Employee Ownership In Architecture

Employee ownership through an employee ownership trust ("EOT") is now established as a proven method of ownership within the architecture sector. Earlier this year, The Architects' Journal featured several Fieldfisher clients in an article looking at why 15 of the UK's top 100 practices have adopted the employee ownership model, with more expected to follow (see "Power to the people: the rise of the employee-owned practice" published by The Architects' Journal on 12 January 2018 - https://tinyurl.com/AJeoJan12 ) (the "AJ article").

Fieldfisher advised Allford Hall Monaghan Morris ("AHMM") on its switch to employee ownership and Fieldfisher partner Graeme Nuttall OBE sits on the board of the AHMM trustee company as independent Chair. On AHMM's switch to employee trust ownership, Peter Morris (managing director of AHMM and a founder shareholder) is quoted in the AJ article as saying: "We wanted to make things as simple as possible when any of us might think about