Employee share incentives

Your challenges

Employee share schemes can be vital for the future of a company, providing incentives, encouraging staff retention and helping to build a growth culture. However, getting the design and implementation right is crucial where key staff and the share capital of the company are involved.

Achieving your ambitions

You want your employee share schemes to align the interests of employees and shareholders; to offer rewards for contributions that really count; to be practicable, flexible and straightforward; and to generate tax efficiencies wherever possible. We can help you to design, establish, and operate employee share schemes to meet the commercial requirements of your business.

The strength you need

We have a team of specialists, including Christopher Townsend (partner) and Deborah Clark (associate) and two assistant solicitors. Clients we have helped included: AVEVA Group plc, Oxford Advanced Surfaces plc and Metalysis Ltd.

To find out more here is our employee share incentives flyer.

Lawyers you can trust

Legal 500 writes: “Mills & Reeve LLP is the region’s leading firm for corporate tax … continued advice in support of corporate transactions, and share option scheme advice for the likes of AVEVA plc make this a standout practice.” The firm are members of ifs ProShare and Christopher Townsend is a member of Share Plan Lawyers.

Employment, pensions and benefits
Employment, pensions and benefits