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Executive Compensation: Are You In Compliance?

What does the in-house lawyer need to be doing today to be prepared for the upcoming Proxy Statement season and to ensure that his client's deferred compensation plans and agreements are in compliance with (or exempt, <i>ie</i>, grandfathered, from) IRC '409A?

22 minute read February 24, 2005 at 10:30 AM
By
Stephen W. Skonieczny
Executive Compensation: Are You In Compliance?

It's no secret that for sometime now the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), institutional investors and shareholder services, have all been dissatisfied with the opaqueness of required executive compensation disclosure in Proxy Statements under Item 402 of Regulation S-K.

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