During an economic downturn, including the uncertainty over Brexit, it is critical to take a closer look at employee share plans and equity-based compensation, in order to stimulate productivity and innovation that will boost the financial performance of the company, including to conserve cash for cash-strapped companies across Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa, Europe and the region, especially for international companies with UK operations will have great implications on UK-based share plans and equity-based compensation strategy
Employee share plans and equity-based compensation are essential to attracting the best people, inspiring employment loyalty and retention, and motivating employees to achieve critical business objectives. This conference provides an overview of the structuring of share plans and equity-based compensation, as well as to highlight key issues in implementation and reviewing pitfalls that have to be looked out for in line with existing and new ruling on employee share plans and equity-based compensation across Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa, Europe and the region, including new ruling and ongoing proposed tax changes for employee share plans and equity-based compensation that will require companies to seriously consider structuring their remuneration arrangements to mitigate tax exposure on share plans and equity-based compensation. In addition, discussion will also include managing the impact of share price and currency volatility in operating share plans and equity-based compensation, in particular, the impact of Brexit on UK-based share plans and equity-based compensation strategy for international companies with UK operations.