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July 22, 2024

Transcript: Proxy Season Post-Mortem: The Latest Compensation Disclosures

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 LLP and Senior Editor, TheCorporateCounsel.net and CompensationStandards.com, and Ron Mueller, Partner, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, discussed the “lessons learned” from the 2024 proxy season that companies can start carrying forward into next proxy season. The webcast covered the following topics:

– The State of Say-on-Pay During the 2024 Proxy Season
– Highlights and Tips from this Year’s CD&As
– Best Practices for Disclosing Incentive Compensation Adjustments and Outcomes
– Trends in Disclosure Regarding Operational and Strategic Metrics
– Pay-versus-Performance: SEC Staff Guidance Issues and Year 2 Enhancements
– Compensation Clawback Policies – Multiple Policies/Potential Disclosure Issues
– Proxy Advisory Firms – Is Their Influence Starting to Wane?
– Perquisites Disclosure and Recent Enforcement Focus
– Shareholder Proposals – Company Strategies; No-Action Trends; Activists and Universal Proxies
– Rule 10b5-1 Plan Disclosure Developments
– Pending SEC Rulemaking

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

Meredith Ervine