In this post: “Evolving Shareholder Engagement Landscape and Bespoke Compensation Design,” FW Cook offers sound advice to companies seeking to secure institutional investor support for company-specific compensation plans that may vary from the norm or expected norm in the context of an increasingly challenging and complex shareholder engagement environment. The piece discusses the firm’s learnings and observations to date resulting from the SEC’s recent Schedule 13D/G guidance (which we reported on here, here and here) and how companies can seek to manage the unintended consequences of the guidance on their shareholder engagement strategies.