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We are excited to announce that our Conferences – “Tackling Your 2009 Compensation Disclosures: The 3rd Annual Proxy Disclosure Conference” & “5th Annual Executive Compensation Conference” – will take place in New Orleans and via Nationwide Video Webcast on October 21st-22nd. Here are the Conference Agendas.

With Congress, the SEC Staff, investors and the media scrutinizing this year’s disclosures, it is critical to have the best possible guidance for addressing next year’s proxy statement compensation disclosures. This pair of full-day conferences will provide the essential – and practical – implementation guidance that you need going forward.

Like last year’s blockbuster conferences, an archive of the entire video for both conferences will be right there at your desktop to refer to – and refresh your memory – when you are actually grappling with drafting the disclosures or reviewing/approving pay packages. Here are FAQs about the Conferences.

For those choosing to attend by coming to New Orleans, I encourage you to also register for the “16th Annual NASPP Conference,” where over 2000 folks attend 45+ panels. And if you attend the NASPP Conference, you can take advantage of a special reduced rate for the Exec Comp Conferences.

Register by May 20th for Early-Bird Rates: Whether you attend in New Orleans or by video webcast, take advantage of early-bird rates by registering by May 20th. You can register online or use this order form to register by mail/fax.
Note that we have combined both of our popular Conferences – one focusing on proxy disclosures and the other on compensation practices – into one package to simplify registration.

If you have questions or need help registering, please contact our headquarters at info@thecorporatecounsel.net or 925.685.5111 (they are on West Coast, open 8 am – 4 pm).

Corp Fin Posts New Form 8-K Interpretations

Yesterday, Corp Fin posted the long-awaited “Form 8-K Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations,” which is a continuation of the Staff updating the Telephone Interpretations Manual and other odds & ends of guidance it has issued over the years. These new interps specifically update the Phone Manual Interps, as well as the Non-Gaap FAQs from ’03 and the 8-K FAQs from ’04. [I say “long-awaited” because the SEC had a note on its site that these were “coming soon” for quite some time.]

REITs and Their Form 10-Ks

I really dig it when law firms write memos with nuggets they heard at conferences. It’s rarely done – but I find them to be very practical. This recent Goodwin Procter memo is no exception, covering a finer point about what REITs need to be doing in their Form 10-Ks as covered by a point raised by the Corp Fin Staff at the NAREIT Law and Accounting Conference. Good stuff (just like these 41 pages of “SEC Speaks” notes from Sidley Austin – 41 pages!)…

My only quibble with the memo is that the Staff’s point about the need to disclose property operating data should not come as a surprise – since the Staff has always considered the operating data material to the business disclosure in a 10-K.

– Broc Romanek