Employee benefits

Our Employee Benefits specialists help businesses of all sizes to attract and retain the best people with effective remuneration arrangements that work in a tax efficient way.

Recruiting, rewarding and retaining employees and directors is key to running a successful business.

Our Pensions & Employee Benefits team provides advice and documentation on the establishment and administration of a wide variety of arrangements including:

  • Company share option plans;
  • Enterprise Management Incentive plans;
  • Growth share arrangements; and
  • Employee trusts.

Our expertise extends to the disguised remuneration legislation and advising on historic (tax inefficient) employee benefit trusts.

Experience

  • Advising fintech companies on employee remuneration including the design and establishment of enterprise management incentive plans.
  • Design and implementation of U.K./U.S. approved equity plans.
  • Advising a US pharmaceutical company on its European benefit package.
  • Establishing a Long Term Incentive Plan for a family office.
  • Advice on historic employee benefit trusts including the intricacies of Part 7A of ITEPA 2003 and negotiating settlements with HMRC.