Overview of Committee Member Responsibilities -
Compensation committee (Committee) members’ duties and responsibilities generally are outlined in the Committee’s organizational charter approved by the board of directors...more
4/4/2024
/ Clawbacks ,
Corporate Governance ,
Delaware General Corporation Law ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Executive Compensation ,
Listing Rules ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Proxy Advisory Firms ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Regulation
By Friday, December 1, 2023, listed companies must adopt a Dodd-Frank-compliant clawback policy. As background, on February 22, 2023, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Nasdaq Stock Market (Nasdaq) proposed listing...more
11/21/2023
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Compliance ,
Compliance Dates ,
Corporate Governance ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Executive Compensation ,
Incentive Compensation ,
Listing Standards ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
On June 9, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved, on an accelerated basis, the New York Stock Exchange’s (NYSE) and Nasdaq Stock Market’s (Nasdaq) proposed listing standards implementing the SEC’s...more
6/19/2023
/ Clawbacks ,
Compliance ,
Compliance Dates ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Corporate Governance ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Executive Compensation ,
Incentive Compensation ,
Listing Standards ,
Popular ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Stock Exchange
On May 3, 2023, the U.S. Tax Court upheld a taxpayer’s reliance on Revenue Procedure 93-27 to characterize as a profits interest a partnership interest granted in exchange for services that were provided indirectly for the...more
Earlier this week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) updated the expected timeline for finalizing the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Nasdaq listing standards requiring listed companies to adopt clawback...more
Overview of Committee Member Responsibilities -
Compensation committee (Committee) members’ duties and responsibilities generally are outlined in the Committee’s organizational charter approved by the board of directors...more
3/8/2023
/ Acquisitions ,
Compensation Committee ,
Director Compensation ,
Eligibility ,
Equity Compensation ,
Executive Compensation ,
Filing Season ,
Financial Adviser ,
Mergers ,
Proxy Advisory Firms ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Exchange Act ,
Stock Exchange ,
Taxation
The staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) Division of Corporate Finance recently issued guidance to address open questions related to the final pay-versus-performance (PVP) disclosure rules adopted in...more
3/1/2023
/ Corporate Governance ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Executive Compensation ,
Form 10-K ,
Item 402 ,
Pay-for-Performance ,
Proxy Season ,
Proxy Statements ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Regulation S-K ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
On December 14, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted several amendments and new disclosure requirements intended to address what it perceives may be abusive practices relating to Rule 10b5-1 trading...more
12/23/2022
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Amended Rules ,
Board of Directors ,
Corporate Governance ,
Corporate Officers ,
Directors ,
Disclosure ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Insider Trading ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Regulation
Companies have important decisions to make as they prepare for the 2023 annual meeting and reporting season.
We have compiled this overview of key issues — including SEC disclosure requirements, recent SEC guidance,...more
On August 25, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final rules requiring public companies to disclose the relationship between the executive compensation actually paid to the company’s named...more
This year, we expect to see new disclosure requirements; rule changes at the Securities and Exchange Commission that will affect directors; activists adopting new tactics; changes to shareholder voting processes; tax and...more
Takeaways -
The SEC has reopened comments on a 2015 proposal to require companies to implement policies to recoup executive compensation if they have been forced to restate financials.
Questions the agency posed in...more
Companies have important decisions to make as they prepare for the 2022 annual meeting and reporting season.
We have compiled this overview of key issues — including SEC disclosure requirements, recent SEC guidance,...more
12/8/2021
/ Climate Change ,
Corporate Governance ,
Cybersecurity ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Executive Compensation ,
Hart-Scott-Rodino Act ,
Insider Trading ,
MD&A Statements ,
Proxy Advisors ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Regulation S-K ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Shareholder Proposals
The duties imposed on compensation committees of publicly traded companies have evolved and grown over time. This seventh edition of the Compensation Committee Handbook from the lawyers of the Executive Compensation and...more
As discussed in our March 23, 2020, client alert “Recommendations for Compensation Committees During the COVID-19 Crisis,” compensation committees charged with implementing programs intended to incentivize and retain...more
As discussed in our March 20, 2020, client alert “Thoughts for Boards of Directors on the COVID-19 Crisis,” COVID-19 is testing the oversight skills of boards of directors as companies come to terms with the new normal in the...more
The duties imposed on compensation committees of publicly traded companies have evolved and grown over time. The fifth edition of the Compensation Committee Handbook, authored by our Executive Compensation and Benefits Group,...more
12/11/2018
/ Acquisitions ,
Compensation Committee ,
Director Compensation ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employment Contract ,
Equity Compensation ,
Executive Compensation ,
Fiduciary Duty ,
Financial Adviser ,
Mergers ,
Nasdaq ,
NYSE ,
Proxy Advisory Firms ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Section 16 ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Exchange Act ,
Stock Exchange ,
Taxation