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Conversations on Healthcare Governance

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Employers increase ESG measures in executive pay programmes

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Employers have continued to increase the role of environmental, social and governance (ESG) measures in executive pay and incentive programmes, across markets according to a global study by Willis Towers Watson (WTW).

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“Clawback Comeback”: DOJ’s New Focus on Clawbacks to Prevent Corporate Crime

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This new focus on “clawbacks” is intended to give general counsels and chief compliance officers the tools to implement “responsible corporate behavior” and to foster a corporate culture that both deters and punishes risky (and possibly criminal) behavior by top executives.

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[Podcast]: Special Financial Assistance for Multiemployer Pension Plans (Part 1)

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ROBERT PROJANSKY : Hello and welcome to the Proskauer Benefits Brief: Legal Insights on Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation. So large that the PBGC, the government agency that insures benefits up to certain maximum amounts, was itself projected to become insolvent. Listen to the podcast. . I’m Rob Projansky.

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Option Grant Practices: A Trap for the Unwary – Spring-Loading and Bullet-Dodging

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A potentially overlooked but important issue that public companies should have in mind when granting option or option-like awards is avoiding the unintentional appearance of “spring-loading” and “bullet-dodging,” both of which have been a recent focus of the SEC and shareholders and viewed as potentially poor corporate governance practices.

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Long Time Coming: SEC Adopts Final Dodd-Frank Clawback Rules

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Issuers should work with counsel to determine how the Final Rules will affect their approach to incorporating clawback policies and the potential effect of clawback policies in compensation design, as well as related governance and other considerations.

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Why More Companies Are Linking CEO Pay To ESG

McDermott Will & Emery Employee Benefits

An important new governance survey suggests an increasing willingness to consider linking a company’s ESG performance measures to executive incentive compensation. But implementing such measures may present boards and their compensation committees with practical implementation challenges.