Ian Brown

Practice Areas

Incentives

Career

Ian is our senior counsel specialising in executive compensation, share incentives and employment tax work. He has over 15 years’ experience in advising listed and unlisted companies on the design, implementation and operation of their discretionary and all-employee incentive arrangements, including in the context of takeovers, demergers and other corporate activity. His work incorporates the roll-out of these cash and share-based plans across multiple jurisdictions ensuring their legal, tax and regulatory compliance.

Ian has a particular interest in listed companies’ directors’ remuneration reports, having advised a number of major listed companies on the drafting of their directors’ remuneration policies and ensuring that payments made to senior management are in line with those policies. Clients appreciate his robust and commercial advice in this sensitive and increasingly high-profile area.