Consultant – Employee Share Schemes Solicitor

🕒 April 29

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💼 Attorney / Lawyer

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Harper James

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

💼 Consulting

🏗️ Construction

⚖️ Legal

Consulting • Construction • Legal

Harper James is a national commercial law firm designed to provide expert legal advice to ambitious and entrepreneurial businesses in the UK. The firm offers a wide range of legal services, including banking and finance law, business disputes, immigration law, commercial law, corporate law, data protection, employment law, intellectual property, and IT law. Harper James differentiates itself by offering flexible and affordable legal solutions, catering specifically to start-ups, medium, and large businesses. Their innovative subscription service model offers businesses access to high-quality legal advice at a controlled cost, making it easier for companies to manage their legal needs efficiently.

📋 Description

• Take the lead on a broad range of employee share scheme and equity incentive matters • Support businesses with the design, implementation and ongoing management of their share plans • Work closely with founders, senior leadership teams, HR teams and in-house counsel • Provide clear, pragmatic advice that supports business growth while ensuring schemes are structured effectively and compliantly • Advise on matters such as EMI share option schemes, CSOP, unapproved share option schemes • Drafting option agreements, plan rules and related documentation • Advise on tax considerations relating to share schemes • Support founders and boards with equity structuring and incentive strategies • Collaborate with colleagues across Corporate and Employment

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 8 years' PQE with strong experience in employee share schemes and equity incentives • Demonstrable experience designing and implementing EMI schemes and other share option arrangements • Experience advising founder-led businesses, start-ups and scale-ups would be advantageous • Ability to manage matters independently and deliver pragmatic, commercially focused advice • Strong drafting skills and attention to detail • Excellent client relationship and stakeholder management skills • Confidence working with founders, leadership teams and in-house legal functions

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working within a fully remote but collaborative team • Opportunity to collaborate with colleagues across Corporate and Employment • Support, infrastructure and collaborative culture of a forward-thinking national firm • Tech-driven, agile law firm with a modern legal technology • Flexibility, autonomy and the ability to work remotely as part of a supportive national team