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No Lifeline for Underwater Options

Repricing proposals for underwater options likely will receive a chilly response from shareholders.

January 1, 2009

In the two years following the Internet bubble burst, some 400 U.S. public companies offered to buoy underwater employee stock options by exchanging them for something of value, including new options with a lower strike price. Read more...

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