeting. This agenda item must be submitted to shareholders for approval or disapproval in addition to the statutory financial statements and the consolidated financial statements, which are presented separately for approval as Agenda Items No. 2.2 and No. 2.3, respectively.

        In the event of a negative vote on this agenda item by shareholders, the Board of Directors will call an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders for re-consideration of this agenda item by shareholders.

Vote Requirement to Approve Agenda Item

        The approval of a majority of our shares present and voting at the meeting, whether in person or by proxy, is required for approval of Agenda Item No. 2.1.

Recommendation

        The Board of Directors recommends a vote "FOR" approval of Agenda Item No. 2.1.    Proxies will be so voted unless shareholders specify otherwise in their proxies.

Agenda Item No. 2.2    Approval of the statutory financial statements of Tyco Electronics Ltd. for the period ended September 25, 2009

Agenda Item

        Our Board of Directors proposes that the statutory financial statements of Tyco Electronics Ltd. for the period ended September 25, 2009 be approved.

Explanation

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Report also contains the report of our Swiss registered auditor with respect to the statutory financial statements of Tyco Electronics Ltd.

        Under Swiss law, our statutory financial statements must be submitted to shareholders for approval or disapproval at each annual general meeting.

        In the event of a negative vote on this agenda item by shareholders, the Board of Directors will call an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders for re-consideration of this agenda item by shareholders.

        Deloitte AG, Zurich, Switzerland, as our Swiss registered auditor, has issued an unqualified recommendation to the Annual General Meeting that the statutory financial statements of Tyco Electronics Ltd. for the period ended September 25, 2009 be approved. As our Swiss registered auditor, Deloitte AG has expressed its opinion that the statutory financial statements for the period ended September 25, 2009 comply with Swiss law and our Articles of Association and has reported on other legal requirements. Representatives of Deloitte AG will attend the Annual General Meeting and will have an opportunity to make a statement if they wish. They will also be available to answer appropriate questions at the meeting.

Vote Requirement to Approve Agenda Item

        The approval of a majority of our shares present and voting at the meeting, whether in person or by proxy, is required for approval of Agenda Item No. 2.2.

Recommendation

        The Board of Directors recommends a vote "FOR" approval of Agenda Item No. 2.2.    Proxies will be so voted unless shareholders specify otherwise in their proxies.

Agenda Item No. 2.3    Approval of the consolidated financial statements of Tyco Electronics Ltd. for the fiscal year ended September 25, 2009

Agenda Item

        Our Board of Directors proposes that the consolidated financial statements of Tyco Electronics Ltd. for the fiscal year ended September 25, 2009 be approved.

Explanation

        Our consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended September 25, 2009 are contained in our 2009 Annual Report, which accompanies this proxy statement. Our 2009 Annual Report also contains the report of our Swiss registered auditor with respect to the consolidated financial statements.

        Under Swiss law, our consolidated financial statements must be submitted to shareholders for approval or disapproval at each annual general meeting.

        In the event of a negative vote on this agenda item by shareholders, the Board of Directors will call an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders for re-consideration of this agenda item by shareholders.

        Deloitte AG, Zurich, Switzerland, as our Swiss registered auditor, has issued an unqualified recommendation to the Annual General Meeting that the consolidated financial statements of Tyco Electronics Ltd. for the fiscal year ended September 25, 2009 be approved. As our Swiss registered auditor, Deloitte AG has expressed its opinion that the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position, the results of operations and the cash flows of Tyco Electronics in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of

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America (US GAAP) and comply with Swiss law and has reported on other legal requirements. Representatives of Deloitte AG will attend the Annual General Meeting and will have an opportunity to make a statement if they wish. They will also be available to answer appropriate questions at the meeting.

Vote Requirement to Approve Agenda Item

        The approval of a majority of our shares present and voting at the meeting, whether in person or by proxy, is required for approval of Agenda Item No. 2.3.

Recommendation

        The Board of Directors recommends a vote "FOR" approval of Agenda Item No. 2.3. Proxies will be so voted unless shareholders specify otherwise in their proxies.

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AGENDA ITEM NO. 3—APPROVAL OF A DISTRIBUTION TO
SHAREHOLDERS IN THE FORM OF A CAPITAL REDUCTION

        By resolutions adopted on November 17, 2009, our Board of Directors declared it advisable to make a distribution to shareholders in the form of a capital reduction in a Swiss franc amount equal to US$ 0.64 per issued share (including treasury shares) to be calculated as described in the resolution below, such distribution to be paid in four equal quarterly installments of US$ 0.16 each, starting with the third fiscal quarter of 2010 and ending in the second fiscal quarter of 2011.

        Our Board of Directors directed that approval of this distribution in the form of a reduction of registered share capital be submitted for consideration by our shareholders at the Annual General Meeting.

Background

        Under Swiss law, we are required to obtain shareholder approval before paying any dividends or distributions. To that end, you are being asked to vote on a distribution to shareholders in the form of a capital reduction. This is essentially the same as a dividend, but is being structured as a capital reduction (that is, a reduction in the par value of our shares) so that the distribution can be made to you free of Swiss withholding tax.

        We are seeking your approval of a capital reduction of no more than a Swiss franc amount per share to be determined as discussed below, which will be paid in four equal quarterly installments of US$ 0.16 per share (the "Distribution"), in accordance with the exchange ratio of Swiss francs ("CHF") per one US dollar ("USD") as published on the website of the Swiss National Bank two business days prior to the date of the Annual General Meeting (the ratio being the "Rate").

        To determine the CHF amount of the capital reduction, we will (1) multiply US$ 0.64 by the Rate, (2) round the resulting CHF amount up to the nearest 0.04 multiple of a Swiss franc (the "Capital Reduction") and (3) divide the Capital Reduction by four, which result we refer to as the "Installment." To convert the Capital Reduction to the USD amount that you will receive in four equal quarterly installments, each Installment will be converted from Swiss francs to US dollars by (1) dividing the Installment by the Rate, and (2) rounding this result down to the nearest US$ 0.01. The first payment of the Capital Reduction ($ 0.16 in USD) is expected to be made during the quarterly period ending June 25, 2010 (the third fiscal quarter of 2010) or as soon as possible thereafter after registration of the first partial Capital Reduction in the competent Swiss commercial register. The second payment of the Capital Reduction ($ 0.16 in USD) is expected to be made during the quarterly period ending September 24, 2010 (the fourth fiscal quarter of 2010) or as soon as possible thereafter after registration of the second partial Capital Reduction in the competent Swiss commercial register. The third payment of the Capital Reduction ($ 0.16 in USD) is expected to be made during the quarterly period ending December 24, 2010 (the first fiscal quarter of 2011) or as soon as possible thereafter after registration of the third partial Capital Reduction in the competent Swiss commercial register. The fourth payment of the Capital Reduction ($ 0.16 in USD) is expected to be made during the quarterly period ending March 25, 2011 (the second fiscal quarter of 2011) or as soon as possible thereafter after registration of the fourth partial Capital Reduction in the competent Swiss commercial register.

        If the Capital Reduction is approved by shareholders at the Annual General Meeting, in accordance with the resolution below, the par value of shares issued out of conditional share capital or authorized share capital between the date of approval and registration of the first partial Capital Reduction, which will have been issued at a par value equal to CHF 2.09, will be reduced by the amount equal to one Installment per partial Capital Reduction upon registration of the first, second, third and fourth partial Capital Reductions. The par value of shares issued out of conditional share capital or authorized share capital between registration of the first partial Capital Reduction and registration of the second partial Capital Reduction, which will have been issued at a par value equal to

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CHF 2.09 minus the amount equal to one Installment, will be reduced by the amount equal to one Installment per partial Capital Reduction upon registration of the second, third and fourth partial Capital Reductions. The par value of shares issued out of conditional share capital or authorized share capital between registration of the second partial Capital Reduction and registration of the third partial Capital Reduction, which will have been issued at a par value equal to CHF 2.09 minus the amount equal to two Installments, will be reduced by the amount equal to one Installment per partial Capital Reduction upon registration of the third and fourth partial Capital Reductions. The par value of shares issued out of conditional share capital or authorized share capital between registration of the third partial Capital Reduction and registration of the fourth partial Capital Reduction, which will have been issued at a par value equal to CHF 2.09 minus the amount equal to three Installments, will be reduced by the amount equal to one Installment upon registration of the fourth partial Capital Reduction.

        It is a condition to each partial Capital Reduction that PricewaterhouseCoopers AG, the Company's special auditor, deliver a report in accordance with art. 732 of the Swiss Code of Obligations, confirming that the receivables of the creditors of Tyco Electronics will be fully covered by assets after giving effect to that partial Capital Reduction. The special auditor report relating to the first partial Capital Reduction will be available at the meeting. The special auditor report in relation to the second, third and fourth partial Capital Reductions will be available at the time of the second, third and fourth partial Capital Reductions, respectively.

        No other modifications will be made to the registered shares of Tyco Electronics. Appraisal rights are not available to shareholders who vote against the capital reduction agenda item.

Text of the Shareholder Resolution

        The blank numbers in the following resolution will be completed based upon the amount recommended by the Board of Directors, our actual registered share capital at the date of the Annual General Meeting (taking into account the second installment of the capital reduction of CHF 0.17 per share approved by shareholders on October 8, 2009) and the Rate. Immediately following the resolution, we have provided an illustrative example of the text of the resolution based on assumptions as to the number of registered shares and the Rate.

        The Shareholder Resolution approving the foregoing is as follows:

        1.     the registered share capital of Tyco Electronics Ltd. in the aggregate amount of Swiss francs ("CHF") 978,570,549.66 shall be reduced by the amount of CHF [    •    ];

        2.     it is acknowledged and recorded that according to the report of the auditor dated [date of Annual General Meeting], 2010 it is confirmed that the receivables of the creditors of Tyco Electronics Ltd. are fully covered by assets after giving effect to the capital reduction;

        3.     the capital reduction shall be accomplished as follows:

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        4.     the aggregate reduction amount pursuant to Section 1 shall be increased by par value reductions on shares, if any, issued from authorized share capital and conditional share capital after the general meeting until registration of the reduction in the commercial register.

