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The 2021 proxy season is just around the corner. This quick reference guide, which is intended to supplement Shearman & Sterling's 18th Annual Corporate Governance & Compensation Survey, summarizes themes from the 2020 proxy season and developing trends to consider for 2021. It also identifies possible future changes in disclosure rules that U.S. public companies should consider for the upcoming proxy season.
Although the new SEC disclosure rules are required only in the Form 10-K and registration statements, we continue to expect companies to include human capital disclosures in the proxy statement, as the proxy statement has become an increasingly important vehicle for a company to present an overview of its approach to key ESG issues as part of its stakeholder engagement efforts.
The impact of COVID-19 on the global economy has forced many companies to reevaluate their incentive compensation programs. Although mid-year changes to performance metrics are typically frowned upon by institutional investors and proxy advisory firms, companies may find a more understanding audience this year, provided they adequately "tell the story" behind the compensation changes and the compensation-related changes are due to COVID-19 considerations.
We anticipate that the board evaluation process will continue to receive focus in the 2021 proxy season. The board evaluation process has garnered increased attention from institutional investors, as it is increasingly becoming integrated into board refreshment discussions. Institutional investors are looking at the details of how a board evaluates its performance beyond the practice of self- assessment questionnaires and surveys. Proxy advisory firms have also shown interest in the board evaluation process. According to its 2020 ESG Governance Quality Scorecard, ISS expects boards, committees and individual directors to regularly assess their effectiveness and contribution. The evaluation process should include individual director assessments and involve a third party at least every three years. Glass Lewis also has an expectation of routine director evaluations, which include third-party reviews. Accordingly, many companies are turning to an outside party to engage in a process of director interviews, the results of which are shared with the Board. As you evaluate whether the Board self-assessment process should be refreshed this year, keep in mind what will be said in the 2021 proxy statement and, if you embark on a third party interview process, how that process will run to balance transparency and confidentiality.
We anticipate there will be an uptick in shareholder engagement and proposals in the following areas in the 2021 proxy season: diversity, social justice and human capital management. In responding to shareholder proposals, companies should always consider whether they can make a credible argument for exclusion, but, more so than in the past, companies should consider the message that could be drawn from a no-action letter that seeks to exclude a shareholder proposal. Noaction letters seeking to exclude shareholder proposals are premised on nuanced understanding of, and appreciation for, the "SEC precedent" that has developed around concepts like "significant policy issue" and "substantially implemented."
A public letter from a company that asserts that a particular social policy initiative raised by a shareholder proposal is not a policy issue for the company or has been fully addressed by the company, could be easily misconstrued or, worse, used to paint the board or management as out of touch. Companies should seriously consider meaningful engagement with proponents before seeking the SEC's concurrence with exclusion of a proposal from the proxy statement. If a company decides to exclude a shareholder proposal, it should keep in mind that the audience for the no-action letter is broader than it ever has been.
Companies should also be mindful of changes coming in the 2022 proxy season to the shareholder proposal rules. In September 2020, the SEC adopted amendments to certain eligibility requirements for shareholder proposals that include raising the ownership threshold for submission eligibility and the resubmission threshold with respect to a proposal if it deals with substantively the same subject matter as another proposal submitted in the previous five years. These amendments are the first substantive changes to the shareholder proposal rules since 1998. Increased emphasis on engagement puts more importance on identifying directors with that skillset. From a disclosure perspective, we note that companies are increasingly providing more details about shareholder engagement efforts in their proxy statement summaries.
Blackrock, Inc. has said it would expect to see at least two women directors on every board, and ISS has proposed a voting policy change for the 2022 proxy season to recommend a vote against or withheld from the nominating committee chair (or other directors in a case-by-case basis) where the board has no apparent racially or ethnically diverse members. For 2021, ISS intends only to highlight this gap.
One theme to emerge is process transparency for shareholders. Be sure to provide thorough, thoughtful and jargon-free instructions in proxy materials describing what a shareholder needs to do to attend, vote and ask questions. Consider providing shareholder login information well in advance and providing a help-line number or online chat feature to guide shareholders on the day of the meeting and manage technical issues.
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