An executive of a publicly-traded company would not have anticipated today’s market volatility and depressed stock price when he or she entered into a 10b5-1 trading plan in 2019. As a result, this executive will probably want to amend or
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Current Compensation Issues (Part 5 of 7): Revisit Stock Ownership Policy Requirements
The purpose of this Post is remind publicly-traded companies to revisit their stock ownership policies to determine whether a temporary waiver of the policy requirements is advisable. This Post is Part 5 of a 7-Part series addressing compensation adjustments that…
Current Compensation Issues (Part 4 of 7): Retention Packages to Discourage Poaching
The purpose of this Post is to highlight whether Compensation Committees should be offering retention packages to their executive officers to discourage their being poached by another company. This Post is Part 4 of a 7-Part series addressing compensation adjustments…
Current Compensation Issues (Part 3 of 7): Address Outstanding Performance-Based Equity Awards
This post is part of a 7-part series addressing compensation adjustments that Compensation Committees could consider in order to continue to incent and retain their executive officers in today’s economy. The titles of each of the 7-parts in this series…
Current Compensation Issues (Part 2 of 7): Consider Changes to Increase Cash Flow
This post is part of a 7-part series addressing compensation adjustments that Compensation Committees could consider in order to continue to incent and retain their executive officers in today’s economy. The titles of each of the 7-parts in this series…
Current Compensation Issues (Part 1 of 7): Considerations with Respect to Upcoming Equity Grants
Today’s economic environment has resulted in substantial loss of value to many shareholders and executives of publicly traded companies (i.e., the latter losing substantial value in their stock holdings, and too, losing prospective realizable pay as a result of unattainable…
ISS Issues COVID-19 Guidance
Just a quick update that on April 8, 2020, Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”) published policy guidance reflecting certain adjustments due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The guidance addresses how ISS’s benchmark and voting policies may be applied in…
Executive Compensation Considerations in Light of Market Volatility, Stock Prices and the Unknown
Join us on April 9, 2020 from 10:00 am to 11:00 am Central for our FREE monthly webinar on “Executive Compensation Considerations in Light of Market Volatility, Stock Prices and the Unknown,” where we will discuss compensatory issues to consider…
Ideas on How to Revise Performance Metrics Without Tripping the SEC’s Tender Offer Rules
Many publicly-traded issuers in today’s environment have outstanding equity awards with performance goals that are unlikely to be achieved. In response, Compensation Committees of such issuers will need to strike a balance between incentivizing/retaining executives and dealing with the stark…
2020 Proxy Season and Compensatory Thoughts from ISS
To help issuers prepare for the upcoming proxy season, and as a follow-up to our prior post entitled “Compensation Considerations for the 2020 Proxy Season,” we are hosting a FREE webinar entitled “Upcoming Proxy Season: Compensatory Thoughts from ISS (an…