        5.     the shareholders' meeting resolves that the articles of association of Tyco Electronics Ltd. shall be adapted as follows:

        5.1   First partial reduction to be submitted for registration in the third fiscal quarter 2010:

        Provided that

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        5.2   Second partial reduction to be submitted for registration in the fourth fiscal quarter 2010:

        Provided that

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        5.3   Third partial reduction to be submitted for registration in the first fiscal quarter 2011:

        Provided that

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        5.4   Fourth partial reduction to be submitted for registration in the second fiscal quarter 2011:

        Provided that

        6.     It is the task of the Board of Directors to execute this resolution of the shareholders' meeting and to file the required applications with the Commercial Register of the Canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland (art. 716a para. 1 point 6 in connection with art. 734 of the Swiss Code). In the event that the special auditor report in accordance with art. 732 of the Swiss Code as prepared for any of the second, third or fourth partial Capital Reductions does not confirm that the receivables of the creditors

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of Tyco Electronics Ltd. are fully covered by assets after giving effect to the applicable partial Capital Reduction, the applicable partial Capital Reduction may not be effected.

Illustrative Example of Text of Shareholder Resolution

        Assuming that the number of our issued shares (including treasury shares) at the date of the Annual General Meeting is 468,215,574 and the Rate is 1.0082, the text of the shareholder resolution would be as follows (with illustrative dates and numbers presented in italics):

        1.     the registered share capital of Tyco Electronics Ltd. in the aggregate amount of Swiss francs ("CHF") 978,570,549.66 shall be reduced by the amount of CHF [318,386,590.32];

        2.     it is acknowledged and recorded that according to the report of the auditor dated [March 10], 2010 it is confirmed that the receivables of the creditors of Tyco Electronics Ltd. are fully covered by assets after giving effect to the capital reduction;

        3.     the capital reduction shall be accomplished as follows:

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        4.     the aggregate reduction amount pursuant to Section 1 shall be increased by par value reductions on shares, if any, issued from authorized share capital and conditional share capital after the general meeting until registration of the reduction in the commercial register.

        5.     the shareholders' meeting resolves that the articles of association of Tyco Electronics Ltd. shall be adapted as follows:

        5.1   First partial reduction to be submitted for registration in the third fiscal quarter 2010:

        Provided that

        5.2   Second partial reduction to be submitted for registration in the fourth fiscal quarter 2010:

        Provided that

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        5.3   Third partial reduction to be submitted for registration in the first fiscal quarter 2011:

        Provided that

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        5.4   Fourth partial reduction to be submitted for registration in the second fiscal quarter 2011:

        Provided that

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        6.     It is the task of the Board of Directors to execute this resolution of the shareholders' meeting and to file the required applications with the Commercial Register of the Canton of Schaffhausen, Switzerland (art. 716a para. 1 point 6 in connection with art. 734 of the Swiss Code). In the event that the special auditor report in accordance with art. 732 of the Swiss Code as prepared for any of the second, third or fourth partial Capital Reductions does not confirm that the receivables of the creditors of Tyco Electronics Ltd. are fully covered by assets after giving effect to the applicable partial Capital Reduction, the applicable partial Capital Reduction may not be effected.

Vote Requirement to Approve Agenda Item

        The approval of a majority of our shares present and voting at the meeting, whether in person or by proxy, is required for approval of Agenda Item No. 3.

Recommendation

        The Board of Directors recommends a vote "FOR" approval of Agenda Item No. 3. Proxies will be so voted unless shareholders specify otherwise in their proxies.

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AGENDA ITEM NO. 4—RELEASE THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS FOR ACTIVITIES DURING FISCAL YEAR 2009

Agenda Item

        Our Board of Directors proposes that shareholders release the members of the Board of Directors and executives of Tyco Electronics from liability for their activities during the fiscal year ended September 25, 2009.

Explanation

        As is customary for Swiss corporations and in accordance with Article 698, subsection 2, item 5 of the Swiss Code of Obligations, shareholders are requested to release the members of the Board of Directors and the executive officers of Tyco Electronics from liability for their activities during the fiscal year ended September 25, 2009. This release from liability claims brought by Tyco Electronics or shareholders against members of the Board of Directors and executive officers of Tyco Electronics for activities carried out during the fiscal year ended September 25, 2009 is only effective with respect to facts that have been disclosed to shareholders. This release binds shareholders who either voted in favor of the agenda item or who subsequently acquired shares with knowledge of the resolution. Registered shareholders that do not vote in favor of this agenda item are not bound by the result for a period ending six months after the vote.

Vote Requirement to Approve Agenda Item

        The approval of a majority of our shares present and voting at the meeting, whether in person or by proxy, not counting the votes of any director or executive officer of Tyco Electronics, is required for approval of Agenda Item No. 4.

Recommendation

        The Board of Directors recommends a vote "FOR" approval of Agenda Item No. 4. Proxies will be so voted unless shareholders specify otherwise in their proxies.

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AGENDA ITEM NO. 5—APPROVAL OF AN INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF SHARES AVAILABLE
FOR AWARDS UNDER THE TYCO ELECTRONICS LTD. 2007 STOCK AND INCENTIVE PLAN

        The Tyco Electronics Ltd. 2007 Stock and Incentive Plan (the "SIP" or the "Plan") governs the award and payment of cash and equity awards to company employees and non-employee directors. The SIP was initially approved by the company's Board of Directors and by Tyco International Ltd., as our former sole shareholder, on June 4, 2007, prior to our separation from Tyco International on June 29, 2007. The SIP, as amended and restated to ensure that certain payments made under the SIP would continue to qualify as "performance-based" compensation under Section 162(m) ("Section 162(m)") of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the "Code"), was approved by our shareholders on June 22, 2009.

Discussion of the Purposes of this Agenda Item

        The Board of Directors and management are requesting that shareholders approve an increase of 15,000,000 shares to the number of shares reserved for issuance of awards under the SIP. The maximum number of common shares originally reserved for the issuance of awards under the SIP was 24,843,452, five percent (5%) of the outstanding common shares of the company on June 29, 2007, the original effective date of the SIP. As of November 24, 2009, approximately 2.5 million shares remain available for issuance under the SIP. Management and the Board have determined that, given current annual grant practices and the current market value of the company's shares, the company needs to seek shareholder approval to increase the authorized number of shares under the SIP at this Annual General Meeting.

        As discussed in the CD&A, our main competitors for talent are the companies listed in the primary and secondary peer groups. We believe that in order to compete with these organizations for top talent, we need to provide directors and employees with competitive compensation consisting of both short-and long-term cash and equity incentives. The Board and management believe that the issuance of equity incentive awards promotes the growth and success of our business by aligning the interests of directors and employees with those of our shareholders, and provides directors and employees an opportunity to participate in our growth and financial success. In order to issue competitive equity incentive awards to our directors and employees, we need to have a sufficient pool of shares available, and therefore we are requesting that shareholders approve an increase of 15,000,000 shares to the number of shares reserved for issuance under the SIP. Management and the Board expect that the proposed increase in authorized shares will be sufficient to permit awards to be made under the SIP in the next three years in light of our current share utilization rate, forfeiture rates, stock performance and the remaining shares available from the original authorization.

Material Terms of the SIP

        A summary of the material features of the SIP is set forth below. This summary is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of the SIP (as proposed to be amended and restated upon approval by shareholders of this agenda item), which is attached as Appendix A to this proxy statement.

        Purpose.    The Plan is intended to make available incentives that aid us to attract, recruit and retain directors and employees, by providing performance-related incentives and an opportunity to participate in the company's growth and financial success, and to align the financial interests of directors and employees with that of our other shareholders.

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        Plan Administration.    The Plan is administered by the Management Development and Compensation Committee. The Committee, or to the extent required by applicable law, the Board of Directors, has broad discretion and authority under the Plan to:

        Eligibility.    In general, each of our employees, non-employee directors and grantees of an acquired company is eligible to receive awards under the Plan. The persons who are eligible to receive annual performance bonuses pursuant to the SIP are certain employees and non-employee directors designated by the Committee and who are subject to the reporting requirements of Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act. The persons who are eligible to receive long-term performance awards pursuant to the SIP are certain employees and non-employee directors designated by the Committee. Subject to annual individual limits set forth in the Plan, the number of future awards that may be granted to any one individual or category of individuals is not presently determinable.

        Shares Subject to the Plan; Additional Share Authorization.    The total number of shares that presently may be issued to participants under the Plan is 5% of the company's shares outstanding as of the original effective date of the Plan (24,843,452 shares), subject to adjustments as provided under the terms of the Plan. As of November 24, 2009, approximately 2.5 million shares remain available for issuance under the Plan. We are requesting that shareholders approve an increase of 15,000,000 shares to the number of shares reserved for issuance under the SIP. Management and the Board expect that the proposed increase in authorized shares will be sufficient to permit awards to be made under the SIP in the next three years in light of our current share utilization rate, forfeiture rates, stock performance and the remaining shares available from the original authorization. When common shares are issued pursuant to a grant of restricted stock, restricted stock units, deferred stock units, performance units or as payment of an annual performance bonus or other stock-based award, the total number of common shares remaining available for grant will be decreased by a margin of 1.8 per common share issued. In determining the number of shares that remain available under the Plan, the following do not count against the Plan's share limit: (a) shares related to awards paid in cash; (b) shares related to awards that expire, are forfeited or cancelled or terminate for any other reason without issuance of shares; (c) any shares issued in connection with awards that are assumed, converted or substituted as a result of the acquisition of an acquired company by us or a combination of our company with another company; and (d) any shares of restricted stock that are returned to us upon a participant's termination of employment.

