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
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
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
On June 9, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved the executive compensation clawback listing standards and relevant amendments proposed by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Nasdaq Stock Market...more
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
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
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
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Nasdaq amended their previously proposed clawback listing standards on June 5 and June 6 respectively to give listed companies until December 1 to adopt required clawback policies. On...more
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Nasdaq Stock Market (Nasdaq) have each postponed the effective date for proposed listing standards implementing the Dodd-Frank clawback rules until October 2, 2023. Listed companies...more
As described in Part 4 of our 2022 end of year plan sponsor “to do” list, on October 26, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission published the final clawback rules under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer...more
During the last week of April, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) extended the deadline by which it must approve or disapprove of the proposed New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Nasdaq Stock Market compensation...more
In accordance with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank), new rules directing national securities exchanges, including the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Nasdaq Stock Market (Nasdaq),...more
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
In October 2022, the SEC adopted rules implementing the incentive-based compensation recovery (clawback) mandated by Section 954 of the Dodd-Frank Act....more
The proposals align with the SEC’s recent rule related to the recovery of erroneously awarded incentive compensation. On February 22, 2023, the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (Nasdaq) and New York Stock Exchange LLC (NYSE) each...more
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
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
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
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on October 26, 2022, that it has adopted new rules directing national securities exchanges, including the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, to establish listing...more
In another move to implement the provisions of 2010’s Dodd-Frank Act, the SEC has adopted final rules that direct national securities exchanges to adopt listing standards that require issuers to adopt and implement recovery,...more
The SEC adopted long-pending rules requiring the recovery of erroneously awarded compensation as required by Congress in the Dodd-Frank Act. The rules will, among other things, require securities exchanges to adopt listing...more
On October 14, 2021, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a release reopening the comment period (Reopening Release) on the clawback listing standard rule that it proposed in 2015 (2015 Proposal). Interested...more
On July 1, 2015, the SEC issued proposed rules implementing Section 954 of the Dodd-Frank Act, which would obligate national securities exchanges to adopt listing standards that require listed companies to adopt and disclose...more
On July 1, 2015, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a rule directing national securities exchanges and associations to establish listing standards that require public companies to adopt and enforce a...more
Today is the close of the comment period on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed rules under Section 954 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which added Section 10D to the Securities...more