Gary Lyons, former head of the corporate consulting division of Institutional Shareholder Services Inc., started a firm offering corporations help in determining whether their executive pay plans and corporate governance practices will pass muster with activist shareholders.
Mr. Lyons' Fairfax, Va.-based eponymous consulting firm also will advise corporations on how to check the validity of analysis conducted by proxy advisory firms of executive pay plans and other items put before shareholders at annual meetings.