        Stock Options and Stock Appreciation Rights.    Stock options awarded under the Plan may be in the form of nonqualified stock options or incentive stock options or a combination of the two. Stock appreciation rights may be awarded either alone or in tandem with stock options. Stock appreciation rights will be paid in cash or common shares or a combination of cash and common shares, as determined by the Committee. Unless determined otherwise by the Committee or as required by law, stock options and stock appreciation rights granted under the Plan are subject to the following terms and conditions:

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        Performance-Based Awards.    The Plan provides for performance-based awards in the form of: (1) annual performance bonuses that may be granted in the form of cash or common shares; and (2) long-term performance awards in the form of performance units that may be paid in cash or shares or performance-based restricted stock units or restricted stock awards that are paid in shares. It is intended that annual performance bonuses and long-term performance awards will qualify as "performance-based" compensation for purposes of Section 162(m). The Committee, in its discretion, will fix the amount, terms and conditions of annual performance bonuses and long-term performance awards, subject to the following:

        Restricted Stock, Restricted Stock Units and Deferred Stock Units.    Restricted stock, restricted stock units and deferred stock units may be awarded under the Plan to any employee selected by the Committee. Restricted stock units and deferred stock units may be settled in shares or cash. The

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Committee has the discretion to fix the terms and conditions applicable to awards of restricted stock, restricted stock units and deferred stock units, subject to the following:

        Director Awards.    The Committee may grant deferred stock units to each director in such an amount as the Board of Directors, in its discretion, may approve in advance. Each such deferred stock unit will vest as determined by the Committee and will be paid in common shares within 30 days following the director's termination of Board service. In addition, the Committee may grant stock options, stock appreciation rights and other stock-based awards to directors.

        Substitute Awards.    The Committee may make awards to grantees of an acquired company through the assumption of, or in substitution for, outstanding stock-based awards previously granted to the grantees. The assumed or substituted awards will be subject to the terms and conditions of the original awards made by the acquired company, with any adjustments that the Committee considers appropriate to give effect to the relevant provisions of any agreement for the acquisition of the acquired company.

        Performance Goals.    The SIP provides for performance-based awards in the form of: (1) annual performance bonuses that may be granted in the form of cash or common shares; and (2) long-term performance awards in the form of performance units that may be paid in cash or shares or performance-based restricted stock units or restricted stock awards that are paid in shares. These performance-based awards are designed to satisfy the requirements of deductibility under Section 162(m) and are in addition to options or stock appreciation rights which may also qualify as performance-based awards for Section 162(m) purposes. Stock options and stock appreciation rights may be awarded under the SIP with an exercise price at the time of grant of no less than the fair market value of a common share. Accordingly, these options and stock appreciation rights can qualify as performance-based compensation under Section 162(m).

        In order to meet the requirement of deductibility under Section 162(m), the goals must be based on one or more of the following criteria set forth in the SIP:

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        Maximum Performance Based Compensation.    The SIP is administered by the Management Development and Compensation Committee of the Board, which consists solely of two or more "outside directors" within the meaning of Section 162(m). The Committee has the sole authority to select employees to receive awards, determine the form of an award, the number of common shares subject to an award, and the terms and conditions of each award. However, no employee will be entitled to receive an annual performance bonus or long-term performance award under the SIP that is in excess of $10,000,000 for any performance cycle of 12 months. In addition, no employee may be granted more than six million shares over any calendar year pursuant to awards of stock options, stock appreciation rights, and performance-based restricted stock and restricted stock units, except that an incentive award of no more than ten million shares may be made pursuant to stock options, stock appreciation rights, and performance-based restricted stock and restricted stock units to any person who has been hired within the calendar year as a key employee (as defined in Section 162(m)). If a performance cycle is longer than 12 months, the maximum amount that may be paid under the SIP will be adjusted proportionately.

        Change in Control.    If there is a change in control that results in a participant's involuntary termination of employment (as described in the Plan), then all outstanding stock options and stock appreciation rights will become exercisable, all conditions applicable to outstanding restricted stock, restricted stock units and other stock-based awards (other than long-term performance awards) and deferred stock units will be waived, and each participant who has been granted an annual performance bonus or long-term performance award that is outstanding as of the date of the involuntary termination will be deemed to have achieved a level of performance that would cause all (100%) of the participant's target amounts to become payable and all restrictions applicable to the participant's restricted stock units and shares of restricted stock to lapse. Unless otherwise determined by the Committee, in its discretion, if awards payable in shares of company stock will not be substituted with comparable awards payable or redeemable in shares of publicly-traded stock after the change in control, then such awards will become fully vested immediately prior to the change in control and each such award that is a stock option will be paid out in cash (in an amount equal to the excess of the fair market value of the underlying shares over the exercise price of the option).

        Non-transferability of Awards.    Awards under the Plan will not be subject in any manner to alienation, anticipation, sale, assignment, pledge, encumbrance or transfer, and no other persons will otherwise acquire any rights therein, except transfer by will or by the laws of descent or distribution. However, the Committee may, in its discretion, permit a participant to transfer awards (e.g., to family members or trusts for family members) subject to such conditions as the Committee may establish.

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        Adjustments.    In the event of a change in the number of outstanding common shares by reason of a stock split, reverse stock split, dividend or other distribution, extraordinary cash dividend, recapitalization, merger, consolidation, split-up, spin-off, reorganization, combination, repurchase or exchange of shares or other securities or similar corporate transaction or event, the Committee shall make an appropriate adjustment to prevent dilution or enlargement of the benefits or potential benefits intended to be made available under the Plan.

        Amendment and Termination.    The Plan may be amended or terminated by our Board of Directors at any time without shareholder approval, except that any material revision to the terms of the Plan requires shareholder approval before it can be effective. A revision is "material" for this purpose if it materially increases the number of common shares that may be issued under the Plan (other than an increase pursuant to an "adjustment" as described above), materially expands the types of awards available under the Plan, materially expands the class of persons eligible to receive awards, materially extends the term of the Plan, materially decreases the exercise price at which stock options or stock appreciation rights may be granted, reduces the exercise price of outstanding stock options or stock appreciation rights, or results in the replacement of outstanding stock options or stock appreciation rights with awards that have a lower exercise price. The Board of Directors may, without shareholder approval, amend the Plan to increase the maximum value of deferred stock units that may be granted to a director in any fiscal year and the maximum number of common shares that may be granted to a director in any fiscal year pursuant to awards of stock options, stock appreciation rights and other stock-based awards. If not earlier terminated, the Plan will terminate on June 3, 2017. No awards may be granted under the Plan after it is terminated, but any previously granted awards will remain in effect until they expire.

Summary of Federal Income Tax Consequences of Awards

        The following is a brief summary of the material United States federal income tax consequences of the grant, exercise and disposition of stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, performance units, restricted stock units and deferred stock units under the SIP. This summary is not intended to be exhaustive and, among other things, does not describe state, local or foreign tax consequences. Because the federal income tax rules governing awards and related payments are complex, subject to frequent change, and depend on individual circumstances, participants should consult their tax advisors before exercising options or other awards or disposing of stock acquired pursuant to awards. This summary assumes that all awards granted under the Plan are exempt from or comply with, the rules under Section 409A of the Code related to deferred compensation. The following is not intended or written to be used, and cannot be used, for the purposes of avoiding taxpayer penalties.

        Nonqualified Stock Options and Stock Appreciation Rights.    A participant will not recognize any income at the time a nonqualified stock option or stock appreciation right is granted, nor will the company be entitled to a deduction at that time. When a nonqualified stock option is exercised, the participant will recognize ordinary income in an amount equal to the excess of the fair market value of the common shares received as of the date of exercise over the exercise price. When a stock appreciation right is exercised, the participant will recognize ordinary income in an amount equal to the cash received or, if the stock appreciation right is paid in common shares, the fair market value of the common shares received as of the date of exercise. Payroll taxes are required to be withheld from the participant on the amount of ordinary income recognized by the participant. We will be entitled to a tax deduction with respect to a nonqualified stock option or stock appreciation right at the same time and in the same amount as the participant recognizes income. The participant's subsequent disposition of the common shares generally will give rise to capital gain or loss equal to the difference between the sale price and the sum of the exercise price the participant paid for the shares plus the ordinary

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income the participant recognized with respect to the shares, and these capital gains will be taxable as long-term capital gains if the participant held the shares for more than one year following exercise.

        Incentive Stock Options.    Incentive stock options, or ISOs, are intended to qualify for treatment under Section 422 of the Code. A participant will not recognize any income at the time an ISO is granted. Nor will a participant recognize any income at the time an ISO is exercised. However, the excess of the fair market value of the common shares on the date of exercise over the exercise price paid will be a preference item that could create a liability under the alternative minimum tax. If a participant disposes of the common shares acquired on exercise of an ISO after the later of two years after the date of grant of the ISO or one year after the date of exercise of the ISO (the "holding period"), the gain, if any, will be long-term capital gain subject to the applicable tax rates. If the participant disposes of the common shares prior to the end of the holding period, the participant will recognize ordinary income in the year of the disposition equal to the excess of the lesser of (i) the fair market value of the common shares on the date of exercise or (ii) the amount received for the common shares, over the exercise price paid. The balance of the gain or loss, if any, will be long-term or short-term capital gain or loss, depending on how long the common shares were held by the participant prior to disposition. If the amount realized upon such a disqualifying disposition is less than fair market value of the shares on the date of exercise, the amount of compensation income will be limited to the excess of the amount realized over the optionee's adjusted basis in the shares. We are not entitled to a deduction as a result of the grant or exercise of an ISO unless a participant recognizes ordinary income as a result of a disposition, in which case we will be entitled to a deduction at the same time and in the same amount as the participant recognizes ordinary income.

        Restricted Stock.    With respect to stock grants involving the issuance of shares that are restricted as to transferability and subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture, the participant must generally recognize ordinary income equal to the fair market value of the shares received at the first time the shares become transferable or are not subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture, whichever occurs earlier. The participant may elect under Section 83(b) of the Code to be taxed at the time of receipt of shares rather than upon lapse of restrictions on transferability or substantial risk of forfeiture, but if the participant subsequently forfeits such shares, the participant would not be entitled to any tax deduction, including as a capital loss, for the value of the shares on which the participant previously paid tax. The participant must file such election with the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") within 30 days of the receipt of the shares. We generally will be entitled to a deduction in an amount equal to the ordinary income recognized by the participant. Any otherwise taxable disposition of the restricted stock after the time the restrictions lapse will result in a capital gain or loss (long-term or short-term, depending on the holding period) to the extent the amount realized from the sale differs from the tax basis, i.e., the fair market value of the common shares on the date the restrictions lapse. Dividends paid in cash and received by a participant prior to the time the restrictions lapse will constitute ordinary income to the participant in the year paid and we will generally be entitled to a corresponding deduction for such dividends. Any dividends paid in stock will be treated as an award of additional restricted stock subject to the tax treatment described herein.

