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Mastering Clawbacks and Corporate Compensation CLE
90-Minute On-demand Seminar & Complimentary Podcast
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Benefits: The recent explosion in clawbacks and litigation against corporations, boards and officers over executive compensation have made it increasingly critical for practitioners to be fluent in the latest tools, case law, and strategies in this developing practice. The growing number of proxy wars, absence of Internal Revenue Service guidance, and changes to exchange listing standards has altered the implantation of executive pay structures, while simultaneously inducing the need for clawback provisions and associated litigation. At the same time, changes to "say on pay" regulations, changing trends in best practices, and accounting issues have all underlined the need for an understanding to these cutting-edge developments. The Rossdale faculty for this seminar features three authorities in this practice, who will describe the latest developments in clawback strategies, accounting procedures & disclosures. Registration includes online access to course and reference materials that serve as a helpful guide to the numerous topics and techniques discussed in the program.
Agenda: Mastering Clawbacks: a. Understanding the Latest Developments in Clawback Litigation
b. Lawsuits with D&O Insurers
c. Understanding Litigation involving Whistleblowers and the Government
d. Winning Guidelines on Claims by Shareholders & Executives
e. Adopting a Clawback Strategy
f. Strategies for Avoiding Litigation
Cutting-edge Practices on Executive Compensation: a. Late-breaking Developments & Current Trends
b. Successful Tools in Negotiating CEO Arrangements
c. Understanding Accounting Issues
d. Techniques on Performance Awards
e. Latest Notes from the Department of Treasury & IRS
Recorded Question & Answer Session Biography of Seminar Faculty: 1.
Arthur H. Kohn is a Partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP where he focuses on compensation and benefits matters, including executive compensation, pension compliance and investment, employment law and related matters. Mr. Kohn is distinguished by Chambers USA, The Legal 500 U.S. and The Best Lawyers in America as one of the leading lawyers in the area of employee benefits and executive compensation. He was selected as the Best Lawyers' 2014 Employee Benefits (ERISA) Lawyer of the Year in his state. He was selected for the National Association of Corporate Directors' Directorship 100, a list of the most influential people in corporate governance and in the boardroom. Mr. Kohn is co-editor of The Executive Remuneration Review, a book discussing the global regulation of executive compensation. He is an adjunct faculty member at the New York University School of Law, at which he teaches a course on the Taxation of Executive Compensation, and a regular guest lecturer at Columbia Law School. Mr. Kohn is a member of a task force project of The Conference Board on Supplemental Pay Disclosure and is an advisor to a task force project of The Conference Board on Shareholder Engagement. Mr. Kohn regularly speaks on pension investment and compensation matters. Mr. Kohn advises numerous corporations on executive compensation matters, including Abbott Laboratories, Alpha Natural Resources, American Express, Ann Inc., Barclays, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, General Dynamics, Google, Hartford Financial, Hexcel, Honeywell, McDonald's, Nationstar Mortgage Holdings, Sony Corporation, Tech Data Corporation, The Washington Post Company and Whirlpool, among many others, as well as selected corporate executives, with regard to corporate governance and executive compensation matters. He is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Law School.
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Mike Melbinger is the lead Partner and Global Head of Winston & Strawn’s employee benefits and executive compensation practice group, which has been recognized in the past year by Chambers, U.S. & World Report–Best Lawyers, and The Legal 500. Mr. Melbinger focuses on executive compensation and employee retirement benefit issues for corporations, boards of directors, partnerships, executives, and fiduciaries. He has worked extensively on designing and implementing stock and non-stock based executive compensation and benefit programs for public and private companies (including start-up ventures). He has designed and drafted employment contracts, severance agreements, parachute agreements, and a variety of executive compensation arrangements. He advises boards of directors, compensation committees, and senior executives and legal departments in these matters. Mr. Melbinger also has significant experience with the design, operation, and auditing of employers’ ESOP, pension, and 401(k) plans. His representative clients include A.M. Castle & Co., The Boeing Company, BGC Holdings (Cantor Fitzgerald), Cameron International, The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, DeVry, Discover Financial Services, Emerson Electric, Flagstar Bancorp, FNB Corporation, FreightCar America, Global Brass and Copper, IPG Photonics, Lawson Products, LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings USA, Outrigger hotels, Shaw Holdings, SPX Corporation, Utilities, Inc., Vera Bradley, Wal-Mart, and WESCO International.
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Rosina B. Barker is a Partner in Ivins Phillips & Barker’s Compensation and Benefits practice. She advises many of the largest corporations in the world on the ERISA, tax and securities law aspects of their employee benefit and executive compensation plans. Before joining Ivins in 1991, Ms. Barker served on the Tax Staff of the Ways and Means Committee, where she had primary staff responsibility for all pension and employee benefit legislation before the Committee — an experience bringing Washington know-how to her practice. Recent engagements include significant projects for Xerox Corporation, Barclays Capital, NCR Corporation, Progressive Insurance, IBM, Fidelity Investments, Lorillard Tobacco Company, Milliken & Company, SABIC Innovative Plastics, and Mercer. She has advised numerous clients on de-risking their defined benefit pension plans in transactions ranging from several hundred million to over 50 billion dollars, including “lift out” annuity contract purchases; lump sum offers to retirees in pay status as well as terminated vested participants, and pension plan terminations. Ms. Barker has obtained one of the first IRS de-risking private letter rulings (PLRs) permitting a defined benefit plan to offer lump sum payouts to retirees in pay status. She has drafted and amended scores of executive compensation plans for compliance with Internal Revenue Code sections 409A, 162(m), 457A and other law, and as a nationally known author on Section 409A problems, has been engaged by numerous companies to advise on Section 409A compliance issues. Ms. Barker is a graduate of Harvard Law School & Georgetown University Law Center.
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Attorneys, judges, paralegals, and legal professionals.
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