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Businesses are competing to recruit and retain talent during a time of significant political and investor scrutiny of reward and remuneration arrangements. Our leading practice has responded to our clients facing increasing challenges and scrutiny in the incentives arena.

We have broad experience of advising companies on all aspects of management and all-employee incentivisation, including navigating the latest corporate governance standards and regulatory requirements, advising remuneration committees on sensitive decisions relating to reward, designing, implementing and operating share and cash-based incentive plans, and dealing with the entire range of employee reward in connection with corporate transactions and restructurings.



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Employee Share Schemes & Incentives - UK-wide

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Band 2

What the Team is Known For

Slaughter and May advises on the share scheme aspects of major transactions. The team has a strong corporate client base, including blue-chip and multinational companies. The areas of expertise of the Slaughter and May team include advising on executive remuneration and boardroom pay issues. The firm is experienced in advising on malus and clawback provisions concerning cash and share inventive arrangements.

Work Highlights

  • Slaughter and May advised International Distribution Services on the remuneration aspects of the £3.6 billion takeover of the Royal Mail by EP Group.

Strengths

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They are very experienced and always make us feel like we are in safe hands.

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Their responsiveness is outstanding, advice is clear and the overall quality of service is superb.

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The Slaughter and May team have superb in-depth knowledge over the whole incentives arena. There is no question that you ask which they don't know the answer to.

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Slaughter's knowledge is exceptional, deadlines are never missed and the quality of work is superb.

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Slaughters are able to quickly grasp complex issues, see nuance and still remain pragmatic.

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Notable Practitioners

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Philip Linnard
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Band 4

Philip Linnard advises on a range of employee share schemes and incentives matters, including advising listed and unlisted companies on bonus and share plans, as well as the corporate governance requirements of executive remuneration, particularly on corporate transactions.

Phil is always calm, knowledgeable and gives us confidence in the advice being received.

Philip is one of the most calm people ever, even in times of absolute chaos.

Phillip is a very good lawyer, especially for transactional work. He's highly commercial and easy to deal with, even under tough deadlines.

Phil offers a consistently practical and commercially aware perspective on remuneration matters.

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Ian Brown
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Ian Brown
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Band 5
Ian Brown supports a busy corporate practice by offering expert advice on share schemes. His practice often sees him handle matters for clients across a range of jurisdictions.

Ian is the incentives guru. He has the whole package of technical expertise, depth of experience and a solutions-oriented approach.

Ian has excellent technical knowledge and is very responsive.

Ian is always responsive and gives us answers in a way we can understand.

Ian is a fantastic lawyer. He is sharp and quickly grasps the issues presented.

Ian combines deep legal expertise with a refreshingly collaborative and solution-oriented attitude.

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Philippa O'Malley
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Up and Coming

Philippa O'Malley is an up-and-coming partner in Slaughter and May's incentives practice. She assists large financial groups and corporate clients with their incentive arrangements and has extensive experience of post-merger work.

Philippa is exceptional. She provides superb strategic and tactical advice while being clear on the legal and technical position.

Philippa is very responsive, commercial and practical.

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Employee Share Schemes & Incentives
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Philip Linnard
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Band 4
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Ian Brown
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Ian Brown
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Band 5
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Philippa O'Malley
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