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Claire Matthews

Claire Matthews

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Legal 500 UK 2025

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Claire is a partner specialising in incentives. She advises clients on all forms of management and employee incentive arrangements, including option plans and other share awards, cash plans, crypto tokens and UK tax-favoured plans.  

Claire works with clients from start-ups to listed multinationals in a variety of sectors, in particular technology, energy and infrastructure and life sciences. During her career, as well as law she has worked in executive remuneration consulting and in-house reward which gives her a 360 view of incentives, enabling her to partner with her clients to find the right solutions for their businesses.

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

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CV

Since 2022 Partner, Taylor Wessing
2018 - 2022 Senior Managing Associate, Linklaters, Singapore
2013 - 2017 Group Head Office Reward Lead, Prudential
2010 - 2013 Senior Manager, Deloitte
2003 - 2010 Managing Associate, Linklaters
2005 Admitted as a lawyer, England & Wales
2002 Nottingham Law School, PGDL and LPC
2000 BA (Hons) in French and Italian, Oxford University

Career

Since 2022 Partner, Taylor Wessing
2018 - 2022 Senior Managing Associate, Linklaters, Singapore
2013 - 2017 Group Head Office Reward Lead, Prudential
2010 - 2013 Senior Manager, Deloitte
2003 - 2010 Managing Associate, Linklaters

Education

2005 Admitted as a lawyer, England & Wales
2002 Nottingham Law School, PGDL and LPC
2000 BA (Hons) in French and Italian, Oxford University

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French Italian

Awards

Legal 500 UK 2025

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Next generation partner

Legal 500 UK 2023

Claire has been named a Next Generation Partner and 'an authority on executive remuneration', with client feedback describing her as 'incredibly knowledgeable, kind and straightforward. Her expertise meant we were able to overcome a tricky issue which could have largely altered the course of our business direction. Claire offered many realistic and practical solutions' (Legal 500 2023).

Experience

Aukett Swanke share plans

Advised AIM listed client Aukett Swanke on setting up a suite of new share plans. The plans are an important staff retention and performance incentive tool for the client, demonstrating its strong commitment to employee share ownership, with excellent levels of take up in the all employee SIP.

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Kantox sale to BNP Paribas

Iincentives aspects of the deal including in relation to share options granted in the UK and other jurisdictions.

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Eneus Energy investment from Carlyle and GIC

Impact on options of the global investment into the green ammonia project development company.

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Advising Chambers in £400 million sale to Abry Partners

We have advised the management team of Chambers and Partners on the sale of Inflexion's investment in the firm to Abry Partners, a leading middle market private equity firm headquartered in North America.

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Demerger and IPO of a multinational asset manager

Advising on the impact of the transactions on existing incentive plans and introduction of post IPO plans, as well as ongoing advice on incentives as a main market listed company.

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Management incentives for a telecoms infrastructure company in Asia

Working with private equity investors to design and implement cash and equity MIPs for management as well as short and medium-term incentives.

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