Employee Share Option & Benefit Plans
Landwell has developed high quality experience in dealing with employee share ownership schemes and employee benefit plans. The team dealing with this area provides specialist legal advice on all facets of the employment relationship particularly those of employee share option schemes and employee benefits, encompassing both Irish and European legislation.
We provide specialist legal advice on the following:
- Share option schemes;
- Employee share ownership plans;
- Various other share ownership schemes including the save as you earn share option schemes, restricted stock schemes, approved profit-sharing schemes and convertible share schemes;
- Establishment and winding up of schemes;
- Small self-administered schemes; and
- Pensions.
Our key specialist knowledge and experience is in the area of employment share ownership and benefit schemes. Often in tandem with our tax colleagues, we draft schemes and advise our clients on the merits/demerits of the various schemes specific to their business and further to this we also advise on contentious legal issues in conjunction with our litigation and employment teams.