Corporate Governance

2017 Corporate Governance & Execution Compensation Survey

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Introduction | 1 Shearman & Sterling We are pleased to share Shearman & Sterling's 2017 Corporate Governance & Executive Compensation Survey of the 100 largest U.S. public companies. This year's Survey, the 15th in our series, examines some of the most important governance and executive compensation practices and identifies best practices and emerging trends. This year's Survey presents our findings and insights on several of the key issues that have been increasingly focused on by shareholders. These include proxy access, IPO governance, including multi-class voting structures, shareholder activism, diversity, shareholder engagement, compensation clawback policies and the director self-evaluation process. In many cases we comment on the evolution of these practices over time as we have surveyed many of these topics in the past. We also report on perennial topics such as say-on-pay, board size, composition and leadership, shareholder proposals, stock ownership guidelines for executives and directors, executive perks and director compensation. We hope this Survey provides relevant data and insights as to how leading companies are approaching important governance issues and allows our readers to benchmark the corporate governance and compensation practices of their institutions against those of the 100 largest U.S. public companies. The 2017 Survey was produced under the leadership of the following Shearman & Sterling partners: Richard Alsop John Cannon Stephen Giove Kyungwon (Won) Lee Doreen Lilienfeld Lona Nallengara Clare O'Brien INTRODUCTION

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