Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP's offering encompasses national and international employee incentives advisory and transactional work for a range of clients, with a focus on the financial services, utilities, and asset management industries. Heading up the team, Danny Blum has been lauded by clients for his ‘exceptional knowledge and experience in the structuring and execution of schemes’. Blum is highly experienced in handling incentive plans, cash incentive structures, and employee trust issues for water companies, financial services firms, and healthcare businesses. Often working on cross-border deals, Victoria Green frequently assists with employee trusts, incentives, and transactional matters. Richard Surtees, who is skilled at advising on a range of tax and incentives issues, joined the practice from Slaughter and May in June 2024.
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- ‘Danny Blum is highly recommended in this area. Exceptional knowledge and experience in the structuring and execution of schemes of this type. Very practical and commercial.’
- ‘Very good knowledge of their specialism. Good draftsmen and responsive to client requests. They did a very good job for us on what was a relatively small but quite complicated incentive scheme.’
Key clients
- NTT Data
- MicroStrategy Inc.
Work highlights
Advised NewRiver REIT plc on the share scheme aspects of its takeover of Capital & Regional plc by way of Scheme of Arrangement.
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Practice head
Danny Blum
Other key lawyers
Richard Surtees; Victoria Green