Sarah Gadd > Latham & Watkins > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Latham & Watkins
99 BISHOPSGATE
LONDON
EC2M 3XF
England
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Position

Sarah Gadd, partner in Latham & Watkins’ London office, is part of the Executive Compensation, Employment & Benefits Practice. She advises a wide range of clients on all aspects of employment law, human resource (HR) issues, benefits, and incentives, including share-based incentives. Sarah primarily handles employment and share-based incentives law matters and the HR and benefits aspects of corporate deals, particularly deals with an international reach. She has also acted for the client and the supplier on a number of outsourcing matters. Sarah advises on matters including recruitment and severance, downsizing, transfers of undertakings, employee consultation, day to day employment law issues, benefits, and incentives. She also advises extensively on stock options and other forms of share-based compensation.

Sarah also advises on employee-related aspects of the UK corporate governance and financial regulatory regimes including the application of the FCA Remuneration Code, Prospectus and Listing Rules, the Takeover Code, and the UK Corporate Governance Code to employees and incentives.

She is a member of Employment Lawyers Association and the Share Plan Lawyers group.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Employment > Employee share schemes

The practice at Latham & Watkins has Sarah Gadd at its helm, who has expertise in advising on the full array of employment, benefit and incentives issues. The team has the capacity to guide clients through the scheme elements of complex and high-value international transactions, such as acquisitions and takeovers; this is an area of particular specialism for Kendall Burnett who is active across the scope of the team’s work. The team is also equipped to assist with employee-related aspects of corporate governance and financial regulations, and on the life cycle of share schemes. Rebecca Servian bolstered the group with her April 2024 arrival from Ashurst.