Join Reed Smith attorneys John Iino and Robert Smith at this Practising Law Institute® seminar.

Topics include:

• Executive Compensation Disclosure
• Update on SEC Disclosure Related Initiatives
• Annual Report Disclosure
• Hot Button Accounting Issues
• Disclosure Controls and Internal Controls Over Financial Reporting
• Audit Committee Developments

Why You Should Attend

This seminar is being offered at the beginning of the annual report and proxy preparation season to provide you with the insights you will need to prepare when preparing your company’s annual disclosure documents. Presented annually for over 25 years, this program continues to be the most comprehensive, up-to-date seminar available to legal practitioners, accountants and others involved in the preparation of Proxy Statements, Form 10-Ks, and Annual Reports.

The faculty will cover in depth the sweeping new executive compensation disclosure rules (including the new compensation discussion and analysis section, the major overhaul of the compensation tables and Form 8-K changes), MD&A practices, related party transactions, investor activism, Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 developments, PCAOB developments, the e-delivery of the proxy statement proposal, SRO developments and much, much more . . .

SEC officials will describe developments at the Division of Corporation Finance and the Commission, the latest updates on the transition to the new executive compensation disclosure rules, real-time disclosure, and staff review priorities and staff interpretations.

What You Will Learn

• The new SEC executive compensation disclosure requirements for compensation committees; stock option developments; related party transactions; Form 8-K changes
• SEC staff review practices and priorities; Corporation Finance organizational changes; SEC disclosure related initiatives
• Annual report disclosures; MD&A; protecting forward-looking statements; non-GAAP information; hot button disclosure issues
• Preparation of the new Compensation Discussion and Analysis section
• Preparation of the new compensation tables
• Compliance with the NYSE, NASDAQ and SEC requirements for board independence and for audit committees; detailed pre-approval of non-audit services; meeting the various standards for director independence; director and board committee disclosures
• Financial reporting developments; hot button accounting issues; Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 developments
• The lawyer’s obligations under Sarbanes-Oxley Sections 307 and 202; ethics rules for lawyers; codes of ethics for executives

Who Should Attend

Attorneys, financial officers and others responsible for preparing the public company’s annual disclosure documents.

Additional details are available here.

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