Current Executive Compensation Trends in Private Equity Transactions — Troutman Pepper Podcast
TRAs: Benefits, Complexities (and Private Jets) Explained with Tax Attorney David Peck
Revisiting Financial Institution Incentive Compensation Rules Under Dodd-Frank — The Consumer Finance Podcast
DE Under 3: FAR Council Seeks to Require Federal Contractors to Report First-Tier Subcontractor Information, Including Potentially Executive Compensation Data
Multiemployer Pension Plans in Mergers and Acquisitions — Troutman Pepper Podcast
Equity Award Delegations for Publicly Traded Companies — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation: Getting Ready for 2024 – Top-Hat Plans — Special Edition Podcast
Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation: Getting Ready for 2024 - Health and Welfare Plan Developments — Special Edition Podcast
Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation: Getting Ready for 2024 - Qualified Plans — Special Edition Podcast
Navigating Noncompetes: A Comprehensive Guide – Part 1 – Hiring to Firing Podcast
December 1st Deadline to Adopt Executive Compensation Clawback Policies — The Consumer Finance Podcast
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Partial Plan Terminations
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Using Equity Incentives to Attract and Retain Key Team Members
Podcast: California Employment News - The Executive Pay Exemption
California Employment News: The Executive Pay Exemption
The Justice Insiders Podcast: Meet the Securities and Exchange (and Human Resources) Commission
What Non-US Startups Need to Know About Granting Stock Options
Change of Control: Golden Parachute Rules in the Sale Process
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PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Plan Administrators’ 2020 Year-End Checklist
As we approach the 2024 proxy season, companies are preparing for the second year of compliance with the pay vs. performance (PvP) disclosure required under Item 402(v) of Regulation S-K. As a reminder, under Item 402(v) of...more
As the calendar year flips over to 2024, we want to remind registrants about several new rules that will impact disclosure for the 2023 Form 10-K and 2024 proxy season, update the status of some pending Securities and...more
Although registrants have already had to comply with the Final Rules in annual reports, proxy statements and information statements beginning with the fiscal year ended on or after Dec. 16, 2022, registrants continue to have...more
As companies prepare for next proxy season, they should review SEC staff guidance on the pay vs. performance table. In addition to recent staff interpretations, as discussed in our October 2, 2023 post and February 22, 2023...more
The staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC’s) Division of Corporate Finance recently issued guidance to address open questions related to the final pay-versus-performance (PVP) disclosure rules adopted in...more
Most reporting companies are required to provide pay versus performance disclosure in their 2023 proxy statements as a result of rules finalized by the Securities and Exchange Commission in September 2022....more
As public companies prepare their 2022 annual reports and 2023 proxy statements, they will need to contend with a host of new requirements and disclosure updates stemming from the current geopolitical and economic...more
Public companies need to consider recent developments when preparing for the 2023 proxy and annual reporting season. We summarize key regulatory developments, recent guidance, important disclosure considerations and updates...more
More than twelve years ago, the Dodd-Frank legislation directed the SEC to issue a rule that requires issuers to provide, among other things, information that shows “the relationship between executive compensation actually...more
Considerations for companies planning for next proxy season should include the following: Risk Factors - ..As discussed in our July 13 post, consider current hot topics, including COVID risks, labor market...more
During the past year, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted a number of amendments to its rules and regulations and issued additional guidance that will impact the Form 10-Ks and proxy statements that public...more
Preparations for annual reporting on Form 10-K and the 2020 proxy season have begun in earnest for many companies. We have summarized certain governance and disclosure developments that should be considered in the course of...more
Set forth below are examples of pay ratio disclosures from recently filed proxies where registrants chose to rely on the median employee identified in the prior year....more
On February 5, 2019, Skadden hosted the webinar “Key Trends in Executive Compensation, Employment Law and Compensation Committee Practices.” The panelists were David Schwartz, Skadden’s global head of Labor and Employment...more
Preliminary trends are emerging from the pay ratio disclosures filed by U.S. public companies in 2018. Few companies use statistical sampling to identify their median employees and, instead, companies rely on a...more
This upcoming proxy season, most public companies will be required to include disclosure under Item 402(u) of Regulation S-K (Pay Ratio) for the first time. The Pay Ratio rule was introduced by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently issued new guidance to help companies prepare their pay ratio disclosures that provides some relief for companies—and further validates that these rules are highly unlikely to...more
On September 21, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an interpretive release and new/revised C&DIs to assist companies in their efforts to comply with the pay ratio disclosure requirement. The guidance...more
Most companies are now devoting substantial resources and effort to ensuring compliance with the SEC’s new rules requiring disclosure of the ratio of the CEO’s and median employee’s respective annual total compensation....more
On September 21, the SEC and the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance issued new and updated interpretive guidance regarding the CEO pay ratio disclosure required by Item 402(u) of Regulation S-K. The guidance...more
On September 21, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) published an interpretative release and related compliance and disclosure interpretations (“C&DIs”) for registrants regarding the CEO pay ratio...more
On September 21, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted interpretive guidance regarding Item 402(u) of Regulation S-K, which governs pay ratio disclosure. The interpretive guidance is intended to...more
On September 21, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued additional guidance on the CEO pay ratio rule, which will require most public companies to report the pay ratio of their CEO to their median employee in...more
As part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act enacted in July 2010, Congress directed the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to adopt pay ratio disclosure requiring public companies to...more