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Mathew Gorringe

Partner
Head of Employee Incentives in the United Kingdom

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A Company Commercial Group partner, Mathew Gorringe is the Head of Employee Incentives in the United Kingdom at Eversheds Sutherland.

He has worked as a dedicated employee incentives lawyer since 2002 and has been a partner since 2004.

Mathew brings over 24 years of employee incentives experience to provide you with advice across the whole spectrum of employee incentive arrangements and issues. This includes helping you design and implement appropriate incentive arrangements to help retain and motivate your workforce; guiding you through the securities, tax and regulatory implications of making incentive awards in multiple jurisdictions; advising you on how to deal appropriately with existing incentive arrangements in the context of a corporate restructuring or a merger or acquisition; assisting you with the establishment or winding up of an employee benefit trust (both on and offshore); and advising you on how to deal with incentive awards held by an outgoing executive or the grant of one-off, high-value value awards on the recruitment of a senior executive. Matthew's clients include global companies operating in multiple jurisdictions, publicly traded and large private companies, as well as eductional establishments.

A large part of his role is helping businesses like yours roll out incentive programs in 40 or more countries, and he has particulary strong expierience of doing so having assisted a number of well-known global companies in this way over the course of his career. 

Mathew's experience includes:

  • acting for a listed global chemical company in respect of the implementation of a new all-employee, cash-based incentive scheme in 46 countries
  • advising in respect of the securities, regulatory and tax laws in relation to a traded global pharmaceutical company's incentive awards in 48 countries
  • advising an Italian automotive company in respect of equity incentive schemes for senior management in respect of its IPO on the UK Stock Exchange
  • advising a pharmaceutical company in relation to the impact of a merger on its incentive awards in 44 countries and dealing with relevant securities law filings in those countries

Top Ranked in Chambers UK 2018 Leading Individual

  • Chair, Eversheds Sutherland's Global Employee Benefits cluster group
  • Solicitors Qualifying Lawyers Transfer Test, 2002
  • Called to the Bar, 1995
  • Bar Vocational Course, 1993-1995
  • Diploma in Law, 1992-1993
  • Msc (Distiction) Applied Mathematical Statistics, 1991-1992
  • Bsc (Hons) Mathematics, 1987-1990
Mathew Gorringe

Partner

Head of Employee Incentives in the United Kingdom

Mathew Gorringe

Partner

Head of Employee Incentives in the United Kingdom

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