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August 25, 2016

Shareholder Approval: NYSE Revises Bunch of Its “Equity Compensation Plan FAQs”

Broc Romanek

As Mike Melbinger blogged yesterday, the NYSE revised its “Equity Compensation Plan FAQs” recently for the first time in nearly a decade. The revised FAQs are the ones that have “Clarified August 18, 2016” written beneath them. As Mike notes, FAQ C-1 clarifies the NYSE’s position that an amendment of an equity incentive play to allow for maximum tax withholding is not necessarily a “material amendment”…