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Alissa Lugo is a Senior Director, Analyst with the Legal & Compliance Group. She supports General Counsel in matters related to corporate governance. Ms. Lugo has more than 15 years of experience providing C-Suite, Boards, and General Counsel advice relating to corporate governance challenges facing their companies.

Ms. Lugo can assist clients on a wide range of corporate governance issues, including advising on emerging corporate governance trends, board and management matters, director lifecycle events, corporate secretarial duties, developing and improving ESG programs, assessing and improving corporate governance practices and board processes, developing entity management programs, developing subsidiary governance frameworks (including director appointments to subsidiary boards), executive officer and director compensation topics (including hiring of compensation consultants, compensation committee role and duties, say-on-pay votes, alignment to ESG metrics and goals, etc.), stockholder defense and activism (including governing document considerations, overall hostile takeover process, poison pills, ISS ratings, etc.), annual stockholder meetings (including timelines, vendors, proxy planning, etc.), pre- and post-IPOs (including timelines, hiring of advisors, creating work management frameworks and processes, developing board and governance frameworks, educating employees/directors/officers, etc.), board policy topics (such as stock ownership guidelines, independence guidelines, director eligibility guidelines, etc.), and stockholder engagement (including developing an overall engagement approach).

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