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A Compensation Plan That Didn’t Work
Banking, Employment, Executive Compensation, Public Companies and Securities HP’s Chief Executive Officer, Mark Hurd, resigned after an investigation disclosed that Hurd had a “close personal relationship” with an H-P contractor hired by the Office of the CEO and that “Mark never disclosed that.” According to HP’s General Counsel, “there were instances of compensation and reimbursement for services that were never performed, and there were [...] Read more →
Dodd-Frank: Disclosure of Median Comp – of What Utility?
Executive Compensation, Public Companies and Securities I have been thinking about the new Dodd-Frank requirement for public companies to report the ratio of the median annual total compensation of all the company’s employees (other... Read more →
Dodd-Frank, Sarbanes-Oxley and Clawbacks
Executive Compensation, Public Companies and Securities The Dodd-Frank Act and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act both have provisions for clawbacks. Public companies need to be familiar with all of these provisions. Dodd-Frank Section 954 of... Read more →
Representing Compensation Committees — Regular Counsel Need Not Apply?
Executive Compensation, Litigation, Public Companies and Securities The Dodd-Frank Act contains a number of provisions designed to improve the independence and operations of Compensation Committees. But in doing so, has Congress made it more... Read more →