Mark Petch Senior Counsel

Mark specialises in advising on UK and cross border employee incentive arrangements, with a particular focus on advising management teams on the terms and tax treatment of their equity plans.

Mark’s work includes:

• advising corporate groups on the design, implementation and operation of a wide range of employee share plans as well as the treatment and negotiation of incentives in the context of corporate transactions;
• advising management teams of private equity backed companies in relation to their equity incentive arrangements;
• advising private credit clients on the establishment of management incentive arrangements for businesses that they have taken control of on both a consensual and non-consensual basis;
• dealing with share schemes aspects of M&A transactions; and
• advising buyers and sellers on the broader tax aspects of corporate transactions (in particular, private equity transactions).

Mark spent time in 2022 seconded to a private equity house to assist with the tax aspects of M&A transactions. He is a Chartered Tax Adviser and a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, as well as a member of the Share Plan Lawyers Group. Mark is recognised as a Leading Associate in the Legal 500.