Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Nasdaq Stock Market (Nasdaq) have until December 1 to adopt compliant clawback policies now that the SEC has approved listing standards the exchanges proposed. The...more
This week the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) extended its deadline for when the SEC must take action on the proposed listing standards to implement the executive compensation recovery rules (the Clawback Rules) to...more
Last year the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted long-awaited executive compensation recovery rules (the Clawback Rules). Those Clawback Rules instructed national securities exchanges (such as NYSE and Nasdaq)...more
On October 26, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted final rules, first proposed by the SEC in 2015, requiring the recoupment of erroneously awarded incentive compensation received by current and former...more
On August 25, 2022, the SEC adopted a final rule implementing a provision of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 requiring public companies to provide clear disclosure of the relationship between executive compensation and company...more
Director compensation suits may survive a motion to dismiss in Delaware even if director compensation is within a shareholder-approved limit.
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The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the "Act") expanded the scope of the $1 million dollar deduction limitation under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended ("Section 162(m)") and, subject to a transition...more
1/12/2018
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On December 13, 2017, in Re Investors Bancorp, Inc. Stockholder Litigation ("Bancorp"), the Supreme Court of Delaware held that when stockholders have approved an equity incentive plan that gives the directors discretion to...more
In Chief Counsel Advice 201518013 (May 1, 2015) (the "CCA"), the IRS addresses an executive retention bonus that originally vested after three years and was payable in equal installments on the first two anniversaries of the...more
The recent amendments to the Section 162(m) regulations largely follow the changes set forth in the proposed regulations issued in 2011, clarifying two exceptions from the Section 162(m) tax deductibility limit...more
As widely reported, on February 26, 2014, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the proposed Tax Reform Act of 2014 (the "Camp Proposal"). In exchange for simplification...more
4/16/2014