Like any for-profit company, nonprofit organizations want to attract and retain high caliber executives to achieve and further their missions. To accomplish this, a nonprofit organization may have to offer a particularly...more
4/9/2025
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Compensation & Benefits ,
Employee Benefits ,
Excise Tax ,
Executive Compensation ,
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) ,
IRS ,
Nonprofits ,
Reasonableness Factors ,
Sanctions ,
Tax Exemptions ,
Tax Liability
Recently, Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”) released updates to its voting policies for 2025, including new and updated responses to its Compensation Policies FAQs and new Value-Adjusted Burn Rate Benchmarks (based...more
In this episode of The Proskauer Benefits Brief, David Teigman, partner in the Tax Department and a member of the Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Group, Josh Apfelroth, partner in the Private Equity and Mergers &...more
Glass Lewis (“GL”) recently released its annual Benchmark Policy Guidelines for 2024. This update makes several changes to how the proxy advisory firm will evaluate company policies related to executive compensation. ...more
1/9/2024
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Dodd-Frank ,
Executive Compensation ,
Glass Lewis ,
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) ,
Nasdaq ,
Non-GAAP Financial Measures ,
NYSE ,
Proxy Season ,
Remedial Actions ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Shareholders ,
Willful Misconduct
“An incentive compensation program should drive behavior, engagement and results that a company wants its employees, customers and investors to know are important to it. Incorporate ESG incrementally and with that broader...more
In this episode of The Proskauer Benefits Brief, David Teigman, partner in the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Group, Simon Sharpe, partner and member of our Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions groups and...more
Proxy advisory firms Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”) and Glass Lewis (“GL”) each published their annual policy updates for 2023, which updates made certain changes relating to executive compensation. As a general...more
12/15/2022
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Compensation ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Executive Compensation ,
Glass Lewis ,
Immigrants ,
Incentives ,
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) ,
Proxy Season ,
Sarbanes-Oxley ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Severance Pay
On November 28, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) published the final clawback rules (the “Final Rules”) under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank”) in the Federal...more
Twelve years after the enactment of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, and many years after the Securities and Exchange Commission started considering regulations implementing the clawback...more
“Recognize that Human Capital is a deal within the deal and plan accordingly. Deal teams sometimes overlook that they need to project out and calendar the key inflection points for successfully closing on the Human Capital...more