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Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Amid Chaos, Regulatory Change Continues Apace, March 2025 - Change Has Arrived

We have written in prior Cabinet News & Views articles that, since the November elections, the U.S. federal banking regulators have been signaling significant changes in approach. This week, the FDIC kicked off the changes by...more

Snell & Wilmer

ISS Updates its Executive Compensation Policy FAQs for 2025 Proxy Season

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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

Cooley LLP

Do companies adopt clawback policies exceeding minimum SEC requirements?

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In 2022, after seven years of marinating on the SEC’s long-term agenda, the SEC adopted rules to implement Section 954 of Dodd-Frank, the clawback provision. The rules directed the national securities exchanges to establish...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

December 1 Deadline Approaches for Listed Companies To Adopt a Dodd-Frank Compliant Clawback Policy

By Friday, December 1, 2023, listed companies must adopt a Dodd-Frank-compliant clawback policy. As background, on February 22, 2023, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Nasdaq Stock Market (Nasdaq) proposed listing...more

Groom Law Group, Chartered

SEC’s Final “Clawback” Rule May Pose Code Section 409A Issues for Nonqualified Plan Sponsors

In 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) proposed under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“the Dodd-Frank Act”) a requirement for publicly-traded companies to adopt clawback...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

See Katten's Model Clawback Policy as Mandatory Rules Take Effect

As we previously noted, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted long-delayed rules on October 26, 2022, which will require companies to implement mandatory "clawback" policies with respect to incentive-based...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

SEC Approves Stock Exchange Rules for Dodd-Frank Clawbacks

On June 9, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved, on an accelerated basis, the New York Stock Exchange’s (NYSE) and Nasdaq Stock Market’s (Nasdaq) proposed listing standards implementing the SEC’s...more

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SEC Approves Final Nasdaq and NYSE Rules Regarding Recovery of Incentive-Based Executive Compensation Awarded in Error with...

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The Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 added Section 10D to the Exchange Act, which requires the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to direct national securities exchanges to prohibit the listing of issuers that do not develop and...more

Woodruff Sawyer

The SEC’s New Compensation “Clawback” Rules: What Directors and Officers Should Know

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted new rules in October 2022 that implement the compensation recovery (“clawback”) provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010...more

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Mark Your Calendar: 2023 Key Compliance Deadlines for SEC’s Final Compensation Clawback Rules

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As discussed in our recent blog post, the SEC recently adopted final executive officer incentive compensation clawback rules (the “Clawback Rules”) pursuant to the requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act.  The Clawback Rules,...more

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

SEC Adopts Long-Awaited Clawback Rules

On October 26, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted a final rule that will require most publicly traded companies to adopt a clawback policy to recover incentive-based compensation from current or...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

SEC Adopts Final Clawback Rules and Disclosure Requirements

On October 26, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted long-awaited final rules implementing the incentive-based compensation recovery (clawback) provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act. The final rules...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

SEC Adopts Long-Awaited Clawback Rules

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On October 26, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted rules1 implementing Section 10D-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, a provision added by the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, which will require listed...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

How to Navigate the SEC’s New Clawback Rules

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The rules direct stock exchanges to require issuers that are publicly listed in the US to adopt clawback policies for the mandatory recovery of erroneously awarded incentive compensation... ...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

SEC Issues Final Compensation Clawback Rules

The SEC has adopted rules to require securities exchanges to adopt listing standards that require issuers to develop and implement a policy providing for the recovery of erroneously awarded incentive-based compensation...more

Goodwin

SEC Adopts Final Rules Requiring Disclosure and Recovery of Erroneously Awarded Incentive-Based Compensation

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​​​​​​​On October 26, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted regulations (the “final rules”) implementing Section 10D of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Exchange Act”), which was added by the...more

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SEC Adopts Requirements for Clawback of Erroneously Awarded Compensation

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The long-anticipated rules regarding recovery of erroneously awarded incentive-based compensation, commonly referred to as a “clawback,” were adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission by a 3-2 vote on October 26,...more

Holland & Knight LLP

New SEC Rule Requires Incentive-Compensation Clawback, Filing and Disclosure Obligations

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Congress in 2010 passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act). Pursuant to Section 954 of the Dodd-Frank Act, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was tasked with adopting...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

SEC Reopens Comments on Compensation Clawbacks

In 2015 the SEC proposed rules to implement Section 954 of the Dodd-Frank which added Section 10D to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Section 10D requires the SEC to adopt rules directing the national securities exchanges...more

Ruder Ware

Examiners are Carefully Scrutinizing Financial Institutions’ Compensation Arrangements

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It has come to our attention that some examiners have recently been carefully scrutinizing financial institutions’ employee compensation arrangements. Although it now appears unlikely that the proposed Dodd-Frank rules on...more

Cooley LLP

Blog: What’s Happening With Those SEC Proposals For Dodd-Frank Clawbacks And Disclosure Of Pay For Performance And Hedging?...

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The SEC’s latest Regulatory Flexibility Agenda, which identifies those regs that the SEC intends to propose or adopt in the coming year— and those deferred for a later time—has now been posted. The Agenda shifts to the...more

Mintz - Employment Viewpoints

Federal Agencies Release Joint Proposed Rule on Financial Institution Incentive-Based Compensation

Last month, consistent with their obligation under the Dodd-Frank Act, several federal agencies released for comment a joint proposed rule that would prohibit any incentive compensation that encourages inappropriate risk...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

New Proposed Rules on Banker Incentive Compensation Released

The National Credit Union Administration, or NCUA, became the first of six Agencies to unveil a revised rule proposal under Section 956 of the Dodd-Frank Act: prohibiting incentive-based payment arrangements that the...more

WilmerHale

SEC Proposes Compensation Clawback Rules

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Highlights - - As mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act, the Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed rules requiring national securities exchanges to require listed companies to develop, implement and disclose policies...more

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SEC Proposes Rules Mandating Executive Compensation “Clawback” Policies

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On July 1, 2015, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) proposed new rules that would mandate U.S. stock exchanges to establish and enforce standards requiring listed companies to adopt compensation recovery...more

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