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Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Starr International Replies to AIG’s Response to NY Post Story
The saga continues. Late yesterday I receive an email from Patrick Dorton of the public relations firm Rational 360, identifying himself as a spokesperson for Starr International Company, Inc. and…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Birdthistle on Mutual Fund Jurisprudence
Investment Indiscipline: A Behavioral Approach to Mutual Fund Jurisprudence, by William A. Birdthistle, Chicago-Kent College of Law, was recently posted on SSRN. Here is the abstract:Next Term, in Jones v.…
West Virginia Business Litigation
Citigroup Bets Executives Will Forgo Litigation Over Suspended Severance Payments
A couple months ago, I wrote about the furor over the bonuses paid to some AIG employees, which resulted in the House of Representatives passing a bill that would tax…
M & A Law Prof Blog
More Fuel for Shareholder Access Debate
By CorporateAcquisitions MergerLawBlogger
The real question regarding the shareholderaccess debate is whether once shareholders have the power to nominateminority directors whether they will use it for good or ill, or at all. Yair…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Bebchuk & Spamann on Regulating Bankers’ Pay
Regulating Bankers’ Pay, by Lucian A. Bebchuk, Harvard University - Harvard Law School; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI), and Holger Spamann, Harvard University - Harvard…
La Revue
Rémunération des dirigeants où va s’arrêter la régulation ?
La rémunération des dirigeants est un sujet régulièrement revisité par le législateur. Jugée démesurée voire indécente en raison des annonces de suppression massives d'emploi en France, la rémunération des dirigeants…
Federal Securities Law Source
Grant Thornton Executive Compensation Survey
Grant Thornton has a relatively recent (February 2009) survey on its website regarding executive compensation that reports 50% of companies surveyed are freezing executive base salaries for 2009 and 15%…
Employer Law Report
One More Year to Protect Certain Executive Compensation Plans from Tax Penalties
Many executive compensation arrangements, including nonqualified deferred compensation plans, employment agreements, and equity compensation plans, are subject to strict deferral election and payment timing rules under Internal Revenue Code Section…
Environmental Law Prof Blog
CEO salaries – from NY Times – no comment!
Visit the NY Times for an interesting interactive graphic about CEO salaries Pay at the Top Here's an example of the information available for about 200 top CEOs.
The Right Coast
How to ruin US capitalism Tom Smith
A really terrible idea. Macey is right. Congress and the Treasury department deciding how much executives should be paid. You can't even say it without horror. But of course, it's…