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April 9, 2015

CII’s New Policy: Automatic Accelerated Vesting of Unearned Equity

Broc Romanek, CompensationStandards.com

Last week, the Council of Institutional Investors approved a policy opposing automatic accelerated vesting of unearned equity in the event of a merger or other change-in-control. The recommended best-practice policy states that boards should have discretion to permit full, partial or no accelerated vesting of equity awards not yet awarded, paid or vested.

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