Cathy Wears from the CMS Employee Share Incentives team has helped numerous start-ups with their employee share schemes. She gives her tips on how start-ups should organise their share option plans. DO consider the size of your share options pool – this should be large enough to incentivise current staff and leave sufficient outstanding to attract … Read More
Our Share | Guides are a neat way for companies to communicate with their plan participants around the world. Using this application, we create customised mobile apps so that your employees in any country can see all the tax and legal information they need. There are easy-to-use tax calculators so they can see how much … Read More
Just 12 months ago, we launched our first application, Share | Compliance, for companies operating international share plans. Since then, we have onboarded clients from around the world (including Australia, Finland, the US and the UK), and we thank all our clients for their support. During the year, we also introduced our Share | Guides … Read More
Our IT development team has been very busy over the summer period developing smart products for companies needing help with the tax and legal compliance for their international share plans. Our strategy has been to offer different ways to access and use our compliance solutions, and to work in partnership with our clients to ensure … Read More
For global companies operating employee share plans, local companies are essential to the smooth running of the plans. As they are responsible for payroll, and as they have a direct relationship with the employees, they need to be aware of the tax and legal compliance issues at every phase of the share scheme.One of the … Read More
Despite current circumstances, there are still plenty of events happening across the global share plans community. Below is an overview of the events coming up in June, along with a few other important events that should be marked in your calendars. June 8th – NASPP (Philadelphia) Virtual June Meeting with Infinite Equity and Clearbridge Compensation: … Read More
The past few weeks have yielded some important updates which will impact how companies implement their share plans in certain countries. Finland: Tax support for start-ups offering employee share plansEarlier this year a new tax regime was introduced in Finland for private companies, primarily aimed at supporting start up and growth companies.As an alternative to … Read More
Share plans compliance for global participants has the reputation of being complex, difficult and often expensive. We take a look at ways you can manage the process, keep costs low and have a successful share plan across numerous jurisdictions. 1) Believe you can do it!Too many companies assume it is too difficult, and do not … Read More
We are seeing more queries coming in from clients about data privacy compliance in the UAE now that the new data privacy laws are operational in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) and the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM). The recent changes to the data privacy laws in these free zones materially increase the data … Read More
Shanghai SAFE abolishes the annual filing/registration requirements of SAFE registered incentive plans. In late January 2021, the China State Administration of Foreign Exchange Shanghai Branch (“Shanghai SAFE”) verbally notified local counsels that the annual filing obligation for companies who have incentive plans registered with Shanghai SAFE is to be relaxed. There is still an obligation … Read More