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<DIV align="right" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 12pt"><B>Exhibit&nbsp;10.1</B>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">July&nbsp;17, 2008
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">Pascal Girin<BR>
10 allee Camille Saint-Saens<BR>
78670 Villennes sur Seine<BR>
France
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">Dear Pascal:
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">We are thrilled to offer you a promotion to Executive Vice President and President, Worldwide
Neurovascular and International. The following summarizes our discussion regarding your new
position and changes to your existing compensation arrangements.
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    <TD align="left" valign="top"><B>Position:</B>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Executive Vice President and President, Worldwide Neurovascular and International</DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top"><B>Reporting to:</B>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">Robert J. Palmisano, President and Chief Executive Officer.</DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top"><B>Effective Date:</B>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">July&nbsp;18, 2008</DIV></TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">259,113 Euro annual base salary, paid in accordance with ev3&#146;s normal payroll procedures for its Paris, France office.</DIV></TD>
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    <TD align="left" valign="top"><B>Expatriation Premium:</B>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">In addition to your annual base salary, you will be paid &#147;expatriation premium&#148; or &#147;mobility premium&#148; payments under French tax law based on the number of days which you will work outside of France on behalf of ev3 during a calendar year, in the aggregate amount of up to 99,672 Euro.</DIV></TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">You will be entitled to earn an annual target incentive bonus of up to
65% of your annual base salary and expatriation premium payments, based upon the
achievement of performance objectives set by the Compensation Committee of ev3&#146;s Board of
Directors or the Board. Unlike your annual incentive bonus for 2007 performance, please
note that none of your annual incentive bonus for 2008 performance will be guaranteed.</DIV></TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">In connection with your new position, you will be granted a
non-statutory stock option to purchase 100,000 shares of ev3 common stock and a restricted
stock unit for 38,550 shares of ev3 common stock. The option will have a per share
exercise price equal to the greater of: (a)&nbsp;the &#147;fair market value&#148; (as defined in the ev3
Inc. Second Amended and Restated 2005 Incentive Stock Plan) of a share of ev3 common stock
grant date; or (b)&nbsp;80% of the average closing price of a share of ev3 common stock, as
reported by the NASDAQ Global Select Market, during the twenty (20)&nbsp;trading days preceding
the date of grant. The option will have a term of 10&nbsp;years from the grant date and will
vest with respect to 25,000 of the shares purchasable thereunder, as of the 12-month
anniversary of the grant date, and with respect to the remaining 75,000 of such shares, in
36 as nearly equal as possible monthly installments of shares on each of the one-month
anniversary of the grant date, beginning with the first month after the 12-month
anniversary of the grant date, in each case so long as you are still an employee or
consultant of ev3 or one of its subsidiaries as of such date.</DIV></TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">The restricted stock unit will vest and become issuable with
respect to 19,275 of the shares underlying the stock grant on the
two-year anniversary of the grant date, with respect to respect to
an additional 9,637 of the shares underlying such stock grant on
November&nbsp;15, 2010, and with respect to the remaining 9,638 of the
shares underlying such stock grant on November&nbsp;15, 2011, in each
case so long as you are still an employee or consultant of ev3 or
one of its subsidiaries as of such date. The restricted stock unit
will also contain other terms and conditions as typically provided
in such grants to residents of France. In accordance with French
tax laws, the option and stock grants will be made to you during
the next open trading window under ev3&#146;s insider trading policy.</DIV></TD>
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Leased Apartment:</B>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">ev3 intends to maintain a company-leased apartment to be made available to
ev3 personnel traveling to ev3&#146;s Irvine, California facility working on behalf of ev3.
Upon advance reservation and assuming availability, you will be entitled to use such
apartment, if necessary, while you are in Irvine, California, U.S.A. working on behalf
of ev3.</DIV></TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">You will be reimbursed for short term car rental when you are in the US on ev3 business.</DIV></TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">We will reimburse you for all reasonable and documented expenses
incurred in connection with your immediate family (consisting of four members) traveling
to California, U.S.A. twice per year.</DIV></TD>
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    <TD valign="top"><DIV style="margin-left:0px; text-indent:-0px">We will eliminate your housing allowance which you previously used
while working on behalf of ev3 in Paris, France. We will amend your Change of Control
Agreement to clarify that the calculation of base pay includes the expatriate bonus.
Other terms of French Employment Agreement, not inconsistent with this letter remain
unchanged</DIV></TD>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">If the foregoing is acceptable to you, please sign and return this offer letter no later than July
18, 2008 to <B>Greg Morrison, Senior Vice President, Human Resources.</B>
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<DIV align="left" style="font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 6pt">Pascal, on behalf of ev3, we are thrilled with your willingness and enthusiasm to take on this new
opportunity.
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President and Chief Executive Officer
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    <TD align="left" valign="top" nowrap>/s/ Pascal E.R. Girin<br>
Pascal E.R. Girin
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