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September 27, 2012

Hot Off the Press! Nasdaq’s Compensation Committee Proposal

Broc Romanek, CompensationStandards.com

Yesterday, I blogged about the NYSE proposal – 58 pages – implementing the Rule 10C-1 requirements for compensation committees was posted. Then later in the day, I updated the blog to note that Nasdaq’s proposal – 97 pages – was posted yesterday morning. We’ll be posting the inevitable slew of memos in CompensationStandards.com’s “Compensation Committees” Practice Area. Folks have 21 days to comment once the proposals are published in the Federal Register. Here’s the first comparison of NYSE & Nasdaq proposals that I have seen…and here’s Mark Borge’s analysis of the Nasdaq proposal

What You Need to Do Now: These soon-to-be-adopted new rules will be a hot topic during our “7th Annual Proxy Disclosure Conference”” (and the combined “Say-on-Pay Workshop”) coming up in just over a week – October 8-9th in New Orleans and via Live Nationwide Video Webcast. If you haven’t been to our Conferences before, give it a try – particularly this year when New Orleans needs the tourism dollars. Here are the agendas for the combined conferences. Register Now.