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Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP

Potential Changes to SEC Executive Compensation Disclosure Framework

On June 26, 2025, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) held a roundtable discussion on whether the current executive compensation disclosure framework for public companies can be improved....more

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

Approving a remuneration policy and paying remuneration to senior officers while overruling the general meeting’s opposition

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

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

The SEC Brings Another Enforcement Action On Related Party Transaction Disclosures

On March 7, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) announced that Skechers U.S.A. Inc. (“Skechers”) agreed to a cease-and-desist order for failing to disclose payments for the benefit of its executives and...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Clawbacks and Incentive-Based Compensation: How to Prepare for the New NASDAQ and NYSE Requirements

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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

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Executive Compliance Comp and Compliance: From Incentives to Clawbacks

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

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

SEC Approves NYSE and Nasdaq Clawback Listing Standards

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

Holland & Knight LLP

NYSE, Nasdaq Amend Proposed Listing Standards Related to Clawbacks

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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

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

NYSE and NASDAQ Propose October 2, 2023 Effective Date to Clawback Listing Standards

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

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP

NYSE and Nasdaq Adopt Proposed Listing Standards to Implement Clawback Rules

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

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

NYSE and Nasdaq Propose Clawback Listing Standards

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

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Clawback Rule Guidance

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

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Adopts Pay Versus Performance Disclosure Rule

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

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

SEC Reopens Clawback Comment Period…Again

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

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

2022 Proxy and Annual Report Season: The Time to Get Started Is Now

Once again, it is time to prepare for the proxy and annual report season. There are many issues to take into consideration when crafting required regulatory disclosures in a manner that conveys effective messaging to the...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

SEC Brings Charges for Failure to Disclose Perks

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced settled charges against an Oklahoma-based gas exploration and production company, Gulfport Energy Corporation, and its former CEO, Michael G. Moore, for failing to properly...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

ISS Issues Compensation and Equity Compensation Plan FAQs for 2021

ISS has posted its usual suite of interpretive material for the upcoming proxy season. The Compensation FAQs note exceptional circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on company operations will be considered...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

Proxy Statement Adequately Described Purpose of Equity Incentive Plan

In Pascal v. Czerwinski et al, the Delaware Court of Chancery considered whether disclosures in Columbia Financial’s 2019 proxy statement related to the adoption of an equity incentive plan, or EIP, were adequate. ...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

SEC Charges Company for Undisclosed Perqs

In a settled enforcement action, the SEC charged Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd. for failure to disclose perqs provided to its CEO and board member, Mark E. Watson III....more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

House Financial Services Committee and House of Representatives Address Capital Formation Related Bills

This past week, the House Financial Services Committee considered and passed a few bills that would, if passed by the House, result in changes to the securities laws. ...more

Stinson - Corporate & Securities Law Blog

NYSE Proposes to Amend Exclusions from Equity Compensation Rules to Mirror Practice

The New York Stock Exchange proposes to amend Section 303A.08 of the Manual to clarify the circumstances under which certain sales of a listed company’s securities will not be deemed to be equity compensation for purposes of...more

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