Five Tips for a New Public Company Director
Exploring Carried Interest in Upper Tier Private Equity Structures — PE Pathways
FCPA Compliance Report: The Power of Peer Support and Purpose Driven Leadership with Sarah Cole
Ensuring Success with Executive Agreements
Current Executive Compensation Trends in Private Equity Transactions — Troutman Pepper Podcast
TRAs: Benefits, Complexities (and Private Jets) Explained with Tax Attorney David Peck
Revisiting Financial Institution Incentive Compensation Rules Under Dodd-Frank — The Consumer Finance Podcast
DE Under 3: FAR Council Seeks to Require Federal Contractors to Report First-Tier Subcontractor Information, Including Potentially Executive Compensation Data
Multiemployer Pension Plans in Mergers and Acquisitions — Troutman Pepper Podcast
Equity Award Delegations for Publicly Traded Companies — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation: Getting Ready for 2024 – Top-Hat Plans — Special Edition Podcast
Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation: Getting Ready for 2024 - Health and Welfare Plan Developments — Special Edition Podcast
Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation: Getting Ready for 2024 - Qualified Plans — Special Edition Podcast
Navigating Noncompetes: A Comprehensive Guide – Part 1 – Hiring to Firing Podcast
December 1st Deadline to Adopt Executive Compensation Clawback Policies — The Consumer Finance Podcast
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Partial Plan Terminations
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Using Equity Incentives to Attract and Retain Key Team Members
Podcast: California Employment News - The Executive Pay Exemption
California Employment News: The Executive Pay Exemption
The Justice Insiders Podcast: Meet the Securities and Exchange (and Human Resources) Commission
If you have recently obtained a new position in the C-Suite, you are aware that the new position brings prestige, authority, and opportunity. But you may not be aware that as an officer of a company, you have also increased...more
Risk and compliance leaders face increasing demands to elevate board conversations beyond compliance checkboxes. Boards expect clear insight into how risks affect strategic execution, financial performance, and enterprise...more
Shareholder activism in the public REIT sector has evolved from a marginal tactic employed by a small number of high-profile hedge funds into a persistent, structural feature of corporate life. The public REIT model, long...more
In the latest episode of the Mintz On Air: Practical Policies podcast, Member Jen Rubin is joined by Member Anne Bruno to discuss public company DEI reporting in today’s evolving federal legal landscape. This episode is part...more
Jenner’s Public Company Advisory Group offers a multidisciplinary overview of the key legal, regulatory, and compliance issues public companies are facing in 2025, including the impact of economic uncertainty and an...more
In the latest episode of the Mintz on Air: Practical Policies podcast, Member Jen Rubin discusses with colleague and Member Andrew Bernstein when the best time is to hire an employment lawyer. This episode is part of a series...more
Welcome to the award-winning FCPA Compliance Report, the longest-running podcast in compliance. This is a very special episode. Today, Tom Fox visited with Sarah Cole, a former solicitor turned founder of Integrity First...more
Public companies always have an abundance of priorities to address, and defending against shareholder activism is increasingly at the top of the agenda. Across industries and market caps, today's activists are more aggressive...more
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis, two leading proxy advisory firms, recently announced updates to their U.S. proxy voting policies in advance of the 2025 proxy and annual meeting season. Public...more
In this episode of “Just Compensation,” Megan Monson, Taryn E. Cannataro, and Jessica Kriegsfeld of Lowenstein’s Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits group discuss some considerations for a company preparing for an...more
BlackRock recently published its updated “Proxy Voting Guidelines for Benchmark Policies - U.S. Securities” for the 2025 proxy season, along with its 2025 “Global Principles for Benchmark Policies” and “Engagement Priorities...more
In this episode of The Consumer Finance Podcast, Chris Willis delves into the renewed focus on incentive compensation by federal financial regulators. Joined by colleagues Sheri Adler and Jina Davidovich from the Employee...more
The proposal seeks to make executive compensation arrangements more sensitive to risk and would require complex risk management programs to ensure compliance....more
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) recently re-proposed rules...more
It’s Annual Reporting season again for most public companies. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has released numerous new disclosure obligations for the upcoming filing period. Companies should take the time to...more
The following newsletter provides a roundup summarizing enforcement actions, guidance, rulemakings, and other public statements taken by a federal and/or state financial services regulatory agency, specifically focusing on:...more
Over the past several blog posts, I have been exploring the Albemarle FCPA enforcement action. We have explored in some detail the DOJ Non-Prosecution Agreement (NPA) and the SEC Administrative Order(Order). In this final...more
On Wednesday, October 26th, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finalized the Listing Standards for Recovery of Erroneously Awarded Compensation Final Rule (Final Rule) that was mandated by the Dodd-Frank...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has followed through on its much publicized intention of more aggressive enforcement. For instance, in June, the regulator brought an accounting fraud action that included a...more
Get the support you need to properly manage key nonprofit compliance challenges - Nonprofit organizations often find themselves vulnerable to unique fraud and conflict of interest concerns. This one-day virtual conference...more
ISS recently released updated methodology for its Governance QualityScore (GQS) rating system for institutional investors. The new factors relate to areas of emerging concern to investors, with 11 of the 17 new factors...more
The charitable organization sector faces many compliance challenges, including: - unique tax exemption issues - fundraising registration and related issues - privacy and data security - complex reporting...more
Sunday’s release of a long-awaited Labor Department final rule on joint employment spells trouble for workers hoping to “sue large companies for wrongdoing by contractors or franchisees.” The rule reverses Obama-era policies...more
Executive Compensation Recoupment - The most recent development in the prominent University of Louisville Foundation controversy is the release of an independent analysis suggesting that its senior executive leadership was...more
Five Issues in Focus for Financial Services - For this edition of the Take 5 for financial services, we focus on a number of very well-publicized issues. The tidal wave of sexual harassment allegations that followed the...more