Glass Lewis Launches Equity Plan Advisory Service to Enable Public Companies to Design Plans in Line with Shareholder Expectations
San Francisco (Oct 18, 2021) – Glass Lewis, a leading global provider of research and corporate governance solutions, today announced the launch of the Equity Plan Advisory service for public companies.
Executive compensation continues to be an area of great interest to investors as companies seek to align the long-term interests of management and shareholders. In response to this interest, Glass Lewis, through its new affiliate, Glass Lewis Corporate, LLC, will now offer public companies an advisory solution to enhance their understanding of how proxy advisors and institutional investors evaluate equity plans, helping them to develop equity plans that are in alignment with shareholder perspectives.
Increasingly, public companies seek to gain insight into best practices and to better understand the detailed models that Glass Lewis uses to analyze incentive plans. Public companies can work with a Glass Lewis Corporate advisor to model their equity compensation plan against the Glass Lewis model. Advisors will review plans with customers, testing different new-share requests and equity plan amendments against Glass Lewis’ methodology, examining multiple what-if scenarios. Glass Lewis maintains a strict separation between Glass Lewis Corporate advisors and Glass Lewis research analysts in order to ensure the continued independence of our proxy advice.
“Glass Lewis Corporate seeks to help companies incorporate an improved understanding of investor perspectives into their corporate governance and executive compensation strategies,” said Lili Mehta, SVP, Global Head of Corporate Business. “By delivering clearly-defined guidance and an understanding of a company’s unique scenario, the Equity Plan Advisory service helps companies anticipate shareholder concerns and design equity plans that are likely to meet shareholder expectations.”
Driven by Glass Lewis’ proprietary methodology, this turnkey service offers U.S. and Canadian companies the insights and context to make share-request decisions with confidence while helping to promote best practices among companies’ equity compensation plans. For additional information, please visit our Equity Plan Advisory service page.
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