Share Schemes and Equity Incentive Plans
Equity based remuneration is essential to
attracting the best people and encouraging long-term employee
loyalty in an increasingly competitive business environment.
Incentivising employees, especially key executives, to meet
shareholder expectations is crucial to all businesses.
We offer a complete employee incentive plan
service for private and public companies, combining the skills of
lawyers who are experts in tax, employment, company and regulatory
law.
We cover a wide range of plans from
custom-designed long-term incentive plans for senior management to
tax-approved, all-employee plans. We cover all stages, from initial
strategy planning through to implementation and administration.
We are authorities in the equity incentive
aspects of mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and terminations of
employment. We also deal regularly with multi-jurisdictional
employee plans.
We provide clear and practical advice to
ensure your business adopts the most effective plan.
Our clients include public companies,
private corporate clients (including targets and acquirers on
takeovers) and private equity funds.
Areas of Focus:
- Benefits and employment in transactions and
reorganizations
- Plan design, implementation and
administration
- Employment termination
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Public policy and regulation
- Securities law issues
- Corporate governance
- Tax