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executive compensation
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Pensions and Benefits
General Election: Labour shows its cards on executive pay?
Tucked away in the Labour Manifesto are some interesting proposals to counter short-termism in the British economy. There are three specific proposals on executive pay: Improving the link between executive pay…
Employee Benefits Blog
Council of Institutional Investors Adopts Policy against Automatic Acceleration of Unvested Equity Awards on a Change in Control
By Andrew Liazos, Joseph K. Urwitz
On April 1, 2015, the Council of Institutional Investors (CII), a shareholder rights advocacy group, adopted a policy opposing the automatic vesting of unvested equity awards on a change in…
Corporate Defense and Disputes
SEC Charges Ex-CEO with Concealing Personal Use of Corporate Funds from Investors, Settles with Corporation
By Stacey P. Eilbaum, Sigal Mandelker
Signaling that it is closely scrutinizing the expenses of senior executives and the internal controls of public companies, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged former Polycom CEO Andrew M. Miller…
Employee Benefits Law Report
Public companies should review stock option plans to ensure they qualify for exception to $1 million deduction limit
The IRS and Treasury Department recently issued final regulations under Code Section 162(m) that, as the IRS describes it, “clarifies” stock and equity-based compensation plan drafting issues. Of course, whether…
M & A Law Prof Blog
CEO Side Payments
By CorporateAcquisitions MergerLawBlogger
Brian Broughman has a new paper, CEO Side Payments in M&A Deals. Side payments are different from golden parachutes. They are often structured as completion bonuses. So, for example, it's…
Pensions and Benefits
Increased support for executive compensation tax reform on Capitol Hill
Most of us believe that comprehensive tax reform for 2015 is already dead despite Ways and Means Chairman Ryan’s (R-WI) oft-repeated statements to the contrary. But perhaps new life may…
Pensions and Benefits
Executive compensation disclosures a wasted effort?
Are the ever-increasing US public company disclosures, particularly those dealing with executive compensation, even helpful to the investing public? A recent study commissioned by the Stanford University Rock Center for…
Pensions and Benefits
Didn’t they do well? BIS report on compliance with remuneration reporting
The Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) has published a research paper on companies’ compliance with the new directors’ remuneration reporting regulations (DRRRs) in the 2014 AGM season. The…
Southwest Florida Business and IP Blog
Enhancing Executive Compensation for Tax-Exempt Organizations
True, tax-exempt organizations are altruistic in nature. But even a tax-exempt organization needs to attract and retain talent. And altruism will only go so far in landing a key executive…
Pensions and Benefits
FTSE100 DRRs and AGMs – it’s that time of year again!
The past couple of weeks has seen numerous FTSE100 companies publishing their DRRs and executive remuneration has started to hit the headlines again. Shell's CEO Ben van Beurden was the…