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David is a Director at Postlethwaite Solicitors. His areas of expertise include all aspects of employee share ownership and includes;
- arrangement of ownership succession via employee trusts, and tax-advantaged
employee ownership trusts (EOTs),
- advising on and structuring employee ownership trusts to create employee-owned
companies
- establishing all forms of employee share arrangements, such as EMIs, CSOP, growth
shares, joint ownership arrangements and phantom plans
- acting for individual participants in share plans, for example on termination of
employment
- advising foreign companies on rolling out share plans into the UK, and on mobile
employee issues
- advising companies on the incentives aspects of domestic and international M&A
arrangements
- assessing share plan compatibility and assisting with due diligence for any proposed
merger, acquisition or company reorganisation.
Employee benefits partner at DLA Piper for seven years, before moving to Postlethwaite Solicitors in February 2010.
LLB in Law with German Law, King’s College, London. Qualified 1993
David is a member of the Share Plan Lawyers Group
"He is a really fantastic lawyer. He knows everything there is to know about employee share benefits,"
"David has a really good approach to matters and he gets the balance right between being very approachable and highly technical."
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David is a highly trusted adviser who will get the job done well at the right price.
David was very inclusive, knowledgeable and professional in his engagement with us.
David is a sincere pleasure to work with, accommodating us even while out of the office. We can always count on David to provide commercially reasonable counsel, with humour when needed.
David is a rounded professional adviser with the ability to work together with the client.
David was consistently reassuring throughout the EOT process, simplifying the legislation for us and providing clear, matter of fact answers laced with a practical interpretation of the law.
David is a highly trusted adviser who will get the job done well at the right price.
David was very inclusive, knowledgeable and professional in his engagement with us.
David is a sincere pleasure to work with, accommodating us even while out of the office. We can always count on David to provide commercially reasonable counsel, with humour when needed.
David is a rounded professional adviser with the ability to work together with the client.
David was consistently reassuring throughout the EOT process, simplifying the legislation for us and providing clear, matter of fact answers laced with a practical interpretation of the law.