Overview of Committee Member Responsibilities -
Compensation committee (Committee) members’ duties and responsibilities generally are outlined in the Committee’s organizational charter approved by the board of directors...more
4/4/2024
/ Clawbacks ,
Corporate Governance ,
Delaware General Corporation Law ,
Dodd-Frank ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Executive Compensation ,
Listing Rules ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Proxy Advisory Firms ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Regulation
A key factor in recent discussions on revitalising London’s place as a capital markets and financial services hub has been a renewed attention on executive compensation. Recent comments made by Julia Hoggett, the CEO of the...more
6/14/2023
/ Board of Directors ,
Capital Markets ,
Corporate Governance ,
Executive Compensation ,
Investment ,
Investors ,
Listing Standards ,
London Stock Exchange ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Remuneration ,
UK
Overview of Committee Member Responsibilities -
Compensation committee (Committee) members’ duties and responsibilities generally are outlined in the Committee’s organizational charter approved by the board of directors...more
3/8/2023
/ Acquisitions ,
Compensation Committee ,
Director Compensation ,
Eligibility ,
Equity Compensation ,
Executive Compensation ,
Filing Season ,
Financial Adviser ,
Mergers ,
Proxy Advisory Firms ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Exchange Act ,
Stock Exchange ,
Taxation
The rapidly growing focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters that marked 2020 continued to shape events for companies operating or based in the U.K. and Europe in 2021. Discussions of ESG are occurring at...more
9/3/2021
/ Biden Administration ,
Climate Change ,
Corporate Governance ,
Corporate Social Responsibility ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
Green Bonds ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Sustainable Finance ,
UK
In a tumultuous year, one of the key clear messages to emerge from 2020 was that environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns are here to stay. As mentioned in our 31 July 2020 article “ESG in 2020: A Half-Year...more
2/9/2021
/ Biden Administration ,
Climate Change ,
Corporate Governance ,
Corporate Social Responsibility ,
Debt Market ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
Flexible Work Arrangements ,
Green Bonds ,
Popular ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Remuneration ,
Supply Chain ,
Sustainability
The 2020 annual general meeting (AGM) season presented challenges for the remuneration committees of U.K. listed companies, which look set to continue into the 2021 season. Executive compensation, the widening gap between...more
Investors have historically overlooked social factors amid a focus on the environmental and governance counterparts as they assess the merit of an investment. This may have been due in part to the difficulty in quantifying...more
10/31/2020
/ Black Lives Matter ,
Board of Directors ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Corporate Social Responsibility ,
Diversity ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
EU ,
Executive Compensation ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Incentive Awards ,
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) ,
Investors ,
Modern Slavery Act ,
Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Remuneration ,
Shareholder Activism ,
Supply Chain ,
UK ,
United States ,
Wage and Hour ,
Working Conditions ,
Workplace Safety
Employee share schemes are widely used by UK companies as a key tool in the recruitment, retention and incentivisation of the workforce. By allowing employees to acquire a stake in the business in which they are employed,...more