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Employee Incentives & Benefits 

 
 
 

Our highly-rated Employee Incentives and Benefits team helps major multi-nationals and private companies develop appropriate and tax-efficient reward structures for key performers and internationally mobile executives.

We understand the need for today’s management incentives to be even more finely tuned so that they deliver long-term value for shareholders.

We can help you design and implement the right compensation and incentive arrangements, with targets focused on internal KPIs as well as market-based returns.

Team members combine expertise in corporate governance, tax, securities, financial services, company and employment law, drawing on experience gained at leading benefit consultants and Big Four accountancy firms as well as at major law firms.

Our work includes not only executive and all-employee share plans but all forms of cash or stock-based remuneration. This includes everything from initial plan structuring, design and implementation to advice on filing, reporting, taxation and ongoing compliance.

We frequently work on international and multi-jurisdictional arrangements and can assist with analysis of international tax and social security regimes, both for individuals and corporations. This also includes complex multi-country arrangements for expatriate employees.

We pride ourselves on clear drafting and communication, close alignment with your objectives and a creative, problem-solving approach.


Head of Group: Philip Hartman

News & Updates

Press Releases

Bird & Bird promotes 14 to partnership in record year

16-04-2008

International law firm Bird & Bird announces today that it has promoted 14 lawyers internationally to the partnership – the firm’s highest ever figure and double last year’s total of
Bird & Bird advises Eurocopter on acquisition of McAlpine Helicopters

14-11-2007

International law firm Bird & Bird advised Eurocopter, a division of EADS, on its acquisition of 90% of the shares of McAlpine Helicopters Limited on 1 November 2007. Eurocopter previously
Bird & Bird builds international employment & benefits team with Spanish hire

24-05-2007

Firm launches employment & benefits practice in Madrid. - International law firm Bird & Bird has recruited employment and benefits specialist Daniel Cifuentes to launch a dedicated employment and benefits

Our Lawyers in Print

Articles

Employer fails to stop exercise of over-generous option

June, 2009

A recent High Court case shows what can go wrong for private companies that structure options too generously. - Summary of Plumbly v Beatthatquote.Com Ltd [2009] EWHC 321 - Mr
EU Prospectus Directive – some improvements on the way

June, 2009

The EU Commission announced their intention to introduce a wider employee share plan exemption but it will take years to implement, guidance issued by CESR (and more recently clarified) may
Failure to operate PAYE on option exercise

June, 2009

Case confirms the “tax on tax” charge applies automatically if employee fails to “make good” the employer, we look at the implications. - In Chilcott, Griffiths and Evolution Group Services

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