On June 11, 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced the agenda and panelists for its upcoming Roundtable on Executive Compensation Disclosure Requirements. The Roundtable will be held on June 26, 2025, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:35 p.m. Eastern Time, and will be webcast live on the SEC’s website. The agenda will be as follows:
| 1:00 – 1:30 p.m. ET | Opening Remarks from Chairman Paul Atkins, Commissioner Hester Peirce, Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw, and Commissioner Mark Uyeda |
| 1:30 – 2:45 p.m. ET | Panel 1. Executive Compensation Decisions: Setting Compensation and Informing Investment and Voting Decisions This panel will explore how public companies set compensation for their executive officers, including, who sets compensation, the factors that influence compensation decision-making, and the process by which compensation decisions are made. The panel will also discuss how investors consider executive compensation in making investment and voting decisions. |
| 2:45 – 2:55 p.m. ET | Break |
| 2:55 – 4:10 p.m. ET and 4:20 – 5:35 p.m. ET | Panels 2 and 3. Executive Compensation Disclosure: How We Got Here and Where We Should Go These panels will discuss the evolution of executive compensation disclosure, including the 2006 amendments and the compensation-related rules mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act. The discussion will explore whether the rules have achieved their policy objectives, the challenges in preparing the required disclosure, the types of disclosure that investors find material, and what the disclosure requirements should look like in the future. |
As discussed in our previous post, interested parties may submit public comments using the SEC’s online submission form or via email to rule-comments@sec.gov with “4-855” included in the subject line. For more information and to view comments received by the SEC, please visit the SEC’s Roundtable event page.