Share Options and Employee Benefits

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Share Options and Employee Benefits

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In this episode, I am joined by Sam Lenox, the Head of Employee Incentives at Harper James, a modern law firm, purpose-built to support entrepreneurial businesses in their growth from start-up to scale up and beyond.

In this conversation, Sam and I explore the world of employee share options, looking at the structure, their implementation and an important insight for businesses who may be new to this world of incentives to better understand what is available.

🌟 Some of my favourite parts were:

✅ How to educate and manage expectations of young staff around share options;

✅ Understanding the not insignificant tax benefits of the EMI scheme;

✅ How an internal market typically works for these kinds of schemes;

✅ Managing Share Option schemes with an International hat on;

✅ Marrying long term ESOPs with shorter term bonus scheme.

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