As a reminder, by July 1, 2013, compensation committee charters must comply with the new New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Nasdaq Stock Market (Nasdaq) listing requirements that were approved by the Securities and Exchange...more
5/23/2013
- Compensation Committee Deadlines Dodd-Frank Nasdaq NYSE SEC
Early Lessons From the 2013 Proxy Season -
As Skadden monitors the initial weeks of the 2013 proxy season, we are seeing the following preliminary trends:
Vote Results -
Of the first 279 companies of the...more
4/26/2013
- Executive Compensation ISS Proxies Say-on-Pay
New ISS Peer Group Methodology -
One of the most controversial issues during the 2012 proxy season was the degree to which the peer groups chosen by Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) varied from the peer groups...more
12/11/2012
- Executive Compensation ISS Proxy Season
Private equity funds (PE funds) and their advisors long have been concerned that a fund (or its other portfolio companies) may be liable for unfunded pension plan liabilities of one of its portfolio companies. However, in a...more
11/28/2012
- ERISA Executive Compensation PBGC Private Equity Funds
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), an influential proxy advisory firm, annually updates the policies that underlie its voting recommendations to its institutional investor clients. On November 16, 2012, ISS issued its...more
11/21/2012
- Executive Compensation ISS
