Why you should attend
As the economy shifts and the legislature, SEC and shareholders respond, the design, implementation and disclosure of executive compensation undergoes continual change. At this program, experts in the area - from major corporations, the SEC, the IRS and shareholder activist groups, as well as from leading law, and consulting firms - will lead you through the emerging best practices and the current reactions to the changing landscape.
What you will learn
- Changes in the legal, tax and regulatory landscape
- Developing practices under the new Say-on-Pay regime and a proxy season wrap up
- Current compensation practices, structures and levels
- The role of risk management in incentive compensation
- Developing best practices in executive compensation and succession planning
- Corporate governance, compensation committee best practices and shareholder activism
- Changing practices in employment agreements, severance and golden parachutes
- New approaches in equity compensation, performance goals and clawbacks
- Global regulations: structuring compensation for multinational corporations
Who should attend
This conference is designed for private practitioners, in-house corporate counsel, employee benefit consultants, service providers and compensation managers and consultants.
8:30 Pay Trends
- 2011 Pay Review
- Forecast for 2012
- Popular metrics and designs
Daniel J. Ryterband, John D. England
9:30 Proxy Advisors & Shareholder Activism
- Living with the new ISS Pay for Performance Model
- Lessons from the 2nd year of Say-on-Pay
- Shareholder activism around pay, historic and on the horizon
- “Occupy” movements and election year
- Successful board responses
Mark A. Borges, Patrick S. McGurn, Beverly L. O’Toole, Lopa Patel Zielinski
10:30 Networking Break
10:45 Dodd-Frank and SEC News
- Clawbacks
- Pay ratio and pay for performance disclosure
- Employee and director hedging
- Current state of goal disclosure
John J. Cannon III, Anne Krauskopf, Robert W. Reeder III
11:45 Luncheon Keynote Speaker
Robert J. Jackson, Jr., Associate Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
12:45 Current State of Clawback Design
- Clawback best practices
- Taking into account accounting requirements
- Enforcement and taxation
- Risk
Rosina B. Barker, Nicholas H. De Baun, Alan M. Johnson
1:45
Advising in Changing Circumstances: M&A & Bankruptcy
- Bankruptcy: developments and lessons learned
- M&A: developments in change-in-control arrangements, say on golden parachutes disclosure and results
Jeannemarie O’Brien, Marc R. Trevino
2:45
Networking Break
3:00
Stock Plan Design
- Fungible Pools
- 162(m) Compliance
- Shareholding guidelines
- Performance plans
- Multijurisdictional
Irv Becker, Jeffrey P. Crandall, Bindu Culas
4:00
Advising the Board and the Compensation Committee: Governance Considerations
- Independence rules
- Delaware law developments: corporate waste; say-on-pay
- Compensation Committee governance
C. Stephen Bigler, David H. Engvall, Linda E. Rappaport
5:00
Adjourn
Co-Chair(s)
Speaker(s)
Irv Becker ~ National Practice Leader -- Executive Compensation, Hay Group, Inc.
Anne Krauskopf ~ Senior Special Counsel, Office of Chief Counsel, Division of Corporation Finance, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Beverly L. O'Toole ~ Managing Director and Associate General Counsel, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Program Attorney(s)
New York City Seminar Location
PLI New York Center, 810 Seventh Avenue at 53rd Street (21st floor), New York, New York 10019. Message Center, program days only: (212) 824-5733.
New York City Hotel Accommodations
Due to high demand and limited inventory in NYC, we recommend reserving hotel rooms as early as possible.
The New York Hilton & Towers, 1335 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019. 1 block from PLI Center. Reservations 1-800-HILTONS or, 1-877-NYC-HILT. Please mention that you are booking a room under the Practising Law Institute Corporate rate and the Client File # is N495741. Reservations on line at www.hilton.com and enter the same Client File # in the Corporate ID # field to access Practising Law Institute rates.
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