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executive compensation
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Corporate and Securities Law
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Not For Profit/Exempt Organizations Blog
IRS Issues Wake Up Call to Colleges and Universities — Congress to Hold Hearings
The IRS released its Final Report on its five year study of the audit results of colleges and universities. Lois G. Lerner, Director of the Exempt Organizations division of the IRS…
The Securities Edge
Will director compensation be the next target?
Since 2007, executive compensation practices of public companies have been at the forefront of activist shareholders’ and shareholder rights groups’ agendas. Mandatory say-on-pay proposals, enhanced executive compensation disclosure, compensation committee…
Cleary M&A and Corporate Governance Watch
Cleary Gottlieb Guides Pharmaceutical Industry/Institutional Investor Working Group in Developing Principles for Clawback Policies
Cleary Gottlieb partners Alan L. Beller and Arthur H. Kohn recently guided a working group comprised of six major pharmaceutical companies and a coalition of 12 institutional investors in developing…
Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest
SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies Makes Recommendations
By Mark D. Wood
Co-authored by Michelle Griswold. On March 21, the Securities and Exchange Commission Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies (Advisory Committee) submitted several recommendations to the SEC on rules, regulations…
Federal Securities Law Source
Could This Happen Here?
Last weekend, voters in Switzerland strongly backed a plan giving shareholders unprecedented authority over executive pay. The Minder Initiative, named after the Swiss businessman who created it, was supported by…
The Right Coast
Lew, Treasury Nominee, Got Exit Bonus From N.Y.U. – NYTimes.com
President Obama s nominee to lead the Treasury Department, Jacob J. Lew, got a $685,000 severance payment when he left a top post at New York University in 2006 to…
The D&O Diary
Now Up: The “Third Wave” of Executive Compensation Litigation
The first wave of “say on pay” litigation involved lawsuits brought by shareholders following a negative advisory say on pay vote under the Dodd-Frank Act. The second wave of say…
Corporate and Securities Law
NYSE Proposes Modifications to Charges to Issuers for Proxy Distributions
Inside Jobs
Something to Watch This Proxy Season: Next Generation Executive Compensation Lawsuits
By Inside Jobs
As recently reported in a Wall Street Journal article, plaintiffs’ lawyers hatched a new generation of executive compensation lawsuits in 2012, which are expected to be rolled out again in…