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The Shanghai government on August 8, 2025 introduced a significant new policy to combat declining birth rates, an ageing population, and perceived barriers in the workplace for female professionals. The policy aims to benefit...more
If you own or manage a company that a private equity firm is looking to acquire, and you plan to stay on after the closing, you’ll likely need to negotiate two key points: rolling over some or all of your equity and...more
On December 13, 2024, Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) issued updated Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) related to its U.S. Executive Compensation Policies effective for shareholder meetings occurring on or after...more
Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (“ISS”), a leading proxy advisory firm, recently updated its Executive Compensation Policy Frequently Asked Questions (“FAQs”). A full link to the ISS guidance can be found here....more
2023/2024 Annual Returns Must Be Filed by July 6, 2024 - Companies operating employee equity incentive arrangements in the United Kingdom, including companies incorporated or registered outside of the United Kingdom, are...more
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice’s decision in Boyer v. Callidus, 2024 ONSC 20 (“Callidus”) serves as a helpful reminder to employers of the importance of carefully drafting, documenting, and communicating contractual...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 The court rescinded the incentive package mainly...more
Incentivizing employees is a critical component of most business strategies. Employers may implement arrangements for deferred cash bonuses, often subject to the satisfaction of certain criteria. From a tax perspective, the...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
Stock options are often a significant, and critical, component of a public company’s compensation and benefits programs as they align the interests of employees and stockholders—when the company’s stock price increases,...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
On this episode of Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion, host Brydon DeWitt is joined by his colleague, Nona Massengill, a partner who focuses her practice on executive compensation matters. Nona shares insight on how...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 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
Workplace class proceedings are on the rise in Canada. Recent class actions have involved employee claims for overtime, vacation time, damages for COVID-19 pandemic terminations, extended healthcare benefits,...more
On September 15, 2022, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco released a memorandum titled “Further Revisions to Corporate Criminal Enforcement Policies Following Discussions with Corporate Crime Advisory Group,” known...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
On June 8, 2022, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued a release (“New Reopening Release“), reopening the comment period on the clawback listing standard rules that it proposed in 2015 (“2015 Proposal“). At...more
There may be no single economic challenge facing law firms today bigger than the current war for talent. Driven by transactional practices, the acceleration of base compensation and bonuses started last year and continuing...more
Introduction - On Feb. 2, 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a cease-and-desist order settling charges against the former CEO and CFO of WageWorks Inc. (WageWorks, or the Company), stemming from the...more
On October 9, 2020, in Matthews v. Ocean Nutrition Canada Ltd., 2020 SCC 26, the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC)—the highest court in the country—released a highly anticipated decision in an employee’s appeal of the Nova Scotia...more
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised concern among health care leaders about the preparedness of acute care systems to adapt to and manage large-scale environmental disruptions. Current physician compensation models do not align...more