IRC Section 162(m) provides that a public company may not deduct annual compensation paid to a “covered employee” in excess of $1,000,000 per year, other than certain “qualified performance-based compensation.” For these purposes, “covered employees” generally include the company’s CEO and its three most highly compensated executive officers (other than the CEO and CFO) identified … Continue Reading
The SEC recently released proposed rules to adopt the incentive-based compensation clawback provisions under Section 954 of The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, nearly five years after the Dodd-Frank Act became law.… Continue Reading