Client Alerts - Part 2

ISS Publishes Equity Plan Scorecard FAQs   | ISS recently published FAQs for its new Equity Plan Scorecard (EPSC) approach for evaluating equity plan proposals. The methodology is effective for all U.S. companies with annual meetings on or after February 1, 2015. Equity Plan Scorecard Methodology The EPSC considers a range of positive [read more]

ISS 2015 Burn Rate Benchmarks   | ** 2016 Burn Rate Benchmarks here ** The below is the appendix to our client alert ISS Publishes Equity Plan Scorecard FAQs. S&P 500 Russell 3000 (excluding S&P 500) Non-Russell 3000 [read more]

ISS Releases 2015 Policy Update: First Look at the Equity Plan Scorecard   | ISS recently released its final policy guidelines for the 2015 proxy season. As announced in the draft rules published last month, ISS is adopting an Equity Plan Scorecard model ("EPSC") that considers a range of positive and negative factors, rather than a series of "pass" [read more]

Conflicting Opinions: Views on Executive Compensation from Investors and Companies Results of ISS’ 2014-2015 Policy Survey   | ISS recently released the results of their annual survey of institutional investors and corporate issuers on emerging corporate governance issues. ISS considers the survey a critical component of its annual policy review and formulation process. The survey was structured around several high-level corporate governance themes. [read more]

A Harbinger of Things to Come? ISS Implements New Compensation and Governance Factors in QuickScore 2.0   | ISS recently released a Technical Document that outlined key changes to the methodology and new governance factors to its governance risk scoring system, ISS Governance QuickScore. While we have previously circulated an Alert on this topic, the Technical Document includes a number of new and [read more]