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Repricing challenges: directors need to weigh many competing considerations.

Publication: Directors & Boards
Publication Date: 22-MAR-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Repricing challenges: directors need to weigh many competing considerations.(LEGAL BRIEF)

Article Excerpt
BOARDS FACE NEW and difficult challenges in their oversight of executive compensation. Rising sentiment against what many see as overpaid and underperforming executives has focused additional attention on this already sensitive topic. And with "say on pay" apparently just around the corner, directors increasingly find their decisions on executive pay subject to new and often hostile scrutiny. Nowhere is this more evident than in the difficult area of option repricing.

Executives who have lost many of their assets in the stock market rout are often skeptical that the markets will return to their former levels anytime soon. In particular, those holding deeply underwater options may consider them of marginal value, largely eliminating the value of the options to motivate performance and encourage the executive to...

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