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Companies may revise and claw back directors' bonuses if
they are excessive or wrongly awarded. Companies must also deduct
from executive remuneration any profit made from share price
increases during significant events such as a public offer. This is
set out in new legislation that took effect on 1 January 2014 and
also applies to existing pay packages.
Our
Legal Alert of December 2013 outlines the main elements of the
new law. In a set of Q&As we illustrate the practical impact of
the new law, and in a separate
flow chart we explain the process of calculating increases in
value in the case of a public offer.
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