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  1. Benefits Law Advisor

    ISS COVID-19 Compensation Guidance More Flexibility (Maybe) For Public Companies, But More Tax Risk (Maybe) For NEOS

    By Adam B. Cantor

    The executive and equity compensation plans, agreements, policies and arrangements (collectively, the “Plans”) of publicly traded companies receive close scrutiny from various shareholder advocacy groups during the annual proxy season,…

  2. COVID-19 Workplace Law Advisor

    ISS COVID-19 Compensation Guidance More Flexibility (Maybe) For Public Companies, But More Tax Risk (Maybe) For NEOS

    By Adam B. Cantor

    The executive and equity compensation plans, agreements, policies and arrangements (collectively, the “Plans”) of publicly traded companies receive close scrutiny from various shareholder advocacy groups during the annual proxy season,…

  3. The CLS Blue Sky Blog

    Davis Polk Discusses Reductions in Executive Pay Due to Covid-19

    By Kyoko Takahashi Lin, David Mollo-Christensen

    The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the ensuing market uncertainty, as well as recently enacted legislation, have upended the compensation and benefit programs of many companies. This is the fifth memorandum…

  4. The Benefit of Benefits

    COVID-19 EFFECTS ON EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION OF PRIVATE COMPANIES-PART 1

    By Scott E. Galbreath, J.D., LL.M (Tax)

    Rank and file employees who may have lost their job or had hours reduced probably don’t care about the effects of the economic downturn resulting from the COVID-19 Pandemic (Pandemic)…

  5. C-Suite Compensation Center

    Current Compensation Issues (Part 5 of 7): Revisit Stock Ownership Policy Requirements

    By Anthony J. Eppert

    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…

  6. C-Suite Compensation Center

    Current Compensation Issues (Part 4 of 7): Retention Packages to Discourage Poaching

    By Anthony J. Eppert

    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…

  7. Cruise Law News

    NCL’s CEO Frank Del Rio Collected Over $17,800,000 in 2019 – 1,052 Times More Than Wages of Median NCL Crew Member

    By Jim Walker

    NCL CEO Frank Del Rio Earned More Than $17.8 Million in 2019 Norwegian Cruise Line Holding's CEO Frank Del Rio (photo above, via CNBC, in happier times in 2019) collected…

  8. C-Suite Compensation Center

    Current Compensation Issues (Part 3 of 7): Address Outstanding Performance-Based Equity Awards

    By Anthony J. Eppert

    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. …

  9. C-Suite Compensation Center

    Current Compensation Issues (Part 2 of 7): Consider Changes to Increase Cash Flow

    By Anthony J. Eppert

    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. …

  10. C-Suite Compensation Center

    Current Compensation Issues (Part 1 of 7): Considerations with Respect to Upcoming Equity Grants

    By Anthony J. Eppert

    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…