David Reuben

Practice Areas

Director at Postlethwaite Solicitors, David's areas of expertise include all aspects of employee share ownership. Including;

- arrangement of ownership succession via employee trusts, and tax-advantaged

employee ownership trusts (EOTs),

- establishing all forms of employee share arrangements, such as EMIs, CSOP, growth

shares, joint ownership arrangements and phantom plans

- advising on and structuring employee ownership trusts to create employee-owned

companies

- 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.

Career

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

Professional Memberships

David is a member of the Share Plan Lawyers Group

Personal

"He is a really fantastic lawyer. He knows everything there is to know about employee share benefits,"