australian executive remuneration consultants

Assisting companies design, implement and manage how they remunerate their Non-Executive Directors and C suite:

• Incentive framework design – Advising on designing various incentive plans – from design features, strategic market practice and affordability perspectives.

• Benchmarking & analysis – Advising on appropriate fixed remuneration quantum and variable remuneration incentive opportunities through quantitative and qualitative market analysis.

• Equity valuation – Conducting valuations of equity grants for allocation purposes (eg valuing options using the Black Scholes methodology).

• Legal documentation – Prepare plan documentation to give effect to incentive plan designs (typically including Plan Rules, Invitations and Summaries).

• Pre-IPO and transaction advisory – Assisting companies preparing for their initial public offering on the ASX or ahead of transactions with their due diligence, incentive framework designs, equity grants and stakeholder engagement (eg prospectus inserts).

• Ongoing support – Assist with ongoing support and management of incentive plans – including adjusting designs, determining incentive outcomes and resolving questions/disputes.

Assisting companies understand the effectiveness, strengths and weaknesses of their Board and C suite and navigate their succession/transition:

• Board effectiveness reviews – providing an external overview of your Board’s effectiveness through an independent lens, utilising meetings with individual NEDs and management to confidentially report findings.

• Service Agreements – Draft and negotiate NED Services Agreements, Executive Services Agreements and Executive Separation Agreements.

• Advising companies on employment law and remuneration matters relating to their joining and separation, including termination benefits advice and the drafting of relevant documentation (eg deeds of appointment and separation).

• Remuneration implications – Advise on remuneration aspects of an Executive joining or leaving a company (including in a Takeover/Change of Control scenario).

Assisting companies create buy-in with stakeholders around remuneration and succession matters, including external stakeholders (shareholders, proxy advisors, regulators) and internal stakeholders (employees, management, Board):

• Strike responses – often incorporating the full gamut of our service offerings, we can assist you in navigating responding to a strike against your remuneration report (and have a stellar record in doing so).

• Remuneration report reviews – reviewing or drafting/re-drafting remuneration reports so as to comply with relevant regulatory requirements and, most importantly, effectively communicate key messages.

• Stakeholder engagement materials – we can help with the preparation and review of materials used in engaging with your stakeholders, including Q&A packs for or responses to proxy advisers and AGM preparation materials (eg Chairman script, Q&A packs).

• Notice of Meeting reviews – as a key communication document, we can review your Notice of Meeting from both a legal and communications point of view.

• Communication of change – stakeholder engagement is often required internally also, and we can assist you in communicating change to employees and other internal stakeholders.