Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation

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Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation

Whatever employee benefits or executive compensation plan you’re running, financing or providing, our dedicated lawyers will help you get the best out of them.

Our global team of dedicated employee benefits lawyers are thought leaders and actively involved in shaping benefits law and policy.

This deep knowledge of the nuances of retirement plans, health and welfare benefits and executive compensation issues will simplify life for you. Whether your benefits and compensation plans are just being established, if you are interested in design and compliance, or if you are developing and offering retirement products and services, we can help you.

If you’re an employer, we can advise you on your ongoing plans, as well as corporate transactions and negotiations with government agencies - and we can work with your HR, tax and in-house legal teams, to move things along swiftly. If you are a financial services company, we’ll help you get the most out of retirement products and services. If you’re a provider of retirement plans or benefits services, a government agency, or a non-profit entity, we have extensive experience working in these areas too.

Our deep knowledge of the global context is key in helping you face challenges in an innovative and cost-effective way. In the US, our attorneys have served on Congressional staffs, and have gone on to leadership positions at the Treasury. Meanwhile our international footprint means we are ready to assist you with worldwide equity compensation arrangements, multi-jurisdictional pension plan compliance reviews and cross-border M&A transactions.

Our Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation capability in Ireland

Our team is skilled in all areas of share scheme design and implementation. We can help you with everything from restricted stock schemes for start-ups to long-term incentive plans for publicly listed companies.  We also act for nearly all major employee share ownership option plans established in Ireland to date. This includes schemes with key stakes in major private and public companies, semi-state entities and state utilities.

Our lawyers are experienced in all aspect of employee benefits and executive compensation. Our recent experience includes advising: 

  • a waste management company on the establishment and implementation of a management incentive plan (MIP), which involved working closely with tax advisers to establish the optimal structure, drafting the relevant documentation including incorporating a nominee company to hold the shares which would be beneficially owned by certain employees of the Group. The purpose of the management incentive plan was to give certain employees an opportunity to participate in the share capital of the Group as an incentive to make extraordinary efforts to promote the success of the Group and so increase the value of its share capital
  • an e-commerce services company on the establishment and implementation of a share option scheme to grant certain employees share options which were subject to specified conditions and exercisable upon the occurrence of certain realisation events
  • on the establishment of an approved profit sharing scheme (APSS), which involved the provision of general guidance into the operation of APSS rules in the context of establishing an APSS, structuring discussions, and drafting of the relevant documentation, as well as preparation of a submission to Irish Revenue to obtain scheme approval 
  • a plumbing supplies manufacturer on the establishment of their long term incentive plan (LTIP)
  • a multinational IT services and consulting company on tax incentivised employee share and share/stock option schemes

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peterfahy@eversheds-sutherland.ie

Peter Fahy

Consultant

Dublin, Irlanti

IanMcFarland@eversheds-sutherland.ie

Ian McFarland

Partner

Belfast, Northern Ireland

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