BlackBerry maker Research in Motion is giving Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis a $12 million going-away present.

A company filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday revealed Balsillie and Lazaridis will be getting $7.93-million and $3.96-million respectively after resigning as co-CEOs and co-chairs of the Waterloo-based firm.

Balsillie and Lazaridis stepped down in January, with the company naming Thorsten Heins as its new CEO and Barbara Stymiest as its new chair. Lazaridis remains the company’s vice chairman.

Heins was paid roughly $10.2 million in fiscal 2012, including more than $9.5 million in stock-based compensation. In 2011, he got $1.9 million, including $825,000 in stock-based pay.

According to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, the top 100 best paid CEOs in Canada earned an average of $8.38 million in total compensation in 2010, the most recent year for which the CCPA has compiled data. Top of the list was former Magna CEO Frank Stronach, who received a total of $61.8 million.

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The company also revealed it will nominate former Goldman Sachs executive Timothy Dattels to the board of directors at its upcoming annual general meeting, which takes place July 10th.

Dattels is currently a senior partner at Texas-based TPG Capital, a private equity firm specialized in leveraged buyouts and which invests in distressed companies.

That makes him a “solid hire” for RIM’s board, suggested Jefferies and Co. analyst Peter Misek, but doesn’t mean the TPG is looking at buying into the company.

“I think RIM would be a massive challenge for any private equity investment,” said Misek, pointing to Elevation Partners’ massive investment in former tech darling Palm. While Elevation may have in fact ended up making a small amount on its investment, it was only after Hewlett-Packard bought Palm at what most observers believe was a wildly overvalued price.

“They almost lost their shirts and were bailed out by a stupid decision by HP. That will scare folks,” said Misek.

Activist investor Vic Alboini, whose Jaguar Financial pushed for the departure of Lazaridis and Balsillie, said Dattels alone isn’t enough of a change to RIM’s board.

“We were looking for there to be three new directors,” said Alboini, who nonetheless sees value in Dattels’s hiring.

“Any change on the board that brings experience from outside Toronto is a good thing. He certainly has the type of experience you want when the company’s undergoing a strategic review,” said Alboini.

Dattels would replace Antonio Viana-Baptista, who’s quitting.

RIM spokesman Nick Manning said Dattels would not be available for comment.

At Goldman Sachs, Dattels was a managing director, and ran the company’s Asian investment banking operations, excluding Japan. He’s currently a senior partner at Texas-based TPG Capital, a private equity firm specialized in leveraged buyouts and which invests in distressed companies.

Heins revealed last month that RIM likely had an operating loss in the quarter which ended in May. Quarterly earnings will be revealed June 28th. He also said RIM had hired a pair of investment banks to explore strategic options.