Webcast

Bullet-Proof Your Stock Award Process

Make sure your grant approval and documentation procedures are above scrutiny!

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

4:00 – 5:30 pm, eastern time [Audio Archive and Transcript to follow]

Stock options have been under fire over the past year as investigations have revealed backdating, spring-loading, front-running and a host of other flawed processes. Even those companies that have not found problems are concerned that they may have been lucky rather than effective. Learn how stock plan processes failed as our expert panel provides ten key steps all companies should take to ensure effective controls from grant to settlement. You will leave with a checklist for evaluating your own stock award processes and will benefit from the experiences of other companies who have addressed these issues.

Featured Panelists:

Howard Dicker, Partner, Weil Gotshal & Manges
Sharon Hendricks, Shareholder, Heller Ehrman
Alan Nadel, Managing Director, Strategic Apex Group
Charles Wheeler, Principal, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Join our expert panel as they discuss:

What's acceptable and what's not for approval procedures
Factors that are important to the determination of grant date
Considerations for timing option grants
How to correct mistakes in approved grants
Critical internal controls for the entire grant process

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