Akshay Vaghela

Akshay is adept in guiding business owners through the transition into employee ownership and provides crucial support and counsel throughout the process, operating with an honesty that both clients and colleagues respect.

He possesses a wealth of expertise in Employee Ownership Trust (“EOT”) transactions and has worked closely with numerous founders and business owners across a range of sectors to navigate the transition of their businesses into employee ownership.

Recent work includes:

• Advising on the sale of a specialist catering solutions company to an Employee Ownership Trust including full structuring of the transaction and a creative solution to enable the shareholders to extract their investment property efficiently.
• Advising on the sale of a market leading printing and packaging company to an Employee Ownership Trust, including the design of an Enterprise Management Incentive scheme to ‘lock in’ individuals who were key to business growth and continuity.
• Advising on the sale of a specialist interior design agency to an Employee Ownership Trust, providing ongoing support to the new management team and trustee directors throughout the year following the transition.

The retention of key individuals can be key to the success of an employee owned business and Akshay is skilled in assisting businesses in the design of bespoke share incentive schemes to incentivise their key staff.

Akshay is a qualified member of the Association of Taxation Technicians.

Other members of the firm’s EOT team include:

• Garry Karch
• Peter Doyle
• Tina Wisener
• Liz Barton
• Andrew Campbell

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The guide “EOT – A Practical Guide to the Employee Ownership Trust” written by our firm’s head of EOT services, Garry Karch, is a must read for any businesses thinking of converting to an EOT business structure. For a copy, please click the link below.