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California Corporate & Securities Law Blog
The SEC's Immensely Impracticable Impracticability Exception
This week's posts have been discussing the recent adoption by the Securities and Exchange Commission of rules requiring the securities exchanges to adopt listing standards requiring listed companies to develop and…
Corporate and Securities Law
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…
California Corporate & Securities Law Blog
The SEC's Tenuous, Tentative Case For Preemption
The Securities and Exchange Commission's last week adopted rules requiring the securities exchanges to adopt listing standards requiring listed companies to develop and implement policies providing for the recovery of erroneously awarded incentive-based…
Global Policy Watch
Executive Compensation Implications of SEC’s Final Rule on Clawback Policies
On October 26, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted a long-awaited rule that will require listed companies to adopt and publicly file so-called “clawback” policies. As we…
California Corporate & Securities Law Blog
The SEC's Failure To Update May Defenestrate Claw-Back Rule Making
As has been widely reported, the Securities and Exchange Commission last week finally adopted rules requiring the securities exchanges to adopt listing standards requiring listed companies to develop and implement…
Inside Jobs
Executive Compensation Implications of SEC’s Final Rule on Clawback Policies
On October 26, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted a long-awaited rule that will require listed companies to adopt and publicly file so-called “clawback” policies. As we…
Louis Lehot Medium Blog
SEC Adopts Final Pay Versus Performance Disclosure Rules
By Louis Lehot
In case you didn’t hear, back on August 25th, the SEC adopted final pay versus performance disclosure rules.The breadth and complexity of the new rules require that companies begin to…
The CLS Blue Sky Blog
SEC Chair Gensler on Rules Regarding Compensation Clawbacks
By Gary Gensler
Today [October 26], the Commission is considering adopting final rules mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act regarding clawbacks of erroneously awarded incentive-based compensation. I believe that these rules, if adopted, would…
Hall Benefits Law Blog
SEC Adopts Final Executive Compensation Rule 12 Years Later
By Anne Hall
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has finalized the executive compensation or “pay-versus-performance” rule that Congress first directed it to create in 2010 when it passed the Dodd-Frank Act.…
The CLS Blue Sky Blog
Does Firm Strategy Explain the Growing Gap between CEO and VP Pay?
By Margaret A. Abernethy, Yunhe Dong, Yu Flora Kuang, Bo Qin, Xing Yang
In recent years, the gap between the compensation of CEOs and their vice presidents (VPs) has been increasing, especially equity compensation (i.e., stock and stock options). Scholars have proposed several…