Weekly Roundup: April 29

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This roundup contains a collection of the posts published on the Forum during the week of April 29, 2016 to May 5, 2016.

Executive Compensation Incentives Contingent on Long-Term Accounting Performance

Posted by Lingling Wang, Tulane University, on Friday, April 29, 2016

Tags: Accounting, Accounting standards, Boards of Directors, Executive Compensation, Financial reporting, Firm performance, Incentives, Long-Term Value, Management, Pay for performance, Performance measures, Short-termism,Stock options

Agencies’ Resolution Plan Feedback

Posted by Dan Ryan, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, on Saturday, April 30, 2016

Tags: Banks, FDIC, Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis, Financial institutions, Financial Regulation, Liquidity, Recovery & resolution plans, Risk management, Risk oversight, Systemic risk, Transparency

Grading Global Boards of Directors on Cybersecurity

Posted by Paul Ferrillo, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, on Sunday, May 1, 2016

Tags: Accountability, Board independence, Boards of Directors, Cybersecurity, EU, Europe, International governance,Management, Oversight, Risk assessment, Risk management, Risk oversight, Surveys, UK

The Effect of Passive Investors on Activism

Posted by Todd Gormley, University of Pennsylvania, on Monday, May 2, 2016

Tags: Boards of Directors, Institutional Investors, Institutional voting, Mutual funds, Ownership, Proxy fights, Shareholder activism, Shareholder nominations, Shareholder proposals, Shareholder voting

Metlife: FSOC “Too-Big-to-Fail” Designation

Posted by Lee A. Meyerson, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, on Monday, May 2, 2016

Tags: Asset management, Dodd-Frank Act, Financial Crisis, Financial institutions, Financial Regulation, FSOC, Insurance,Liquidity, Risk assessment, Risk oversight, SIFIs, Systemic risk, Too big to fail, Treasury Department, U.S. federal courts

Indentures and the Brokaw Act

Posted by Laurent Alpert and Robert Gruszecki, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP, on Monday, May 2, 2016

Tags: Antitakeover, Beneficial owners, Brokaw Act, Change in control, Delaware cases, Disclosure, Hedge funds,Leveraged acquisitions, Mergers & acquisitions, Reporting regulation, Schedule 13D, Securities Regulation, Shareholder activism, Shareholder voting, Transparency

How Management Risk Affects Corporate Debt

Posted by Michael Weisbach, Ohio State University, on Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Tags: Behavioral finance, Capital allocation, Capital structure, CFOs, Corporate debt, Credit risk, Defaults, Executive turnover, Leverage, Management, Market reaction, Risk, Risk management, Succession, Transparency

NASDAQ and Disclosure of Third-Party Compensation for Directors

Posted by Lori Zyskowski, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, on Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Tags: Agency costs, Board independence, Boards of Directors, Compensation disclosure, Conflicts of interest, Director compensation, Disclosure, Hedge funds, Listing standards, NASDAQ, Private Equity, Proxy contests, Shareholder activism, Shareholder nominations

What Do Insiders Know?

Posted by Peter Cziraki, University of Toronto, on Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Tags: Earnings announcements, Equity offerings, Firm valuation, Information asymmetries, Information environment,Inside information, Insider trading, Market efficiency, Repurchases, Signaling, Stock mispricing

SEC Enforcement and Internal Control Failures

Posted by Jason M. Halper, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, on Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Tags: Accounting, Capital formation, Financial reporting, Firm valuation, Internal auditors, Internal control, Investor protection, Regulation S-K, Reporting regulation, SEC, Securities enforcement, Securities fraud, Securities Regulation,Settlements

Corporate Resilience to Banking Crises

Posted by Ross Levine, University of California, Berkeley, on Thursday, May 5, 2016

Tags: Banks, Behavioral finance, Corporate debt, Credit risk, Financial Crisis, Firm performance, Investor protection,Liquidity, Reputation, Social capital, Social networks, Surveys, Systemic risk

Mergers and Heightened Regulatory Risk

Posted by Steven Epstein, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, on Thursday, May 5, 2016

Tags: Acquisition agreements, Antitrust, Cross-border transactions, Inversions, Mergers & acquisitions, Securities Regulation, Spinoffs, Taxation, Treasury Department

Incentive Compensation for Financial Institutions: Reproposal

Posted by Annette L. Nazareth and Margaret E. Tahyar, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, on Thursday, May 5, 2016

Tags: Banker bonuses, Banks, Compensation regulation, Dodd-Frank Act, Dodd-Frank s.956, Executive Compensation,FDIC, Federal Reserve, FHFA, Incentives, Management, NCUA, OCC, Risk management, Risk oversight, Risk-taking,SEC

Weekly Roundup: April 29–May 5, 2016