PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Cost, Care and Captives: A Mid-Size Employer’s Guide to Benefit Trends
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Work this Way: An Employment Law Video Podcast | Episode 49: Building Culture by Investing in People with Silvia King of Southern First Bank
Crafting Effective Flexible Leave Policies for Employers
How Modern Workplaces Navigate Generational Shifts: One-on-One with Jeff Landes
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 46: The 2025 Greenville SHRM Conference with Tyler Clark and Brittany Goforth of GSHRM
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Business Better Podcast Episode: Bridging Campuses: Legal Insights on Education Industry Consolidation – Labor, Employment, and Benefits
Ensuring Success with Executive Agreements
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Big Changes to Catch-Up Contributions in 2025
OK at Work: Navigating Snow Days, Office Closures, and Remote Work Planning
5 Key Takeaways | IRS Final RMD Rules & Proposed Regulations to Address SECURE 2.0 Act Issues
Holiday Headaches: Avoiding Legal Risks with PTO, Overtime, and Workplace Festivities
Employer Obligations to Accommodate Before Employees Arrive to Work
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Current Executive Compensation Trends in Private Equity Transactions — Troutman Pepper Podcast
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Johnson Case’s Potential Impact on Colleges, NIL, and College Athletics — Highway to NIL
On June 26, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) held a roundtable discussion on whether the current executive compensation disclosure framework for public companies can be improved....more
On January 16, 2025, the IRS and the Department of the Treasury published proposed regulations relating to Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code. The proposed regulations provide guidance on, and implement, the...more
President-elect Donald Trump’s impending return to power on January 20, 2025, has created uncertainty and challenges for proxy advisory firms, such as ISS and Glass Lewis, which provide voting recommendations to investors on...more
On December 17, 2024, the SEC announced settled charges against Express, Inc. for failing to disclose perks paid to its then CEO, including personal use of airplanes. Without admitting or denying the SEC’s findings,...more
On March 7, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) announced that Skechers U.S.A. Inc. (“Skechers”) agreed to a cease-and-desist order for failing to disclose payments for the benefit of its executives and...more
In today’s episode of “Just Compensation,” Kate Basmagian, partner in Lowenstein’s Capital Markets & Securities group and chair of the firm's ESG group; Christine Osvald-Mruz, partner in the Employee Benefits & Executive...more
There are two problems that every company must deal with at the intersection of executive compensation and compliance. The first is the presence of perverse incentives within organizations, where executives are often...more
We return once more to the issue of public company executive perquisites or "perks" – a topic we anticipated last year would "be a hot-button enforcement issue for the foreseeable future." We were not wrong. In light of the...more
As previously reported, NYSE and Nasdaq filed proposed listing standards with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) earlier this year to implement the SEC’s rule requiring most publicly traded companies to adopt a...more
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on June 5, 2023, filed an amendment to its incentive compensation clawback listing standard originally proposed in February 2023. The Nasdaq Stock Market followed suit and filed an analogous...more
On June 5, 2023, the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”) filed an amendment to its proposed Dodd-Frank clawback listing policy providing for an effective date of October 2, 2023. Similarly, on June 6, 2023, Nasdaq filed an...more
As we previously reported, last October, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted a final rule requiring most publicly traded companies to adopt a clawback policy to recover incentive-based compensation from...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced a settlement with Oregon-based freight transportation supply company, The Greenbrier Companies Inc., and founder and former CEO and Chairman, William A. Furman, for...more
On February 10, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued 15 new Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (C&DIs) to implement the "pay versus performance" (PvP) disclosure rules that were adopted on August 25,...more
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted Rule 10D-1 in October 2022, directing national securities exchanges to establish listing standards that prohibit the listing of any security of a company that does not...more
On February 10, 2023, the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance (Corp Fin) issued 15 compliance and disclosure interpretations (CDIs), Questions 128D.01 through 128D.13, and Section 228D – CDIs 228D.01 and 228D.02. The CDIs...more
In a series of 15 Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (“C&DI”s), the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Feb. 10, 2023 attempted to clarify certain questions that have arisen as reporting companies prepare their...more
In our prior posts, we discussed the Securities and Exchange Commission’s adoption of Rule 10D-1 that directs the securities exchanges to establish listing standards prohibiting the listing of a security of any company that...more
We have prepared this guide to assist our clients as they prepare to implement the SEC’s new “Pay Versus Performance” (“PVP”) Rules. On Aug. 25, 2022, after a twelve-year delay, the SEC adopted rules implementing Section...more
On August 25, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final pay-versus-performance disclosure rules for publicly traded companies. These rules will require three new disclosures in upcoming proxy and...more
A mere 12 years after they were mandated by Dodd-Frank, the SEC adopted so-called “pay versus performance” rules on August 25, 2022. The rules require companies to provide a new table in their proxy or information statements,...more
On August 25, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted pay versus performance disclosure rules originally mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act 12 years ago. These rules require public companies to disclose the...more
More than twelve years ago, the Dodd-Frank legislation directed the SEC to issue a rule that requires issuers to provide, among other things, information that shows “the relationship between executive compensation actually...more
On August 25, 2022, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finally adopted a “pay versus performance” rule in accordance with a Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (DoddFrank Act) mandate that...more
More than seven years after their original proposal, the SEC adopted new rules requiring companies to disclose metrics reflecting the relationship between executive compensation actually paid and the company’s financial...more