Claire Matthews

Claire is a partner specialising in incentives. Clients value her pragmatic, solutions-oriented approach with a focus on designing and implementing incentive plans which support the business strategy.

Claire advises clients on all forms of management and employee incentive arrangements, including option plans and other share-based incentives, cash plans and UK tax-favoured plans. She 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 Claire 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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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

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Education

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

Additional languages

French

Italian

Expertise

Services and Groups Tax Private equity Venture capital Employee incentives

Sectors Technology, media & communications Energy & infrastructure Life sciences & healthcare

Experience

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.
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.
Long-term incentive plan for a blockchain technology company	Designing and implementing a long-term incentive plan for a blockchain technology company, with share options and awards to be rolled out across a number of jurisdictions in Europe.