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We’ve posted the transcript for our recent CompensationStandards.com webcast, “Proxy Season Post-Mortem: The Latest Compensation Disclosures,” during which Mark Borges, Principal, Compensia and Editor, CompensationStandards.com, Dave Lynn, Partner, Goodwin Procter and Senior Editor, TheCorporateCounsel.net and CompensationStandards.com, and Ron Mueller, Partner, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, discussed the “lessons learned” from the 2026 proxy season that companies can start carrying forward into next proxy season. This was a jam-packed program! The webcast covered the following topics:

– Today’s Incentive Compensation Challenges
– The State of Say-on-Pay During the 2026 Season
– Experience with Proxy Advisors’ New Pay-for-Performance Analyses
– Shareholder Engagement Challenges & Responsiveness Disclosures in 2026 Proxy Statements
– BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard Stewardship Approaches in 2026
– Compensation Clawbacks: Evolving Disclosures and the Coming Three-Year “Lookback”
– The 2026 Shareholder Proposal Process; Executive Compensation-Related Shareholder Proposals
– Proxy Advisors: Status of Lawsuits and Regulation
– Waning Proxy Advisor Power, the Rise of AI, Emerging Institutional Investor Policies and Managing – – Divergent Shareholder Views
– What’s To Come: Musings on Recent SEC Rule Proposals and the Impact on Equity & Compensation Disclosures
– What’s To Come: Musings on Potential Executive Compensation Disclosure Rulemaking
– What’s To Come: Musings on the Potential Overhaul of Regulation S-K

Members of this site can access the transcript of this program. If you are not a member, email info@ccrcorp.com to sign up today and get access to the full transcript – or sign up online.

– Liz Dunshee