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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Want to Leave Your Employment? That Will Cost You!

It's the run-up to bonus season in the UK and there is a lot to talk about. While the markets may have cooled down, the caps are off! In a controversial move, regulators removed the regulatory cap on banker's bonuses on 31...more

The Volkov Law Group

Enforceability of Clawback and Compensation Penalty Provisions (Part II of II)

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We often read about lucrative bonus payments made to CEOs and other senior executives. With refinements in corporate governance structures, shareholders and investors are raising concerns over executive bonuses. To bring...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

DOJ Targets Executive Compensation in Compliance Failures: A Novel Approach Becomes Standard Practice

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Speaking before the American Bar Association National Institute on White Collar Crime on March 2, 2023, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco unveiled a new and unprecedented Department of Justice (DOJ) pilot program concerning...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Reasonable Compensation Meets The Principal Shareholder of a C Corp

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Double Tax- The shareholders of C corporations have long sought legitimate operational and transactional structures by which they may reduce the double tax hit that is realized when such a corporation distributes its...more

Holland & Knight LLP

The SEC's Ears Remain Perked for an Abundance of Executive Perks

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As we continue our review of FY 2021 SEC enforcement activity, we turn our attention to a topic that, if not already a key focus for publicly traded companies, should be. As part of their effort to recruit and retain...more

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AIM Disciplinary Notice: public censure and fine

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The London Stock Exchange (the “Exchange”) has publicly censured and fined an AIM company £580,000 for breach of Rule 13 (the related party transaction rules) and Rule 31 of the AIM Rules for Companies (liaison with the...more

Winstead PC

Court Found That There Was A Fact Question On Whether Officers Violated Fiduciary Duties By Obtaining A Side Bonus From A...

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A business divorce may mean that the owners need to sell the business or the business’s assets. In the following case, some of the owners/officers took advantage of a sale transaction to benefit from that transaction at the...more

Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

Being aggressive could be a bad idea

Many years ago, I was contacted by a bank that had an issue. For 20 years, they didn’t include bonuses as part of their plan’s compensation, even though it was supposed to be included. I told them that the only option was an...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 5.27.2020 | Top Story: AT&T Officially Enters Streaming Wars With Its Pricey HBO Max Offering

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With HBO Max entering the fray today, we’ve got your latest dispatch from the streaming wars, including thoughts on Max’s ability to deliver on its promise to “crush” Netflix despite a very crowded playing field, a spendy...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

WHD Issues Its First Opinion Letters of the. . . Decade

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage & Hour Division recently issued two opinion letters providing clarity to employers in determining (1) the proper overtime rate of pay for non-discretionary, multi-week...more

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Supreme Court of Canada to Decide the Extent of Employers’ Duty of Trust, Honesty and Good Faith in the Performance of Incentive...

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It is rare for an employment law case to come before the highest court in Canada. One of 2019’s most significant developments was the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision to consider an employee’s appeal of the Nova Scotia...more

Holland & Knight LLP

SIC Sanciona Empresa por Asumir Pago de Multas Impuestas a Sus Altos Directivos - Los Pagos de Bonificación Simulados Asumieron...

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Por primera vez, la Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio (SIC) en Colombia investiga y sanciona a una empresa por pagar con sus recursos multas impuestas por la autoridad de competencia a sus empleados. En efecto, en...more

Holland & Knight LLP

SIC Sanctions Company for Paying Fines Imposed on Its Senior Executives - Simulated Bonus Payments Assumed Fines Levied in 2016...

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For the first time, Colombia's Superintendence of Industry and Commerce (SIC) has investigated and sanctioned a company for paying with its resources fines imposed by the Competition Authority to its employees. The SIC...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Reminder: 2017 Bonus Deductions

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Companies may wish to take certain steps before January 1, 2018, with respect to 2017 annual bonuses. As has been widely reported, Congress has passed tax reform legislation lowering 2018 corporate tax rates and thus...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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More trouble for Wells Fargo, this time involving its Forex operation, which an internal investigation revealed was plagued by routine overcharging of customers and other questionable practices by bankers engaged in a battle...more

Akerman LLP

Episode 26: Talking Tax Reform and Executive Comp

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Don’t let the episode title scare you away! Matt welcomes colleague Leanne Reagan to discuss how the House’s proposed tax reform bill impacts compensation arrangements and how, if passed into law, it could completely...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

When the Compliance Counsel Speaks, CCOs Should Listen

I was recently having breakfast with a colleague and we were discussing the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Compliance Counsel Hui Chen and what we believe to be the positive impact she has had on the compliance community,...more

Dickinson Wright

Renewed Perils from “Zeroing Out” a Corporation at Year-End

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Physicians who are involved in the financial management of their practices are all too familiar with the year-end scramble to “zero out” the corporation’s profits. Under this technique, a physician practice that is structured...more

Dickinson Wright

Healthcare Legal News: Volume 6, Number 2

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Restrictions on Fees Permitted under HIPAA for Copies of Medical Records - When health care providers provide copies of medical records to an individual patient or to third parties at the direction of that individual...more

Proskauer - Tax Talks

Senator Warren Leads Coalition to Expand Scope of Limitations on Executive Compensation Tax Deductions

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Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code generally limits the deductibility of compensation paid in excess of $1 million to the chief executive officer and the three other highest compensated officers (other than the chief...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Your daily dose of financial news The Brief – 3.23.16

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John Thain’s golden parachute got knocked down a few karats this week, with CIT Group cutting 30% off of his farewell bonus for failing to “successfully integrate OneWest, the California bank CIT bought last year for $3.4...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

SEC Brings $11,000 SOX Clawback Action

The SEC alleges that Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc. misstated its revenue. The SEC recently brought a settled enforcement action against its former CFO. The SEC alleges the CFO received bonuses during the 12-month periods...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Your daily dose of financial news The Brief – 11.23.15

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Clocking in at an as-promised $150 billion, the Pfizer/Allergan merger is a done deal, marking one of the biggest ever takeovers in the health care industry. As mentioned here last week, the deal finalization comes on the...more

JD Supra Perspectives

How to Prevent Poaching of Your Startup's Employees

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Employee “poaching” is a fact of life in many industries. Such employee recruiting is not intrinsically illegal, as a matter of public policy the law generally favors the ability of employees to freely switch employers....more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

Input Sought on New Rules to Extend Overtime to More Workers

Employers and other stakeholders have just a few weeks in which to provide input on proposed regulations which would raise the salary threshold for workers exempt from overtime to $50,440 a year. On July 6, 2015 the...more

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