If you need guidance on implementing employee incentives or on receiving an incentive award as an employee we will give you straightforward and practical advice. You can take advantage of the timely ongoing or ad hoc support, including data and process management, reporting and commercial advice.
Effective employee incentives that use the shares in a company can play a key role in recruitment, retention and motivation, as well as clearly aligning the interests of shareholders and employees. We will guide you in structuring and implementing incentives which will improve your business performance and help you to retain valuable staff.
We act for a range of large companies including those listed on AIM. We also advise executives and employees who are offered incentives involving their employing company’s shares. Getting the right deal for an employee is of paramount importance to them.
We can advise you on and implement the following plans and schemes:
- Enterprise management incentives (EMI)
- Unapproved options
- Company share option plans (CSOP)
- Growth shares
- Hurdle shares
- Employee benefit trusts (EBTs)
We can provide you with legal and strategic advice on:
- Tax efficient structuring for employees and employers
- Identifying key performance drivers and linking reward to performance
- Modeling dilution and setting appropriate pay out levels
- Legal and regulatory requirements (corporate, employment and securities laws)
- Effective communication of incentives to employees
- Advising employees how to negotiate the best incentive deal with their employer
- Aligning incentives with a company’s wider remuneration strategy
- Managing shareholder relations, including relevant investor guidelines
- Implementing new incentive plans in the run-up to and after a transaction (including both listings and mergers and acquisitions)
- Advising companies with private equity and venture capital investors on appropriate share incentives for management
- Identifying the value created by and costs of incentives vesting on a transaction.
Forward Internet Group Limited
We advised on establishing the EMI option scheme and managing the EMI scheme for over 100 employees since 2006.
(Establishing EMI option scheme and managing the EMI scheme since 2006 for over 100 employees)
Make It Cheaper Limited
Establishing EMI option scheme including advising on complex vesting provisions
Take 2 Interactive Software, Inc.
We advised on the tax aspects of the grant of restricted stock options over shares in Take 2 Interactive Software, Inc. to UK based employees.
David Scott
Partner
E: david.scott@harbottle.com
T: +44 (0)20 7667 5000
Marian Derham
Partner
E: marian.derham@harbottle.com
T: +44 (0)20 7667 5000
Yvonne Gallagher
Partner
E: yvonne.gallagher@harbottle.com
T: +44 (0) 20 7667 5000
Howard Hymanson
Partner
E: howard.hymanson@harbottle.com
T: +44 (0)20 7667 5000
