Archive for the 'related-party' Tag

When it comes to proxy filings, we tend to write about a key handful of topics: executive pay and perks, related-party transactions, and director compensation and oversight. Often we just look at one issue a time for a given company. Then there are companies like FedEx (FDX), which give us a trifecta — and not [...]

Last spring, the co-chairs of The Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild wrote an open letter to The Washington Post Company’s (WPO) publisher, Katharine Weymouth, expressing their disappointment that Weymouth – a granddaughter of the Post’s legendary Katharine Graham – had accepted a bonus of nearly $500,000 and a 10 percent raise “…at a time when the sacrifices [...]

When the new proxy for Sunrise Senior Living (SRZ) crossed our desk on Monday, we expected to make quick work of it. After all, in December we’d already footnoted the sweet new pay package lavished on Chief Executive Mark Ordan, and last month noted the unceremonious (if lucrative) axe dropped on former Chief Financial Officer Julie [...]