Share options explained: the essential guide for UK startups
Want to offer your team equity in your company? Our guide covers the facts about share options: how and when to set up an option scheme, what type of scheme to choose, and how tax works.
How to give share options to your overseas employees
Want to reward your overseas employees with share options but don’t know how? We explain how UK companies can give share...
Milestone vesting: What it is and how to set it up
With milestone vesting, you grant shares in your company when pre-established criteria is met. Find out how you can use...
Giving share options to customers and social media influencers
Companies usually give share options to employees and advisors, but sometimes they also like to incentivise customers an...
Startup equity: how much to give employees
What you need to know about how much startup equity to give employees, advisors and founders in the UK. Read the guide.
3 min readHow to create B Ordinary non-voting shares for your EMI Option Scheme
At SeedLegals we recommend companies issue their employees with EMI share options that convert into non-voting shares. T...
8 min readTax implications of share option schemes: here’s what you need to know
Understand tax on share options for UK companies and employees for EMI and Unapproved options on grant, exercise and sal...
Introducing SeedLegals Performance Options
Some of the 2,000+ companies who’ve set up an option scheme with SeedLegals have told us that they want a way to allocat...
SeedLegals launches EMI Scheme to make it easy for startups to reward employees with equity
At SeedLegals, we’ve just launched an EMI Options Scheme to get rid of the expense and complexity of giving out employee...
Here's the process and timeline for creating your EMI Option Scheme on SeedLegals
Example Timeline Any questions? Book some time to chat with an EMI Options expert or hit the chat button below! Alternat...
Webinar Recording: Giving Equity to Employees: who, when & how much?
Giving equity to your team is fantastic for motivating and establishing a great company culture. After a company has val...
Giving your team shares: How to size an employee option pool
In the UK, 10% is the median amount of equity assigned to EMI share option pools. According to Index Ventures in the US,...
What is an EMI scheme? EMI share options explained
An EMI scheme is by far the most generous mechanism with which to award employees with equity in your company. Here's wh...