        Performance Units, Restricted Stock Units and Deferred Stock Units.    Except as otherwise described in the following paragraph, the grant of a performance unit, restricted stock unit or deferred stock unit will create no income tax consequences to the company or the participant. Upon the participant's receipt of cash and/or shares at the end of the applicable performance or vesting period, the participant will recognize ordinary income equal to the amount of cash and/or the fair market value of the shares received, and the company will be entitled to a corresponding deduction in the same amount and at the same time. If performance units are settled in whole or in part in shares, upon the participant's subsequent disposition of the shares the participant will recognize a capital gain or loss (long-term or short-term, depending on the holding period) to the extent the amount realized upon disposition differs

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from the shares' tax basis, i.e., the fair market value of the shares on the date the participant received the shares.

        Section 457A of the Code.    Section 457A was added to the Code in 2008 and generally subjects compensation that is deferred under a plan of a "nonqualified entity" to immediate taxation in the year in which the compensation is no longer subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture. Section 457A is generally applicable to compensation payable for services rendered on and after January 1, 2009. Based on Section 457A and guidance published by the IRS, it is possible that certain awards that can be granted under the SIP for services rendered on and after January 1, 2009 may be subject to immediate taxation upon grant. The company is currently seeking clarification of the IRS guidance and when the implications of Section 457A are better understood, the Committee will take whatever action it deems appropriate.

        Additional Taxes Under Section 409A of the Code.    If an award under the SIP is neither exempt from nor compliant with the requirements of Section 409A of the Code, then the participant may be subject to additional taxes under such section. Section 409A of the Code imposes additional taxes equal to 20% of the compensation required to be included in gross income by reason of a failure to comply with such section, if applicable, plus interest thereon had such deferred compensation been includable in gross income in the year in which it was first deferred or is no longer subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture, if later.

Equity Compensation Plan Information

        The following table provides information as of September 25, 2009 with respect to Tyco Electronics' common shares issuable under its equity compensation plans or equity compensation plans of Tyco International prior to the separation:

Plan Category
  Number of securities
to be issued upon
exercise of
outstanding
options, warrants
and rights
(a)
  Weighted-average
exercise price of
outstanding
options,
warrants and
rights
(b)
  Number of securities
remaining available
for future issuance
under equity
compensation
plans (excluding
securities reflected
in column (a))
(c)(3)
 

Equity compensation plans approved by security holders:

                   
 

2007 Stock and Incentive Plan(1)

    10,670,448   $ 24.88     10,091,396  

Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders:

                   
 

Equity awards under Tyco International Ltd. 2004 Stock and Incentive Plan and other equity incentive plans(2)

    19,327,975   $ 43.25     n/a  
                 
 

Total

    29,998,423           10,091,396  
                 

(1)
The Tyco Electronics Ltd. 2007 Stock and Incentive Plan provides for the award of share options, stock appreciation rights, annual performance bonuses, long-term performance awards, restricted stock units, deferred stock units, restricted shares, promissory shares and other share-based awards (collectively, "Awards") to Board members, officers and non-officer employees. The Plan presently provides for a maximum of 24,843,452 common shares to be issued as Awards, subject to adjustment as provided under the terms of the Plan.

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(2)
Includes common shares that may be issued by Tyco Electronics pursuant to the Separation and Distribution Agreement among Tyco Electronics, Tyco International and Covidien plc under equity awards, including share options, restricted shares, restricted stock units, and deferred stock units, granted to current and former employees and directors of Tyco International and its subsidiaries, which may include individuals currently or formerly employed by or serving with Tyco Electronics, Tyco International or Covidien subsequent to the separation. See Note 23 to the consolidated and combined financial statements set forth in Tyco Electronics' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 25, 2009 for additional information regarding these outstanding awards.

(3)
The Plan applies a weighting factor of 1.8 to outstanding non-vested restricted shares, restricted stock units, deferred stock units and performance units. The remaining shares issuable are increased by forfeitures and cancellations, among other factors. As of November 24, 2009, approximately 2.5 million shares remain available for issuance under the Plan.

Vote Requirement to Approve Agenda Item

        The approval of a majority of the votes cast on this agenda item, provided that the total votes cast represent over 50% of the voting power of the total outstanding registered shares with voting rights, is required for approval of Agenda Item No. 5.

Recommendation

        The Board of Directors recommends a vote "FOR" approval of Agenda Item No. 5. Proxies will be so voted unless shareholders specify otherwise in their proxies.

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CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS

Review and Approval of Related Person Transactions

        All relationships and transactions in which the company and our directors and executive officers or their immediate family members are participants were reviewed to determine whether such persons have a direct or indirect material interest. As required under SEC rules, transactions that are determined to be directly or indirectly material to the company or a related person are disclosed in the company's proxy statement. In addition, the Nominating, Governance and Compliance Committee reviews and approves or ratifies any related person transaction that is required to be disclosed. In the course of its review and approval or ratification of a disclosable related person transaction, the committee considers whether the transaction is fair and reasonable to the company and will take into account, among other factors it deems appropriate:

        Any member of the committee who is a related person with respect to a transaction under review may not participate in the deliberations or vote respecting approval or ratification of the transaction, provided, however, that such director may be counted in determining the presence of a quorum at a meeting at which the committee considers the transaction.

Related Party Transactions

        In June 2009, Frederic Poses, a director and Chairman, became Chief Executive Officer and an equity owner of Ascend Performance Materials ("Ascend"), a private manufacturer of nylon related chemicals, resins and fibers for commercial and industrial products. Tyco Electronics made $2.3 million in purchases from Ascend during the portion of fiscal 2009 during which Ascend was a standalone company with which Mr. Poses was affiliated. Pierre Brondeau, a director, was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Rohm & Haas Company, a manufacturer of specialty materials and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Dow Chemical Company from April through September 2009, from which Tyco Electronics made $9.8 million in purchases during fiscal 2009. William Hernandez, the brother of Robert Hernandez, a director, was the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of PPG Industries, a supplier of paints, coatings, chemicals, optical products, specialty materials, glass and fiber glass, to which Tyco Electronics made $0.9 million in sales during fiscal 2009. David Steiner, a director, is the Chief Executive Officer of Waste Management, Inc., a provider of waste management services, from which Tyco Electronics made $0.4 million in purchases during fiscal 2009. John Van Scoter, a director, is a Senior Vice President of Texas Instruments Incorporated, a global semiconductor company, to which Tyco Electronics made $0.3 million in sales and from which Tyco Electronics made $0.1 million in purchases during fiscal 2009.

        The foregoing directors could be deemed to have indirect interests in the transactions based on their current or former executive or ownership positions with the companies with which Tyco Electronics transacted business in fiscal 2009, but such transactions were arms-length commercial dealings between the companies, none of which are material individually or in the aggregate. The Committee has reviewed and approved or ratified these transactions.

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SECTION 16(a) BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP REPORTING COMPLIANCE

        Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act requires Tyco Electronics' executive officers and directors and persons who beneficially own more than ten percent of Tyco Electronics' common shares to file electronically reports of ownership and changes in ownership of such common shares with the SEC and NYSE. These persons are required by SEC regulations to furnish Tyco Electronics with copies of all Section 16(a) forms they file. As a matter of practice, Tyco Electronics' administrative staff assists Tyco Electronics' executive officers and directors in preparing initial reports of ownership and reports of changes in ownership and files those reports on their behalf. Based on Tyco Electronics' review of such forms, as well as information provided and representations made by the reporting persons, Tyco Electronics believes that all of its executive officers, directors and beneficial owners of more than ten percent of its common shares complied with the reporting requirements of Section 16(a) during Tyco Electronics' fiscal year ended September 25, 2009.


AUDIT COMMITTEE REPORT

        The information contained in the report below shall not be deemed to be "soliciting material" or to be "filed" with the SEC, nor shall such information be incorporated by reference into any future filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, except to the extent that the company specifically incorporates it by reference in such filing.

        During our fiscal year ended September 25, 2009, the Audit Committee of the Board generally was composed of three directors. Throughout fiscal 2009, Pierre R. Brondeau and Lawrence S. Smith served on the Committee, and Mr. Smith became chair on January 14, 2009, replacing Sandra S. Wijnberg. Ms. Wijnberg left the Board and Audit Committee on January 31, 2009. Paula A. Sneed replaced Ms. Wijnberg on the Committee beginning January 14, 2009. Mr. Smith, Mr. Brondeau and Ms. Sneed continue to serve in these roles. The Board of Directors determined that each of the members of the Audit Committee met the independence and experience requirements of the NYSE and applicable federal regulations during their periods of service. In addition, the Board determined that Mr. Smith and Ms. Sneed are audit committee financial experts (and that Ms. Wijnberg was an audit committee financial expert during her service as chair).

        The Audit Committee operates under a charter approved by the Board of Directors. A summary description of the duties and powers of the Audit Committee can be found in "The Board of Directors and Board Committees" section of this proxy statement. The Audit Committee oversees the company's financial reporting process on behalf of the Board. Management has the primary responsibility for the financial statements and the reporting process, assures that the company develops and maintains adequate financial controls and procedures, and monitors compliance with these processes. The company's independent registered public accounting firm (the "independent auditor") is responsible for performing an audit of the consolidated and combined year-end financial statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board ("PCAOB") (United States) to obtain reasonable assurance that the company's consolidated and combined financial statements are free from material misstatement and expressing an opinion on the conformity of the financial statements with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. The company's Swiss registered auditor is responsible for performing an audit of the statutory financial statements of Tyco Electronics Ltd. prepared in accordance with Swiss law and the company's Articles of Association. The internal auditors are responsible to the Audit Committee and the Board for testing the integrity of the financial accounting and reporting control systems and such other matters as the Audit Committee and Board determine. The company's special auditor is responsible for delivering reports in accordance with Swiss law confirming that the receivables of the creditors of the company will be fully covered by assets after giving effect to any reductions of capital in connection with shareholders' approvals of distributions to shareholders in the form of capital reductions.

