We host a monthly webinar series on executive compensation. At this upcoming Thursday’s webinar (held at 10:00 am Central on March 9, 2023), we are covering compensation designs and market practices associated with compensating key employees of a start-up corporation. Topics discussed include: (i) how to share in the dream without cash outlay, (ii) ideas
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Compensation Design Ideas within a Partnership/LLC Structure
Designing effective compensation strategies within a partnership structure (or an LLC taxed as a partnership) can be a complex endeavor, and finding education on the topic is virtually non-existent. To that end, we are providing a FREE webinar entitled “Compensation Design Issues within a Partnership/LLC Structure” (day and time set forth below). The purpose of…
Administrative Perspectives on Granting Compensatory Equity Awards: A Checklist of Action Items
Just a quick note that our upcoming monthly webinar is entitled “Administrative Perspectives on Granting Compensatory Equity Awards: A Checklist of Action Items,” and will be held this Thursday, May 14, 2020, from 10:00 am to 11:00 am Central. The purpose of this webinar is to provide a checklist of design and administrative considerations associated…
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 as a result of failed (or failing) performance-based compensation metrics and lost value to the…
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 Annual Program)” on Thursday, January 16, 2020 from 10:00 am to 11:00 am Central [Register…
Stock Ownership Policies & Clawback Policies: Design Pointers
Compensation governance is a front-and-center topic with a continued focus on stock ownership and clawback policies (in part due to the voting guidelines of institutional investors, proxy advisory firms and the Dodd-Frank Act). At 10:00 am Central on Thursday, October 10, 2019, in a webinar entitled “Stock Ownership Policies & Clawback Policies: Design Pointers,” our…
Executive Compensation Webinar Schedule for Remaining 2018 and Calendar Year 2019
The purpose of this post is to quickly highlight that we have published our Executive Compensation Webinar Schedule for all of 2019. As background, I have been providing this monthly webinar series since 2010 (it is a constant that I look forward to every month). Our programs are intended to provide FREE educational training (…
Pay Ratio Developments From Last Proxy Season
Tune in for our upcoming monthly compensation webinar entitled “Pay Ratio: Developments from Last Proxy Season.” The purpose of this webinar is to provide pay ratio disclosure stats and exemplars, including common ratios broken down by industry, use of the de minimis exception, the more common consistently applied compensation measures, how issuers calculated total compensation,…
Rule 701 Threshold That Triggers Enhanced Disclosure Is Increased
Rule 701 is the most relied upon exemption from SEC registration that is applicable to many private issuers granting compensatory equity awards. As described in more detail in an article (found here) from two members of our compensation team (Matt Grunert and Emily Cabrera), Rule 701 will soon be revised to raise…
Preparing The Compensation Committee
Tune in for our upcoming monthly compensation webinar entitled “Preparing for Proxy Season: Start Now (Annual Program).” The purpose of this webinar is to set forth the compensatory business and legal issues that publicly traded companies should consider bringing to their Compensation Committee members this fall.