Transocean provides for Rosa

Rosa: Transocean's outgoing chief financial officer had worked for the company for 19 years.

Drilling contractor Transocean has provided a generous safety net for chief financial officer Ricardo Rosa, who will leave the company on 30 April.

The company announced Rosa would step down earlier this month, temporarily replacing him with the man Rosa succeeded, Gregory Cauthen.

In an SEC filing, Transocean said it would pay Rosa a lump sum severance payment of 605,000 Swiss Francs and a lump sum bonus equal to a pro-rata version of his target award for 2012.

Using current currency conversion rates, the severance payment is equal to $652,744, but it could be as high as $732,050 using what the company called in an amendment to its 2010 10-K form its “long term exchange rate”…

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