Current Executive Compensation Trends in Private Equity Transactions — Troutman Pepper Podcast
Imminent Shift: Preparing for the T+1 Settlement Impact on Equity-Based Compensation — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Equity Award Delegations for Publicly Traded Companies — The Consumer Finance Podcast
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Using Equity Incentives to Attract and Retain Key Team Members
Revisiting Executive Compensation and Employee Incentive Plans
Startup Compensation: Tips to Avoid Liability and Keep Your Investors Happy
I-18- DC Update on Joint Employer and OT Issues, and Part 1 of an Expert Interview on Pay Equity Audits
Performance Based Equity Compensation
On this episode of “Just Compensation,” Darren Goodman, Sophia Mokotoff, and Taryn E. Cannataro discuss equity compensation that can be issued by partnerships, with a special focus on profits interests. Profits interests are...more
Consider this fairly typical situation. Four years ago, employee Emma was granted an incentive stock option (ISO) to purchase 100,000 shares with an exercise price of $0.86 per share. Emma’s award is fully-vested and she...more
This blog is the first post in a four-part series. Part I will provide a high-level summary of stock option basics....more
The end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023 have been filled with news of tech layoffs, including the notable FAANG companies (Meta, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Alphabet) and smaller, privately held companies. The cause of these...more
Double-vest restricted stock unit awards (Double-Vest RSUs) made headlines a few years after the end of the Great Recession when they were awarded by pre-IPO tech giants. Since that time, it has become increasingly common for...more
Sponsors are likely to explore share-based schemes and other plans to incentivise non-managerial staff. Incentivising management with sweet equity and co-investment opportunities is a tried and tested strategy for buyout...more
In deciding how to best compensate employees in a startup, clients often consider stock options as a viable choice. But even once the decision is made to move forward with stock options, clients are still left to decide...more
As 2020 comes to an end, we are happy to present our traditional End of Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” Lists. We are publishing our “To Do” Lists in four separate Employee Benefits Updates. Part 1 covered year-end health and...more
As 2019 comes to an end, we are happy to present our traditional End of Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” Lists. This year, we present our “To Do” Lists in four separate Employee Benefits Updates. Part 1 covered year-end health and...more
This White Paper highlights some recent developments in certain countries relating to employee stock plans offered by multinational companies to employees in such jurisdictions. BELGIUM - New Tax Withholding...more
As 2018 comes to an end, we are happy to present our traditional End of Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” Lists. This year, we are publishing our “To Do” Lists in four separate Employee Benefits Updates. Part 1 covered year-end...more
On July 24, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in a 2-to-1 opinion, ruled in Altera Corp. v. Commissioner that Treasury Regulations involving transfer pricing promulgated in 2003 (the Regulations) complied...more
As 2017 comes to an end, we are happy to present our traditional End of Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” Lists. This year, we are publishing our “To Do” Lists in four separate Employee Benefits Updates. Part 1 covered year-end...more
As 2016 comes to an end, we are pleased to present you with our traditional End of Year Plan Sponsor “To Do” Lists. Like last year, we are presenting our “To Do” Lists in three separate Employee Benefits Updates. Part 1 of...more
Proxy advisory firms Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) and Glass Lewis have both released their voting policies for the 2015 proxy season. The policy changes for U.S. companies include updates to the firms’...more
Proxy research and advice entities Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (“ISS”) and Glass, Lewis & Co., LLC (“Glass Lewis”) recently updated the guidelines each service will use to inform their voting recommendations for...more
Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) and Glass, Lewis & Co., LLC, issued their respective annual updates to their proxy voting guidelines on November 6, 2014. As revised these guidelines have important implications...more
Two of the leading shareholder proxy advisory firms, Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”) and Glass Lewis & Co. ("Glass Lewis"), released updates to their proxy voting guidelines for the 2015 proxy season. In sum, there...more
Proxy advisory firms Institutional Shareholder Services, or ISS, and Glass Lewis released their 2015 executive compensation proxy voting updates that may be particularly relevant for public companies that intend to submit new...more
Changes aim to help companies make greater use of employee share schemes and equity arrangements. On 19 March, the revised draft of the UK Companies Act 2006 (Amendment of Part 18) Regulations 2013, including final...more