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  • The court dismissed appeals by the Commissioner of Taxation against an earlier federal court decision over a dispute concerning the claw-back of capital-allowance deductions the Melbourne-based mining company claimed for its former Hot Briquetted Iron plant.

    Court Rules in Favor of BHP in Tax Dispute Robb M. Stewart 2011

  • The retail tranche, originally accounting for 10% of the total offering, was 42 times oversubscribed and triggered a claw-back that increased the portion to 20%.

    Sun Art Raises $1 Billion In Hong Kong IPO 2011

  • The board could have informed Michael Dell that if he wanted to stay on as CEO he needed to claw-back his stock option gains attributable to the allegedly fraudulent accounting, but it did not.

    Stark Lessons From The Dell Fraud Case Edward D. Hess 2010

  • Critics of HRAs contend the claw-back feature creates an incentive for employers to discourage workers from filing for reimbursement.

    Menu Surcharge Can Be Misleading Ben Worthen 2011

  • Mr. Picower's widow recently handed over $7.2 billion to the Madoff trustee to settle claw-back claims.

    Bloomberg to Rank the Rich Robert Frank 2011

  • Mr. Cable said the government would be pressing for all listed firms to have a claw-back mechanism in place to ensure executives' rewards are more closely linked to the performance of the firm.

    U.K. Announces Proposals to Curb Executive Pay Nicholas Winning 2012

  • Mr. Kengeter's 2010 pay includes 8.3 million francs in various cash and stock bonuses, some of which is blocked and subject to claw-back provisions based on the bank's performance.

    Credit Suisse CEO's Bonus Blues Katharina Bart 2011

  • The second is to further tinker with banker pay—to defer more of it, and/or have stronger claw-back provisions and the like.

    A Royal Banking Failure 2011

  • Still better would be to cut off the subsidies, claw-back the bonuses earned over the past two years, and break the bank up into smaller institutions that the Fed would not feel compelled to step in and save.

    Zach Carter: Don't Let Goldman Sachs Off the Hook 2010

  • The goal is to make the terms of a new deal retroactive, which means a huge claw-back of player salaries.

    Arn Tellem: Stern und Drang 2010

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