The Act will require all public U.S. companies, not just financial institutions, to revisit their current governance and executive compensation practices. In this webcast, lawyers from our Silicon Valley and New York offices discuss the short- and medium-term implications for boards and companies, including:

• Multiple flavors of required Say on Pay votes
• New authority granted to the SEC that makes proxy access for shareholder nominees a virtual certainty for the 2011 proxy season
• Required changes to board committee charters
• Mandatory clawback provisions applying to both current and former executive officers

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Presenters

William M. Kelly is a corporate partner and a founder of Davis Polk’s Menlo Park office. He primarily represents technology companies and their investors and advisers in mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, corporate governance and securities law compliance. View full-length biography.

Ning Chiu is counsel in Davis Polk’s Capital Markets Group, with an emphasis on corporate governance and SEC regulations for public companies. View full-length biography.

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