Employers want to benefit from the best talent available. This can be achieved by attracting, retaining and motivating employees through employee benefits schemes and offering benefits over and above the usual entitlement.
Employee benefits are stringently regulated, involving a complex mix of company, tax and financial services legislation. It is therefore essential to obtain expert legal advice when considering granting and implementing benefits to employees.
How Hill Dickinson can help
Hill Dickinson's employee benefit lawyers can advise on the most effective, flexible and cost-efficient packages and provide expertise in the following areas:
- Auditing existing policies to identify defects
- Designing and implementing bonus schemes and commission schemes
- Share option schemes
- Dealing with operational issues arising out of employee benefit schemes
- Pension schemes
Key contacts
Head of Pensions
Andrew Ashley Taylor
- Telephone
- +44 (0) 161 817 7322
- andrew.ashleytaylor@hilldickinson.com
Head of Practice Group: Employment and Pensions
Jeff Middleton
- Telephone
- +44 (0) 161 817 7260
- jeff.middleton@hilldickinson.com
In addition to a raft of internal promotions, Hill
Dickinson LLP’s Liverpool office also acquired a team of four from
Halliwells led by Kerstie Skeaping, adding significant experience
in tribunal hearings, and in trade union matters and industrial
relations. Jeff Middleton now leads the team.
This
team has a strong reputation for advising NHS clients, and it
continues to grow on the corporate side, too. Recent highlights
include representing the Law Society in High Court proceedings
relating to TUPE. Other notable clients include Leeds Teaching
Hospitals NHS Trust, Iceland Foods and the North West Development
Agency.
