Getting rid of meeting fees and funneling that money to annual cash or equity retainers takes "a lot of noise out of the system," said Ryan Hourihan, a managing director at Pearl Meyer. "It's not a takeaway, but more of a simplification [of] director compensation."

“If shareholders are getting more interested in understanding the CEO succession process, it’s because they have seen failures, and it begs the question of how solid the process is at a given company, and how involved is the board?” said Susan Sandlund, managing director

"The judge found that the people [on Tesla’s board] weren't really independent of Musk," said Deb Lifshey, managing director.

“It’s not surprising that we are seeing stock grants deeper into organizations now that we’re on the other side of the Great Resignation,” said Aalap Shah, managing director.