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Topical discussions about employee ownership and employee share plans

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Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) Enterprise Management Incentive (EMI) Share Incentive Plan (SIP) Company Share Option Plan (CSOP) Employee Benefit Trust (EBT) Employee Share Scheme
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Wider employee ownership for the nervous business owner

SIP - take the first steps towards employee ownership

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An Introduction to Employee Ownership Trusts

Answers to questions posed about EOTs from the Webinar on 27th January 2021

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2020 was a bumper year for Employee Ownership Trusts

Flash results from the EOT Survey, maintained by RM2 for the Employee Ownership Association

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RM2 acts for architecture firm's move to EOT

rhp is pleased to announce that they have become an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT)

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Webinar: Three reasons why EOTs are booming in uncertain times

Answers to questions posed in the Webinar on 7 October 2020.

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How will the rumoured Capital Gains Tax raid affect EOTs

Rumours have been circulating in the UK press about an increase in CGT

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RM2 Corporate Finance - we have vacancies

We are recruiting for EOT transaction advisers, from junior analysts to lead transaction advisers

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Top 50 employee owned companies in 2020

Each year RM2 compiles a list of the largest 50 employee owned companies in the UK

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How employee ownership could save businesses in a coronavirus recession

Is it time to start thinking about business alternatives

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RM2 are keeping calm and carrying on

It's clear these are unprecedented times - business as usual, but not business as normal

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Entrepreneurs Relief - a change of name?

The Finance Bill 2020 potentially changes the name of entrepreneurs relief

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Practical tips and guidance for Trustees

What businesses owned by employee ownership trusts (EOT) should know in this crisis

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Summary of information concerning COVID-19

Business as usual, much of our work is conducted via phone, email or video call

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Budget 2020 - Entrepreneurs Relief

RM2 say Hurrah for Enterprise Management Incentives and Employee Ownership Trusts

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Have you considered - "What is work for?"

The impact of Automation and AI on the concept of work was discussed at the Robert Oakeshott Lecture

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Corporate Finance Associate - we have a vacancy

We are recruiting! Join our fantastic team at RM2 and enter the world of employee ownership

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Happy New Year - our wish list for employee ownership in 2020

Last year we made predictions - this year we have a wish list!

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What a year 2019 has been for share schemes and EOT transactions

We take a look at the big and small stories of the year....

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Labour - Inclusive Ownership Fund and Employee Ownership Trust

Does the SIP solve Labour's Employee Ownership Questions?

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The Employee Ownership Association's Conference, 2019

A sell out success - where did all these people come from?

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Share Schemes - time to go back to basics

Exploring the fundamental elements in establishing and running an employee share scheme

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Employee Ownership Trusts: a sale alternative

Employee ownership in the UK has been thrust into the spotlight again, most recently as a…

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The Source Conference wasn't your typical law conference

I was inspired to make myself a little bit famous and play with Lego!

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RM2 advises on EOT Transaction for major law firm

Doyle Clayton, top ranked by Chambers Guide & top tier The Legal 500 firm becomes employee owned

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Share Plans Assistant - we have a vacancy

We are recruiting! Join our fantastic team at the RM2 Partnership as a Share Plans Assistant

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RM2 awarded latest ISO 9001:2015 accreditation

We continue to meet the demanding requirements of this standard

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Top 50 employee owned companies in 2019

Each year RM2 compiles a list of the largest 50 employee owned companies in the UK

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Entrepreneurs' Relief and preference shares

HMRC loses their appeal at the First Tier Tribunal in the case Warshaw v HMRC

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Building up to Employee Ownership Day

Employee ownership has come on in leaps and bounds in recent years in the UK

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RM2 becomes fully employee owned

Market leading share scheme and EOT consulting business converts to full employee ownership

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Reflections on the British Isles Share Schemes Symposium

How to change the world - fascinating themes from this years' talks

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Employee Ownership Trust Transactions

The Jack Fitzpatrick Memorial Lecture - progress on a succession solution

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Investment Association's principles of remuneration

The IA published a revised version in November, what changed?

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Our predictions for employee ownership in 2019

We make five bold predictions for what might happen in employee ownership

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What a year 2018 has been for share schemes and EOT transactions

We take a look at the big and small stories of the year...….

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Entrepreneurs’ relief – why EMI is still the best option

A couple of weeks ago the Budget announced changes to entrepreneurs relief

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Top 50 employee owned companies in 2018

Each year RM2 compiles a list of the largest 50 employee owned companies in the UK

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Hang in there Gromit – it’s all under (employee) control

Aardman Animations have made the jump to employee ownership

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McDonnell, May and Employee Ownership

What does the Labour Party’s announcement mean for employee ownership?

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Don't kill your valued team's enthusiasm

So, you’re a business owner – what should you be saying about your plans to sell?

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5 myths to selling your business to employees

Some common misconceptions we encounter and have hopefully corrected...

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Tribunal ruling on director loan accounts

The First Tier Tribunal has ruled director loan accounts written off were taxable as ….

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EBT and EOT trustees - step carefully

A recent case in the high court gives some helpful pointers about decision making by trustees

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Why is a recruitment agency like a veg box?

In the last three weeks we've seen two very different companies become EOT's

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Valuation financing & distributable reserves (EOT)

When structuring the financing for an Employee Ownership Trust ("EOT") don't forget ….

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EOT - how much should a vendor sell?

One of the questions we get frequently from vendors is what percentage of the company's shares…

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Dilution affects employee share schemes too

We noticed that, as part of the recent Spring Statement,the government has decided

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Your share plan – get the first step right

We recently published an outline checklist for putting in place a share plan. Step one on that…

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Employee Ownership Trust transaction finance

One of the first questions we often get from business owners looking into potentially selling their…

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Employee Ownership Trusts are booming

The number of Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs) has increased to more than 150, according to the…

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EMI qualifying requirements in a 'post-Brexit world'

Why don’t all other tax-advantaged employee share plans and EOTs have exclusions for…

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Evolution of the Employee Ownership Trust

As part of the Chancellor’s 2014 budget, a new form of Employee Benefit Trust was created...

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EOT vendor-financing - "baked in" or "bake off"?

A question that has been raised with RM2 a number of times in the context of structuring...

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Should EOT trustees ever be offshore?

Hopefully that headline has grabbed your attention, because for some this is a controversial…

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Succession planning - EBT or EOT?

One question that comes up fairly often when speaking with clients regarding succession...

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An introduction to Employee Ownership Trusts

If you’ve wanted to learn more about the Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) structure introduced in...

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Financing: the subordinated vendor loan

Once a shareholder has decided to sell to an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT), how to finance...

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Corporate finance: structuring an EOT transaction

This blog is the next instalment in our Corporate Finance series; regarding the use of an...

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