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        In this context, the Audit Committee has reviewed the consolidated and combined financial statements in Tyco Electronics' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 25, 2009. The Committee held discussions with management, the internal auditors, the independent auditor and the Swiss registered auditor concerning the consolidated and combined financial statements, as well as the independent auditor's and Swiss registered auditor's opinions thereon. The Committee also discussed with management, the internal auditors and the independent auditor the report of management and the independent auditor's opinion regarding the company's internal control over financial reporting required by Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Management represented to the Committee that the company's consolidated and combined financial statements were prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States. The Audit Committee reviewed and discussed the statutory financial statements with management, the internal auditors and the Swiss registered auditor, as well as the Swiss registered auditor's opinion thereon. The Audit Committee reviewed and discussed with management and the special auditor the capital reduction reports issued by the special auditor for the capital reductions approved by shareholders of the company in the year ended September 25, 2009. The Committee routinely reviewed and discussed with management and the Ombudsman any concerns from employees or external constituencies (including investors, suppliers and customers) about the company's accounting, internal accounting controls or auditing matters.

        The Committee discussed with the independent auditor all communications required by auditing standards of the PCAOB (United States). In addition, the Committee discussed with the independent auditor the auditor's independence from Tyco Electronics and its management, including the matters in the letter received from the independent auditor regarding the independent auditor's communications with the audit committee concerning independence.

        Based upon the Committee's review and discussions referred to above, the Committee recommended that the Board include the company's audited consolidated and combined financial statements in Tyco Electronics' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 25, 2009 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Committee further recommended that the audited statutory financial statements of Tyco Electronics Ltd., together with the company's audited consolidated and combined financial statements, be included in the company's Annual Report to Shareholders for the fiscal year ended September 25, 2009.

The Audit Committee:

Lawrence S. Smith, Chair
Pierre R. Brondeau
Paula A. Sneed

November 17, 2009

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AGENDA ITEM NO. 6—ELECTION OF AUDITORS

Agenda Item No. 6.1    Election of Deloitte & Touche LLP as independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending September 24, 2010

Agenda Item

        Our Board of Directors proposes that our shareholders elect Deloitte & Touche LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending September 24, 2010.

Explanation

        The election of our independent registered public accounting firm is recommended by our Audit Committee to the Board of Directors for approval by our shareholders annually. The Audit Committee reviews both the audit scope and estimated fees for professional services for the coming year. The Audit Committee has recommended the ratification of the engagement of Deloitte & Touche LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending September 24, 2010.

        Representatives of Deloitte & Touche LLP will attend the Annual General Meeting and will have an opportunity to make a statement if they wish. They will also be available to answer appropriate questions at the meeting.

Independent Auditor Fee Information

        Aggregate fees for professional services rendered by Deloitte & Touche LLP, the member firms of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, and their respective affiliates as of and for the fiscal years ended September 25, 2009 and September 26, 2008 are set forth below. The aggregate fees included in the audit fees category are fees paid or accrued for the fiscal years for the services described below. The aggregate fees included in each of the other categories are fees billed in the fiscal years or expected to be billed with respect to the fiscal years for the services described below. (All references to "$" below are to United States dollars.)


Fiscal Years 2009 and 2008 Fees

 
  Fiscal Year 2009   Fiscal Year 2008  

Audit Fees

  $ 17,407,000   $ 19,680,000  

Audit-Related Fees

    450,000     287,000  

Tax Fees

    1,748,000     3,470,000  

All Other Fees

    4,000     2,000  
           

Total

  $ 19,609,000   $ 23,439,000  
           

        Audit fees for the fiscal years ended September 25, 2009 and September 26, 2008 were for professional services rendered for the year-end audits of the consolidated and combined financial statements of the company, review of quarterly financial statements included in the company's quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, consents, comfort letters and statutory and regulatory filings in foreign jurisdictions.

        Audit-related fees for the fiscal years ended September 25, 2009 and September 26, 2008 were primarily related to audits of carve-out financial statements of certain businesses that have been divested or are being considered for divestiture and other attest services.

        Tax fees for the fiscal years ended September 25, 2009 and September 26, 2008 were primarily for tax compliance services.

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        Other fees for the fiscal years ended September 25, 2009 and September 26, 2008 were for subscriptions.

        None of the services described above were approved by the Audit Committee under the de minimus exception provided by Rule 2-01(c)(7)(i)(C) under Regulation S-X.

Policy for the Pre-Approval of Audit and Non-Audit Services

        The Audit Committee adopted a pre-approval policy that provides guidelines for the audit, audit-related, tax and other permissible non-audit services that may be provided by the independent auditor. The policy identifies the principles that must be considered by the Audit Committee in approving services to ensure that the auditor's independence is not impaired. The policy provides that the controller and senior vice president and chief tax officer will support the Audit Committee by providing a list of proposed services to the Committee, monitoring the services and fees pre-approved by the Committee, providing periodic reports to the Committee with respect to pre-approved services and ensuring compliance with the policy.

        Under the policy, the Audit Committee annually pre-approves the audit fee and terms of the engagement, as set forth in the audit engagement letter. This approval includes approval of a specified list of audit, audit-related and tax services. Any service not included in the specified list of services must be submitted to the Audit Committee for pre-approval. All services may not extend for more than twelve months, unless the Audit Committee specifically provides for a different period. The independent auditor may not begin work on any engagement without confirmation of Audit Committee pre-approval from the controller or his delegate.

        In accordance with the policy, the Audit Committee may delegate one or more of its members the authority to pre-approve the engagement of the independent auditor when the entire Committee is unable to do so. The chair must report all such pre-approvals to the Audit Committee at the next committee meeting.

Vote Requirement to Approve Agenda Item

        The approval of a majority of our shares present and voting at the meeting, whether in person or by proxy, is required for approval of Agenda Item No. 6.1.

Recommendation

        The Board of Directors recommends a vote "FOR" approval of Agenda Item No. 6.1. Proxies will be so voted unless shareholders specify otherwise in their proxies.

Agenda Item No. 6.2    Election of Deloitte AG, Zurich, Switzerland as our Swiss registered auditor until our next annual general meeting

Agenda Item

        Our Board of Directors proposes that Deloitte AG, Zurich, Switzerland be elected as the Company's Swiss registered auditor until our next annual general meeting.

Explanation

        Under Swiss law, our shareholders must elect an independent Swiss registered public accounting firm. The Swiss registered auditor's main task is to audit our consolidated financial statements and the statutory financial statements of Tyco Electronics. Our Board of Directors has recommended that Deloitte AG, Zurich, Switzerland, be elected as our Swiss registered auditor for our consolidated financial statements and the statutory financial statements of Tyco Electronics Ltd.

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        Representatives of Deloitte AG will attend the Annual General Meeting and will have an opportunity to make a statement if they wish. They will also be available to answer appropriate questions at the meeting.

        For independent auditor fee information and information on our pre-approval policy of audit and non-audit services, see Agenda Item No. 6.1. See the Audit Committee Report included in this proxy statement for additional information about our Swiss registered auditors.

Vote Requirement to Approve Agenda Item

        The approval of a majority of our shares present and voting at the meeting, whether in person or by proxy, is required for approval of Agenda Item No. 6.2.

Recommendation

        The Board of Directors recommends a vote "FOR" approval of Agenda Item No. 6.2. Proxies will be so voted unless shareholders specify otherwise in their proxies.

Agenda Item No. 6.3    Election of PricewaterhouseCoopers AG, Zurich, Switzerland as special auditing firm until our next annual general meeting

Agenda Item

        Our Board of Directors proposes that PricewaterhouseCoopers AG, Zurich, Switzerland be elected as our special auditing firm until our next annual general meeting.

Explanation

        Under Swiss law, special reports by an auditor are required in connection with certain corporate transactions, including certain types of increases and decreases in share capital.

Vote Requirement to Approve Agenda Item

        The approval of a majority of our shares present and voting at the meeting, whether in person or by proxy, is required for approval of Agenda Item No. 6.3.

Recommendation

        The Board of Directors recommends a vote "FOR" approval of Agenda Item No. 6.3. Proxies will be so voted unless shareholders specify otherwise in their proxies.

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AGENDA ITEM NO. 7—APPROVAL OF ANY ADJOURNMENTS OR POSTPONEMENTS
OF THE MEETING

Agenda Item

        Our Board of Directors proposes that our shareholders approve any adjournments or postponements of the Annual General Meeting.

Explanation

        You are being asked to approve any adjournments or postponements of the meeting so that we can solicit additional proxies if there are insufficient proxies to elect directors and approve the remaining agenda items at the time of the meeting.

Vote Requirement to Approve Agenda Item

        The approval of a majority of our shares present and voting at the meeting, whether in person or by proxy, is required for approval of Agenda Item No. 7.

Recommendation

        The Board of Directors recommends a vote "FOR" approval of Agenda Item No. 7. Proxies will be so voted unless shareholders specify otherwise in their proxies.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Cost of Solicitation

        The cost of solicitation of proxies will be paid by Tyco Electronics. Tyco Electronics has engaged Innisfree M&A Incorporated as the proxy solicitor for the Annual General Meeting for an approximate fee of $15,000. In addition, certain directors, officers or employees of Tyco Electronics may solicit proxies by telephone or personal contact. Upon request, Tyco Electronics will reimburse brokers, dealers, banks and trustees, or their nominees, for reasonable expenses incurred by them in forwarding proxy materials to beneficial owners of shares.

