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executive compensation
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Employee Benefits Law Report
Tax-Exempt Organizations: understanding the proposed Tax Reform Act of 2014’s penalties on excessive executive compensation
By Greg Daugherty, Porter Wright
Recently, we published an article in Bloomberg BNA’s Pension & Benefits DailyTM that provides context for understanding the proposed Tax Reform Act of 2014’s penalties on excessive executive compensation for…
Employee Benefits Blog
Camp Tax Reform Proposal Could Impact Executive Compensation
On February 26, 2014, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the proposed Tax Reform Act of 2014 (the Camp Proposal), which would…
Federal Securities Law Source
“Substantial risk of forfeiture” clarification impacts restricted property (stock) grants
As complex as the Internal Revenue Code is, many people still assume that the rules contain a great deal of specificity and precision, perhaps because of the mathematical nature of…
Compensation & Benefits Blog
Tax Reform Proposal Takes Aim at Executive Compensation
On February 26, 2014, U.S. Congressman Dave Camp released a comprehensive tax reform proposal that includes several provisions intended to limit or restrict executive compensation. Congressman Camp’s proposal includes the…
Timely disclosure
2014 Updates to Canadian Proxy Advisory Guidelines
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass, Lewis & Co. (Glass Lewis) have both released updates to their Canadian proxy voting recommendation guidelines for the 2014 proxy season. Glass Lewis released…
Pensions and Benefits
Will 37% be “significant” for easyJet?
easyJet plc’s AGM was held on Thursday, 13 February 2014. At first blush, it looks like easyJet just got over the line for both the Implementation Report and the Remuneration…
Pensions and Benefits
New UK Executive Remuneration Resource Centre
We have changed the way you can access information about UK executive remuneration through the blog site. The Remuneration Tracker document has been replaced by a UK Executive Remuneration Resource Centre.…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
Galle & Walker: Sunshine, Stakeholders, and Executive Pay
Brian Galle (Boston College) and David Walker (Boston University) have posted Sunshine, Stakeholders, and Executive Pay: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach on SSRN. Here is the abstract:We evaluate the effect of highly…
Workplace Law & Strategy
Traps in negotiating remuneration with senior executives
The four traps when negotiating remuneration with senior executives. 1: Promises the company can’t keep The person or people charged with recruiting for and/or negotiating executive employment arrangements on behalf of…
ContractsProf Blog
Is Disney to Yahoo! as Tragedy Is to Farce?
In the mid-1990s, the Walt Disney Company hired Michael Ovitz to be its #2 executive. After slightly over a year in the position, Disney's Board of Directors fired Ovitz, having determined…