On June 26, 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) hosted a roundtable on executive compensation disclosure requirements. As noted in prior Insights, the SEC convened the roundtable to evaluate the...more
On May 16, 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it will host a Roundtable on Executive Compensation Disclosure Requirements on June 26, 2025. SEC Chairman Paul S. Atkins issued a statement on the...more
On October 26, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted final rules that will require public companies to implement policies to recover, or claw back, erroneously awarded incentive-based compensation from...more
Preface The duties imposed on compensation committees of publicly traded companies have evolved and grown over time. This eighth edition of the Compensation Committee Handbook from the lawyers of the Executive...more
SEC Chair Jay Clayton has streamlined the Regulatory Flexibility Act Agenda to limit it to the rulemakings that the SEC actually expects to take up in the subsequent period. Clayton has previously said that the short-term...more
The following update highlights recent corporate governance hot topics and trends for directors of public companies. Board Oversight of Mission-Critical Risks - In June 2019, the Delaware Supreme Court allowed a Caremark...more
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has adopted new rules that will require public companies to disclose their hedging practices and policies for employees, officers and directors in proxy and information statements...more
Several provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act have brought compensation of financial institution executives into the public eye. Although disclosure of executive and director compensation...more