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Employee Share Schemes & Incentives

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The HSF Remuneration & Incentives Team works with clients on their most complex remuneration and incentives issues, advising listed and unlisted corporates, from start-ups to multinational clients, and LLPs, on the implementation and day-to-day operation of share plans and other employee and partner incentive arrangements. We help our clients throughout the lifecycle of the arrangements, from implementation and drafting advice, to operational issues and winding up the arrangements on corporate actions.

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What the Team is Known For

Herbert Smith Freehills acts across a range of issues, including share schemes and incentives, financial services remuneration and corporate advisory governance. It represents organisations from the financial services industry, as well as working with a number of technology and transportation clients. The Herbert Smith Freehills team advises on incentive plan aspects of transactions. The department utilises the firm's global network to assist UK clients with international extensions of incentive arrangements, advising on local tax, exchange control and securities regulations.

Work Highlights

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  • Herbert Smith Freehills advised OneWeb on the share plan aspects of its all-share combination with Eutelsat Communications in a matter worth USD3.4 billion.

Strengths

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Herbert Smith covered all of the different legal aspects of the situation in depth. Their team was always available and reacted quickly. 

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Herbert Smith is highly knowledgeable, experienced, practical and friendly.

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Herbert Smith is the best in their field when it comes down to employee share schemes and complex remuneration matters.

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Notable Practitioners

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Mark Ife
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Mark Ife
Head of Employee Share Schemes & Incentives
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Mark Ife advises on remuneration and incentives issues arising from transactions and takeovers. His client base includes notable financial services companies.

Mark is extremely impressive and really works in partnership with us. He is highly recommended.

I would say that Mark has the most in-depth knowledge out of any incentives lawyer I've worked with or spoken to.

Mark is my go-to share plans lawyer.

Incentives are a tricky area and many firms have employment capabilities with no incentives specialist. Mark is extremely impressive.

Mark is amazing, very knowledgeable and able to relate our questions to practical options.

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Paul Ellerman
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Paul Ellerman
Head of Employee Share Schemes & Incentives
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Paul Ellerman advises listed and private companies on remuneration and share plans. He is well versed in advising clients in the context of both domestic and cross-border transactions.

Paul is abreast of market trends and is able to give up to date counsel on the direction to take.

Paul is a real expert in the field of complex remuneration matters.

Paul shows a very high level of service, sophistication and commercial awareness and is also very pleasant to work with.

He is thoughtful and thorough in his approach, with a positive attitude.

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Kiran Khetia
Kiran Khetia
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Kiran Khetia advises on the share plan aspects of corporate transactions and corporate governance issues. She is proficient in assisting clients with executive remuneration.

Kiran has developed a much broader practice at Herbert Smith. She is strong on private work and has developed on public side work too, so she is well regarded.

Kiran is a very capable lawyer who is very good and a safe pair of hands.

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Christopher White
Christopher White
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Christopher White advises on the setting up and rolling out of new share schemes.

Chris is an experienced adviser who is great with the detail and considered in his responses.

He is pragmatic and commercially aware.

Chris was able to provide very solid advice and exhibits a sound client service approach and tone.

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Niall Crean
Niall Crean
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Niall Crean assists listed and private companies with a range of remuneration matters. He advises on cash and share-based incentive arrangements.

Niall always shares his knowledge in a user-friendly way. 

He always knows his facts and is able to deliver advice in a calm and measured way.

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Mark Ife
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Mark Ife
Head of Employee Share Schemes & Incentives
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Paul Ellerman
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Paul Ellerman
Head of Employee Share Schemes & Incentives
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Kiran Khetia
Kiran Khetia
Star Associates
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Christopher White
Christopher White
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Niall Crean
Niall Crean
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Members

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Mark Ife

Mark Ife

Head of Department

Paul Ellerman

Paul Ellerman

Head of Department

Clients

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Arris Group

Atlassian Corporation

BHP Billiton

BlueBay Asset Management

British American Tobacco

Canaccord Genuity

ClearBank

Coats

Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Dart Group

G4S

Hammerson

Investec Bank

Johnson Matthey

Just-Eat

Kin and Carta plc

Lonmin

MADE.com

Man Group

Marex

Michelin

OneWeb

Page Group

Pension Insurance Corporation

Signet Jewelers

Sky

TSB Banking Group

The UNITE Group

The Weir Group

Travis Perkins

Vanguard Asset Management

Westpac

moneysupermarket.com

Industries

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Banks

Chemicals

Commercial & Professional Services

Construction & Materials

Consumer Product Manufacturing

Energy

Financial Services

Food & Drink Producers

Industrial Engineering

Insurance

Media

Mining & Metals

Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences

Real Estate

Retail

Software & Computer Services

Telecommunications

Transportation

Travel & Leisure

Utilities