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Share Plans and Incentives

Our Share Plans and Incentives team advises on the tax-effective design, implementation and management of tailored employee reward structures, ensuring alignment with business goals and compliance with regulatory requirements.

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Share plans and incentives play a crucial role in attracting and retaining talent, increasing employee engagement, and aligning the interests of employees with shareholders.

Our Share Plans and Incentives team provide advice on the design, implementation and management of effective share plan and incentive structures that help to meet your business objectives.

The remuneration and reward regulatory landscape is complex and constantly evolving. We offer practical, commercial advice to resolve any challenges arising from this complexity. With over 40 years of experience, our multi-disciplinary team includes lawyers, chartered accountants and chartered tax advisers.

The scope of our expertise covers a wide range of issues, including LTIPs, tax-advantaged share option plans, internationally mobile employees, employment related incentives issues and private equity MIP structures.

As active members of the Share Plans Lawyers Group, our expertise is continuously updated, ensuring that we provide cutting-edge, reliable advice.

Services

Long Term Incentive Plans

Designing and implementing cash and share-based Long Term Incentive Plans for directors, employees and consultants, to align performance with company strategy, retention goals and shareholder expectations across both private and listed groups.

UK Tax-Advantaged Share Plans

Advising on all aspects of EMI, CSOP, SAYE and SIP incentive plans, from implementation, ongoing maintenance and structuring to unwinding on key liquidity events and corporate milestones.

Corporate Transactions

Assisting on the full spectrum of corporate transactions, including share and asset sales, management buyouts, Takeover Code acquisitions of listed entities and partial liquidity events such as PISCES.

Public Listed and Regulatory

Supporting listed companies from FTSE100 to AIM in respect of their remuneration structures, corporate governance frameworks, shareholder and disclosure obligations and compliance with UK Listing Rules and market regulations.

International Structures

Advising multinational groups on their global share plans, localised sub-plans, cross-border tax and payroll obligations and arrangements for internationally mobile executives and consultants.

Private Equity and MIPs

Structuring management incentive plans, sweet and strip equity, growth shares, ratchets and executive reward packages to align management and PE investor interests throughout the investment lifecycle.

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Examples of our work

FTSE 100 company

Advising on creating and implementing a share-based incentive plan for the new managing director of a key subsidiary, rewarding him for meeting profit targets aligned with the business plan.

FTSE 250 company

Designing a shareholder approved Long Term Incentive Plan for a FTSE 250 company, ensuring it meets corporate governance best practice and regulatory requirements.

Fast-growing entrepreneurial business

Working alongside a senior management team to design a tax-efficient share-based incentive plan, aligning their interests with shareholders and preparing the business for an exit in the medium term.

Luxembourg law firm

Advising on the UK tax and National Insurance implications of employing an individual with a complex international working pattern, providing guidance on residence status and remuneration package elements.

AIM-listed company

Supporting the design and implementation of a tax-advantaged all-employee share plan, including guidance on meeting new online reporting requirements.

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What others say

“I really enjoy working with this team, very collaborative, easy to work with, and real strength and depth.”

Legal 500 UK 2025

“The team is particularly strong. They are easy to engage with, jump on tricky situations as they arise, and work through practical solutions to get to an outcome. Their practicality is a point to draw out in particular. ”

Legal 500 UK 2025

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