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PCAOB, auditors and executive compensation

Leonard, Street and Deinard
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USA
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May 8 2013

The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, or PCAOB, has reproposed a new auditing standard, Related Parties, and certain other amendments to its

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

Director qualifications - SEC comments and example disclosures

Leonard, Street and Deinard
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USA
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November 26 2010

There are plenty of new things to remember with the Dodd-Frank Act

SEC outlines process for evaluating whistleblower tips

Leonard, Street and Deinard
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USA
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August 11 2012

The SEC has published information which outlines the process for evaluating tips submitted by whistleblowers

JOBS Act on the way

Leonard, Street and Deinard
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USA
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March 27 2012

The House of Representatives has passed the Senate version of the Jump Start Business Startups Act, or JOBS Act, and President Obama is expected to sign the legislation

ISS’s peer groups begin to spur complaints

Leonard, Street and Deinard
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USA
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March 23 2012

One of the changes to ISS’s methodology on evaluating executive compensation this year related to the construction of peer groups

SEC staff permits exclusion of some but not all shareholder proxy access proposals

Leonard, Street and Deinard
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USA
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March 8 2012

The Staff of the Division of Corporation Finance has issued its initial no-action rulings on requests by public companies to exclude shareholder proxy access proposals

Company seeks exclusion of shareholder proposal relating to clawbacks

Leonard, Street and Deinard
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USA
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January 16 2012

Morgan Stanley seeks to exclude the following shareholder proposal submitted on behalf of the Comptroller of the City of New York as custodian and a trustee of several pension funds from its upcoming proxy statement

Is proxy access the best defense to proxy access?

Leonard, Street and Deinard
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USA
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January 28 2012

Western Union received a shareholder proposal under Rule 14a-8 from Norges Bank

Nasdaq proposes rules regarding independence of compensation committees

Leonard, Street and Deinard
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USA
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September 26 2012

Nasdaq has proposed rules regarding the independence of compensation committees in response to final rules issued by the SEC under the Dodd-Frank Act