Employee Reward and Incentive:

Recent Matters

• Advising an international oil producing and fully-listed company on restructuring their executive option plan to minimise dilution.
• Advising Evolve Capital plc on offers made to employee share incentive holders in its hostile reverse takeover of Blue Oar plc.
• Developing, with a leading firm of chartered accountants, a tax-efficient share ownership plan for executives.
• Advising the remuneration committee of a software and computer services company on the option entitlements of a former director.
• Advising on the disposal of a private company in connection with tax efficient exercise of EMI and other options, maintaining corporation tax relief and simplifying the transaction for participants.
• Advising an AIM-listed media company on restructuring option arrangements in the light of significant share re-valuations.
• Advising an AIM-listed technology company on structuring options to incentivise key academics involved in research and development.