Helping clients navigate a complex landscape
We act as an independent, strategic partner that will assist in developing executive compensation policies that will enable your company to attract, motivate and retain key talent. Our seasoned team of professionals have extensive experience providing executive compensation consulting services to publicly-traded, privately-held and not-for-profit organisations. Working together, our objective is to ensure executive remuneration helps companies to achieve their goals and objectives by aligning the interests of management with the interests of stakeholders. As a strategic advisor, we provide the resources, experience and support to help our clients make informed decisions about executive compensation matters.
Our Services
As marketplace volatility continues, boards and management teams will look to re-evaluate their business strategy. Ensuring that changes to strategy are supported by the executive remuneration policy is an important factor in success.
Executive remuneration is under ever greater scrutiny and subject to an increasingly constraining governance framework. Effecting changes requires clear advice and effective action in order to quickly adapt to changing needs and strategies, especially at the most turbulent times.
At A&M, we assist companies and their Remuneration Committees and management teams to develop remuneration strategies and policies that align with business goals and culture while supporting the interests of their stakeholders.
- Aligning executive compensation with business strategy
- Development of the remuneration policy
- Executive compensation benchmarking
- Annual bonus design
- Long-term incentive plan design
- Alternative incentive designs
- Performance metrics and target setting
- Directors’ Remuneration Policy and Directors’ Remuneration Report drafting
- Shareholder consultations
- Implementation of incentive plans
| - Compliance with regulatory and legislative requirements
- Remuneration-related risk analysis
- Pay-for-performance analysis
- Valuation of shares, options and other awards and assessment of performance conditions
- Design of executive termination arrangements
- Buyout of executive entitlements for new hires
- Share ownership requirements
- Accounting & tax considerations
- Shareholder liaison
- Institutional advisor analysis
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Our Clients
We support a variety of different businesses, listed and unlisted:
Our Methodology
- Senior resource at every stage of delivery
All engagements are led by a senior member of A&M’s Executive Compensation Services practice who attends all meetings and is actively involved in all deliverables. This ensures you always have access to the right level of advice, particularly when making critical decisions under time pressure. Our Managing and Senior Directors have a combined 100+ years of experience in advising on executive remuneration matters.
- Independent and conflict-free
As A&M does not provide audit services, we are free of most conflicts and independence restrictions faced by accounting and actuarial firms.
- Integrated approach across a breadth of services
A&M’s broad professional services offering enables us to bring in specific expertise to help address the client’s issues. We draw upon firm-wide capabilities in tax, accounting advisory, performance improvement and transactional diligence to provide comprehensive and robust advice on all aspects of executive pay. As we are one team working cohesively, the client has one point of contact for all their needs.
- Leadership. Action. Results.™
A&M’s approach has a bias towards action and the willingness to say what we think is needed. Our restructuring heritage sharpens our ability to act decisively, whilst embracing the toughest issues within the most challenging environments.
Our Expertise
The senior members of A&M’s executive compensation team have a combined 100+ years of experience. A&M’s team ensures that clients can meet regulatory and compliance obligations while looking ahead to anticipate and mitigate potential shareholder or investor concerns with decisive action.
Being free of audit conflicts means A&M can draw on decades of business consulting and restructuring expertise in providing advice to clients that moves the needle and uplifts performance.
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Welcome to A&M’s UK Executive Compensation Services page, where you can view all recent reports, updates and events.
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Delivering practical, high-quality advice to address your employee incentive and reward objectives and employment tax obligations in the U.K.
Expertise in the design of fund structures and compliance with on-going fund tax reporting obligations.
Examples of Our Work:
A&M is pleased to provide our latest summary of observable trends in FTSE 250 Executive Directors' remuneration disclosures. 2020 was a challenging period for many companies, and this has been reflected in the remuneration outcomes for Executive Directors.
December 3, 2021
A&M is pleased to provide our latest summary of observable trends in FTSE SmallCap Executive Director compensation outcomes. 2020 was a challenging period for many companies, and this has been reflected in the remuneration outcomes for executive directors of SmallCap companies.
December 15, 2021
A&M Benefits Reference Guide
December 10, 2025
Many of the limits that pertain to qualified retirement plans and benefit plans are set by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and are subject to cost-of-living adjustments. In 2025, employees will be able to increase their retirement savings and contributions to health savings accounts as a result of the increased limits. The IRS limits for 2025 are summarized in the table below along with certain important compliance deadlines.
Pharma in Focus: A Prescription for Thai Tax & Tariff Health
December 8, 2025
Alvarez & Marsal recently hosted an engaging and practical session tailored for tax, finance, and trade professionals in the pharmaceutical industry. This first edition of our Thailand Tax Talk: Industry Series explored how tax leaders in the pharma sector can respond to increasing regulatory pressure, operational complexity, and cross-border trade disruption.
Supreme Court Upholds Delhi High Court Ruling: Indian Subsidiary Does Not Automatically Constitute PE, and No Further Profit Attribution Is Warranted Once the Subsidiary Arm’s Length Remuneration Is Paid
December 5, 2025
The Supreme Court’s affirmation of the Delhi High Court ruling in the Progress Rail case provides important clarity on Permanent Establishment standards in India.
The decision reinforces key principles on control, core functions, agency thresholds, and profit attribution.
It further underscores that arm’s-length remuneration to Indian subsidiaries precludes additional attribution.
A significant development for multinational enterprises evaluating their India-linked operating models.
OBBBA and Qualified Small Business Stock: Bigger, Faster, Broader Section 1202 Benefits for PE, VC and Founders
December 4, 2025
Discover how the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) modernizes Section 1202 QSBS, offering earlier exclusions, higher caps, and broader eligibility for PE, VC, and founders.