SEC adopts executive pay clawback rules

Gensler sees move as fulfilling Dodd-Frank mandate.

The SEC has announced rules that require issuers to develop and implement a policy providing for the recovery of erroneously awarded incentive-based compensation received by current or former executive officers.

The Commission proposed compensation recovery rules in 2015 and reopened the comment period on the proposal in October 2021 and

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