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Executive Compensation Consulting

Learn how Pearl Meyer can help you maximize the impact of executive compensation to build long-term value.

Balancing TSR as a Long-term Incentive

“…TSR is not an automatic decision…”

–Pete Lupo, Sr. Managing Director and Atlantic Region Head

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Make Compensation a Powerful Catalyst

For nearly three decades, Pearl Meyer has acted as independent, outside counsel to thousands of compensation committees and management teams in both public and private companies. Our senior consultants work with clients to help them transform executive compensation from a cost of doing business into a performance-driven tool to increase shareholder value and competitive advantage.

We believe that executive compensation can be a catalyst to help you achieve your business goals and support the execution of your strategy. Our consulting advice is designed around the requirements of your unique situation. We work closely with you to understand your business and leadership strategies, culture, and industry dynamics. We believe that external pay practices and compliance considerations play a role in influencing your compensation strategy, however, business and human capital objectives should drive your program design.

Together, we create compensation solutions that help you attract and retain the best people and maximize shareholder value.

How We Design Executive Compensation Programs

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Learn more about our Executive Compensation Consulting Services

Strategic Alignment

Strategic Alignment

  • Business and leadership strategy review
  • Compensation philosophy and strategy
  • Compensation committee charter review
  • Leadership strategy profiling
Sophisticated Analytics

Sophisticated Analytics

  • Peer group selection and competitive analysis
  • Market-based pay studies
  • Short- and long-term incentive plan design (cash and equity-based)
  • Metric selection and goal setting
  • Value driver analysis
  • Dynamic pay modeling
  • Employment contracts, severance agreements, and change-in-control arrangements
  • Pay-for-performance analysis
  • Executive benefits and perquisites, including non-qualified deferred compensation arrangements
  • Historical performance assessment
  • Probability and pay leverage analyses
Compliance Confidence

Compliance Confidence

  • SEC and regulatory advice
  • CD&A and disclosure communication
  • Plan documentation and disclosure requirements
  • ISS/Glass Lewis expertise
  • Institutional shareholder policy and practices review
  • Share plan authorizations
  • Shareholder communication
Tailored Solutions

Tailored Solutions

We believe that there is no such thing as one-size-fits-all compensation design. We partner with you to understand what makes your organization unique and through our proven methodology, we create tailored solutions that align your executive pay programs with your business strategy and goals.

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David Swinford

Our mission is to help organizations build and maintain great leadership teams to create value for the organization's stakeholders over the long term. All of our work on compensation benchmarking, plan design, and related governance issues is structured to fulfill this mission.

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David Swinford
August 2017

Leadership Development Strategy: A Three-Step Framework

Chairman David Swinford outlines how compensation and leadership strategy align through consistency, the impact of equity, and growth opportunity.

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“The vast majority of my clients in the tech industry are planning to cut their executives’ pay this year by giving them smaller equity packages,” said Aalap Shah, managing director, Pearl Meyer.

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“It will be difficult for many [tech] companies to not reduce the number of shares that the executives are getting," said Aalap Shah, managing director, Pearl Meyer.

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“Passing [say-on-pay] by 60 percent or passing by 70 percent is almost like failing,” said Jan Koors, senior managing director, Pearl Meyer.

 

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“With disclosures getting more regimented and compliance-oriented, maybe [companies] have decided they don’t want to be involved in an SEC enforcement action,” said Deborah Lifshey, managing director, Pearl Meyer.

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