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January 9, 2019

ISS Publishes FAQs for the 2019 Proxy Season

Alert | By Joe Sorrentino, James Park, David Yang

In December 2018, ISS released U.S. Compensation Policies Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and U.S. Equity Compensation Plans FAQs. These documents expand on the 2019 compensation policy updates and preliminary FAQs that were published back in November. Included in the FAQs are updates to ISS’ list of problematic pay practices, a revised methodology to identify non-employee director pay outliers, a new “excessive dilution” override factor, and other modifications/ clarifications to its compensation and equity plan evaluations.

These policies and FAQs apply to public U.S. companies with annual shareholder meetings on or after February 1, 2019.

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joe-sorrentinoJoe Sorrentino
Managing Director

Joe Sorrentino has over 20 years of executive compensation consulting experience. His client assignments have been with both public and privately-held companies in industries including: chemicals, consumer products, financial services, health care, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, real estate/REITS and utilities. His consulting engagements often focus on the development of executive compensation strategy, design of annual and long-term incentive programs, and ISS equity plan modeling, compensation and governance policies.

james-parkJames Park
Managing Director

James Park has fifteen years of progressive human capital consulting experience. He currently consults on all aspects of executive compensation and benefits, corporate governance, compliance and disclosure, and technical issues such as taxation, accounting and incentive award valuation.

david-yangDavid Yang
Managing Director

David Yang has advised numerous public and privately-held companies on all aspects of executive and board compensation. His experience covers a wide range of industries, including healthcare, financial services, retail, consumer products, transportation, and technology among others. He is a frequent speaker on executive compensation topics and a regular author of the firm’s alert letters.

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