Matters To Consider for the 2025 Annual Meeting and Reporting Season: Executive Compensation

Companies should consider their recent annual say-on-pay votes and best practices for disclosure when designing their 2025 compensation programs and communicating about those programs to shareholders. Companies should also review the latest say-on-pay trends, including overall 2024 say-on-pay results, factors driving say-on-pay failure (i.e., those say-on-pay votes that achieved less than 50% shareholder approval), say-on-golden-parachute results and results of equity plan proposals, as well as recent guidance from the proxy advisory firms Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis. READ MORE