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Ann is the Head of our Incentives team in the UK. Her clients describe her as incredibly responsive, experienced, and clear in her advice. She specialises in advising on equity incentive arrangements for management and employees, particularly for technology start-up clients.

Ann has been advising national and international clients on their incentive and global share plans for 30 years, and is regarded as a leading international tax lawyer. In particular, she advises on the tax aspects of equity structuring in relation to management, and on non-UK companies using equity incentives for their UK employees.

She will guide you through tax-favoured plans and non tax-favoured plans for companies backed by venture capital and private equity. Ann frequently advises on these issues in the context of takeovers, mergers and acquisitions.

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Our international employee incentives practice advises on the full range of management and employee incentive arrangements.

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Since 2006 Partner, Taylor Wessing
2001 - 2006 Senior Manager, Ernst & Young
1985 - 2001 Senior Associate, Clifford Chance
1987 Admitted as a lawyer, England & Wales
1985 Law Society Finals
1984 LLB degree, University of Birmingham

Career

Since 2006 Partner, Taylor Wessing
2001 - 2006 Senior Manager, Ernst & Young
1985 - 2001 Senior Associate, Clifford Chance

Education

1987 Admitted as a lawyer, England & Wales
1985 Law Society Finals
1984 LLB degree, University of Birmingham

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Legal 500 2026

Featured

Hall of fame in the employee share schemes category.

Legal 500 UK 2025

Hall of fame

World Tax 2024

Ann Casey is ranked as highly regarded and as a 'Women in Tax Leader' (eighth year in a row).

Chambers and Partners UK 2024

Employee share schemes & incentives - Band 3: “Ann is fantastic to work with and bounce thoughts off.”

Employee Share Schemes & Incentives - Band 3: Ann Casey heads the firm's incentives group and frequently advises on domestic and international share plans for global companies. She is valued for her astute advice to technology clients. "Ann Casey is pragmatic, clear and efficient." "Ann grasps client needs and offers effective advice."

Employee share schemes - Ranked: Leading the group is ‘responsive, detailed and precise’ Ann Casey, who has more than 30 years of experience advising domestic and international clients on the tax aspects of equity incentives.

Employee share schemes - Ranked: 'Ann Casey is responsive, detailed, precise and a pleasure to work with.’

Employee share schemes: "Ann Casey took the time to understand our business, key drivers and the desired outcome sought in detail. Her advice is very precise, pragmatic, clear and concise and her response time is excellent. She is very strong in communications and has demonstrated excellent client management. She brings an incredible depth of knowledge and experience coupled with valuable insights on industry trends and relevant regulatory and market developments."

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Leading individual – Employee Share Schemes & Incentives (Band 4)

Highly Regarded

Highly Regarded

Leading individual - Employee Share Schemes & Incentives (Band 4)

Employee share schemes

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Vinted, Europe's largest online international C2C marketplace dedicated to second-hand fashion, on its EUR128 million Series E round financing which values the company at over EUR1 billion.The round was led by new investor Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from existing backers including Sprints Capital, Insight Venture Partners, Accel and Burda Principal Investments.

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