About
Ras is a Partner in the Reward practice. With more than 20 years’ experience, he specialises in all aspects of UK and international employee and executive incentive arrangements.
Ras’s practice includes the design, implementation and operation of a wide range of employee share plans and executive remuneration arrangements as well as the treatment and negotiation of incentives in the context of corporate transactions.
He advises on all share plan-related matters including individual and corporate tax and structuring, global regulatory compliance, trust and nominee arrangements, plan administration, data protection and employment issues. Ras has a particular focus on corporate governance and remuneration disclosure for listed companies and, having spent time on secondment with one the largest UK banks, also advises on UK and European remuneration regulation within the financial services sector.
Ras is a member of the Share Plan Lawyers Group (where he sits on the Corporate Governance and Regulatory Committee) and the Employee Share Ownership Plan (ESOP) Centre (where he sits on the Steering Committee). He is also qualified as a US Certified Equity Professional (CEP).
Experience
- Advising Pandox on the scheme of arrangement and completion of the acquisition of Dalata Hotel Group plc.
- Advising leading private markets data solutions provider Preqin on its sale to global investment manager BlackRock for £2.55bn.
- Advising NortonLifeLock Inc., a NASDAQ-listed provider of consumer Cyber Safety solutions, on its recommended cash and stock merger with FTSE 100 company Avast plc, a leading global cybersecurity provider, in a transaction attributing an enterprise value to Avast of up to $9.2bn.
- Advising ABC Technologies Acquisitions Limited in connection with its recommended all cash offer for TI Fluid Systems plc.
- Advising Banco Sabadell on proposed sale of TSB Banking Group plc for £2.65bn.
- Advising Valterra Platinum on c. £7.5bn London listing.
- Advising FirstCash on acquisition of H&T Group plc.
- Advising Ferrari Group PLC on its €785m IPO.