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Recent Coverage Of Executive Compensation Issues

Below is some of the most recent Compliance Week coverage on issues related to executive compensation. This coverage is quite diverse, tackling the SEC’s compensation disclosure guidelines, shareholder and proxy pressures, Section 409A rules, backdating, perks, SERPs, and more. Also, see Compliance Week’s extensive compensation data resources, including a searchable database of Compensation Discussion & Analysis (CD&A) disclosures, and a database of material compensatory contracts as required by the SEC’s new 8-K rules.

  Title & Description Date Type of Article
1. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards for July
The largest grants of stock options and restricted stock awards for corporate executive officers in the month of July 2010.
 		08/17/10 Compliance Week Coverage
2. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards for July
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards for July
 		08/17/10 Compliance Week Coverage
3. The Future of Comp Committees Under Dodd-Frank
Eight years ago, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act piled huge new duties onto corporate audit committees. Now their colleagues on compensation committees are bracing to see whether they’ll suffer the same fate under the Dodd-Frank Act.
 By Jaclyn Jaeger
08/10/10 Compliance Week Coverage
4. Few Best Practices on Equity Ownership Plans
Sure, every corporate director, internal auditor, and compliance officer wants to tie senior executives’ pay more closely to performance—and requiring executives to hold stakes in their companies through stock ownership rules is one way to achieve that. But new data shows that Corporate America has few standards for what a stock ownership program should look like.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
08/10/10 Compliance Week Coverage
5. Report Scolds Companies on Option Mega-Grants
Corporate America took advantage of the stock market meltdown 18 months ago to shower executives with new and often larger grants of stock options, which now has led to multiple CEOs sitting on huge “mega-grants” worth tens of millions thanks to the ensuing stock market recovery.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
08/03/10 Compliance Week Coverage
6. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards for June
The largest grants of stock options and restricted stock awards for corporate executive officers in the month of June 2010.
 		07/13/10 Compliance Week Coverage
7. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards for June
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards for June
 By Compliance Week
07/13/10 Compliance Week Coverage
8. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards for May
The largest option grants and stock awards issued for the month of May.
 		06/15/10 Compliance Week Coverage
9. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards for May
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards for May
 By Compliance Week
06/15/10 Compliance Week Coverage
10. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards for April
The largest option grants and stock awards issued for the month of April.
 		05/18/10 Compliance Week Coverage
11. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in April
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in April
 By Compliance Week
05/18/10 Compliance Week Coverage
12. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards for March
The largest option grants and stock awards issued for the month of March.
 		04/13/10 Compliance Week Coverage
13. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in March
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in March
 		04/13/10 Compliance Week Coverage
14. Pressure Prods Some Cos. to Revise Incentive Plans
Corporations are starting to go back to the drawing board to shape incentive plans and performance goals for executive compensation in 2010, thanks to economic uncertainty and populist pressure making it more difficult to get those tasks done.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
04/06/10 Compliance Week Coverage
15. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in February
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in February
 		03/16/10 Compliance Week Coverage
16. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in February
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in February
 By Compliance Week
03/16/10 Compliance Week Coverage
17. Golden Parachutes Feeling Pressure, Seeing Change
More and more corporations are sounding a retreat on bloated severance pay agreements in the face of fierce pressure from shareholders, proxy advisory firms, and others fed up with excessive amounts of executive compensation.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
02/23/10 Compliance Week Coverage
18. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in Jan.
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in January
 		02/17/10 Compliance Week Coverage
19. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in January
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in January
 		02/17/10 Compliance Week Coverage
20. Genzyme Pay Reforms Win Praise
With executive pay under the microscope like never before, more and more companies are revising compensation plans to ensure they’ll pass muster with shareholders, regulators, lawmakers, and the general public. One early mover in 2010: Genzyme Corp.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
02/17/10 Compliance Week Coverage
21. Podcast: Effective Clawback Clauses for CEO Pay
In this week’s podcast, editor Matt Kelly talks with Scott Landau of the law firm Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw about how a company can craft effective, practical clawback provisions for executive compensation agreements.
 		02/05/10 Compliance Week Coverage
22. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in December
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in December
 		01/20/10 Compliance Week Coverage
23. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in December
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in December
 By Compliance Week
01/20/10 Compliance Week Coverage
24. IRS Offers Correction Path for Deferred-Comp Errors
