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Share Incentives weekly highlights—29 May 2025

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Published on: 29 May 2025

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Table of contents

Employee Benefit Trusts
HMRC: Qualitative Evaluation of Employee Ownership Trusts
Tax treatment
Reminder—Annual share schemes returns filing deadline is 6 July 2025
Company law and regulatory
FCA to publish final PISCES rules and open sandbox applications in June 2025
Corporate Governance
Convatec suffers investor dissent over executive pay
Dates for your diary
Weekly highlights from other practice areas

Article summary

This week's edition of Share Incentives weekly highlights includes: (1) HMRC’s evaluation of employee ownership trusts (EOTs), (2) a reminder of the 6th July filing deadline for annual share schemes returns to HMRC and (3) a focus on executive remuneration, as the 2025 AGM season continues.

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