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Incentives

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

We provide advice on the design, implementation and management of effective reward 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 35 years of experience, our multi-disciplined team includes lawyers, chartered accountants and chartered tax advisers.

The scope of our expertise covers a wide range of issues, including share option plans, internationally mobile employees, employee benefit trusts, employment-contract incentives issues and private equity share structures.

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

From structuring share option plans to advising on long term incentive plans, our Incentives lawyers offer guidance based on your unique challenges.

Services

Design and implementation of share plans

Advising on the design, drafting and implementation of Long-Term Incentive Plans (LTIPs) for a variety of companies, from listed FTSE and AIM to private equity-backed structures.

International share plans

Adapting and establishing share plans for international clients, including tax and residency advice for internationally mobile employees.

UK tax-advantaged share plans

Designing and implementing tax-advantaged UK employee share option plans, including EMI, CSOP, SAYE, and SIP.

Alternative incentive structures

Creating alternative structures for clients unable to operate qualifying share plans, including growth share plans, deferred share plans, synthetic share plans, restricted share plans and cash-based bonus plans.

Private equity share structures

Designing share structures for executive management teams and other key management tiers for private equity houses.

Employee benefit trusts

Establishing and managing employee benefit trusts to support share plans and other incentive arrangements.

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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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Insights

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