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Accounting Standards Board announces changes to FRS 20

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 8 2008

On 27 March 2008, the Accounting Standards Board (ASB) announced changes to FRS 20, which deals with share based payments

Court refuses to lift PSLRA discovery stay

  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 18 2008

Plaintiffs brought a shareholder derivative action, claiming the officers and directors of Asyst Technologies, Inc. (Asyst) violated federal and state securities law by backdating stock options and making false filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission

What you need to know about RiskMetrics’ updated compensation guidelines for the 2009 proxy season

  • Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 13 2009

RiskMetrics Group, formerly known as Institutional Shareholder Services (“RiskMetrics”), has published a 2009 update to its corporate governance policies, including new policies on various executive compensation matters

You can leave your hat on: the Companies Act 2006 and conflict issues for directors of corporate pension scheme trustees

  • Norton Rose Fulbright LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • June 19 2008

Traditionally, members of a company’s senior management have played a part in running the company’s pension scheme, either as individual trustees or as directors of a corporate trustee of the scheme in question

Federal Budget 2009: a stimulating budget in uncertain economic times

  • Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • January 27 2009

In the midst of a deteriorating economic climate, on the heels of another inconclusive federal election, and following an extraordinary Parliamentary crisis that included the replacement of the Opposition Liberal Party leader, the political context and consequences of the 2009 Budget are as much the focus as its content

TSX Manual amended to require shareholder approval for changes to security-based compensation arrangements

  • Stikeman Elliott LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • September 18 2009

The Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) announced today that it has adopted and the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has approved amendments to the TSX Company Manual respecting, among other things, shareholder approval of changes to security-based compensation plans

9th Circuit: CFO’s statements to counsel in an internal investigation can be used at trial

  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 8 2009

In highlighting the "treacherous path which corporate counsel must tread under the attorney-client privilege when conducting an internal investigation," the Ninth Circuit recently held that statements made by a chief financial officer to outside counsel could be used in a subsequent criminal action against the officer because he knew his statements would be disclosed to the company’s outside auditors

Executive compensation disclosure issues in tumultuous times

  • McCarthy Tétrault LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • March 13 2009

Most Canadian public companies are facing unprecedented financial and market conditions and business challenges, and this has been reflected both in the results of operations in 2008 and in the outcomes under 2008’s compensation plans

Canadian auto workers reach cost-cutting agreement with GM-Canada; GM faces exchange offer deadline and potential bankruptcy

  • Alston & Bird LLP
  • -
  • Canada
  • -
  • May 25 2009

Following Friday's announcement of a tentative cost-cutting deal between General Motors of Canada Limited (GM-Canada) and the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union, this evening, the CAW announced that members working at GM-Canada in Oshawa, Windsor, St. Catharines and Woodstock, Ontario have voted overwhelmingly, ratifying the deal by 86 in favor of the new collective agreement

President Obama signs stimulus bill expanding health care coverage continuation rights for employees

  • Lane Powell PC
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 17 2009

President Obama today signed into law the economic stimulus bill, formally known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the "2009 Recovery Act"

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