Compensation Clawback Listing Standards Requirement: US Securities and Exchange Commission Adopts Final Rules

On October 26, 2022, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted new Rule 10D-1, directing national securities exchanges to establish listing standards that prohibit the listing of any security of a company that does not adopt and implement a written policy requiring the recovery, or “clawback,” of certain incentive-based executive compensation. Recovery under a clawback policy must be the amount of incentive compensation that is shown to have been paid in error, based on an accounting restatement that is necessary to correct a material error of a financial reporting requirement. This Legal Update provides further detail.