Nonprofit Quick Tip: State Filings in Mississippi and Georgia
10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending August 23, 2025
Data Driven Compliance: The Failure to Prevent Fraud Offense: Insights for US General Counsels with Mike DeBernardis
Culture Crafters: Building a Culture of Accountability in the Face of Disasters
Operationalizing Trust at Scale: Evolving Compliance: Neta Meidav on the Diligent Acquisition and AI Integration
Innovation in Compliance: Gaurav Kapoor on Risk Management and the Role of AI in GRC
FCPA Compliance Report: Accountability in Times of Crisis: A Conversation with Tom Fox and Sam Silverstein
Sunday Book Review: August 17, 2025, The More Books from the Ethicsverse Library Edition
Compliance Tip of the Day: How a CFO Views Compliance and Risk
Data Driven Compliance – James Tillen on the Importance of Cross-Functional Collaboration in Complying with the FTPF Offense
2 Gurus Talk Compliance: Episode 57 — The Tom on His Highhorse Edition
AI Today in 5: August 15, 2025, The AI as Boss Episode
What to Do When Leadership Doesn’t Take Compliance Seriously
Daily Compliance News: August 14, 2025 The End of Dial Up Edition
Compliance Tip of the Day: Finance Models for Compliance
Compliance Tip of the Day - Extending Compliance Value Across Your Organization
Daily Compliance News: August 11, 2025, The Boss Doesn’t Work Edition
Compliance Tip of the Day: Design - Centric Internal Controls
Adventures in Compliance: The Novels - The Valley of Fear, Sherlock Holmes’ Investigative Techniques for Today’s Challenges
FCPA Compliance Report - Episode 770 - Integrating ESG in Global Outsourcing: Insights from Inge Zwick
As investor expectations shift, regulatory pressure mounts, and business models evolve, compensation committees are moving away from short-term incentive plans that rely solely on a single financial performance measure. The...more
Retired senior executives often receive, or seek out, public company directorships as the next step in their journeys. Before accepting, they should carefully evaluate key areas to make sure they are prepared for the...more
On January 14, 2025, the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service issued proposed regulations (Proposed Regulations) relating to the expansion of the definition of “covered employees” under Internal Revenue...more
On January 16, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published proposed regulations ( 90 FR 4691) under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code. Section 162(m) generally limits the deductibility of compensation paid in any...more
On January 16, 2025, the IRS issued proposed regulations under Section 162(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the “Code”), which limit the amount of compensation a publicly held corporation may deduct for wages paid to...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
Last month, the State Attorney-General and the Israel Securities Authority published their positions with regard to the overruling mechanism. The context relates to the requirement for public companies and private companies...more
Key Takeaways - Executives and companies may deduct the cost of security benefits that meet certain requirements under the Treasury Regulations Public companies are generally required to disclose the cost of security...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
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
Process still matters. That’s the main takeaway from the Delaware Court of Chancery’s 200-page opinion striking down Tesla’s 2018 incentive package awarded to Elon Musk. The court rescinded the incentive package mainly...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
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, 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
As a result of recent market trends, US public companies and their compensation committees face challenging decisions as they seek to maximize shareholder value while retaining and competitively incentivizing key employees....more
DOJ’s decision to examine corporate compensation programs as an important part of a compliance program should be welcomed. DOJ’s initiative asks a very good question – how can incentives and disincentives be used to promote...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
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
On August 25, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted a final pay for performance rule. The pay for performance rule implements the Dodd Frank Act rulemaking mandate contained in Section 953(a) of the Act. That...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission adopted final rules implementing the pay versus performance requirement as required by Congress in the Dodd-Frank Act. The rules will require registrants to disclose, in proxy or...more