Incentives – Junior Associate

The role

We are looking for an enthusiastic and commercial Incentives lawyer to join our London Incentives team. We are interested in hearing from you if you are a NQ keen to qualify into Incentives or a Junior Associate with post-qualification experience within a recognised Incentives practice in a law firm, accountancy firm, consultancy firm or in-house.

We are far more than a traditional "share plans" team and cover a full range of remuneration and incentives work looking at legal, regulatory, tax and governance issues as well as reputational risk. 

We are a market leading team ranked 'Tier 1' in legal directories both in the UK and globally.  We have a strong and globally diverse client base including global quoted companies, large private companies and private equity houses and their investee companies.  We also have a healthy split of advisory and transactional work (this is not a "corporate support" team; we focus on standalone advisory projects around 50% and supporting on strategic transactions around 50%.

Who you will work with

The team is close knit, and everyone works together.  We make sure every member of the team gets a good mix of work type and clients.

What you will be responsible for

The types of work you would be involved with would include:

• design, drafting and implementation of all types of discretionary and all-employee incentives plans;
• managing legal, regulatory and tax advice on global incentive plans and remuneration arrangements;
• advice on remuneration governance, design, reporting, remuneration committee and shareholder issues (e.g. "say on pay" and director remuneration reports/policies);
• advice on remuneration regulation (e.g. financial service sector remuneration);
• remuneration advice on board and senior executive hires and terminations;
• advice on corporate governance, regulatory and tax issues affecting incentives and remuneration;
• employment tax advice; and
• the remuneration aspects of public and private M&A, IPOs, capital raisings and other corporate transactions.