Remuneration, Compensation & Incentives

We equip start-ups with comprehensive documents to establish and operate effective employee share option plans. We also advise on and design bespoke employee compensation and incentive plans in the context of larger transactions such as acquisitions or restructurings. Our use of technology gives clients a competitive edge, including bots to collect information and a legal transaction management platform to organise signatures and share documentation.

Compensation and benefits, remuneration package, key employee package, management package, director service agreement, bonus and end-of-year payment, long-term incentive scheme, employee share option plan, share awards, phantom or ghost share plan, put and call option agreement, employee benefit trust, grant of options and share vesting.

It is prudent to set aside a pool of shares for allocation to employees as part of incentive schemes at the early stage of a company’s investment rounds. Employee share option plans can trigger taxation upon the grant of the options, the exercise of the option and vesting of the shares and the sale of the shares.