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Providing direction and oversight in 2009: nonprofit governance in wake of the economic crisis

  • Bricker & Eckler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 29 2009

Today, nonprofit corporations are saddled with a changing governance environment that brings with it a need to examine current board practices and consider new ones

Heeding President Obama’s limits on executive compensation

  • Bricker & Eckler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 6 2009

Compensation committees and executives should heed President Obama's announced limitations on executive pay of financial institutions

Ten strategies to make your board more effective

  • Bricker & Eckler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 16 2009

Congress, regulators, prosecutors, investors, institutions and the media widely blame boards of directors for the financial crisis with headlines such as CNN’s "Blame boards of directors for financial mess Lack of care led to the financial collapse" and The Corporate Board’s "Independent boards, but ineffective directors."

Executive compensation: using long-term incentive compensation plans to focus executives on the correct fundamentals

  • Bricker & Eckler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 30 2009

A common theme among the Obama administration, Congress, investors, and regulators is that executive compensation must refocus on different fundamentals: long-term value rather than short-term profits; financial stability, and management of risks

What boards should do as a result of the financial crisis

  • Bricker & Eckler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 17 2009

What governing boards should do as a result of the financial crisis that began in 2008 depends upon whether the crisis, which is still ongoing, is the confluence of unlikely events or a failure in corporate leadership

Executive compensation limitations proposed under Obama’s Financial Regulatory Reform

  • Bricker & Eckler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 22 2009

Executive compensation is discussed throughout President Obama’s Financial Regulatory Reform issued by the Department of Treasury on June 17, 2009 (the "Regulatory Reform Proposal" or the "Proposal"

Executive compensation: using long-term incentive compensation plans to focus executives on the correct fundamentals

  • Bricker & Eckler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 30 2009

A common theme among the Obama administration, Congress, investors, and regulators is that executive compensation must refocus on different fundamentals: Long-term value rather than short-term profits; financial stability, and management of risks

Guidance for executive compensation in this environment

  • Bricker & Eckler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 28 2009

A common theme among the Obama administration, Congress, investors and regulators is that executive compensation must be refocused on different fundamentals: long-term value rather than short-term profits; financial stability; and management of risks

Compensation by formulaic rule or by director oversight?

  • Bricker & Eckler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 27 2009

On October 22, 2009, the US Department of Treasury’s Office of Special Master for executive compensation of companies receiving TARP funds made public letters issued to seven companies (AIG, Citigroup, Bank of America, Chrysler, General Motors, GMAC, and Chrysler Financial), and the Board of Governance of the Federal Reserve issued proposed guidance on incentive compensation policies

A wishful alternative to Geithner’s proposed regulation

  • Bricker & Eckler LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 30 2009

On March 26, 2009, Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, released a statement that our financial system "requires comprehensive reform."