For Nasdaq companies that have not yet held their 2014 annual meetings, just a reminder that the deadline for amending compensation committee charters to comply with the recent compensation committee independence rules is the date of a company's 2014 annual meeting (or October 31, 2014, if earlier). Similarly, for NYSE companies, the deadline for complying with the director independence component of the rules is the same.

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