General Corporate Advisory Services

Share Options and Share Schemes

Ensuring the ongoing motivation for your employees can be challenging, and you don’t need us to tell you the impact de-incentivised employees can have on the success of a business. An option to solve this might be a share option scheme, where employees are identified and rewarded for their hard work. This could be for your whole team, or key managers – the choice is yours!

Share option schemes serve to give your employees real stake in the success of the business while encouraging staff retention, yet they avoid the unwanted dilution of existing shareholdings in the company in the immediate term. Once vested, employees are rewarded for hard work through dividends, and in the case of a sale, they can receive profits from the sale of their shares. There are multiple times of share option schemes, including:

Our multi-disciplinary team can work closely with you and your accountants in order to put in place the right scheme for your business.

• Enterprise Management Incentive (EMI)
• Company Share Option Plan (CSOP)
• Share Incentive Plan (SIP)
• Save as you Earn (SAYE)
• Non-tax advantaged share options
• Growth share options

Reorganisations

Businesses evolve over time, and what was once a helpful corporate structure can quickly become a hindrance. Crowded board meetings; unwieldly signature pages; deadlocked votes – we’ve seen them all. Instead, having an optimised corporate structure assists in decreasing risk and compliance burden, facilitates potential acquisition or disposal, and future-proofs against uncertain economic outlook.

Omny Law are specialists in company law and can provide you with tailored solutions to meet your reorganisational needs. We have a vast wealth of experience in different areas, including:

• Demergers and Carve-outs
• Discrete company law issues, such as capitalisations, reductions of share capital and share buy-backs
• Post-acquisition Hive-ups and integrations