Executive Compensation is one of the clearest ways to communicate a company’s priorities and values. Our Executive Compensation services range from strategy development to program review and benchmarking.
Executive Compensation Strategy
- Development and review of executive compensation philosophy
- Review of executive compensation program objectives
- Current trends and best practices
Current Compensation Program Review
- Base salary and annual cash bonus opportunities
- Long and short-term incentives
- Executive benefits, severance and perquisites
- Equity programs, including the mix equity vehicles
- Stock ownership guidelines
- Perquisites
- Employment, change-in-control, severance agreements
- Calculations of estimated 280G payments
- Pay vs. performance assessment
- Assessment of link between compensation programs and stated pay philosophy
- Development of tally sheets
Competitive Benchmarking
- Peer group assessment
- Competitive marketplace compensation and performance evaluations
- Proxy disclosure and compensation survey analysis
Incentive Strategy
- Plan design
- Share allocation and utilization
- Modeling for additional share reserves, either internally or using the ISS Compass Model
- Analysis of performance metrics, target performance levels and measurement systems
- Business unit incentives and equity participation programs
- Co-investment and carried interest plans
- Special situation incentives for IPOs, LBOs, LLCs, partnerships, bankruptcies, M&As and startups
Contract Design and Negotiation
- Employment, severance, and change-in-control agreements
- Retention and transaction incentives
Supplementary Retirement Income and Other Executive Benefits
- Deferred compensation and capital accumulation programs
- Severance plan design and drafting
Implementation
- Drafting of plan documents and grant letters
- Communications
- Liaison to proxy advisory companies
- Shareholder approval strategies
Expert Witness Testimony, Opinions and Litigation Support
- Compensation reasonableness
- Option backdating
- Processes and procedures