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Defending Section 162(m) executive compensation derivative suits in the United States

  • Dechert LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 11 2013

Decisions regarding executive compensation fall squarely within the discretion of a public company's board of directors. Recently, however

Preview 2013 (UK law)

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 15 2013

2013 will herald some significant changes to the UK legal arena, notably in the corporate area in relation to executive remuneration and narrative

2012 in review: key legal and regulatory developments

  • Allen & Gledhill LLP
  • -
  • Singapore
  • -
  • December 20 2012

This table provides an overview of the key developments in 2012 to date

BLG Monthly Update

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • -
  • Argentina, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • December 19 2012

The BLG Monthly Update is a digest of recent developments in the law which Neil Guthrie, our National Director of Research, thinks you will find

General Counsel update - legal guide edition 32

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • Australia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Myanmar, Singapore, United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 29 2012

A summary of major developments in key areas

Plaintiffs’ firms gaining steam in new wave of say-on-pay shareholder suits?

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 19 2012

Over two years ago, Congress enacted Section 951 of the Dodd-Frank Act, which requires public companies to conduct an advisory shareholder vote on the company’s executive compensation plan the so-called “say-on-pay vote.”

General counsel update - 27 September 2012

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • Indonesia, Myanmar, Spain, United Kingdom
  • -
  • September 27 2012

This is the 31st in our series of general counsel updates which aim to summarise major developments in key areas

Lawyers ask federal court to strike down Sarbanes Oxley 304 clawbacks as applied to innocent executive

  • Holland & Knight LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 27 2012

On July 13, 2012, two defendants in an SEC enforcement action moved to dismiss the SEC's complaint, in part on the grounds that Section 304 of SOX was unconstitutional as applied to them

Two district courts address the whistleblower provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act

  • Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 30 2012

In two recent decisions, courts have addressed the contours of the whistleblower protections enacted by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (“Dodd-Frank Act”

Dodd-Frank's extension of SOX whistleblower protections to subsidiaries of publicly traded companies applies retroactively, says SDNY

  • Proskauer Rose LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 18 2012

Recently, the Southern District of New York held that Section 929A of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 ("Dodd-Frank"), which amends Section 806 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 ("Sarbanes-Oxley" or "SOX"), can apply retroactively to protect whistleblowers working for a non-public subsidiary of a publicly traded company

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