The Advisors' Blog

– Broc Romanek, CompensationStandards.com

Over on his “Proxy Disclosure Blog,” Mark Borges has been analyzing the latest proxy statements and commenting upon their compensation consultant conflicts disclosures. As hopefully you know, new Item 407(e)(3)(iv) of Regulation S-K requires disclosure if a conflict of interest has arisen in connection with the work of a compensation consultant (whether selected by management or the compensation committee). To satisfy this disclosure requirement, companies will need to conduct a conflicts of interest assessment.

This raises the question of whether companies will include voluntary disclosure (so-called “negative disclosure”) in their proxy statement when a determination of “no conflict” has been made. To attempt to get a handle on what folks are planning to do, I have posted this “Quick Survey on Compensation Consultant Conflicts Disclosure.” Please take a moment to participate – all responses are anonymous as always…