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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

2024 Compensation Committee Handbook

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

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

December 1 Deadline Approaches for Listed Companies To Adopt a Dodd-Frank Compliant Clawback Policy

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

A&O Shearman

SEC Clawback Rules Take Effect: What Companies Should Do Now

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On June 9, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved the New York Stock Exchange’s (NYSE) and Nasdaq Stock Market’s (Nasdaq) proposed clawback listing standards, including the amendments that delayed the...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Stock Exchange Deadline Approaches for Adopting SEC Compliant Clawback Policy

With the Labor Day holiday now in the rear view mirror, we wanted to remind companies whose shares are listed on the NYSE/Nasdaq stock exchanges that the deadline for implementing a so-called “Clawback Policy” is fast...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Practical Considerations for Adopting a Clawback Policy in Advance of Effective Date of NYSE and Nasdaq Listing Standards

On June 9, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved proposed amendments of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (Nasdaq) to their respective listing standards to implement the...more

Burns & Levinson LLP

Client Advisory: Executive Compensation and Clawbacks

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Clawback compensation has been a longstanding tool for both public and private companies to recoup excesses paid to employees after the occurrence of certain untoward events. For example, it is not uncommon to find clawback...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

SEC Approves Stock Exchange Rules for Dodd-Frank Clawbacks

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

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Dodd-Frank Clawback Rule: NYSE and Nasdaq Extend Effective Date for Compliance to December 1, 2023

On June 9, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved the “clawback” listing standards proposed by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Nasdaq, including the amendments filed by each, extending the...more

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SEC Approves Final Nasdaq and NYSE Rules Regarding Recovery of Incentive-Based Executive Compensation Awarded in Error with...

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The Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 added Section 10D to the Exchange Act, which requires the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to direct national securities exchanges to prohibit the listing of issuers that do not develop and...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

Addressing the Jurisdictional Challenges of Compensation Clawbacks

The Department of Justice’s newly launched compensation and clawback pilot program is certain to bring with it numerous implementation hurdles and jurisdictional challenges, but it also incentivizes companies to have in place...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

SEC Provides Update on Timing of Dodd-Frank Clawback Rules

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

Woodruff Sawyer

The SEC’s New Compensation “Clawback” Rules: What Directors and Officers Should Know

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted new rules in October 2022 that implement the compensation recovery (“clawback”) provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010...more

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Nasdaq and NYSE Propose Rules Regarding Recovery of Incentive-Based Executive Compensation Awarded in Error

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The Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 added Section 10D to the Exchange Act, which requires the SEC to direct national securities exchanges to prohibit the listing of issuers that do not develop and implement a policy for the recoupment...more

Smith Anderson

Clawback Policies - FAQs on Listing Standards Proposed by Nasdaq and NYSE

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In October 2022, the SEC adopted rules implementing the incentive-based compensation recovery (clawback) mandated by Section 954 of the Dodd-Frank Act....more

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Mark Your Calendar: 2023 Key Compliance Deadlines for SEC’s Final Compensation Clawback Rules

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As discussed in our recent blog post, the SEC recently adopted final executive officer incentive compensation clawback rules (the “Clawback Rules”) pursuant to the requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act.  The Clawback Rules,...more

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Final Clawback Rules Adopted by the SEC

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On October 26, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final rules implementing Section 954 of the Dodd‑Frank Act. The final rules were published in the Federal Register on November 28, 2022...more

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SEC adopts “clawback” rules for erroneously awarded executive compensation

On October 26, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) approved final rules (the Clawback Rules) requiring publicly traded companies to develop, implement and disclose policies providing for recovery, or...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

SEC Adopts Mandatory Rules for Clawing Back Incentive-Based Compensation: Questions and Answers for Public Companies and Best...

On October 26, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted long-delayed rules which will require companies to implement mandatory "clawback" policies with respect to incentive-based compensation if the company's...more

The Volkov Law Group

SEC Implements Clawback Rules

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The “hot” regulatory and compliance issue is incentives (and conversely disincentives).  The Justice Department has launched an initiative to require compliance programs to institute clawbacks and other measures to recover...more

NAVEX

Renewed Focus on SOX 304 Compliance Stresses Need for Culture of Compliance, Executive Accountability

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The Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission have signaled in recent months that they have reinvigorated their focus on executive compensation claw backs, urging companies to adopt compensation...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

SEC Adopts Long-Awaited Clawback Rules

On October 26, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted a final rule that will require most publicly traded companies to adopt a clawback policy to recover incentive-based compensation from current or...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

SEC Adopts Long-Awaited Clawback Rules

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On October 26, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted rules1 implementing Section 10D-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, a provision added by the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, which will require listed...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

How to Navigate the SEC’s New Clawback Rules

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The rules direct stock exchanges to require issuers that are publicly listed in the US to adopt clawback policies for the mandatory recovery of erroneously awarded incentive compensation... ...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Compensation Clawback Listing Standards Requirement: US Securities and Exchange Commission Adopts Final Rules

On October 26, 2022, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted new Rule 10D-1, directing national securities exchanges to establish listing standards that prohibit the listing of any security of a company that...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

SEC Issues Final Compensation Clawback Rules

The SEC has adopted rules to require securities exchanges to adopt listing standards that require issuers to develop and implement a policy providing for the recovery of erroneously awarded incentive-based compensation...more

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