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executive compensation
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Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
NY AG Drops Final Claims Against Grasso for Excess Executive Compensation
We previously blogged that Richard Grasso, the former chairman and chief executive of the then not-for-profit New York Stock Exchange, had convinced New York's highest court to affirm the dismissal…
Securities Law Prof Blog
New York Court Throws Out Remaining Claims Against Grasso
It looks like former NYSE CEO Richard Grasso gets to keep all his money. A week after the New York Court of Appeals threw out four claims against him, the…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Richard Grasso Wins a Round in the Challenge to His NYSE Compensation
The New York Times reports that Richard A. Grasso, the former chairman and chief executive of the then not-for-profit New York Stock Exchange, has convinced New York's highest court to…
Securities Law Prof Blog
New York’s Highest Court Dismisses 4 Claims against Grasso
The battle between the New York State Attorney General and Richard A. Grasso, the former CEO of the NYSE, over his outsize compensation continues, and Grasso achieved a significant victory…
The D&O Diary
Restatements, Clawbacks and CFO Career Consequences
If the facts don’t fit, you must remit. That seems to be the view of an increasing number of companies, as they have adopted provisions requiring repayment of executive compensation…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Cabelvision’s Compensation Consultant Pays in Settlement
In what is said to be a first, a compensation consultant to Cablevision will pay the company $2 million to settle a derivative suit charging backdating of stock options. The…
Securities Law Prof Blog
CEOS Get Big “Golden Coffins”
The Wall St. Journal focuses on "golden coffins," or death benefits, paid to CEOs who die in office, about which, thanks to the SEC's compensation rule changes, companies are required…
Securities Law Prof Blog
RiskMetrics Faces Shareholders’ Complaints Over Governance
RiskMetrics, the parent of ISS Government Services, will hold its first shareholders meeting this week after going public earlier this year, and some shareholders complain that the company does not…
La Revue
Actualité législative et règlementaire – mai 2008
AU JOURNAL OFFICIEL Dirigeants : rémunérations différées Décret n° 2008-448 du 7 mai 2008 pris pour l'application des articles L. 225-42-1 et L. 225-90-1 du code de commerce Les articles…
Securities Law Prof Blog
SEC Charges Analog and CEO with Backdating Options
The SEC charged Massachusetts high tech company Analog Devices, Inc. and its CEO Jerald Fishman with reporting false compensation and related financial information to investors by backdating stock option grants…