Golden Parachutes and the Wealth of Shareholders
Editor’s Note: Lucian Bebchuk, Alma Cohen, and Charles C.Y. Wang teach at Harvard Law School. The Program on Corporate Governance recently issued our study, Golden Parachutes and the Wealth of...
View ArticleISS Issues Policy Updates for 2011 Proxy Season
Editor’s Note: Holly Gregory is a Corporate Partner specializing in corporate governance at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. This post is based on a Weil Gotshal Alert by Ms. Gregory and Matthew Elkin....
View ArticleFocus in 2011 Will Remain on Executive Compensation
Editor’s Note: David A. Katz is a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz specializing in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and complex securities transactions. This post is based on an...
View ArticleFinal SEC Rules on Say-on-Pay Voting and Disclosures
Editor’s Note: This post comes to us from John J. Cannon, a partner in the Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Group at Shearman & Sterling LLP, and is based on a Shearman & Sterling...
View ArticleISS Guidance Regarding Compensation Policies for the 2011 Proxy Season
Editor’s Note: Jeremy Goldstein is a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz active in the firm's executive compensation and corporate governance practices. This post is based on a Wachtell...
View ArticleCriticism Distorts Value ISS Provides to Boards
Editor’s Note: Don Delves is founder and president of The Delves Group, an executive compensation and corporate governance consultancy serving boards of directors. This post is based on an article that...
View ArticleSay on Pay in 2011: Lessons and Coming Attractions
Editor’s Note: James Barrall is a partner at Latham & Watkins LLP, and Matteo Tonello is Director of Corporate Governance for The Conference Board, Inc. This post is based on a Conference Board...
View ArticleExamining the Largest Golden Parachutes
Editor’s Note: The following post comes to us from Paul Hodgson, Senior Research Associate at GovernanceMetrics International, and is based on a GMI report by Mr. Hodgson and Greg Ruel. The full...
View ArticlePost-Crisis Trends in U.S. Executive Pay
Editor’s Note: Carol Bowie is an Executive Director of MSCI and head of compensation policy development at ISS. This post is based on an ISS white paper by Subodh Mishra, available in full here. Though...
View ArticleFor Whom Golden Parachutes Shine
Editor’s Note: Lucian Bebchuk is a Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance and Director of the Program on Corporate Governance at Harvard Law School. This post is based on a column by Professor...
View ArticleGolden Parachute Compensation Practice Pointers
Editor's Note: Barbara L. Becker is partner and co-chair of the Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, and Eduardo Gallardo is a partner focusing on mergers and...
View ArticleM&A Executive Compensation Enhancements and Impact on the...
Editor's Note: The following post comes to us from Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, and is based on a Sullivan & Cromwell publication by Matthew M. Friestedt, Marc Trevino, and Jane Y. Wang. We have...
View Article2014 Proxy Season Review
Editor's Note: H. Rodgin Cohen is a partner and senior chairman of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP focusing on acquisition, corporate governance, regulatory and securities law matters. The following post...
View ArticleThe Recent Evolution of Shareholder Activism
Editor's Note: Matteo Tonello is vice president at The Conference Board. This post relates to a report released jointly by The Conference Board and FactSet, authored by Dr. Tonello and Melissa Aguilar...
View ArticleNew York Courts Dismiss ‘Grasso’ Compensation Case
Editor’s Note: This article from Joseph E. Bachelder appeared in the New York Law Journal this week. Courts do not like being arbiters of disputes over what is reasonable compensation. The recent,...
View ArticleEESA Limits on Executive Pay at Affected Institutions
Editor's Note: This article from Joseph E. Bachelder originally appeared in the New York Law Journal on November 14, 2008. On Oct. 3, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (the EESA) became...
View ArticleEconomic “Stimulus” Legislation to Impose New Executive Compensation...
Editor's Note: The post from James Morphy is based on a client memorandum prepared by attorneys at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. The final version of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009,...
View ArticleFed Proposes Incentive Compensation Policies for Banking Organizations
Editor's Note: This post is based on a Sullivan & Cromwell LLP client memorandum. The approach followed by the Federal Reserve was advocated in Regulating Bankers’ Pay, a discussion paper by Lucian...
View ArticleSEC Issues Proposed Rules on Say-on-Pay Voting and Disclosures
Editor's Note: This post comes to us from John J. Cannon, a partner in the Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits Group Shearman & Sterling LLP, and is based on a Shearman & Sterling...
View ArticleGolden Parachutes and the Wealth of Shareholders
Editor's Note: Lucian Bebchuk, Alma Cohen, and Charles C.Y. Wang teach at Harvard Law School. The Program on Corporate Governance recently issued our study, Golden Parachutes and the Wealth of...
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