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On September 27, 2023 and November 21, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued additional Compliance & Disclosure Interpretations (CDIs) clarifying certain technical aspects of the pay versus performance (PVP) disclosure rules under Item 402(v) of Regulation S-K[1]. These CDIs are intended to supplement the CDIs covering PVP disclosure that were issued by the SEC on February 10, 2023.[2] By way of background, covered public companies must comply with the PVP disclosure rules beginning…

Proxy advisors (e.g., Institutional Shareholder Services (“ISS”) and Glass, Lewis & Co (“Glass Lewis”)) have played a substantial role in the design of executive compensation for many years.   This has been due to the strong reliance of institutional investors (as well as investment advisors) on the proxy voting recommendations of firms such as ISS and Glass Lewis.  Some commentators have viewed the proxy advisors as being quasi-regulators without any formal oversight of their potential conflicts…

On May 11th, the staff of the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance issued 45 Compliance and Disclosure Interpretations (CDIs), replacing previously published telephone interpretations on proxy rules and Schedule 14A. Most of the updates are non-substantive, as noted by the SEC, and therefore the updates are primarily helpful for consolidating the relevant guidance in one place. Twelve of the CDIs relate to Item 10 of Schedule 14A, which sets forth the disclosure rules when a…