Registered and Principal Executive Offices

        The registered and principal executive offices of Tyco Electronics are located at Rheinstrasse 20, CH-8200 Schaffhausen, Switzerland. The telephone number is +41 (0)52 633 66 61.

Annual Report

        Copies of our Annual Report for the fiscal year ended September 25, 2009 containing our audited consolidated financial statements with accompanying notes and our audited Swiss statutory financial statements prepared in accordance with Swiss law as well as additionally required Swiss disclosures, are available to shareholders free of charge on our Web site at www.tycoelectronics.com or by writing to Tyco Electronics Shareholder Services, Tyco Electronics Ltd., Rheinstrasse 20, CH-8200 Schaffhausen, Switzerland.


TYCO ELECTRONICS 2011 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS

        Tyco Electronics anticipates that the 2011 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders will be held on or about March 9, 2011.

        Shareholder proposals submitted pursuant to Rule 14a-8 under the Securities Exchange Act and article 14 of Tyco Electronics' Articles of Association will be considered for inclusion in Tyco Electronics' 2011 proxy statement and proxy card for the meeting if the proposal is received in writing by Tyco Electronics' Secretary no later than [    •    ], 2010. The notice of proposal must comply with the requirements established by the SEC and must include the information specified in article 14 of Tyco Electronics' Articles of Association and must be a proper subject for shareholder action under Swiss law.

        Article 14 of Tyco Electronics' Articles of Association sets forth the procedures (including, without limitation, advance notice requirements) a shareholder must follow to request that an item be put on the agenda of a general meeting of shareholders. No prior notice is required to bring proposals (including the nomination of persons for election to the Board of Directors) at a general meeting of shareholders where such proposals relate to items that are already included on the agenda for that meeting.

        Proposals should be addressed to Harold G. Barksdale, Secretary, Tyco Electronics Ltd., Rheinstrasse 20, CH-8200 Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

        Tyco Electronics will furnish a copy of its Articles of Association to any shareholder without charge upon written request to the Secretary.

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WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

        We file annual, quarterly and special reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC. You may read and copy these materials at the SEC reference room at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549, USA. Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information on their public reference room. Our SEC filings are also available to the public at the SEC's Web site (http://www.sec.gov). In addition, you can obtain reports and proxy statements and other information about us at the offices of the New York Stock Exchange, 20 Broad Street, New York, New York 10005, USA.

        We maintain a Web site on the Internet at http://www.tycoelectronics.com. We make available free of charge, on or through our Web site, our annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and any amendments to those reports, as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is filed with the SEC. This reference to our Internet address is for informational purposes only and shall not, under any circumstances, be deemed to incorporate the information available at such Internet address into this proxy statement.

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Appendix A

TYCO ELECTRONICS LTD.
2007 STOCK AND INCENTIVE PLAN
(AMENDED AND RESTATED AS OF [DATE OF 2010 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING])

ARTICLE I
PURPOSE

        1.1    Purpose.    The purposes of this Tyco Electronics Ltd. 2007 Stock and Incentive Plan (Amended and Restated as of [date of 2010 Annual General Meeting]) (the "Plan") are to promote the interests of Tyco Electronics Ltd. (and any successor thereto) by (i) aiding in the recruitment and retention of Directors and Employees, (ii) providing incentives to such Directors and Employees by means of performance-related incentives to achieve short-term and long-term performance goals, (iii) providing Directors and Employees an opportunity to participate in the growth and financial success of the Company, and (iv) promoting the growth and success of the Company's business by aligning the financial interests of Directors and Employees with that of the other stockholders of the Company. Toward these objectives, the Plan provides for the grant of Stock Options, Stock Appreciation Rights, Annual Performance Bonuses, Long Term Performance Awards and other Stock-Based Awards.

        1.2    Effective Dates; Shareholder Approval.    The Plan was originally effective June 29, 2007, the date of the dividend distribution of Tyco Electronics Ltd. shares to the Tyco International Ltd. shareholders of record on the distribution date. The Plan was approved by the Tyco Electronics Ltd. Board of Directors on June 4, 2007 and adopted by Tyco International Ltd., as the Company's sole shareholder, on June 4, 2007. An amendment and restatement to the Plan to ensure its compliance with Section 409A of the Code and to make certain other clarifying changes was adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company on January 13, 2009 and approved by the Company's shareholders on June 22, 2009. This amended and restated Plan was adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company on November 17, 2009 and is effective as of [date of 2010 Annual General Meeting, subject to approval by shareholders of the Company].


ARTICLE II
DEFINITIONS

        For purposes of the Plan, the following terms have the following meanings, unless another definition is clearly indicated by particular usage and context:

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ARTICLE III
ADMINISTRATION

        3.1    Committee.    The Plan will be administered by the Committee.

        3.2    Authority of the Committee.    The Committee or, to the extent required by applicable law, the Board will have the authority, in its sole and absolute discretion and subject to the terms of the Plan, to:

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        3.3    Effect of Determinations.    All determinations of the Committee will be final, binding and conclusive on all persons having an interest in the Plan.

        3.4    Delegation of Authority.    The Board or, if permitted under applicable corporate law, the Committee, in its discretion and consistent with applicable law and regulations, may delegate to the Chief Executive Officer of the Company or any other officer or group of officers as it deems to be advisable, the authority to select Employees to receive an Award and to determine the number of Shares under any such Award, subject to any terms and conditions that the Board or the Committee may establish. When the Board or the Committee delegates authority pursuant to the foregoing sentence, it will limit, in its discretion, the number of Shares or aggregate value that may be subject to Awards that the delegate may grant. Only the Committee will have authority to grant and administer Awards to Directors, Key Employees and other Reporting Persons or to delegates of the Committee, and to establish and certify Performance Measures.

        3.5    Employment of Advisors.    The Committee may employ attorneys, consultants, accountants and other advisors, and the Committee, the Company and the officers and directors of the Company may rely upon the advice, opinions or valuations of the advisors employed.

        3.6    No Liability.    No member of the Committee or any person acting as a delegate of the Committee with respect to the Plan will be liable for any losses resulting from any action, interpretation or construction made in good faith with respect to the Plan or any Award granted under the Plan.


ARTICLE IV
AWARDS

        4.1    Eligibility.    All Participants and Employees are eligible to be designated to receive Awards granted under the Plan, except as otherwise provided in this Article IV.

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        4.2    Form of Awards.    Awards will be in the form determined by the Committee, in its discretion, and will be evidenced by an Award Certificate. Awards may be granted singly or in combination or in tandem with other Awards.

        4.3    Stock Options and Stock Appreciation Rights.    The Committee may grant Stock Options and Stock Appreciation Rights under the Plan to those Employees whom the Committee may from time to time select, in the amounts and pursuant to the other terms and conditions that the Committee, in its discretion, may determine and set forth in the Award Certificate, subject to the provisions below:

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        4.4    Annual Performance Bonuses.    The Committee may grant Annual Performance Bonuses under the Plan in the form of cash or Shares to the Reporting Persons that the Committee may from time to time select, in the amounts and pursuant to the terms and conditions that the Committee may determine and set forth in the Award Certificate, subject to the provisions below:

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        4.5    Long Term Performance Awards.    The Committee may grant Long Term Performance Awards under the Plan in the form of Performance Units, Restricted Units or Restricted Stock to any Employee who the Committee may from time to time select, in the amounts and pursuant to the terms and conditions that the Committee may determine and set forth in the Award Certificate, subject to the provisions below:

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        4.6    Other Stock-Based Awards.    The Committee may, from time to time, grant Awards (other than Stock Options, Stock Appreciation Rights, Annual Performance Bonuses or Long Term Performance Awards) to any Employee who the Committee may from time to time select, which Awards consist of, or are denominated in, payable in, valued in whole or in part by reference to, or otherwise related to, Shares. These Awards may include, among other forms, Restricted Stock, Restricted Units, or Deferred Stock Units. The Committee will determine, in its discretion, the terms and conditions that will apply to Awards granted pursuant to this Section 4.6, which terms and conditions will be set forth in the applicable Award Certificate.

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        4.7    Director Awards.    

        4.8    Substitute Awards.    The Committee may make Awards under the Plan to Acquired Grantees through the assumption of, or in substitution for, outstanding Stock-Based Awards previously granted to such Acquired Grantees. Such assumed or substituted Awards will be subject to the terms and conditions of the original awards made by the Acquired Company, with such adjustments therein as the Committee considers appropriate to give effect to the relevant provisions of any agreement for the acquisition of the Acquired Company, provided that any such adjustment with respect to Nonqualified Stock Options and Stock Appreciation Rights shall satisfy the requirements of Treas. Reg. § 1.409A-1(b)(5)(v)(D) and otherwise ensure that such awards continue to be exempt from Code Section 409A and provided that any adjustment to Awards that are subject to Code Section 409A is in compliance with Code Section 409A and the regulations and rulings thereunder. Any grant of Incentive Stock Options pursuant to this Section 4.8 will be made in accordance with Section 424 of the Code and any final regulations published thereunder.

        4.9    Limit on Individual Grants.    Subject to Sections 5.1 and 5.3, no Employee may be granted more than 6 million Shares over any calendar year pursuant to Awards of Stock Options, Stock

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Appreciation Rights and performance-based Restricted Stock and Restricted Units, except that an incentive Award of no more than 10 million Shares may be made pursuant to Stock Options, Stock Appreciation Rights and performance-based Restricted Stock and Restricted Units to any person who has been hired within the calendar year as a Key Employee. The maximum amount that may be paid in cash or Shares pursuant to Annual Performance Bonuses or Long Term Performance Awards paid in Performance Units to any one Employee is $10 million (U.S.) for any Performance Cycle of 12 months. For any longer Performance Cycle, this maximum will be adjusted proportionally.

