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Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP Offices

1 WOOD STREET
CHEAPSIDE
LONDON
EC2V 7WS
England
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Richard Sharman

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Richard is a senior associate in our employee incentives team. He advises on all aspects of share/cash based employee incentives.
He advises on the implementation of LTIPs, EMI schemes, SAYE schemes, Share Incentive Plans, Company Share Option Plans, restricted stock awards, cash bonus plans and numerous bespoke arrangements designed to achieve tax efficiency.
His recent experience includes advising on the share scheme aspects of the takeovers of New Look, Daisy Group plc, Waterlogic plc, Accumuli plc, Synarbor plc, API Group plc. He also advised on share incentives in connection with the admission of Eurocell plc to the Main List and Diurnal plc to trading on AIM.
Richard regularly advises listed companies, AIM companies, private companies, private equity houses and trust companies on issues relating to employee incentives generally, in takeover/MBO situations and on IPO.
Richard also advises global corporations on extending their incentive plans into the UK and beyond.
He is a member of the Share Plan Lawyers Group and trained and qualified as an accountant (ACA).
Position
Senior Associate
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Public sector > Education: institutions
- Employment > Health and safety
- Public sector > Infrastructure (parliamentary)
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Employment > Pensions: dispute resolution
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Transport > Rail
- Investment fund formation and management > Retail funds
Firm Rankings
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Public sector > Education: schools
- Employment > Employers
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Corporate and commercial > International business reorganisations
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £500m)
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Risk advisory > ESG
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition: trade, WTO anti-dumping and customs
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Investment fund formation and management > Listed funds
- Public sector > Local government
- Real estate > Planning
- Real estate > Property finance
- Dispute resolution > Public international law
- Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Renewables
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Corporate and commercial > VAT and indirect tax
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Artificial intelligence
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: regulatory
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity and nuclear)
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Finance > Securitisation
- Industry focus > TMT
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Employment > Immigration