"Given that incentive-based compensation is widely used as part of long-term compensation design, a substantial number of issuers will be affected by the final rules.... Under the final rules, the clawback requirement is a bright-line: Recovery is required if the issuer is required to prepare an accounting restatement due to material noncompliance with financial reporting requirements, regardless of any fault or wrongdoing of the executive officer for the accounting errors."

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