        4.10    Termination for Cause.    Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, if a Participant incurs a Termination of Directorship or Termination of Employment for Cause, then all Stock Options, Stock Appreciation Rights, Annual Performance Bonuses, Long Term Performance Awards, Restricted Units, Restricted Stock and other Stock-Based Awards will immediately be cancelled. The exercise of any Stock Option or Stock Appreciation Right or the payment of any Award may be delayed, in the Committee's discretion, in the event that a potential termination for Cause is pending, subject to ensuring an exemption from or compliance with Code Section 409A and the underlying regulations and rulings. If a Participant incurs a Termination of Employment for Cause, or the Company becomes aware (after the Participant's Termination of Employment) of conduct on the part of the Participant that would be grounds for a Termination of Employment for Cause, then the Participant will be required to deliver to the Company (i) Shares (or, in the discretion of the Committee, cash) in an amount that is equal in value to the amount of any profit the Participant realized upon the exercise of an Option during the period beginning six (6) months prior to the Participant's Termination of Employment for Cause and ending on the two (2) year anniversary of such Termination of Employment; and (ii) the number of Shares (or, in the discretion of the Committee, the cash value of said shares) the Participant received for Restricted Shares or Restricted Units that vested during the period described in (i) above.


ARTICLE V
SHARES SUBJECT TO THE PLAN; ADJUSTMENTS

        5.1    Shares Available.    The Shares issuable under the Plan will be authorized but unissued Shares, and, to the extent permissible under applicable law, Shares acquired by the Company, any Subsidiary or any other person or entity designated by the Company. The original number of shares issuable under the Plan on and after the original effective date of the Plan (June 29, 2007) was five percent (5%) of the Shares outstanding as of that date. The total number of Shares with respect to which Awards may be issued under the Plan on and after the Effective Date may equal, but not exceed, the total number of shares remaining from the original number of shares issuable under the Plan, plus an additional fifteen million (15,000,000) shares, subject to adjustment in accordance with Section 5.3; provided that when Shares are issued pursuant to a grant of Restricted Stock, Restricted Units, Deferred Stock Units, Performance Units or as payment of an Annual Performance Bonus or other Stock-Based Award, the total number of Shares remaining available for grant will be decreased by a margin of at least 1.8 per Share issued. In addition, in the case of the settlement of any stock-settled Stock Appreciation Right, the total number of Shares available for grant will be decreased by the total number of Shares equal in value to the total value of the Stock Appreciation Right on the day of settlement. No more than 10 million Shares of the total Shares issuable under the Plan may be available for grant in the form of Incentive Stock Options.

        5.2    Counting Rules.    The following Shares related to Awards under this Plan may again be available for issuance under the Plan, in addition to the Shares described in Section 5.1:

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        5.3    Adjustments.    In the event of a change in the outstanding Shares by reason of a stock split, reverse stock split, dividend or other distribution (whether in the form of cash, Shares, other securities or other property), extraordinary cash dividend, recapitalization, merger, consolidation, split-up, spin-off, reorganization, combination, repurchase or exchange of Shares or other securities or similar corporate transaction or event, the Committee shall make an appropriate adjustment to prevent dilution or enlargement of the benefits or potential benefits intended to be made available under the Plan. Any such adjustment with respect to Nonqualified Stock Options and Stock Appreciation Rights shall satisfy the requirements of Treas. Reg. § 1.409A-1(b)(5)(v)(D) and otherwise ensure that such awards continue to be exempt from Code Section 409A, and any adjustment to Awards that are subject to Code Section 409A shall comply with Code Section 409A and the regulations and rulings thereunder. Any adjustment made by the Committee under this Section 5.3 will be conclusive and binding for all purposes under the Plan.

        5.4    Change in Control.    

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        5.5    Fractional Shares.    No fractional Shares will be issued under the Plan. Except as otherwise provided in Section 4.5(e), if a Participant acquires the right to receive a fractional Share under the Plan, the Participant will receive, in lieu of the fractional Share, a full Share as of the date of settlement, unless otherwise provided by the Committee.


ARTICLE VI
AMENDMENT AND TERMINATION

        6.1    Amendment.    The Plan may be amended at any time and from time to time by the Board without the approval of stockholders of the Company, except that no material revision to the terms of the Plan will be effective until the amendment is approved by the stockholders of the Company. A revision is "material" for this purpose if, among other changes, it materially increases the number of Shares that may be issued under the Plan (other than an increase pursuant to Section 5.3 of the Plan), expands the types of Awards available under the Plan, materially expands the class of persons eligible to receive Awards under the Plan, materially extends the term of the Plan, materially decreases the Exercise Price at which Stock Options or Stock Appreciation Rights may be granted, reduces the Exercise Price of outstanding Stock Options or Stock Appreciation Rights, or results in the replacement of outstanding Stock Options and Stock Appreciation Rights with new Awards that have an Exercise Price that is lower than the Exercise Price of the replaced Stock Options and Stock Appreciation Rights. No amendment of the Plan or any outstanding Award made without the Participant's written consent may adversely affect any right of a Participant with respect to an outstanding Award.

        6.2    Termination.    The Plan will terminate upon the earlier of the following dates or events to occur:

No Awards will be granted under this Plan after it has terminated. The termination of the Plan, however, will not alter or impair any of the rights or obligations of any person under any Award previously granted under the Plan without such person's consent. After the termination of the Plan, any previously granted Awards will remain in effect and will continue to be governed by the terms of the Plan and the applicable Award Certificate.

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ARTICLE VII
GENERAL PROVISIONS

        7.1    Nontransferability of Awards.    No Award under the Plan will be subject in any manner to alienation, anticipation, sale, assignment, pledge, encumbrance or transfer, and no other persons will otherwise acquire any rights therein, except as provided below.

        7.2    Withholding of Taxes.    The Committee, in its discretion, may satisfy a Participant's tax withholding obligations by any of the following methods or any method as it determines to be in accordance with the laws of the jurisdiction in which the Participant resides, has domicile or performs services.

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        7.3    Special Forfeiture Provision.    The Committee may, in its discretion, provide in an Award Certificate that the Participant may not, within two years of the Participant's Termination of Employment with the Company, enter into any employment or consultation arrangement (including service as an agent, partner, stockholder, consultant, officer or director) with any entity or person engaged in any business in which the Company or any Subsidiary is engaged without prior written approval of the Committee if, in the sole judgment of the Committee, the business is competitive with the Company or any Subsidiary or business unit or such employment or consultation arrangement would present a risk that the Participant would likely disclose Company proprietary information (as determined by the Committee). If the Committee makes a determination that this prohibition has been violated, the Participant (i) will forfeit all rights under any outstanding Stock Option or Stock Appreciation Right that was granted subject to the Award Certificate and will return to the Company the amount of any profit realized upon an exercise of all Awards during the period, as the Committee determines and sets forth in the Award Certificate, beginning no earlier than six months prior to the Participant's Termination of Employment, and (ii) will forfeit and return to the Company any Annual Performance Bonuses, Performance Units, Shares of Restricted Stock, Restricted Units (including any credited Dividend Equivalents), Deferred Stock Units, and other Stock-Based Awards that are outstanding on the date of the Participant's Termination of Employment, subject to the Award Certificate, and have not vested or that had vested and remain subject to this Section 7.3 during a period, as the Committee determines and sets forth in the Award Certificate, beginning no earlier than six months prior to the Participant's Termination of Employment.

        7.4    No Implied Rights.    The establishment and operation of the Plan, including the eligibility of a Participant to participate in the Plan, will not be construed as conferring any legal or other right upon any Director for any continuation of directorship or any Employee for the continuation of employment through the end of any Performance Cycle or other period. The Company expressly reserves the right, which may be exercised at any time and in the Company's sole discretion, to discharge any individual or treat him or her without regard to the effect such discharge might have upon him or her as a Participant in the Plan.

        7.5    No Obligation to Exercise Awards.    The grant of a Stock Option or Stock Appreciation Right will impose no obligation upon the Participant to exercise the Award.

        7.6    No Rights as Stockholders.    A Participant who is granted an Award under the Plan will have no rights as a stockholder of the Company with respect to the Award unless and until certificates for the Shares underlying the Award are registered in the Participant's name and (other than in the case of Restricted Stock) delivered to the Participant. The right of any Participant to receive an Award by virtue of participation in the Plan will be no greater than the right of any unsecured general creditor of the Company.

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        7.7    Indemnification of Committee.    The Company will indemnify, to the fullest extent permitted by law, each person made or threatened to be made a party to any civil or criminal action or proceeding by reason of the fact that the person, or the executor or administrator of the person's estate, is or was a member of the Committee or a delegate of the Committee.

        7.8    No Required Segregation of Assets.    Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary will be required to segregate any assets that may at any time be represented by Awards granted pursuant to the Plan.

        7.9    Nature of Payments.    All Awards made pursuant to the Plan are in consideration of services for the Company or a Subsidiary. Any gain realized pursuant to Awards under the Plan constitutes a special incentive payment to the Participant and will not be taken into account as compensation for purposes of any other employee benefit plan of the Company or a Subsidiary, except as the Committee otherwise provides. The adoption of the Plan will have no effect on Awards made or to be made under any other benefit plan covering an employee of the Company or a Subsidiary or any predecessor or successor of the Company or a Subsidiary.

        7.10    Securities Law Compliance.    Awards under the Plan are intended to satisfy the requirements of Rule 16b-3 under the Exchange Act. If any provision of this Plan or any grant of an Award would otherwise frustrate or conflict with this intent, that provision will be interpreted and deemed amended so as to avoid conflict. No Participant will be entitled to a grant, exercise, transfer or payment of any Award if the grant, exercise, transfer or payment would violate the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 or any other applicable law.

        7.11    Section 409A Compliance.    To the extent the Committee determines that any Award granted under the Plan is subject to Section 409A of the Code, the Award Certificate evidencing such Award will incorporate the terms and conditions required by Section 409A of the Code. To the extent applicable, the Plan and the Award Certificate will be interpreted in accordance with Section 409A of the Code and Department of Treasury regulations and other interpretive guidance issued thereunder, including without limitation any such regulations or other guidance that may be issued after the Effective Date. Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan, in the event that the Committee determines that any Award may be subject to Section 409A of the Code, the Committee may adopt such amendments to the Plan and/or the applicable Award Certificate or adopt policies and procedures or take any other action or actions, including an action or amendment with retroactive effect, that the Committee determines is necessary or appropriate to (i) exempt the Award from the application of Section 409A of the Code or (ii) comply with the requirements of Section 409A of the Code. Any Award that provides for a payment to any Participant who is a "specified employee" of deferred compensation that is subject to Code Section 409A(a)(2) and that becomes payable upon, or that is accelerated upon, such Participant's Termination of Employment, shall also provide that no such payment shall be made on or before the date which is six months following such Participant's Termination of Employment (or, if earlier, such Participant's death). A specified employee for this purpose shall be determined by the Committee or its delegate in accordance with the provisions of Code Section 409A and the regulations and rulings thereunder.

