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Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation Provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act

By Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance

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Editor?s Note: David Huntington is a partner in the Capital Markets and Securities Group at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. This post is based on a Paul Weiss client memo by Mr. Huntington, Mark S. Bergman, Lawrence I. Witdorchic and Frances Mi. Other memoranda on the corporate governance and executive compensation provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act by Forum contributors are available here (from Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz) and here (from Sullivan & Cromwell LLP); a chart summarizing those provisions by Forum contributors from Kirkland & Ellis LLP is available here. Additional posts relating to the Dodd-Frank Act are available here.

On June 25, 2010, a House and Senate conference committee negotiating the blueprint for the reform of the U.S. financial system agreed on text of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the ?Act?). The Act as embodied in the conference report is currently scheduled to be approved by Congress this week before being sent to President Obama for signature.

The Act includes a number of significant corporate governance and executive compensation provisions that will apply to all U.S. public companies. We discuss these measures below and will be covering other aspects of this legislation in separate client memoranda. A copy of the entire Act is available here; however, for ease of use, we have excerpted the relevant corporate governance and executive compensation provisions here.

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Full post as published by The Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog on July 08, 2010 (boomark / email).