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How to lose $4 million when firing an executive what happens when it all goes wrong?

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
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  • USA
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  • October 11 2011

I usually work as a defense attorney

What does a clawback policy look like?

  • Leonard, Street and Deinard
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  • USA
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  • August 9 2010

Section 954 of the Dodd-Frank Act requires national securities exchanges (meaning for instance, the NYSE, Amex and Nasdaq) to adopt rules as directed by the SEC, which rules will require issuers to develop and implement a policy providing:for disclosure of an issuer's policy on incentive compensation that is based on financial information required to be reported under securities laws; and that, if an accounting restatement is prepared, the issuer will recover any excess incentive-based compensation from any current or former executive officer who received such incentive-based compensation in the three preceding years

A tale of two clawbacks: the compensation consequences of misstated financials

  • Latham & Watkins LLP
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  • USA
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  • August 10 2010

Section 304 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) gave the Securities and Exchange Commission the power to recover certain restatement-related compensation and stock profits from Chief Executive Officers and Chief Financial Officers of public companies, in the event the restatement was caused by misconduct

Top 10 whistleblower cases of 2011

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • January 13 2012

Whistleblower litigation implicating a wide range of critical compliance issues continued to proliferate in 2011, and we saw a range of game-changing decisions

Emerging growth company IPO filings initially embrace JOBS Act's reduced executive compensation disclosure requirements

  • Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
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  • USA
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  • July 2 2012

On April 5, 2012, the President signed into law the “Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act” (JOBS Act

Non-public subsidiaries of publicly traded companies are now covered by Sarbanes-Oxley Act

  • Dechert LLP
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  • USA
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  • July 22 2010

President Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act) on July 21, 2010

New listing standards affect compensation committees

  • King & Spalding LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • February 27 2013

In January 2013, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved new NYSE and Nasdaq listing standards addressing the independence of compensation

Treasury Department proposes new “say-on-pay” legislation

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • July 17 2009

On July 16, the U.S. Treasury Department delivered draft “say-on-pay” legislation to Congress that would require that all publicly traded companies allow shareholders a non-binding vote on executive compensation as disclosed in the company’s proxy statement for annual meetings held after December 15

Mandatory clawbacks are on the waya checklist of items to consider

  • Leonard, Street and Deinard
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  • USA
  • -
  • December 30 2010

Section 954 of the Dodd-Frank Act requires the SEC to direct national securities exchanges to prohibit the listing of public companies that, among other things, do not develop and implement a policy providing for the recovery of erroneously paid incentive-based compensation following a required accounting restatement

The impact of financial reform on executive compensation

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
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  • USA
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  • July 19 2010

On July 15, 2010, the Senate passed The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the "Act"), which provides for sweeping changes in the regulation of consumer and investor protection, the financial services industry, executive compensation and corporate governance, in an effort to enhance enforcement, transparency and accountability

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