Executive compensation is a hot-button issue, correlated both to tremendous growth in financial wealth and to rising inequality. In this episode of Law, Policy & Markets, Milbank Global Project Energy & Infrastructure Finance partner Allan Marks and Executive Compensation and Employee Benefits partner Mike Shah discuss current trends in executive compensation, including:
- How corporate boards address competing pressures when structuring new pay packages
- Impact of market volatility on incentive compensation and performance metrics
- Keys to designing and implementing executive pay packages aligned with a company’s long-term performance
- ESG considerations, diversity and inclusion, and other goals that matter
- Attracting, retaining and incentivizing top executives to deliver both value and growth
- Emotional aspects of contract negotiations
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About the speakers:
Mike Shah's practice focuses on all facets of executive compensation matters. He regularly advises compensation committees and boards of directors on corporate governance and executive compensation matters. In particular, Mr. Shah has extensive experience advising public and private companies on executive compensation and employee benefits issues across a broad range of corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings and bankruptcies, friendly and hostile tender offers, divestures, and public offerings.
Allan Marks is one of the world's leading project finance lawyers, with special expertise in the power and renewable energy, transportation and airports, oil and gas, water, and telecommunications sectors. He advises developers, investors, lenders, and underwriters around the world in the development and financing of complex infrastructure projects, as well as related acquisitions, restructurings and capital markets transactions. He has provided strategic guidance to corporate boards and senior executives with respect to risk management and cybersecurity compliance in the energy and digital infrastructure areas. Mr. Marks also serves as an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley at both the Law School and the Haas School of Business.
