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Employee Share Schemes & Incentives

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The 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 Kramer 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 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

  • Herbert Smith Freehills advised Waverton Investment Management on the incentives aspects of its acquisition by London & Capital.

Strengths

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The advice provided always fits our business reality.

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Their responsiveness, their ability to get to the core of the issues quickly and their commercial pragmatism make this one of the best teams in the business for incentives advice.

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They are an extremely knowledgeable team who are able to communicate complex legal scenarios in a practical and pragmatic way, with clear guidance.

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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 simply one of the most pragmatic, commercial and responsive incentive partners there is. He's a class act.

Mark provides super support.

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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 very personable and will go out of his way to assist his clients.

Paul's knowledge has been invaluable. Things are simpler due to his high-quality support.

Paul is very personable and will go out of his way to assist if his advice is sought.

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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 is a very strong lawyer.

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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 always accessible. He has provided super assistance.

Chris provides very good and considered advice that can be relied upon. He is very conscientious in his delivery of work.

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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 is a trusted resource who is calm under quickly fired questions. He is thorough in his approach and provides credible advice.

Niall remembers key inputs with ease and works in a collaborative manner. Nothing is too much trouble, whether checking client-created documents or updating materials directly.

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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