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Fenwick & West LLP

BlackRock’s 2025 U.S. Proxy Voting Guidelines

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In December 2024, BlackRock released its updated U.S. proxy voting guidelines for benchmark policies. The changes will become effective as of January 2025. ...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Broker Dealer Regulatory Digest - December 2024

The following newsletter provides a roundup summarizing enforcement actions, guidance, rulemakings, and other public statements taken by a federal and/or state financial services regulatory agency, specifically focusing on:...more

Perkins Coie

DOJ Announces Pilot Program and Updated Expectations on Corporate Compensation Programs

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on March 3, 2023, unveiled a new pilot program and announced several important updates to its Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs (ECCP) regarding corporate compensation incentives...more

Jenner & Block

Client Alert: Key Insights from Updated DOJ Guidance Regarding the “Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs” and New...

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On Friday, March 3, 2023, the Department of Justice (DOJ) Criminal Division released updated guidance regarding the “Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs.” Now in its fourth iteration, this guidance replaces the June...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Executive Compensation: Considerations for UK Companies for the 2023 Voting Season

U.K. institutional investor bodies, including the Investment Association (IA), Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM) and Glass, Lewis & Co. (Glass Lewis) recently published...more

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DAG Monaco Defines DOJ Guidance for Corporate Criminal Enforcement

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New Requirements Place Onus on Corporations to Demonstrate more Compliance Capabilities to Receive Consideration from Prosecutors On September 15, 2022, Deputy Attorney General (“DAG”) Lisa Monaco spoke at New York...more

BCLP

UK COVID and Executive Remuneration: IA issues further guidance

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The Investment Association (IA) has published (i) additional guidance on shareholder expectations for executive remuneration in light of COVID; (ii) its 2021 Principles of Remuneration; and (iii) its statement on executive...more

A&O Shearman

New Disclosure Guidelines‘Perk-olating’

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It is well known that the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on business operations has directly affected executive compensation decision-making and related disclosures. With this backdrop, the Securities and Exchange Commission...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

What Counts as a “Perk” During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

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Companies have offered benefits to employees, including executive officers, to enable them to continue their work and otherwise to make their lives easier during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now the SEC has released additional...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

New Supplemental Guidance Issued for PPP Loan Program

On August 4, 2020, the Small Business Administration (SBA) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury released new FAQs to provide further guidance on Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan questions and supplement previously...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

CARES Act Guide: Overview of Executive Compensation Limits

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On March 27, 2020, President Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act or the “CARES Act”, into law. The CARES Act will provide significant financial relief to individuals and small businesses,...more

Snell & Wilmer

ISS Expands List of Egregious Equity Plan Factors

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As reported in prior blogs, Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (“ISS”), a leading proxy advisory firm, uses a proprietary “Equity Plan Scorecard” approach to evaluate public company equity compensation plans and will...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

DOL and Treasury update guidance agendas for employee benefits (Spring 2019) 

The principal regulators of US employee benefits have recently published updates to their guidance plans for the coming months. On May 22, 2019, the US Department of Labor (DOL) published its Semi-Annual Regulatory Agenda,...more

A&O Shearman

Financial Stability Board Issues Supplementary Guidance to its Principles and Standards on Sound Compensation Practices

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The Financial Stability Board has published the finalized version of its Supplementary Guidance on its Principles and Standards on Sound Compensation Practices, following feedback to a consultation it launched in June 2017....more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Updated SEC Guidance Emphasizes Flexibility in Complying with Pay Ratio Disclosure Rule

Beginning in 2018, U.S. public companies will generally need to comply with the pay ratio disclosure rule under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which requires that each such company disclose the...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Treasury Announces 2016-2017 Regulatory Agenda for Employee Benefits

The principal regulators of U.S. employee benefits have recently published updates to their guidance plans for the coming months. ..On August 15, 2016, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service...more

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