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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 in February
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in February
 		03/16/10 Compliance Week Coverage
2. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in February
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in February
 By Compliance Week
03/16/10 Compliance Week Coverage
3. 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
4. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in Jan.
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in January
 		02/17/10 Compliance Week Coverage
5. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in January
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in January
 		02/17/10 Compliance Week Coverage
6. 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
7. 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
8. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in December
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in December
 		01/20/10 Compliance Week Coverage
9. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in December
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in December
 By Compliance Week
01/20/10 Compliance Week Coverage
10. 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
11. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in November
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in November
 		12/15/09 Compliance Week Coverage
12. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in November
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in November
 By Compliance Week
12/15/09 Compliance Week Coverage
13. 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
14. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in Oct.
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in Oct.
 By Compliance Week
11/17/09 Compliance Week Coverage
15. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in October
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in October
 		11/17/09 Compliance Week Coverage
16. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in Sept.
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in Sept.
 By Compliance Week
10/13/09 Compliance Week Coverage
17. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in Sept.
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in Sept.
 By Compliance Week
10/13/09 Compliance Week Coverage
18. 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
19. 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
20. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in August
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in August
 		09/15/09 Compliance Week Coverage
21. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in August
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in August
 By Compliance Week
09/15/09 Compliance Week Coverage
22. 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
23. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in July
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in July
 By Compliance Week
08/18/09 Compliance Week Coverage
24. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in July
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in July
 By Compliance Week
08/18/09 Compliance Week Coverage
25. 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
26. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in June
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in June
 		07/14/09 Compliance Week Coverage
27. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in June
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in June
 By Compliance Week
07/14/09 Compliance Week Coverage
28. 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
29. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in May
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in May
 By Compliance Week
06/16/09 Compliance Week Coverage
30. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in May
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in May
 By Compliance Week
06/16/09 Compliance Week Coverage
31. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in April
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in April
 		05/12/09 Compliance Week Coverage
32. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in April
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in April
 		05/12/09 Compliance Week Coverage
33. 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
34. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in March
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in March
 		04/14/09 Compliance Week Coverage
35. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in March
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in March
 By Compliance Week
04/14/09 Compliance Week Coverage
36. 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
37. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in Feb.
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in Feb.
 		03/17/09 Compliance Week Coverage
38. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in Feb.
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in Feb.
 By Compliance Week
03/17/09 Compliance Week Coverage
39. Crafting Proxy Language for the Say-on-Pay Vote
Regulators surprised Corporate America last month when they said that companies accepting government bailout money must give shareholders an advisory vote on executive compensation as soon as this spring.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
03/17/09 Compliance Week Coverage
40. Down Market Brings Major Changes to CD&As
For most companies, 2008 was not business as usual. That means this year’s compensation disclosures won’t be business as usual either.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
03/03/09 Compliance Week Coverage
41. Cos. Hastily Adjust Proxies for Say-on-Pay
Hundreds of companies may need to start speaking up about say-on-pay votes much more quickly than they expected.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
03/03/09 Compliance Week Coverage
42. Confusion Reigns Over Pay Restrictions
Companies that are (or were) planning to take government bailout money are anxiously awaiting guidance from the Treasury Department on how to comply with strict new pay limits imposed by the economic stimulus package, which experts say could turn pay practices at those companies upside down.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
02/24/09 Compliance Week Coverage
43. Companies Awash in Underwater Stock Options
Companies with deeply underwater stock options held by employees at various levels are starting to struggle for lifelines, triggering an unprecedented magnitude of reporting and compliance issues.
 By Tammy Whitehouse
02/24/09 Compliance Week Coverage
44. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in Jan.
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in Jan.
 		02/18/09 Compliance Week Coverage
45. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in Jan.
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in Jan.
 		02/18/09 Compliance Week Coverage
46. Treasury Limits on Exec Pay Rattle TARP Cos.
A flurry of new restrictions on executive pay for companies taking government bailout money are raising questions about how far efforts to overhaul compensation will go, and about what new compliance burdens are waiting in the wings.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
02/18/09 Compliance Week Coverage
47. Roundtable Addresses Comp Trends in 2009
As companies revise their executive compensation practices in 2009 to address the economic downturn, they need to balance good governance and fiscal discipline with the need to keep top talent, compensation experts advise.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
02/03/09 Compliance Week Coverage
48. Reversal of Fortunes: CEO Salaries Now Squeezed
Corporate America has started to cut executive pay in record numbers, in the face of fierce shareholder dismay and a rapidly rising need to preserve cash.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
01/27/09 Compliance Week Coverage
49. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in Dec.
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in Dec.
 		01/13/09 Compliance Week Coverage
50. Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in Dec.
Top Option Grants, Stock Awards in Dec.
 By Compliance Week
01/13/09 Compliance Week Coverage

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