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The reporting requirement under the Corporate Transparency Act took effect January 1, 2024. Now, most small businesses are required to report beneficial ownership information to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the...more
In January of 2021, Congress passed the Corporate Transparency Act of 2019 (the “CTA”) as part of the 2021 Defense Bill. Initially introduced in 2019, the CTA requires private companies to disclose their “Beneficial Owners”...more
Almost a year ago, I reflected on the role of CEOs in times of uncertainty. We were, of course, just at the beginning of a pandemic that has changed how we live and work. I called for CEOs like me to bring a new level of...more
Companies are under enormous stress given the pandemic and the social unrest. Employees are looking to companies to provide some sense of stability and ultimately leadership. Corporate leaders are being tested and it is...more
The Background: The NYC Pension Funds, which led the largely successful campaign to implement proxy access rights across corporate America, have launched a new crusade to improve the diversity of corporate boards....more
The Situation: The UK government has proposed several corporate governance reforms in an effort to improve transparency and accountability in private and public employers....more
You might have read the NPR/ProPublica story from Monday about the Government Accountability Office’s investigation of the Red Cross, and CEO Gail McGovern’s attempts to end that investigation. The article says that in 2014...more
From time to time, a prominent CEO’s illness makes its way into the news and highlights once again one of disclosure’s trickiest issues. Most recently, Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, disclosed that he has...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently released its proposed rules to amend Item 402 of Regulation S-K to implement the pay ratio disclosure requirement in accordance with Section 953(b) of the Dodd-Frank Wall...more
Section 953(b) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ("Dodd-Frank") requires certain public companies to disclose how the compensation of the company's chief executive officer ("CEO") compares to...more
At an open meeting on September 18, 2013, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved for public comment proposed "pay ratio" disclosure rules to implement Section 953(b) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and...more
SEC Proposes Pay Ratio Disclosure Rules - On Wednesday, September 18, 2013, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) voted 3-2 to propose a new rule that would require public companies to disclose the ratio...more
The SEC has proposed rules to implement the “CEO pay ratio” disclosure requirements under Section 953(b) of the Dodd-Frank Act. The proposed rules would require many SEC reporting companies to publicly disclose the...more
On September 18, 2013, the Commissioners of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued proposed rules to implement Section 953(b) of the Dodd-Frank Act1 that require public companies to disclose how the...more
On September 18, the SEC voted 3-2 to propose a new rule requiring public companies to disclose the compensation ratio of CEO to the median compensation of its employees, as required by the Dodd-Frank Act. Under the proposal,...more
On September 18, 2013, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) narrowly voted in favor of proposing a rule that would require public companies to compare their chief executive officer’s compensation with that of all of...more
On September 18, 2013, the SEC voted 3 to 2 in favor of proposed "pay ratio" rules, which require each registrant to disclose the median of the annual total compensation of all of its employees (the MATC), the annual total...more
On September 18, 2013, pursuant to Section 953(b) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued proposed rules that will amend Item 402 of Regulation S-K to...more
Last Wednesday, a divided Securities and Exchange Commission issued proposed amendments to Item 402 of Regulation S-K. Section 953(b) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act required the SEC to amend...more
On September 18, 2013, in accordance with Section 953(b) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the “Reform Act”), the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) issued a press release and...more
Organizations affected by the proposed rule, which may take effect for the 2016 proxy season, should consider submitting comments to the SEC. On September 18, in order to implement the mandated disclosures under...more
On September 18, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed a rule that would amend Item 402 of Regulation S-K to require an issuer to disclose, in addition to the annual total compensation of the issuer’s chief...more
On September 18, 2013, the SEC commissioners voted 3-2 to propose a new rule that would amend existing executive compensation disclosure rules by requiring public companies to disclose the ratio of a CEO’s annual total...more