        7.12    Governing Law, Severability.    The Plan and all determinations made and actions taken under the Plan will be governed by the law of Switzerland and construed accordingly. If any provision of the Plan is held unlawful or otherwise invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part, the unlawfulness, invalidity or unenforceability will not affect any other parts of the Plan, which parts will remain in full force and effect.

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Appendix B

PRIMARY TALENT MARKET PEER GROUP

Aerospace & Defense, Electronics & Scientific Equipment, Industrial Manufacturing

3M Company
Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
Aerojet, GenCorp. Co.
Agilent Technologies Inc.
Ameron International Corp.
AMETEK Inc.
A. O. Smith Corporation
Applied Materials Inc.
Arrow Electronics, Inc.
BAE Systems PLC
Ball Corp.
Beckman Coulter Inc.
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.
The Boeing Company
Brady Corp.
Calgon Carbon Corporation
Cameron International Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Celestica Inc.
CommScope, Inc.
The Connell Company
Cubic Corp.
Curtiss-Wright Corporation
Deere & Company
Donaldson Co. Inc.
Eaton Corporation
Embraer-Empresa Brasiliera
    de Aeronautica S.A.
Fairchild Controls Corporation
  FANUC Robotics America
Fortune Brands Inc.
GAF Materials Corporation
    (Canada)
General Atomics
General Dynamics Corporation
General Electric Company
Goodrich Corp.
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
Greif, Inc.
Herman Miller
Honeywell International Inc.
Ingersoll-Rand
Invensys Controls
Johns-Manville
Kaman Industrial Technologies
KLA-Tencor Corporation
L-3 Communications Holdings
    Inc.
Lafarge North America
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Matthews International
    Corporation
MeadWestvaco Corp.
Millipore Corp.
Mine Safety Appliances Co.
MSC Industrial Direct Co. Inc.
Omnova Solutions Inc.
Owens-Illinois Inc.
  Panasonic Corporation of North
    America

Parker Hannifin Corporation
Plexus Corp.
Polymer Group, Inc.
PolyOne Corporation
Raytheon Company
Regal Beloit Corporation
Rockwell Automation Inc.
Rockwell Collins Inc.
Rolls-Royce North America
SCA Americas
Schneider Electric SA
Sealed Air Corporation
Sensata Technologies, Inc.
Siemens AG
Sonoco Products Co.
SPX Corporation
Taylor-Wharton
Terex Corp.
Textron Inc.
Thomas & Betts Corp.
Timex Group USA, Inc.
Toro Co.
United Technologies Corporation
USG Corp.
VWR International, LLC
W. W. Grainger, Inc.

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The person signing on the reverse side of this card, being a holder of shares of Tyco Electronics, revoking any proxy heretofore given in connection with the Meeting, hereby appoints as his/her proxy at the Meeting, Thomas J. Lynch, Terrence R. Curtin or Robert A. Scott, or any of them, (the “Company Officers”) with full powers of substitution, and directs such proxy to vote (or abstain from voting) at the Meeting all of his/her shares as indicated on the reverse side of this card or, to the extent that no such indication is given, to vote as set forth herein, and authorizes such proxy to vote in accordance with the recommendation of the Board of Directors on such other business as may properly be presented at the Meeting. See Company Officers address below for return of proxy card.

 

 

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The person signing on the reverse side of this card, being a holder of shares of Tyco Electronics, revoking any proxy heretofore given in connection with the Meeting, hereby appoints as his/her proxy at the Meeting, the independent proxy, Dr. Jvo Grundler, Ernst & Young AG, (the “Independent Proxy”) with full powers of substitution, and directs such proxy to vote (or abstain from voting) at the Meeting all of his/her shares as indicated on the reverse side of this card or, to the extent that no such indication is given, to vote as set forth herein, and authorizes such proxy to vote in accordance with the recommendation of the Board of Directors on such other business as may properly be presented at the Meeting. See Independent Proxy address below for return of proxy card.

 

Please indicate on the reverse side of this card how the shares represented by the Company Officers or the Independent Proxy are to be voted. If this card is returned duly signed but without any indication as to the appointment of the proxy above or how the shares are to be voted in respect of any of the resolutions described on the reverse side, the shareholder will be deemed to have appointed the Company Officers as the shareholder’s proxy and/or to have directed the proxy to vote “FOR” each of the director nominees and all of the agenda items (including each subpart thereof) described on the reverse side.

 

PLEASE MARK YOUR VOTES IN THE CORRESPONDING BOXES ON THE REVERSE SIDE

 

In order to assure that your votes are tabulated in time to be voted at the Meeting, you must submit your proxy card to either of the following addresses so that it is received by 5:00 p.m., Central European Time (11:00 a.m., Eastern Standard Time) on March 9, 2010.

 

If granting a proxy to the Company Officers:

 

Tyco Electronics Ltd.
c/o BNY Mellon Shareowner Services
P. O. Box 3550
South Hackensack, NJ 07606-9250
United States of America

 

If granting a proxy to the Independent Proxy:

 

Dr. Jvo Grundler
Ernst & Young AG
Legal
Bleicherweg 21
P.O. Box
CH-8022, Zurich, Switzerland

 

(CONTINUED AND TO BE SIGNED ON REVERSE SIDE)

 

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PLEASE INDICATE WITH AN “X” IN THE APPROPRIATE SPACE HOW YOU WISH YOUR SHARES TO BE VOTED.

 

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If no direction is made, this proxy will be voted “FOR” each of the director nominees listed below and “FOR” each agenda item (including each subpart hereof). The Board of Directors recommends a vote “FOR” each of the director nominees listed below and “FOR” each agenda item (including each subpart hereof).

 

 

 

 

FOR

 

AGAINST

 

ABSTAIN

1.1

Election of Pierre R. Brondeau

 

o

 

o

 

o

1.2

Election of Ram Charan

 

o

 

o

 

o

1.3

Election of Juergen W. Gromer

 

o

 

o

 

o

1.4

Election of Robert M. Hernandez

 

o

 

o

 

o

1.5

Election of Thomas J. Lynch

 

o

 

o

 

o

1.6

Election of Daniel J. Phelan

 

o

 

o

 

o

1.7

Election of Frederic M. Poses

 

o

 

o

 

o

1.8

Election of Lawrence S. Smith

 

o

 

o

 

o

1.9

Election of Paula A. Sneed

 

o

 

o

 

o

1.10

Election of David P. Steiner

 

o

 

o

 

o

1.11

Election of John C. Van Scoter

 

o

 

o

 

o

2.1

To approve the 2009 Annual Report of Tyco Electronics Ltd. (excluding the statutory financial statements for the period ended September 25, 2009 and the consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended September 25, 2009)

 

o

 

o

 

o

2.2

To approve the statutory financial statements of Tyco Electronics Ltd. for the period ended September 25, 2009

 

o

 

o

 

o

2.3

To approve the consolidated financial statements of Tyco Electronics Ltd. for the fiscal year ended September 25, 2009

 

o

 

o

 

o

3.

To approve the equivalent of a dividend payment in the form of a distribution to shareholders through a reduction of the par value of our shares, such payment to be made in four equal quarterly installments on or before March 25, 2011 (the end of the second fiscal quarter of 2011)

 

o

 

o

 

o

4.

To release the members of the Board of Directors and executive officers of Tyco Electronics for activities during fiscal year 2009

 

o

 

o

 

o

5.

To approve an increase in the number of shares available for awards under the Tyco Electronics Ltd. 2007 Stock and Incentive Plan

 

o

 

o

 

o

6.1

To elect Deloitte & Touche LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year 2010

 

o

 

o

 

o

6.2

To elect Deloitte AG, Zurich, Switzerland, as our Swiss registered auditor until our next annual general meeting

 

o

 

o

 

o

6.3

To elect PricewaterhouseCoopers AG, Zurich, Switzerland, as our special auditor until our next annual general meeting

 

o

 

o

 

o

7.

To approve any adjournments or postponements of the Annual General Meeting

 

o

 

o

 

o

 

In the event of other agenda items or proposals during the Annual General Meeting on which voting is permissible under Swiss law, the Company Officers or the Independent Proxy, as applicable, will vote your shares in accordance with the respective recommendation of the Board of Directors.

 

Note:

1. In the case of a corporation, this proxy must be under its common seal or signed by a duly authorized officer or director whose designation must be stated.

 

2. In the case of joint holders, any holder may sign, but the vote of the senior who tenders a vote, whether in person or by proxy, will be accepted to the exclusion of the votes of the other joint holders and for this purpose seniority will be determined by the order in which the names stand in the Register of Shareholders.

 

3. Please sign as name appears hereon. When signing as attorney, executor, administrator, trustee or guardian, please give full title as such.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Signature

 

Name/Title

 

Date

 



 

FOLD AND DETACH HERE

 

ADMISSION TICKET

 

Annual General Meeting

of

Shareholders of

Tyco Electronics Ltd.

 

March 10, 2010

2:00 p.m., Central European Time

8:00 a.m., Eastern Standard Time

 

Radisson Blu Hotel, Zurich Airport, Zurich, Switzerland

 

TYCO ELECTRONICS LTD.

 

THIS PROXY IS BEING SOLICITED ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

 

Proxy Card for use at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders of Tyco Electronics Ltd., a Swiss corporation (“Tyco Electronics”), or any adjournment or postponement thereof (the “Meeting”), to be held on March 10, 2010 at 2:00 p.m., Central European Time, at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Zurich Airport, Zurich, Switzerland.