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This week's edition of Share Incentives weekly highlights includes a focus on executive pay, as the AGM season continues....
This week's edition of Share Incentives weekly highlights includes (1) HMRC’s Employment Related Securities Bulletins 67 and 68, (2) the FCA’s...
This week's edition of Share Incentives weekly highlights includes (1) the ISS STOXX Governance 2026 Global Benchmark Policy Survey, (2) the FRC’s new...
This week's edition of Share Incentives weekly highlights includes (1) a focus on executive pay, (2) the formal establishment of the loan charge...
Malus and clawbackThe use of malus and clawbackThe concept of withholding or even recovering value from executives if a material adverse event occurs...
What is a long-term incentive plan?A long-term incentive plan (LTIP) is a term that is commonly used among listed companies to describe executive...
Nil paid shares and partly paid shares—practical considerationsWhat are nil paid shares and partly paid shares?When shares are issued, their...
Implementing share plans—ways to manage dilution of existing shareholdersWhat is share dilution?Share dilution happens when a company issues...
Implementing share plans—ways to manage dilution of existing shareholdersWhat is share dilution?Share dilution happens when a company issues additional shares in itself. As a result, the existing shareholders' proportionate ownership in the company is reduced—or diluted—when these new shares are
Death of an employee option holder or shareholderEmployee share scheme participants and shareholdersThis Practice Note looks at the issues arising on the death of a participant in both HMRC tax-advantaged schemes and various unapproved share scheme arrangements. It also looks at the practical issues
If a rentcharge is shown as being informally exonerated on title information, does this apply to the current registered owner? Or does the informal exoneration only apply to the parties to the document which informally exonerated the rentcharge?This Q&A considers the situation where, at some point
Strike out—making an application to strike out a statement of caseA strike out order can be made either following an application by the parties or on the court's own initiative. This Practice Note deals with the scenario of the order being made following a party's application.Making an application
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