Employee Benefits Blog

Updated Glass Lewis Proxy Voting Guidelines

I previously blogged about certain compensation related updates to ISS’ proxy voting guidelines for 2020. With proxy season in full swing, I wanted to highlight some important compensation related changes to the Glass Lewis 2020 voting guidelines, a full copy of which can be found here. Contractual Payments and Arrangements. In their 2020 guidelines, Glass […]

February 17, 2020 | 2 min read | Tagged: change in control, compensation, discretion, Glass Lewis, incetnvei plans, ISS, proxy, shareholder

Greg Gautam Partner

Say on Pay Failure Results 2017

Of the 7% of Russell 3000 companies that received “against” vote recommendations from ISS on their say on pay proposals this 2017 proxy season, some of the cited reasons for the negative vote recommendations from ISS consisted of the following: Pay for failure (i.e., pay for performance disconnect). Lack of rigorous performance goals. A substantial […]

August 21, 2017 | 1 min read | Tagged: corporate governance, governance, ISS, performance, problematic pay practice, proxy, Say on Pay, severance payments

Greg Gautam Partner