Claire Matthews

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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CV

Since 2022 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2018 - 2022 Senior Managing Associate, Linklaters, Singapore

2013 - 2017 Group Head Office Reward Lead, Prudential

Career

Since 2022 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2018 - 2022 Senior Managing Associate, Linklaters, Singapore

2013 - 2017 Group Head Office Reward Lead, Prudential

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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Awards

Legal 500 UK 2026

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Legal 500 UK 2025

Legal 500 UK 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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Claire Matthews

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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Claire Matthews

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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Emma Danks

Suzy Davis

Alexandra Poland

Kayla Sinclair

Graham Samuel-Gibbon

Claire Matthews

Sally Robertson

Elliot Michaelson Taylor

Siân Skelton

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.

Claire Matthews