Elite US Firm – Employee Benefits/Compensation Lawyer

Overview

As a UK-qualified Share Incentives Lawyer, you will design and implement sophisticated equity incentive arrangements for fast-scaling tech and life sciences clients. You’ll work at the intersection of corporate, tax and high-growth advisory, collaborating with US colleagues on cross-border matters. The role combines advisory work with transactional exposure across financings, M&A and IPOs, with direct Partner access and clear progression in a London team. You’ll help build precedents, develop client relationships and contribute to thought leadership in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement share incentive plans (EMI, CSOP, non-qualified)
• Advise on growth and flowering shares and related financing structures
• Provide commercial tax guidance on UK employee incentive arrangements
• Support valuation matters including benchmarking and analysis
• Collaborate with US teams on cross-border incentive issues
• Involvement in incentives aspects of financings, M&A and other corporate events
• Assist with non-employee equity arrangements
• Contribute to client development, thought leadership and internal know-how
• Support expansion of the team’s precedent bank

Key requirements

• UK-qualified lawyer with 2–5 years’ experience
• Strong grounding in employee share incentives (EMI, CSOP, growth shares, non-qualified plans)
• Commercial and solution-driven mindset
• Exposure to technology or venture-backed clients is advantageous
• Familiarity with US incentive structures is a plus but not essential

• commercial mindset
• solution-oriented
• collaborative
• EMI
• CSOP
• growth shares

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