News & Analysis as of

Board of Directors Employee Benefits Corporate Governance

Polsinelli

ESOP Transactions and the Duty to Monitor Revisited

Polsinelli on

Key Takeaways: Board’s Duty to Monitor the Trustee: A company’s board of directors has a fiduciary duty to monitor the ESOP trustee’s actions in an ESOP transaction, ensuring that the trustee is acting in the exclusive...more

Verrill

Monitoring the Activities of a Plan Fiduciary Committee: Recommendations to a Board of Directors

Verrill on

It is axiomatic that a person who has fiduciary responsibility with respect to an ERISA benefit plan must monitor the performance of any plan service provider or other person to whom it has delegated fiduciary duties on an...more

Carlton Fields

Expect Focus - Volume I, January 2025

Carlton Fields on

The Mysterious Boundary Beyond Which “Personal” Relationships Jeopardize a Director’s Independence - In a recent enforcement action, the SEC concluded that the relationship between James Craigie and an officer of Church &...more

Guidepost Solutions LLC

The Business Case for CEO Security: IRS Code 132 and Tax Savings

In the first few weeks of 2025, boards of directors have started asking what steps a company is taking to protect their CEO. What’s more, the mitigation strategies for improving the CEO’s security posture may be tax...more

Proskauer - Employee Benefits & Executive...

ISS and Glass Lewis Announce Compensation-Related Updates For 2025 Proxy Season

Recently, Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”) released updates to its voting policies for 2025, including new and updated responses to its Compensation Policies FAQs and new Value-Adjusted Burn Rate Benchmarks (based...more

Proskauer - Employee Benefits & Executive...

[Podcast] Episode 50: Activism and EBEC

In this episode of The Proskauer Benefits Brief, David Teigman, partner in the Tax Department and a member of the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group, Josh Apfelroth, partner in the Private Equity and Mergers &...more

Allen Matkins

Does A California Corporation Have The Power To Indemnify Corporate Employee Benefit Plan Fiduciaries?

Allen Matkins on

Section 317 of the California Corporations Code authorizes, limits and  in one circumstance even mandates the indemnification of a person by reason of the fact that the person is, or was, an "agent" of the corporation.   The...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

2022 Compensation Committee Handbook

Preface The duties imposed on compensation committees of publicly traded companies have evolved and grown over time. This eighth edition of the Compensation Committee Handbook from the lawyers of the Executive...more

White & Case LLP

ESG Disclosure Trends in SEC Filings

White & Case LLP on

These are unprecedented times, and companies are facing important issues as they navigate the current economic, political, and social climate. The COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement have put the spotlight on...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

2020: The Year Ahead For Employers

Jackson Lewis P.C. on

A collection of national trends, legislation, regulation and litigation that we expect to have a significant impact on the workplace in 2020. ...more

10 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide