Effective employee incentives can play a key role in recruiting, retaining, motivating and rewarding employees and can help to provide a greater alignment of interests between shareholders and their employees.
What we do
We implement share and cash based incentives to match a company’s specific business needs. Our aim is to help our clients to maximise the value of their incentive arrangements through:-
Tax efficient structuring for employees and employers;
Identifying key performance drivers and linking reward to performance;
Modelling dilution and setting appropriate pay out levels;
Ensuring that incentives comply with legal and regulatory requirements (corporate, employment and securities laws)
Effective communication of incentives to employees;
Aligning incentives with a company’s wider remuneration strategy;
Managing shareholder relations, including relevant investor guidelines; and
Timely and practical ongoing support, including data and process management, reporting and ad hoc commercial advice.
Members of our team have acted for a broad range of clients including fully listed companies (both in the UK and overseas), and have implemented incentive plans across various jurisdictions. We also advise smaller privately owned companies who may be looking to provide an equity stake for just one key employee.
We also advise clients on the impact of corporate transactions on incentives and employee shareholdings including:
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; and
Identifying the value created by and costs of incentives vesting on a transaction.
