About Us

CompensationDisclosure.com is an educational service that provides practical guidance on executive compensation disclosures. It includes the "Lynn, Borges & Romanek's The Executive Compensation Disclosure Treatise & Reporting Guide" as well as the quarterly newsletters that make up the "Lynn, Borges & Romanek's 'Executive Compensation Annual Service'."

Not only do subscribers get a hard copy of the Treatise when they join, they get access to this electronic version of it. In addition to this Treatise, subscribers will receive an electronic quarterly newsletter providing analysis and guidance regarding the latest developments in executive compensation disclosures. CompensationDisclosure.com is a sister site of CompensationStandards.com (whose members can get a significant discount to this site).

About the Authors and Editors

Dave Lynn is Editor of CompensationStandards.com, TheCorporateCounsel.net and DealLawyers.com, as well as The Corporate Counsel and The Corporate Executive print newsletters. Before his time as Editor, Dave served as Chief Counsel in the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance. While serving as Chief Counsel, Dave led the rulemaking team for the 2006 amendments to the executive compensation disclosure rules. Dave also worked in the Division of Corporation Finance as a staff attorney and Special Counsel, and was in private practice at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (now WilmerHale), where he advised public and private companies on SEC matters, securities transactions, mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance. Dave frequently writes and speaks about corporate and securities law and, until recently, taught a corporate governance class at Georgetown University.

Broc Romanek is Editor of CompensationStandards.com, TheCorporateCounsel.net, DealLawyers.com and InvestorRelationships.com, as well as the Compensation Standards and Deal Lawyers print newsletters. Before his time as Editor, Broc was founder and editor of RealCorporateLawyer.com. In addition, Broc has served as assistant general counsel at a Fortune 50 company, was in the Office of Chief Counsel of the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance, acted as Counselor to former SEC Commissioner Unger and was in private practice.

Broc frequently writes and speaks about corporate and securities law; he teaches a MBA corporate governance class at George Mason University; serves on the Advisory Council for the SEC Historical Society and is Editor of the Corporate Governance Advisor. He also is on the National Board for the Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals and, until recently, President of the Society's Mid-Atlantic Chapter. He also has served as Chair of the Association of Corporate Counsel's Corporate & Securities Law Committee.

Mark Borges is a Principal for Compensia, after having recently left Mercer Human Resource Consulting. Mark provides assistance and advice to consultants and clients regarding legislative, regulatory, and judicial developments that affect corporate benefits, compensation and other human resource consulting programs. Mark also writes the popular "Proxy Disclosure Blog" on CompensationStandards.com.

Previously, Mark was a Special Counsel in the Office of Rulemaking, Division of Corporation Finance with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Before that, he was General Counsel for ShareData, the leading provider of software for employee stock plan administration, prior to its acquisition by E*TRADE Group, Inc. in 1998. Mark practiced law with the firms of Ware & Friedenrich (now Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich) from 1987 to 1992 and Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro from 1982 to 1987, specializing in equity compensation and insider trading matters as well as venture capital finance.

Julie Hoffman is Associate Editor of CompensationStandards.com, TheCorporateCounsel.net and DealLawyers.com. Julie began her career with the Division of Corporation Finance at the SEC, where she co-authored several rulemaking initiatives, including the Aircraft Carrier proposal. After leaving the SEC, she went into private practice with Latham & Watkins, focusing on public offerings of debt and equity securities, tender offers and general Exchange Act disclosure compliance. Most recently, Julie was in private practice with Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, where she continued to specialize in advising companies with respect to the '33 Act and the '34, as well as Sarbanes-Oxley.