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We have announced the line-up for our annual package of executive pay conferences to be held on November 1st-2nd in San Francisco and by video webcast: “Tackling Your 2012 Compensation Disclosures: The 6th Annual Proxy Disclosure Conference” and “The Say-on-Pay Workshop Conference.” Save 25% by registering now at our early-bird discount rates.

As you can see from our agendas, this year’s pair of Conferences (for one low price) will be workshop-oriented more than ever before in an effort to provide the practical guidance that you need in the new say-on-pay world that we live in:

1. November 1st’s “Tackling Your 2012 Compensation Disclosures: The 6th Annual Proxy Disclosure Conference” includes:

– “Say-on-Pay Disclosures: The Investors Speak”
– “Say-on-Pay: The Executive Summary”
– “Drafting CD&A in a Say-on-Pay World”
– “The In-House Perspective: Changing Your Processes for ‘Say-on-Pay'”
– “Getting the Vote In: The Proxy Solicitors Speak”
– “Handling the New Golden Parachute Requirement”
– “The Latest SEC Actions: Compensation Advisors, Clawbacks, Pay Disparity & Pay-for-Performance”
– “Dealing with the Complexities of Perks”
– “Conducting – and Disclosing – Pay Risk Assessments”
– “Say-on-Frequency & Other Form 8-K Challenges”
– “How to Handle the ‘Non-Compensation’ Proxy Disclosure Items”

2. November 2nd’s “The Say-on-Pay Workshop: 8th Annual Executive Compensation Conference” includes:

– “The Say-on-Pay Process Playbook: Breaking It Down”
– “Say-on-Pay: How to Interpret Your Voting Results”
– “Say-on-Pay: How to Best Tell Your Story”
– “Say-on-Pay Shareholder Engagement: What’s Working – and What Isn’t”
– “How to Work with (or Against) the Proxy Advisors: Navigating the Say-on-Pay Minefield”
– “Pay-for-Performance Workshop: How to Properly Implement”
– “Plan Design Workshop: Hot Button Say-on-Pay Issues and More”
– “The Say-on-Pay Lightning Round: 50 Ideas to Implement Now”

In his “Proxy Disclosure Blog,” Mark Borges gives us the latest say-when-on-pay stats: with 514 companies filing their proxies, 46.3% triennial; 4.1% biennial; 44.9% annual; and 4.6% no recommendation.

House Republicans Seek to Repeal/Modify Four Dodd-Frank Provisions

As noted in this Market Watch article, House Republicans have been working on four separate discussion draft bills to repeal or change parts of Dodd-Frank and one draft bill to ease smaller company capital raising that is not Dodd-Frank related (here’s a piece from “The Hill” and a Reuters article). The article lists these 5 topics that would be addressed through the bills:

– No longer make credit-ratings firms liable if their initial ratings turn out to be faulty

– Exempt companies that use derivatives to hedge commercial risk from new requirements that they route their transactions through clearinghouses

– Exempt private-equity fund managers from registering with the SEC

– Overturn requirement requiring companies to disclose the median annual total compensation of all employees and calculate a ratio of how employee compensation compares with that of the CEO

– Increase the offering threshold for companies that don’t need to register with the SEC to $50 million from $5 million

My Final Four Predictions…

Butler over VCU in final, North Carolina and Arizona. And for the record, I have an #11 seed for the Elite 8 too (Gonzaga) and #12 Richmond and #13 Oakland in the Sweet 16 (that’s four double-digit teams for the Sweet 16). And I have Kentucky beating Ohio State to make the Elite 8 also…

– Broc Romanek