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Part 4 of 6 of the Executive Compensation Disclosure Memo Series summarizes the principal aspects of the supplemental tables that are required to accompany the Summary Compensation Table (discussed in part 3 of 6) in proxy statements (or 10-K’s for companies not subject to the proxy rules) filed during the upcoming proxy season.

On September 10, 2007, the IRS issued Notice 2007-78 (the “Notice”) and granted limited relief for bringing nonqualified deferred compensation plans into written compliance with Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code (“Section 409A”).

The Internal Revenue Service has released guidance for its agents who process applications for federal income tax exemption for organizations which will participate in low income housing tax credit ("LIHTC") projects.

In 1991, the United States Sentencing Commission issued the first Federal Sentencing Guidelines applicable to the sentencing of "organizations" convicted of federal crimes. Until then, the Sentencing Guidelines applied only to individuals. The Commission has just proposed new amendments to the "organizational guidelines," which will become effective later this year in the absence of action by Congress.

On June 14, 2006, the House Financial Services Committee passed and reported out, by a vote of 64-0, its proposed legislation relating to the procedures under which the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States reviews acquisitions of U.S. firms and interests by foreign firms and foreign governments.

Recently, the IRS released a discussion draft of the revised Form 990, the annual reporting form for certain tax-exempt organizations. The revised Form 990 marks a significant redesign of the form, which, as a result of having only been revised on a piecemeal basis since 1979, failed to present a full picture of a tax-exempt organization because of unclear questions often arranged in an illogical sequence.

Part 2 of 6 summarizes the principal aspects of the new Compensation Discussion and Analysis section that will be required in proxy statements (or 10-K’s for companies not subject to the proxy rules) filed in the upcoming proxy season.

Recently, the President signed into law the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act, which imposes new lobbying disclosure and ethics requirements.

During the years 1979 to 1990 and 1994 to 1998, known to most Washington, DC, citizens as the years of the Barry Administration and to some as the good old days, the nation’s capital was well-known for the award of no-bid or sole source contracts to connected persons without regard to the requirements of procurement law or regulations.

Preparing proposals and quotations is difficult, time-consuming and expensive. In comparison, getting the proposal submitted on time looks simple. But far too often, contractors are missing delivery due dates and time deadlines, suffering adverse consequences. Three recent cases illustrate this problem.

On May 24, 2007, President Bush signed the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 that, among other things, increases the federal minimum wage from $5.15 in three steps: to $5.85 per hour effective July 24, 2007; to $6.55 per hour effective July 24, 2008; and to $7.25 per hour effective July 24, 2009.

A number of companies that regularly apply for licenses to export defense articles controlled by the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, promulgated under the U.S. Arms Export Control Act, have begun to report that license applications are being returned by the Department of State’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls

On January 20, 2004, the 108th Congress convened for its second session. The committees with jurisdiction over trade issues – the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee – have crowded trade agendas this session. According to Angela Ellard, Staff Director and Counsel to the Subcommittee on Trade of the House Committee on Ways and Means, who spoke before members of the Washington trade community on February 5, 2004, oversight responsibilities

Plaintiffs' lawyers recently filed numerous lawsuits alleging that some of the nation's largest mutual funds breached fiduciary duties to their shareholders by failing to file claim forms to collect securities class action settlement payouts to which the funds were entitled. Whether or not meritorious, these lawsuits highlight the duties of trust officers, investment advisors, pension fund managers and other institutional fiduciaries and investors with regard to class action claims, and

A dispute panel of the World Trade Organization ruled in favor of the tiny Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda on the complaint that the Caribbean nation brought against the United States. The complaint alleged that U.S. laws prohibiting Internet gambling violated U.S. obligations under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).

In This Alert: White House Imposes Sanctions on Syria; New Issues Posed By Lawsuits Against U.S.Contractors and Their Employees for Misconduct at Abu Ghraib ; Proposed Offset Reciprocity Provision May Violate U.S. Treaty Obligations; Bureau of Industry and Security Adds Certain Protective Devices and Clothing to the CCL

Tropicana Products, Inc. has asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to review its affirmative injury finding that led to the antidumping duty order on Orange Juice from Brazil. Tropicana is arguing that changed circumstances, specifically significant declines in U.S. orange harvests, have eliminated the bases for the ITC’s injury finding.