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The Claws are Sharpened – SEC finalizes Clawback Regulations under Dodd-Frank

The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on October 26, 2022, adopted final rules1 directing national securities exchanges and associations,2 to establish listing standards that require public companies to develop and...more

In the Battle of Pay vs. Performance, SEC Declares that Increased Disclosure Wins

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on August 25, 2022 finalized the “Pay-versus-Performance” disclosure requirements (the “Final Rules”)1 that originally were proposed on April 29, 2015 (the “Proposed...more

Plan for a Ban: How the Overruling of Roe v. Wade May Impact Employee Healthcare Plans

The U.S. Supreme Court on June 24, 2022, overruled Roe v. Wade, the seminal case in which the Court had recognized the existence of the constitutional right for individuals to obtain an abortion. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s...more

A Repeat Performance – U.S. SEC Taking Another Look At Executive Pay Versus Performance

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on January 28, 2022, reopened the comment period with respect to its pending “pay versus performance” proposal (Proposed Rule), which would generally require public companies to...more

Employee Retirement Income CYBERSecurity – DOL Issues New Cyber Authority Under ERISA

Cybercrime increased exponentially in 2020 and into 2021, starting with the disruption caused by COVID-19 and the migration to a work from home environment. Phishing emails were up 35 times and ransom attacks were up 150...more

Numerous Benefit Lifelines in the American Rescue Plan

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (“ARPA”), which was signed into law on March 11, 2021, includes a number of provisions relating to health and welfare plans that will be beneficial to many Americans. In addition, ARPA...more

SEC Adds Its Voice to Those Looking for “Equity”-ble Treatment of Gig Workers – New SEC Proposal Modernizes Rule 701 and Form S-8

The Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) recently proposed temporary rules that would permit companies to offer equity compensation to “platform workers” who provide services available through the company’s...more

Employee Benefits and Health Insurance Provisions Are Injected Into New COVID-Relief Legislation

The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the “Act”) was signed by the President on December 27, 2020, to provide additional COVID-related relief.  The Act has a number of provisions that are relevant to retirement plans...more

Once in a Lifetime? -- The DOL Issues Interim Final Rules on Lifetime Income

The U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) on August 18, 2020, issued an interim final regulation (the “Regulation”) requiring the inclusion of lifetime income illustrations in the benefit statements provided to participants in...more

Electricity in the Air: Court Decides that Stockholder Ratification Not Enough to Insulate Tesla CEO’s $55.8 Billion Compensation...

The Delaware Chancery Court rejected an attempt by Tesla’s Board of Directors to dismiss a challenge to CEO Elon Musk’s “extraordinary” 2018 compensation package. Because Musk is also Tesla’s controlling stockholder, the...more

Reducing Administrative Hardship – IRS Releases Final Regulations Relating to Hardship Distributions for Section 401(k) Plans

The Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) issued final regulations, effective September 23, 2019 (the “Final Regulations”), that modify the hardship distribution rules for plans established under Section 401(k) of the Internal...more

SEC Issues C&DIs on CEO Pay Ratio Disclosure, Exempt Offerings Under Rule 701 and Sales of Securities Under Rule 144(d)

Item 402(u) of Regulation S-K allows a company to identify its median employee by using annual total compensation or any other compensation measure that is consistently applied (a “CACM”) to all employees included in the...more

HIPAA Compliance – Not Just an Issue for Health Care Providers

Many people believe that compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) is solely an issue for health care providers and their affiliates. However, nothing could be further from the...more

More Egregious Aggregation Under ERISA in the Sun Capital Partners Case? The District Court Goes Down Yet Another Road

The recent opinion by the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts on remand from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in the Sun Capital Partners case may be troubling to private equity funds and...more

Collecting Another Supreme Win for ERISA Preemption - Court in Gobeille Invalidates Vermont Data Collection Law

The U.S. Supreme Court decided the case of Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. last week, in which the Court invalidated a Vermont health care data collection law as being preempted by the Employee Retirement Income...more

Update – Disapproving the Approval Process: IRS Provides Additional Guidance on the Curtailment of the Determination Letter...

The Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) recently released Notice 2016-03, which provides additional details for plan sponsors on the curtailment of the determination letter process for individually designed tax-qualified...more

Be Careful What You Wish For – Dudenhoeffer May Do “More Harm Than Good” For ERISA “Stock Drop” Plaintiffs

In its June 2014 decision in Dudenhoeffer v. Fifth Third Bank, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously declined to recognize a “presumption of prudence” that had favored retirement-plan fiduciaries faced with allegations of...more

U.S. Supreme Court Limits ERISA Plan’s Subrogation Rights Where Participants Have Dissipated Funds Recovered from Third Parties –...

Over the years, the U.S. Supreme Court from time to time has explored the scope of equitable relief available under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”) in circumstances where an employee benefit plan...more

Approval Process Disapproved: IRS Curtails the Determination Letter Program

The Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) on July 21, 2015, issued Announcement 2015-19, describing important changes to the determination letter program for individually designed tax-qualified retirement plans. These changes...more

The Claws Are Out – SEC Proposes Clawback Regulations Under Dodd-Frank

Five years after the passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank”), the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has issued the last of its proposed rules to implement the...more

Some Limited Trouble with Tibble? Part II –Supreme Court Decides Excessive-Fee Case Involving 401(k) Plan

Earlier this week, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously decided the case of Tibble v. Edison International. In Tibble, the Court held that the statute of limitations under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974...more

A Phantom Menace for IPO Companies - US Tax Regulations Restrict the Use of Restricted Stock Units

Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code (“Section 162(m)”) provides for a $1 million dollar limitation on the amount of compensation paid to each of certain named executive officers that public companies may deduct in any...more

Dudenhoeffer Eschews Moench Presumption But Encourages Careful Scrutiny Of Complaints: Future for ERISA Stock-Drop Litigation Is...

Certain retirement plans, such as employee stock ownership plans (“ESOPs”), are specifically designed to invest all or a portion of their assets in stock of the sponsoring employer. For nearly twenty years, the federal courts...more

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