The Internal Revenue Service has delivered a belated but welcome bit of news to compensation committees and corporate tax departments: a correction program to let companies fix errors in their deferred-compensation plans, so those plans can be brought into compliance with Section 409A of the tax code.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
01/20/10 Compliance Week Coverage
25. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in November
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in November
 		12/15/09 Compliance Week Coverage
26. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in November
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in November
 By Compliance Week
12/15/09 Compliance Week Coverage
27. Calls for Better, Briefer CD&A Disclosure in 2010
With the Securities and Exchange Commission poised to approve new proxy disclosures any day now and increased scrutiny by SEC staff looming, companies should prepare to do more than the usual topside tweaking of their Compensation Discussion & Analysis for 2010.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
12/01/09 Compliance Week Coverage
28. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in Oct.
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in Oct.
 By Compliance Week
11/17/09 Compliance Week Coverage
29. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in October
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in October
 		11/17/09 Compliance Week Coverage
30. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in Sept.
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in Sept.
 By Compliance Week
10/13/09 Compliance Week Coverage
31. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in Sept.
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in Sept.
 By Compliance Week
10/13/09 Compliance Week Coverage
32. A Bird’s Eye View of Compliance Departments
Good news and bad news for corporate compliance officers: Anyone feeling strapped for budget and resources, you’re not alone … but don’t expect much sympathy from regulators or enforcement attorneys who might pay you a visit sometime.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
10/06/09 Compliance Week Coverage
33. Comments Are in on SEC’s Proxy Disclosure Proposal
The Securities and Exchange Commission has received a flood of suggestions, complaints, praise, and other comments for its sweeping plans to revamp corporate proxy disclosures.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
09/22/09 Compliance Week Coverage
34. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in August
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in August
 		09/15/09 Compliance Week Coverage
35. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in August
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in August
 By Compliance Week
09/15/09 Compliance Week Coverage
36. Exclusive Report: Perks Still Common, Despite Economy
Despite a vicious economic slump that continues to fuel public outrage over executive pay, Corporate America hasn’t curbed its urge to splurge a whole lot.
 By Jaclyn Jaeger
08/25/09 Compliance Week Coverage
37. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in July
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in July
 By Compliance Week
08/18/09 Compliance Week Coverage
38. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in July
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in July
 By Compliance Week
08/18/09 Compliance Week Coverage
39. Non-Compliance With 409A: How Serious an Issue?
At the request of subscribers, Compliance Week offers a Remediation Center, in which readers can submit questions—anonymously—to securities and accounting experts. Compliance Week’s editors will review all questions and then submit them—confidentially, of course—to specialists who can address the issues. The questions and responses will then be reprinted in a future edition of Compliance Week. Below is one of the Q&As; Ask your own questions by clicking here.
 By Jeff Capwell - McGuireWoods
07/21/09 Compliance Week Coverage
40. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in June
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in June
 		07/14/09 Compliance Week Coverage
41. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in June
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in June
 By Compliance Week
07/14/09 Compliance Week Coverage
42. Podcast: Executive Pay Reforms
A chat with Brink Dickerson, of the law firm Troutman Sanders, about the proposed changes to executive compensation oversight and disclosure.
 		06/19/09 Compliance Week Coverage
43. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in May
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in May
 By Compliance Week
06/16/09 Compliance Week Coverage
44. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in May
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in May
 By Compliance Week
06/16/09 Compliance Week Coverage
45. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in April
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in April
 		05/12/09 Compliance Week Coverage
46. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in April
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in April
 		05/12/09 Compliance Week Coverage
47. Create Meaningful, Effective Say-on-Pay Plans
Attention corporate executives and board members: Please help us restore some rationality into the executive compensation debate.
 By Stephen Davis and Jon Lukomnik, Compliance Week Columnists
04/14/09 Compliance Week Coverage
48. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in March
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in March
 		04/14/09 Compliance Week Coverage
49. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in March
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in March
 By Compliance Week
04/14/09 Compliance Week Coverage
50. Law Extends Employers’ Pay Discrimination Liabilities
Corporate America is facing significant new challenges this spring over pay discrimination lawsuits, thanks to a new law that opens the door to discrimination complaints and makes them significantly more difficult to defend against.
 By Jaclyn Jaeger
04/07/09 Compliance Week Coverage

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