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Philip Linnard
Work Department
Pensions
Employment
Incentives
Position
Partner; Phil Linnard has been a partner since 2017, and advises across all aspects of our employment and incentives practice. He also advises on pensions.
Phil’s employment work focuses on arrangements for the appointment and termination of senior executives of listed and non-listed companies, as well as sensitive issues involving whistleblowing, investigations and terminations of employees in difficult circumstances, and the conduct of senior employees within the UK and overseas.
His incentives work involves advising on the corporate governance aspects of executive remuneration, as well as the drafting, implementation and operation of equity and cash incentives plans for listed and non-listed companies.
Phil also specialises in the employment and incentives aspects of corporate transactions including the application of TUPE, IPOs, demergers, restructurings, outsourcings and insolvency matters.
Career
Joined firm 2006. Partner since 2017.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Employment > Employee share schemes
Led by Charles Cameron
, the ‘technically excellent’ team at Slaughter and May advises major public and private companies from a broad range of sectors on issues, such as directors’ renumeration policies, employee share-based incentive plans and the granting of share incentives to non-executive directors. The firm also frequently advises on the incentives aspects of major corporate transactions. Philip Linnard‘s broad practice extends to the operation of malus and clawback provisions. Padraig Cronin has in-depth knowledge of executive plans. ‘Share plans guru’, Ian Brown is equipped to assist with the design and implementation of discretionary and all-employee incentive arrangements, while the ‘outstanding’ Philippa O’Malley handles a broad range of contentious, advisory and transactional incentives matters. Rosemary Nelson and Richard Surtees are further names to note.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – mid-large cap
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Employment > Pensions: dispute resolution
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Industry focus > TMT
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Employment > Employers
- Real estate > Environment
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Investment fund formation and management > Listed funds
- Finance > Securitisation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Real estate > Property finance
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Real estate > Planning
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£250m+)