06 · Corporate · Instruments & gouvernance
Executive compensation
What assistance changes in this practice, what it does not change, and the time reduction actually observed.
Where the gain is real
Serial review of incentive plans, simulation of leaver scenarios, consistency checking between plan, contract and articles.
Where it is slight or nil
Negotiating the package, discussions with the remuneration committee.
Observed time
−45% at constant case scope, on cases closed over the last three financial years. This measure says nothing about the quality of the outcome.
What the practice covers
- Free share, stock option and warrant plans
- Management packages and co-investment instruments
- Good and bad leaver clauses, simulation of departure scenarios
- Corporate offices, severance arrangements and pension undertakings
- Tax and social security treatment of the instruments, jurisdiction by jurisdiction