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ESOP – employee shares

Employee stock ownership and the entire ESOP are handled comprehensively from a legal, tax and accounting perspective. We design and structure ESOP schemes for clients, draft ESOP contract documentation, and also provide tax and tax assessments of specific ESOP structures.

Today, employers face challenges in retaining quality workers, as many employees prefer trends such as sabbatical or job hopping. Conventional across-the-board benefits are often no ...
The topic of ESOPs has long been a topic of interest to the Highgate Group, both from a tax, legal and practical/commercial perspective. ESOPs are ...
Highgate Law & Tax has once again scored an outstanding success in the prestigious Law Firm of the Year competition, where it has maintained its ...
A new podcast from Highgate Law & Tax, this time on the topic of taxation of ESOPs with Jaroslav Bukovina from the Research and Innovation ...
The legislative regulation of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) has long been the subject of professional discussions. In 2023, the National Council of the Slovak ...
The business community has enthusiastically embraced the recently approved amendment to the Income Tax Act (“ITA“), which aims to not tax/tax acquired shares in companies ...
The topic of ESOPs has long been a theme of the Highgate Group. From a tax, legal as well as practical/commercial point of view. The ...
The ESOP amendment once again exposed the (in)quality of the standard-setting process in Slovakia. How is it actually with the tax exemption? The business community ...
Employee stock option plans (ESOPs) have become standard in Slovak companies in recent years. And not only in start-ups, but also in larger and profitable ...
Effective and fair resolution of “bad leaver” 😈 situations in companies was probably the most discussed topic at our recent ESOP conference(https://lnkd.in/eSR6xHES ), where Peter ...
The legislative regulation of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) has long been the subject of professional discussions. In 2023, the National Council of the Slovak ...
Today, employers face challenges in retaining quality workers, as many employees prefer trends such as sabbatical or job hopping. Conventional across-the-board benefits are often no ...
Highgate Law & Tax has once again scored an outstanding success in the prestigious Law Firm of the Year competition, where it has maintained its ...
We like to do things differently, we even enjoy doing things differently. And obviously this approach proved to be successful when we organized a conference ...
Highgate Law & Tax participated in the prestigious Law Firm of the Year competition, the only one of its kind in Slovakia, which is attended ...
Tomáš Demo, our partner and specialist in employee shares and shares gave an interview for Hospodárske noviny, in which he spoke, among other things, about ...
Employee stock option plans (ESOPs) have become standard in Slovak companies in recent years. And not only in start-ups, but also in larger and profitable ...
In the era of the digital economy, skilled and experienced employees are often a company’s most valuable asset. Technology and high-growth companies in particular are ...
The aim of the conference specifically dedicated to ESOPs was to show best practices ofdifferent types of such structures in a comprehensible way. This is ...
This is a recording of a 55-minute lecture from our conference on legal and tax optimization for technology companies (more info here), which we organized ...
A new podcast from Highgate Law & Tax, this time on the topic of taxation of ESOPs with Jaroslav Bukovina from the Research and Innovation ...
The ESOP amendment once again exposed the (in)quality of the standard-setting process in Slovakia. How is it actually with the tax exemption? The business community ...
Effective and fair resolution of “bad leaver” 😈 situations in companies was probably the most discussed topic at our recent ESOP conference(https://lnkd.in/eSR6xHES ), where Peter ...
✓ What are the most common types of employee shares in Slovak companies? ✓ What are the tax implications of sharp vs. shadow employee share ...
The following thing happened to the client. The company had issued “crisp” employee stock awards to key executives. These, in addition to a share of ...
  • Corporate, tax and accounting advice to a company developing a crypto decentralized exchange on investor input through various innovative titles such as options or tokens or “shadow equity” and setting up an ESOP structure;
  • Setting up a comprehensive employee share structure for Crowdberry group companies;
  • Tax and legal advisory services to Dedoles s.r.o. on setting up options to sell shares in the parent company and setting up remuneration models in the form of shadow shares for key suppliers and employees of the company;
  • Advising on the establishment of a holding structure for the founders of Photoneo s.r.o. and the issue of employee shares;
  • Setting up the ESOP as well as the corporate structure for WageNow from both a legal and tax perspective;
  • Preparation of a tax and legal analysis of the options for setting up a remuneration plan for key employees and contractors through employee shadow options for NetCore j.s.a. and subsequent implementation of this structure;
  • Setting up an ESOP structure for itrinity.

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