Episode 44 – PE Views: Private Equity Looks to Share-Based Schemes to Incentivise Non-Managerial Staff

Connected With Latham · Jan 20, 2023 · 13m

Equity and co-investment opportunities have long served as tried and tested strategies for buyout firms seeking to incentivise management and align key management interests with those of the PE sponsor. However, PE sponsors in the US have recently received credit for extending share ownership opportunities beyond key management — and in some cases, to all employees — using innovative employee incentive schemes. Amid the ongoing cost-of-living crisis, the "great resignation," and increased investor focus on ESG credentials, will more PE sponsors explore share-based incentive schemes as a way…