Real Estate
United Kingdom
20 August 2025
Spearheaded by Tair Hussain, the team at Simmons & Simmons specialises in advising on incentives and regulatory issues for a range of financial services clients. Hussain is adept at handling cross-border remuneration, buyback shares, and incentives issues. David Baxter joined the team from Clifford Chance LLP in September 2024, and he is skilled at advising on tax and EBT issues.
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Testimonials
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- 'Timely and responsive. No nonsense advice delivered efficiently despite it being a complex area.'
- 'Tair Hussain is fantastic. Responsive and knowledgeable. Always available and unphased by tricky questions.'
- 'Strong team who are pragmatic and responsive. Good at sticking to agreed fee quotes.'
- 'Tair Hussain has excellent knowledge of the regulatory requirements and his advice is concise and pragmatic as well as commercially tailored to the client's requirements.'
Key clients
- Clifford Asset Management
- Future plc
- Regent Acquisitions
- Lendinvest plc
- Evercore Inc.
- Napier Technologies Limited
- Lumyna Investments
- Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
- DG Partners
- Syncona
Work highlights
Advising a US publicly traded, multinational conglomerate on the non-US employee incentives aspects of a $1.8bn acquisition.
Assisting the senior executives of a FTSE 250 company with drafting a bespoke Long-Term Incentive Plan.
Advising management shareholders on the employee share schemes aspects of an investment by private equity into an investment firm managing £2bn in group assets.
Practice head
Tair Hussain
Other key lawyers
David Baxter