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Niall Crean

Niall Crean

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

England - London • Employment

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Employee share schemes

Lauded by clients as a ‘diverse team able to offer an integrated full spectrum of legal services to resolve multi-dimensional legal issues’, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP frequently acts for financial services, logistics, and professional services companies. Co-leading the global practice, Paul Ellerman frequently leads on incentives and remuneration aspects of transactions, often working for listed companies and financial and professional services firms. Alongside him, Mark Ife co-leads the global practice, specialising in remuneration, reorganisation, and incentives matters for financial services firms. Niall Crean boasts expertise in assisting clients with matters involving executive recruitment arrangements and incentives arrangements, often acting for local and international private and listed companies. Kiran Khetia is a key practitioner within the team, assisting clients with executive remuneration and incentives matters, often working on transactions, IPOs and demergers. Christopher White consistently provides support on an array of advisory work, including drafting all-employee share and cash plans, employee benefit trust arrangements, and global employee share plans.
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+44 20 7466 2810
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herbertsmithfreehills.com

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Work Department
Employee Share Schemes & Incentives
Position

Senior Associate, London

Career

Niall is a senior associate in the firm’s London Remuneration & Incentives team who focuses on employee incentives and remuneration, advising listed and private companies.

Niall joined the firm as a trainee in 2014, qualified in 2016, and was promoted to Senior Associate in July 2021.

He advises on the establishment, operation and tax implications of a variety of cash and share-based incentive arrangements. He also advises on the incentives aspects of corporate actions, including takeovers, IPOs, schemes of arrangement, rights issues and demergers. Niall advises clients on corporate governance and remuneration reporting, including on the preparation of directors’ remuneration policies, as well as on the remuneration aspects of executive recruitments and terminations. Niall has a particular focus on advising banks and other financial institutions on compliance with remuneration regulations.

Niall is a joint contributor on employee incentives in Revenue Law: Principles and Practice (pub. Bloomsbury).

Niall is a member of the Share Plan Lawyers Group.

Languages
English

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Commercial, responsive, technical.’

    ‘Mark Ife is excellent.'

    ‘Capable diverse team able to offer an integrated full spectrum of legal services to resolve multi-dimensional legal issues.’

    ‘Responsive, highly knowledgeable partners and associates who offer a one-stop shop for multi-dimensional legal issues, always providing pragmatic solutions evidencing deep understanding of the client's business and goals to be achieved.’

    ‘Reliable, good quality advice.’

    ‘The team provides practical advice which is presented in a way that is easy to digest.’

    'Team are diligent, super responsive and can be bold in their advice - a brilliant combination.'

    'Niall Crean is excellent to deal with. He is very knowledgeable, approachable and is able to explain complex and technical aspects of remuneration regulation in a clear and understandable manner.'

Key clients

  • Associated British Foods BAT BHP British Land Cohort Comcast easyJet Ferrexpo Genus Inchcape Jet2 Kin + Carta LVMH Marex N Brown Group Page Group Shaftesbury Capital Spirax-Sarco The Ardonagh Group WH Smith Wickes

Work highlights

Advising Wincanton plc on the share plan and incentive aspects of its publicly contested takeover offers, namely the original cash offer from CEVA Logistics S.A., a subsidiary of the France based ports operator CMA CGM S.A, and on the subsequent competing cash offer from U.S. listed, GXO Logistics, Inc.
Advising Marex on its initial public offering, registration with the US Securities and Exchange Commission and listing on Nasdaq (April 2024), including on the impact of the pre-IPO reorganisation on the various series of leveraged growth shares held by its employees.
Advising Kin + Carta on the share plan aspects of its takeover by funds advised by BC Partners.